A Node on the Web
A Node on the Web
Ricardo Mendes
This site is my personal hub for long-form writing, curated bookmarks, and open-web experiments — where ideas about tech, autonomy, democracy, and digital culture meet.
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Precisely why I’m not using WordPress and would not build any future of the web on it. and this is after 2 decades using/deploying WordPress for personal or professional use. WordPress is too far gone.
Happy to test and report back when you have something live 😀
crazy to think about , busy pipelines
It’s crazy that besides the protests in the streets all that is left to do without openly taking arms is to fight legally against the very US administration that should uphold accountability in the first place. Banana republic 🇺🇸
ArticlesBuilding NewsDiff: Tracking How News Changes After PublicationNotesso painful to watch @evan@cosocial.ca patiently explain over and over tags.push and the way hashtags work on the FediverEn France, pour que Justice se fasse, il...
NotesI have added the ability to my #activitypub deployment to subscribe to https://tags.pub federated hashtags but even thola vue depuis ma terrasse, avec le soleil qui rentre dans le salon pour réchauffer mon vieux caoutchouc, je m’en...
ArticlesCult Dynamics at the Scale of Rogue DemocraciesOptimizing Eleventy Build Performance: From 38s to Under 10sDev Log: Hunting OOM kills, fixing CLS, and making Eleventy builds 10x fasterNotesAfter a few fix the feature is a success...
ArticlesDev Log: 43 commits — design system, accessibility, and 306 bookmarks importedDev Log: 27 commits across 5 plugins to improve my blogAdding AI Usage Metadata to JSON-LD Structured DataThe Blog Question ChallengeNotesMy blog is...
ArticlesSOTU : Spectacle, Degeneration, and the Weaponization of LanguageDeep Dive into Wafrn: How One Platform Self-Hosts Both ActivityPub and Bluesky IdentitiesInside Indiekit: How 30+ Plugins Turn a Node.js Server into a Federated...
ArticlesHacking on Indiekit to customize my blogHow to Self-Host FeedLand with Docker ComposeReligion, pouvoir et silence : le mythe bouddhiste occidentalNotesThe uncomfortable truth is that I rarely think about UI/UX until I’m forced to...
ArticlesPodcastsVideosDeploying Your Own IndieWeb Site with Indiekit + Eleventy (Docker Compose based)The Guru Wears Prada - Sofia May on Surviving Tibetan Buddhism at Tara MandalaRoadmapPrivacy PolicyNotesTest Note to test post edit on...
ArticlesJe collectionne des flux RSS et toi ?InterestsPOSSEAI TransparencyAboutUsesHelloNotesThis weekend I worked on my custom /blogroll page it has 3 input types : you construct the collection by adding blogs mGot my indiekit...
ArticlesSelf-HostingNowWhen the Law Becomes a WeaponMy App DefaultsNotesI think I never subscribed to as many RSS feeds from small blogs as I did recently since I got myself my own #microsub r🎶🎵 Dire Straits à l’honneur ce soir … je me...
ArticlesDeploy Your Own IndieWeb Site on Cloudron with IndiekitCanadian Prime Minister Mark Carney Speech in DavosNotesj’ai complètement open-sourcé tout le code qui fait tourner mon blog, évidemment je n’ai rien inventé (à part les...