Today, I took some time out of processing the loss of my dad to do some nerdy tech stuff with OpenMentions and WebMention sources. I was interested in which sites sent the most mentions to the openmentions.com endpoints. This is not especially important, but it could indicate who the most active and interested people are. […]
Today, I took some time out of processing the loss of my dad to do some nerdy tech stuff with OpenMentions and WebMention sources. I was interested in which sites sent the most mentions to the openmentions.com endpoints. This is not especially important, but it could indicate who the most active and interested people are. […]
I can be one of the hardest human beings to make contact with on the planet (for a chronically online guy). I am part hermit, part geek. Also, I get lost inside my own ideas. This guide is mostly for people who know me, but generally for anyone who wants to make contact (like, say, […]
My social node blog is powered by WebMentions. I agree with Matt Steele that WebMentions are cool. I’d like to see all indie blogs using them.
My project, OpenMentions, was built around WebMentions. All of the shrine pages and mini blogs on isbrill.com support WebMention. I’ll skip mentioning the rest of the stuff I’m connected to. If you want the full list ping me with a mention.
Give all your pings to me (what song’s tune did you read that in?)
This blog is also powered by ActivityPub (because I can)
OM asked Do you vibe code? (Question of the week, 20 June 2025). My answer:
I have no need of vibe coding because I can do awake and thinking coding. I’m old school like that. Which, I guess, makes me the type of person who you will pay to fix your vibe errors.
There’s a lot of very bad code out there on the web. AI has been trained on it. What you will get may very well be the mean average of the web’s code, which is a very low bar.
@lordmatt I just noticed that I’m getting Webmentions a couple times an hour from this page. Thanks for including me! I don’t mind the link at all, but it probably shouldn’t be continually re-sending them like that. 🙂
Back on my blog, I started a rolling list of WebMention blogs. I’ve not maintained that series, but this list started from that blog post series. I’ve marked a few in bold – these are specifically general-purpose conversation starters and topic ideas. A B C D E F G H I J K L M […]
@fatbrit @lordmatt Alt text: social media post by Steven Daugherty, 1d ago, From my Threads feed:So threads brothers and sisters! It’s official. I, along with 60 other scientists and medical colleagues have surrendered our work visas for the USA after 22 years. (Me personally) Due to discovering a colleague who is a pediactric [sic] oncologist being detained for 72 hours by ICE after visiting his parents inEngland. Ones moral compass is just to well embedded to pay money to the cult of Musk and Trump who have established a dictatorship. And we are all taking our research with us
@lordmatt you might like this, since I believe you’ve made efforts yourself to thwart AIhttps://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/03/cloudflare-turns-ai-against-itself-with-endless-maze-of-irrelevant-facts/#Cloudflare #AI
A place for UK book lovers – https://authorbuzz.co.uk/ A place for making shrines and fan pages – https://isbrill.com/ A website for WebMentions as a sort of open forum thing – https://openmentions.com/ A summary of the day in emoji – https://todayinemoji.uk/ A tribute to my dear but departed dad – https://rememberingjohn.uk/ An old-school directory – https://dir.lordmatt.co.uk/ A one-page about me site – https://me.lordmatt.co.uk/ A password-validation game – https://password.lordmatt.co.uk/ Another password-validation game – https://password2.lordmatt.co.uk/ And a lot of niche blogs and things…
Today, I took some time out of processing the loss of my dad to do some nerdy tech stuff with OpenMentions and WebMention sources. I was interested in which sites sent the most mentions to the openmentions.com endpoints. This is not especially important, but it could indicate who the most active and interested people are. […]
Today, I took some time out of processing the loss of my dad to do some nerdy tech stuff with OpenMentions and WebMention sources. I was interested in which sites sent the most mentions to the openmentions.com endpoints. This is not especially important, but it could indicate who the most active and interested people are. […]
OpenMentions is a website I made around the idea of OpenTopics, which are targets for WebMentions with a standing invitation to tag them whenever you…
I finished off the last day of January with a second session of life-drawing, following on from the session earlier this month. The first drawing…
@lordmatt @openmentions.com let me know if you are hosting a campaign.
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@lordmatt Hi, I tried to answer an openmentions question (https://gerben.dev/replies/13a66a2394265b8188dc1373342b7c4a) and I believe the webmention went through and is valid, but I’m not seeing anything on https://openmentions.com/news/question-of-the-week/when-you-were-little-what-did-you-want-to-be-when-you-grew-up/
I can be one of the hardest human beings to make contact with on the planet (for a chronically online guy). I am part hermit, part geek. Also, I get lost inside my own ideas. This guide is mostly for people who know me, but generally for anyone who wants to make contact (like, say, […]
My social node blog is powered by WebMentions. I agree with Matt Steele that WebMentions are cool. I’d like to see all indie blogs using them.
My project, OpenMentions, was built around WebMentions. All of the shrine pages and mini blogs on isbrill.com support WebMention. I’ll skip mentioning the rest of the stuff I’m connected to. If you want the full list ping me with a mention.
Give all your pings to me (what song’s tune did you read that in?)
This blog is also powered by ActivityPub (because I can)
@usamainsights @KentNavalesi @academicchatter I’m slowly growing a listing of fun blogs on https://dir.lordmatt.co.uk/social-media/blogs-and-blogging/blogs/ (a directory I maintain).Feel free to also check out https://node.lordmatt.co.uk/ – that’s me for general stuff and https://iamthedj.lordmatt.co.uk/ for my music posts.There’s lots more (I kinda live in the internet) but I am sure you can uncover the rest from these – https://lordmatt.co.uk being my personal essay blog, for example.and https://dev.lordmatt.co.uk/ is stuff I made.2/2
OM asked Do you vibe code? (Question of the week, 20 June 2025). My answer:
I have no need of vibe coding because I can do awake and thinking coding. I’m old school like that. Which, I guess, makes me the type of person who you will pay to fix your vibe errors.
There’s a lot of very bad code out there on the web. AI has been trained on it. What you will get may very well be the mean average of the web’s code, which is a very low bar.
@lordmatt I just noticed that I’m getting Webmentions a couple times an hour from this page. Thanks for including me! I don’t mind the link at all, but it probably shouldn’t be continually re-sending them like that. 🙂
Nice try @lordmatt
Back on my blog, I started a rolling list of WebMention blogs. I’ve not maintained that series, but this list started from that blog post series. I’ve marked a few in bold – these are specifically general-purpose conversation starters and topic ideas. A B C D E F G H I J K L M […]
@fatbrit @lordmatt Alt text: social media post by Steven Daugherty, 1d ago, From my Threads feed:So threads brothers and sisters! It’s official. I, along with 60 other scientists and medical colleagues have surrendered our work visas for the USA after 22 years. (Me personally) Due to discovering a colleague who is a pediactric [sic] oncologist being detained for 72 hours by ICE after visiting his parents inEngland. Ones moral compass is just to well embedded to pay money to the cult of Musk and Trump who have established a dictatorship. And we are all taking our research with us
@lordmatt you might like this, since I believe you’ve made efforts yourself to thwart AIhttps://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/03/cloudflare-turns-ai-against-itself-with-endless-maze-of-irrelevant-facts/#Cloudflare #AI