O'Reilly Media asked me to collect expressions of interest for a print version of the ActivityPub book I wrote. I've added a form to the ActivityPub book page at https://evanp.me/activitypub-book/#print that you can use to let me know that you're interested. Even if you've told me before in person, over email, or on the Fediverse … Continue reading Print Version of ActivityPub Book
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Book-Signing Party 30 Sep 2024
My book ActivityPub: Programming for the Social Web is on its way to the virtual printers tomorrow, which means it will be available for purchase from all your favourite e-book stores at various points during next week. I will be taking this opportunity to have an online reading and book-signing party. The event is on … Continue reading Book-Signing Party 30 Sep 2024
A Bigger, Better Fediverse
I gave a talk** at Berlin Fediday this weekend entitled A Bigger, Better Fediverse. I talked about what has been happening on the Fediverse in terms of growth, but also what's been improving in terms of trust and safety. I also talk about why these two dimensions go hand-in-hand, and how we can't have one … Continue reading A Bigger, Better Fediverse
I turned in my manuscript!
I'm excited to say that I turned in my manuscript for the ActivityPub book for O'Reilly Media today. I started working on it in September of 2023, with a lot of interim checkpoints and deadlines since. In April 2024, I finished the first draft of the manuscript. Over the month of May, I've been working … Continue reading I turned in my manuscript!
Cross-server Interactions in ActivityPub
So, Richard McManus asked me about how ActivityPub supports cross-server usage. As an example use case, let's say a user with the account [email protected] wants to comment on a photo by [email protected]. In this scenario, Eric would go to the page https://photos.example/users/dionne/photos/1 and enter a comment. How would that work? I can talk about how … Continue reading Cross-server Interactions in ActivityPub
Responses to Rabble on ActivityPub
My friend Evan Henshaw-Plath wrote recently about some concerns with ActivityPub. I want to go over his concerns one by one and give some assessment of how accurate and important I think they are. Rabble's words in italics; my responses in just normal text. User identities are tied to a server. This is only partially … Continue reading Responses to Rabble on ActivityPub
Another chapter done!
Just a few minutes ago I sent my development editor Sarah the news that I'd finished another chapter of the ActivityPub book I'm writing for O'Reilly Media. This was the hardest one so far -- the one on the ActivityPub federation protocol that connects different servers on the fediverse. I'm now at 5 out of … Continue reading Another chapter done!
Big Fedi, Small Fedi
As I often do, I made a poll on the fediverse about two concepts I am interested in: Big Fedi versus Small Fedi. Although I think these are interesting topics, I couldn't come up with exact summations of what the "Big Fedi" and "Small Fedi" positions are. So, I wanted to write down what I … Continue reading Big Fedi, Small Fedi
First two chapters turned in
After a couple of months of deep writing, I've just turned in my first two chapters for the ActivityPub book for O'Reilly Media. Finn the Human from Adventure Time saying Yussssss It's been a really tough process for me. I've never written a book, or really any text of this size, before, so learning how … Continue reading First two chapters turned in
ActivityPub on WordPress.com
I'm really happy to see the ActivityPub plugin enabled for all free and paid WordPress.com accounts. I've been using the plugin on this blog for about a week, thanks to Matthias Pfefferle at WordPress, and I have some thoughts about it so far. The first thing is that it's definitely more like having a fediverse … Continue reading ActivityPub on WordPress.com
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