- Jan 2023
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paulrobertlloyd.com paulrobertlloyd.com
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I’m formally launching Indiekit, the little Node.js server with all the parts needed to publish content to your personal website and share it on social networks. Think of Indiekit as the missing link between a statically generated website and the social web protocols developed by the IndieWeb community and recommended by the W3C.
Now just get rid of the server part.
The real missing link between (conventional) static sites and the W3C's social protocols is still static. This post itself already acknowledges the reasons why1.
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- May 2022
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fosstodon.org fosstodon.org
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it’s looking like anything that requires a server is going in the bin
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autonomous-data.noeldemartin.com autonomous-data.noeldemartin.com
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Autonomous
This term is well-suited for the sort of thing I was going for with S4/BYFOB.
@tomcritchlow's comment about being hobbled by CORS in his attempt to set up an app[1] that is capable of working with his Library JSON is relevant. With a BYFOB "relay" pretty much anyone can get around CORS restrictions (without the intervention of their server administrator). The mechanism of the relay is pretty deserving of the "autonomous" label—perhaps even moreso that Noel's original conception of what Autonomous Data really means...
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tomcritchlow.com tomcritchlow.com
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Here’s a real example. A while back I posted up some thoughts about a decentralized Goodreads: Library JSON - A Proposal for a Decentralized Goodreads. The idea is that a million individual static sites can publish their book lists in a way that allows us to build Goodreads-esque behavior on top of it.
A sort of "backend on the frontend".
A similar "BYFOB" design principle was the basis for a proposal to bring "Solid[-like] services for static sites" into existence. I submitted this proposal to NLnet in their call for applications for their user-operated Internet fund. It was not accepted.
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www.devever.net www.devever.net
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Theoretically, there are many plugins for webservers adding support for scripting using any scripting language you can name. These are sometimes used to host full-blown web applications but I don't see them being used to facilitate mildly dynamic functionality.
All in all, despite its own flaws, I think this piece hints at a useful ontology for understanding the nuanced, difficult-to-name, POLP-violating design flaws in stuff like Mastodon/ActivityPub—and why BYFOB/S4 is a better fit, esp. for non-technical people.
https://hypothes.is/search?q=%22black+and+dead+is+all+you+need%22+user:mrcolbyrussell
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- Apr 2022
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subconscious.substack.com subconscious.substack.com
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Software has more cybernetic variety than hardware
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Infrastructure has decades-long replacement cycles
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- Feb 2021
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blog.joinmastodon.org blog.joinmastodon.org
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The Webfinger endpoint is always under /.well-known/webfinger, and it receives queries such as /.well-known/webfinger?resource=acct:bob@my-example.com. Well, in our case we can cheat, and just make it a static file:
Another anti-endorsement for protocols that require this level of power.
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