Followers of my blog - you can now subscribe to just blog posts for certain tags, for instance if you want to read all my articles about Go but only my articles, and not be annoyed by all the other stuff tagged go, you can now add https://www.jvt.me/tags/go/feed.articles.xml to your feed reader of choice.
And of course, this is discoverable via RSS discovery so you can just point your feed reader at i.e. https://www.jvt.me/tags/go/ and it should prompt you the different options.
Not sure what's caused it - or if it's related to recent discussions about Google Search being a bit naff recently - but according to Google, this last month I had ~19k clicks, whereas this time last year I had ~33k
Welp it turns out that the slow builds on my site (> 25 minutes, mostly due to the size of it) that have been causing GitLab to time out can be resolved by upgrading the size of CI runner that was launched several months ago!
It feels odd to suddenly have i.e. replies to tweets be sent ~90 seconds after I post the comment, instead of ~8 minutes later. Turns out that some tweaking of #Netlify settings, reducing some of the size of files on my site, and migrating from Netlify to #Cloudfront with a self-hosted shell #gitlab CI runner makes a big difference!
Managed to track down what the ~5 minutes of post processing was on my #Netlify site (thanks to the wonderful support from https://community.netlify.com/t/slow-deploy-times/30857/4) - now I wonder how else I can trim the deploy speed to something more reasonable
Folks who follow my blog's #Microformats feed will now see the context (as an h-cite) that is visible on my site, allowing you to have some context for at least interactions with Twitter, but hopefully other stuff in the future!
So I sorted my Webmention sending issue after an incredibly frustrating day of fighting with Jackson parsing my XML sitemap. I'm still not sure what the issue was, as I've ended up replacing my POJO with another one, but 🤷🏽♂️ at least Webmentions are sending again
Woops, looks like I broke my Webmention sending yesterday when I upgraded all my versions of Spring / Spring Boot. That'd explain why things haven't syndicated to Twitter today. Film time now, so will fix tomorrow!
I interact a lot with Twitter from my website, and as such the interactions you see are i.e. "Like of @indiewebcamp's tweet" which isn't super helpful. So I've just added the ability to mark up my interactions with some context of what the post was so it's eaiser to see without navigating there.
This is using the awesome https://granary.io/ and will hopefully make reading Twitter interactions through my site much nicer!
Woops by making the changes in https://www.jvt.me/mf2/2020/01/washd/ I've also broken my Micropub endpoint's ability to RSVP to meetups, as the response is coming back with a new location format. Oops!
Very much looking forward to tonight's #TechNott, not least because it'll be the first meetup I'm owning every interaction first from my website in #IndieWeb fashion, as well as converting hashtags to tags on the posts themselves!
My site is now running Hugo v0.62! Not too painful an upgrade from 0.58.3, given changes in the Markdown parser - https://gitlab.com/jamietanna/jvt.me/merge_requests/637 - largely Table of Contents related, and one place where I'd not got enough spacing in around fenced codeblocks
Well, I think I've cracked it - after a few weeks of on-and-off work on making my webmention sending not spam everyone (see https://www.jvt.me/posts/2019/10/30/reader-mail-webmention-spam/ ) - it's now not re-sending them if they're successful. This is a good first step, but I'll be improving it to re-send if the post's data has changed since last time it tried (in the future).
Note that this isn't quite done yet, expect it to be live tomorrow perhaps.
Jamie Tanna
.
#www.jvt.me.
