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Debugging Brid.gy for My Blog

Published on January 30, 2022 by James Ravenscroft

#indieweb #web-development #open-source #personal #100DaysToOffload

In episode 5 of my #100DaysToOffload challenge, I talk about my recent experience playing with the brid.gy codebase, a fun and pleasant deep-dive into the code base for one of the IndieWeb movement’s key pieces of infrastructure.

Intro to Brid.gy

Back when I started reading about the IndieWeb Movement and playing with micropub/microsub around christmas time I found bri.dgy, a service by Ryan Barret a.k.a snarfed which transparently links your micropub website with social media silos like twitter, mastodon, instagram and others, in order to facilitate both POSSE and backfeeding (i.e. PESOS) of content.

A community site around scholarly single source publishing #SiSoPub

Published on January 28, 2022 by James Ravenscroft

#open-source #open-science

The Single Source Publishing Community (SSPC) is a network of stakeholders from the Open Science community that are interested in Single Source Publishing (SSP) for scholarly purposes – developing open-source software and advocacy.

Privacy Respecting Analytics

Published on January 22, 2022 by James Ravenscroft

#meta #open-source #privacy #100DaysToOffload

This is a somewhat cliched meta post about blogging and my 4th post in this year’s run at the #100DaysToOffload challenge. See the full series here

Google’s Analytics programme made the headlines this week after Austria ruled that the way that it works constitutes a breach of GDPR. I’ve been using Google Analytics on my site for a little while (mainly out of laziness since the Hugo template I use has built in support for Google Analytics if you paste your user ID number into the configuration). I’d been thinking about swapping to a self-hosted analytics package for a while but this decision was the final prompt that made me do it.

Focalboard is an open source, self-hosted alternative to Trello, Notion, and Asana.

Published on January 21, 2022 by James Ravenscroft

#open-source

Interesting looking open source tool that provides kanban todos. I’m quite interested in these sorts of tools for visualising my todo lists on projects.