Dr. James Cuff 

I followed @simon's superb tutorial here for GitHub with GitHub pages verification and redirect support (I don't have much of anything on GitHub since retiring and then not retiring)

https://til.simonwillison.net/mastodon/verifying-github-on-mastodon

Worked a treat, needed a tiny edit for it to work, for reasons it wasn't reading the rel=me in the meta tag, but the A in the body worked, this could have been eventual consistency or something, but anyway this did it for a green tick

https://github.com/DrCuff/drcuff.github.io/blob/main/index.html

#github #verify #profile

Verifying your GitHub profile on Mastodon

Mastodon has a really neat way of implementing verification, using the [rel=me microformat](https://microformats.org/wiki/rel-me). You can edit your Mastodon profile and add up to four links to it. M

Nov 20, 2022 at 12:38amWeb
Show threadDr. James Cuff Nov 20, 2022

Also took the time to update my #KeyOxide proof list with a #GitHub proof, and personal #DNS which was a slightly different syntax to achieve:

https://keyoxide.org/[email protected]

The proof is added via a notation trick for OpenPGP and DNS:

https://docs.keyoxide.org/service-providers/github/

https://docs.keyoxide.org/service-providers/dns/

You can then add the appropriate notations to your OpenPGP key:

https://docs.keyoxide.org/openpgp-profiles/using-gnupg/#Adding_an_identity_claim

then finally upload to #OpenPGP with:

https://docs.keyoxide.org/using-cryptography/openpgp-gnupg/#Distributing_via_keys.openpgp.org

KeyOxide pulls that.

#greentick #verified #mastodon

James Cuff - Keyoxide

Modern and secure platform to manage a decentralized identity based on cryptographic keys

Show threadDr. James Cuff Nov 20, 2022

I was just stalking Simon's profile and the #GitHub #greencheck thing has fallen off their profile, no green any more at the moment - so that whole <a href ... probably does now need to be there, maybe something changed on the mastodon server for how it parses them - in any case, if you want to do the whole awesome GitHub pages plus redirect thing, then this seems to be working for it at the moment:

https://github.com/DrCuff/drcuff.github.io/blob/main/index.html

Hope this helps.

drcuff.github.io/index.html at main · DrCuff/drcuff.github.io

GitHub website. Contribute to DrCuff/drcuff.github.io development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Show threadAlan SillNov 20, 2022
@james Still seems to be there: https://til.simonwillison.net/mastodon/verifying-github-on-mastodon
Verifying your GitHub profile on Mastodon

Mastodon has a really neat way of implementing verification, using the [rel=me microformat](https://microformats.org/wiki/rel-me). You can edit your Mastodon profile and add up to four links to it. M

Show threadDr. James Cuff Nov 20, 2022

@AlanSill

Yes of course the webpage is still there, it's the green tick on the mastodon profile that isn't

Show threadDr. James Cuff Nov 20, 2022

@AlanSill

And now it's back on @simon's profile again... harm - weird, some kinda strange eventual consistency thing going on here.... probably my little raspberry pi server being slow. Weird. Well in any case, it's all working now!

Also - as an aside, this I just discovered is also epic!

https://simonwillison.net/2020/Jul/10/self-updating-profile-readme/

/cc @vsoch our global resident #github guru.

Building a self-updating profile README for GitHub

GitHub quietly released a new feature at some point in the past few days: profile READMEs. Create a repository with the same name as your GitHub account (in my case …

Show threadvsochNov 20, 2022

@james @AlanSill @simon looks good! I was not wanting to use the README feature for a long time because I thought it took away from the core focus of GitHub, the projects. However, 8-9 months ago I decided on a nice compromise - some some quick stats to showcase my activity!

Did I win GitHub yet? 😆

Show threadvsochNov 20, 2022

@james @AlanSill @simon and if that green box is about identification, my choice was to add the "me" link to my about page on my personal blog.

I have a different outlook for some of these "summary" page sorts of deals - I don't really want to see a listing of posts or links. Less is almost always more, and delivering focused messages to the right place at the right time. I'm well beyond trying to, for example, attract some audience with too many links they don't have time to read.

Show threadDr. James Cuff Nov 20, 2022

@vsoch @AlanSill @simon

You won GitHub years ago!