Post Posts 📝
Below is a list of my blog posts in the Post category.
Building my own webmention receiver
A couple of months ago, I started to work on my own webmention receiver. Instead of relying on webmention.io, a service commonly used to receive webmentions, I wanted to challenge myself to create a receiver from scratch. To do so, I realised I would have to read, understand, and interpret a W3C specification, something I had not done up until the point of deciding to work on a webmention receiver. While I knew there would be challenges, I wanted to take control over how I received webmentions and build my own service.
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How to make a plant monitor dashboard: Part II
In the last part of this series, I walked you through how to create a program that logs the moisture levels in your plants. If you haven’t already read that tutorial, I’d recommend going back to it before reading on. If you have, you are ready to advance onto the next stage of your journey toward building a plant monitor dashboard: showing your plant data on pretty charts. That is the topic of this tutorial.
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Some things to keep in mind if you build a search engine
Over the last few months, I have spent a lot of time thinking about, talking about, and building a search engine. The search engine was first designed for my blog and then I expanded it into IndieWeb Search, a search engine for the IndieWeb community. Working on this project has been interesting but also challenging. Search involves solving many different problems, even if your intention is only to build a search engine for your own website.
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Why I am Building IndieWeb Search
I recently entertained a question about why I decided to turn what was a search engine for my blog into an IndieWeb Search engine. My motive was not clear until someone shared an article with me written by jpreston.xyz. In this article, jpreston.xyz explains why they had embarked on a similar journey to build a search engine. Quoting from their article:
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How to Make a Cold Foam Iced Coffee at Home
I saw a post on Instagram yesterday by Starbucks advertising their Pumpkin Spiced Latte and a pumpkin spiced cold foam drink. Autumn must be imminent, despite my wish for the summer to go on longer. The foam drink caught my eye. At Starbucks, you can order some “cold foam” drinks which are essentially coffees with some milk foam on the top. Starbucks offers a wide range of foams and flavours but I prefer to keep my coffee to two main ingredients: high-quality, speciality coffee, and milk when I am in the mood for it.
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A few days ago I published a blog post on how I am using Micropub to post content to my site. For those of you who are not familiar with the term, Micropub is a standardised way to post content to your site. By using Micropub, I can post content to my site from any Micropub-compliant client (although I have chosen to use my own client because I have a few custom requirements).
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How my search engine direct answers work
NB: Since writing this post, I have moved my blog search engine into IndieWeb Search. The functionality should be similar but not exactly the same. With that said, the logic below is still accurate and I hope will be interesting to you.
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A theory on sour coffee and cheap grinders
NB: The espresso pictured above was absolutely delicious. It is for illustrative purposes only.
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Updating My IndieWeb Wiki Profile Page
I have not updated my IndieWeb Wiki page in months. As I have worked on a number of IndieWeb and website projects lately, I have taken some time to rewrite my wiki profile page. You can see the rewrite below. Please refer to my profile page on the IndieWeb wiki for the most updated version as I may change it in the future without updating this post.
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Coffee Chat with Gillian from MAYZE Finnieston
Part of the thriving Glasgow coffee scene since 2018, MAYZE Is a speciality coffee shop that serves vegan bakes and vegetarian food. MAYZE also provides vegan and vegetarian catering services.
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