I recently entertained a question about why I decided to turn what was a search engine for my blog into an IndieWeb Search engine. My motive was not clear until someone shared an article with me written by jpreston.xyz. In this article, jpreston.xyz explains why they had embarked on a similar journey to build a search engine. Quoting from their article:
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This year, the IndieWeb community has been making progress on iterating and evolving the IndieAuth protocol. IndieAuth is an extension of OAuth 2.0 that enables it to work with personal websites and in a decentralized environment.
IndieAuth is a spiritual successor to OpenID, developed and maintained by the IndieWeb community and based on OAuth 2. This weekend I attended IndieWebCamp East Coast and was inspired to …
Channels This is a proposal to introduce a new organizational concept to Micropub for creating and editing posts: Channels. A post can be created within one or more "channels" The server ...
I've written previously about what went wrong with the internet and how to fix it, and one of the ideas I mentioned was a new model for search. Given 'talk is cheap, show me the code', I decided to implement it. Okay, it wasn't quite that easy, but here it is: https://searchmysite.net .
Very cool! I hope this project is successful.
A while ago I contributed a patch to <a href="/tags/Prismo" class="hashtag" title="Prismo tag">#Prismo</a> to add <a href="/tags/microformat" class="hashtag" title="microformat tag">microformat</a> support. I'm a super newbie with <a href="/tags/Ruby" class="hashtag" title="Ruby tag">#Ruby</a> , but it was actually pretty easy. I just filed an issue to add support for sending <a href="/tags/webmentions" class="hashtag" title="webmentions tag">#webmentions</a> . So I might take a crack at that and add more <a href="/tags/IndieWeb" class="hashtag" title="IndieWeb tag">#IndieWeb</a> support to Prismo!<br><br> <a href="https://gitlab.com/mbajur/prismo/issues/235">https://gitlab.com/mbajur/prismo/issues/235</a>
Dunno if I’m too verbose, but I’m finding 500 characters often not enough for me, specially if I’m writing about an article I’ve read.
Then use more than 500 characters. 500 isn't a magic number. It's more important that you can say everything you want than to fit some arbitrary limit. Plus, that's the magic of the <a href="/tags/IndieWeb" class="hashtag" title="IndieWeb tag">#IndieWeb</a> ; it's your choice and no one else's