River

lots of ppl on the smallweb tend to avoid any kind of fancy JavaScript stuff on their sites, and are more less in favor of a web 1.0 style content, but I wonder if there might be some value in tools that allow people to interconnect their sites with their friends through JS and open standards like RSS. It would be like taking the concept of webrings to a more integrated level.

I wonder how far you could take it? I'm working on a basic tool that lets you show off the recent blog posts by your friends on your own site, but maybe there's room for even more tooling that could possibly make running a site into something more similar to dynamic content of social media, but without all the associated baggage?

Idk, but I do feel rather excited about what I'm working on anyways, even if it doesn't expand into an entire frontier for smallweb stuff.

#SmallWeb #blogging #webdev #JS #RSS #OpenStandards #web #weblog

Mar 16 at 9:53amWeb
Show threadKlaus Frank1d ago

@riverpunk No, most of the smallweb stuff is intentionally that way. Also you don't need any JS for an RSS.

And what would you want to interconnect the websites for? Just pull their RSS feeds inside your browsers favbar or RSS client...

But if you want to build something like this for you and your friends, then go for it?

Edit: And if you want to show off their latest posts, iframes exist too btw ;-)

Show threadLesley Lai1d ago

@riverpunk I've seen a few sites doing similar things (some kind of dynamic blogroll?)

The "microblog" section of my blog also dynamically fetches comments from social media sites' REST APIs (I can probably cache them at build time, but I haven't found a way to do so without significantly slowing down my static site generator).

There are also some things like webmetion thatare worth exploring (though I haven't figured them out yet)

https://lesleylai.info/micro/

Microblog Feed | Lesley Lai

Welcome to my microblog, a collection of short-form (often unpolished) posts typically published first on social media platforms and then cross-posted here.

Show threadRiver20h ago
@lesley very interesting. It's using browser-side javascript? I'd be curious to know how it works.
Show threadLesley Lai20h ago

@riverpunk Yeah, browser-side JavaScript. The posts themselves are static, but I specify social media links in markdown and then JS fetch from social medias

Related files:
https://codeberg.org/Lesley/blog/src/branch/main/src/components/microblog/MastodonReplies.astro
https://codeberg.org/Lesley/blog/src/branch/main/src/utils/social_replies.ts
https://codeberg.org/Lesley/blog/src/branch/main/src/utils/mastodon.ts

blog/src/components/microblog/MastodonReplies.astro at main

blog - Source code of my blog

Codeberg.org
Show threadRiver20h ago
@lesley interesting. Do you ever run into issues with CORS?
Show threadLesley Lai20h ago

@riverpunk No. I think the Mastodon API allows that.

That being said, I just realised that fetching Bluesky replies is broken (used to working). I can see the reply count, but no replies are shown. Needs to investigate this weekend

Show threadRiver20h ago

@lesley interesting. I'm somewhat there with my little script, but I'm having a bunch of hangups with race conditions.

I think I'll give it a break for the night, and then review your scripts before getting back to it tomorrow. I've really never programmed in JS tbh.