User:Omz13.com

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David Somers

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Designer of Things. Creator of Stuff. Wrangler of Words.

https://omz13.com

Chat Nickname: omz13

Elsewhere: Twitter GitHub Mastodon

I created the domain omz13.com to use as my online identity in 2003, which in internet years means it is really old.

I have been involved in ICT from about 198x, when accessing Prestel over a 1200/75 baud modem was a thing. These days I connect to the internet over a high bandwidth glass connection (huzzah for FTTP).

Itches

in alphabetical order:

  • avoiding link rot because things on the net have a tendency to disappear (especially when in a silo) so some kind of archiving
  • avoiding the micro and looking more towards the macro
  • plurality because diversity and interoperability are good
  • privacy

Working On

Making my own building blocks and sticking them together with gaffer tape and cyanoacrylates to build my very own Platform as a Service for Just One Person: an exemplar of use what you make.

  • It is written in Go because I like languages that are strictly typed and hardened for production in the hostile environment that the web and internet have become.
  • The core is a microformat-oriented cms whose content can be updated using micropub (for use by its built-in editor of external clients like Quill) or wordpress api (for use by external clients such as MarsEdit or Author).
  • Can act as an IdP/AS using indieauth and fully implements Ticketing
  • Provides a Web Key Service
  • Has micropub client and server components
  • Has webmention sending and receiving components
  • Embraces content negotiation
  • Embraces .well-known
  • Embraces WebFinger because this more appropriate than working with mf2+html.
  • Privacy first


For public use:

  • Toolbox[1] a hosted web-app (with an IndieAuth-gated login) that offers developers, a way to:
    • check that various metadata can be successfully discovered and parsed, including:
      • homepage profile
      • various IndieWeb endpoints
      • authorization server metadata (rfc8414 [2])
      • blog api using (really simple discovery [3]).
    • retrieve protected resources manually by providing a Bearer Token.

FAQ

Why build it yourself?

Because: kicks and giggles, and, you know, why integrate in 10 minutes with some service when you can spend a year or two building it yourself.

Windows or Apple?

Apple

Tabs or Spaces

Tabs

How do you feel about systemd?

It works, so why all the hate about it?