Implicit Dot Computer
Hello! I'm Keaton, welcome to my "Web site"!
You can "click" the "links" in the top bar to learn more about me and the site, or maybe look at one of these recent blog posts.
The language our machines use to speak to us has changed. We wanted to humanize the computer. We wanted it to meet us where we are, with our evolved social primate brains, and simple declarative state…
Recalibration
2024-07-26You know when some rando on the internet makes a post to the effect of "I'm so sorry I haven't been updating recently, it's because of reasons X Y and Z, please accept my deepest apologies and I'll po…
Here's the lesson I've learned since my last post: making a simple ActivityPub server that implements the minimum subset of the spec is not difficult. But to have the server be actually usable and via…
After a few posts worth of preamble, it's finally time to get our hands dirty with ActivityPub! I started out by reading through the specification for ActivityPub itself, which defines the inter-serve…
Notes on Setting Up a Mastodon Server
2024-06-04Welcome to Protocolapalooza, my project to add support to this site for a bunch of wacky protocols other than the Web. We're starting with ActivityPub, but before we can get into the implementation th…