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Social interactions on the (open) (Indie) Web.

❤ Liked: WordPress IndieWeb setup with a block theme

I’ve been tinkering around with IndieWeb integration on this site and wanted to document some notes getting all this running with a block theme. Theme I’m running a mildly customized version of Pulitzer. I’ve used the Create Block Theme plugin to export my changes and have published it as a standalone child theme here. Changes are mainly typography and header/footer changes. I’ve raised the font sizes across the board and switched to using system fonts to avoid shipping font files. Modern Fon…

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❤ Liked: Leaving the web industry

I accepted an offer for a permanent job in one of the most prestigious British institutes. To get there, I had to first understand I'm not cut for the web industry anymore.

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❤ Liked: Lovely sunrise this morning in Odawara. 🌅

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↳ Reply to: https://www.thisdaysportion.com/notes/strip-out-everything

I faced the same dilemma recently, but here’s the thing, even though I built websites for a living in the past, the truth is I am not a pro web dev and this is all quite technical.

I decided to implement (WIP) webmentions, micropub and everything IndieWeb because I’ve found value in learning about it.

There’s still some things I need to figure out, but I’m gonna stick with receiving webmentions notifications on RSS and displaying my likes/replies to posts around the web as social notes.

I’d say if it’s already setup and it doesn’t affect your workflow, stick with it, invest that time and energy on writing new posts. I’m sure like me there’s lots of people that enjoy them.