User:Jan.boddez.net

Introduction

Hi! My name is Jan, and I've been building websites since the early '00s, back when web standards and semantic markup first became a real thing. More recently, I created several IndieWeb-adjacent WordPress plugins, and a couple Laravel packages.

My IndieWeb Setup

Laravel

My personal website is powered by F-Stop, a Laravel-based CMS. In essence, it's a rather simple setup (which I then added a form of theming and plugins to).

It currently supports most things my WordPress site had, too: "short-form" content types, Webmention, simple location and weather "detection," syndicating to Mastodon, and "shortlinks."

I've recently added IndieAuth and partial Micropub support.

Might want to add ActivityPub one day, although I'm not sure running a different implementation—I used to use WordPress' ActivityPub plugin—from the same domain will work at all.

Previously: WordPress

My personal website used to be powered by WordPress (and the IndieBlocks plugin). It supports IndieAuth and Micropub, by means of the excellent, well, IndieAuth and Micropub plugins.

It runs a fairly bare-bones "block" (or "FSE") theme. IndieBlocks is able to automatically "inject" microformats2 into any block theme, so that's what I had it do. My "microblog" continues to live at /notes.

I'd been experimenting with separate "likes" and "listens" ("scrobbles") sections. The likes are still there; the listens are on hold for a bit.

I used to regularly POSSE to my Mastodon account, but ended up relying on "native" ActivityPub more often.

I used to follow websites all inside WordPress' admin interface, by way of another plugin of mine, Feed Reader. I'm hoping to soon integrate a reader into my new CMS.

Miscellaneous

I once wrote a feed reader which supported h-feed and Micropub, and had partial support for Microsub; it was called F-Stop, too. Prior to that, I'd developed a sort of "fork" of "Monocle," i.e., a pure (web-based) Microsub (and Micropub) client. I ran it in combination with this Aperture fork of mine (and, later on, F-Stop).

Itches

Earlier this year, I moved a couple of my sites to a single WordPress multisite install, which now supports subdomains—handled automatically by Caddy—as well as "proper" domain name mapping. I'm hoping to one day open up registrations (for a select number of people, at least, as moderating user-generated content is not something I'm looking forward to).

Lastly, I'm still experimenting with the ActivityPub plugin (and my little add-on plugin for it).