I used https://granary.io/ to turn my Bluesky and Mastodon into feeds I could subscribe to. Now I can follow and reply to all you nerds from my own damn website!
Welcome to the #IndieWeb, I guess.
A website about technology and life.
I used https://granary.io/ to turn my Bluesky and Mastodon into feeds I could subscribe to. Now I can follow and reply to all you nerds from my own damn website!
Welcome to the #IndieWeb, I guess.
If you spend any time in the IndieWeb community, you've probably heard of feed readers; tools that let you follow blogs and websites without being beholden to any single platform. PADD (Personal Aggregation Display Dashboard) is one such reader, built by me with the IndieWeb philosophy at its core. I've been using it daily and wanted to walk through everything it offers. What Is PADD? PADD is a Microsub-compatible feed reader and social reader. The name says it all: it's a personal aggregati...
Read moreI'd like to go, but I'm unsure if schedule will allow yet!
Read moreSo... #PADD is getting "Notifications". If your microsub server has a notifications channel then PADD will automatically treat them as such!
I realized that part of the #Microsub spec calls for a notifications channel when I was adding a microsub server to my blog software. So naturally if my blog was going to publish it, I figured my reader should consume it naturally.
Seriously, I am having so much fun building this stuff.
Never thought I'd be thinking about building a shader in WebGL so that I can post fancily edited photos to my blog from my phone using a Star Trek themed web app I made.
Just #IndieWeb things I guess, lol
ps, how good does PADD look??
I've been busy! There's a big batch of improvements landing in PADD today. It touches pretty much every part of the app so I'm writing this post to walk y'all through it. First though, I want to give a disclaimer: I'm building this stuff primarily for myself (not you, sorry). I want a good way to quickly post to my own site and read the blogs I care about. PADD is my attempt at that. If it turns out to be useful to other people, that's great. If not? Well, then at least I have a reader I like...
Read moreI'm making a ton of updates to PADD. So many! I'm really excited to share them with everyone. Until I can: here's a taste!
I'm adding a photo editor featue right into PADD. This will make quick photo posts to your blog not only possible but easy. Why did people leave blogs for silos? Because blogs weren't fun or easy to use!
You could use your website to sign up for https://gardn.website if you wanted to. If you did you could even go pick my plant and help yours grow by bookmarking URLs.
I might be having too much fun building fun apps for the #IndieWeb lol
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I agree! Just make fucking websites!!
Building all my own tools for posting to my website and sharing content on the internet was easily the best thing I've done in years. #IndieWeb all the things!!