Bret Comnes

A directory of my indieweb interests, projects, and events. I am interested in projects that are low maintenance and long term in scope, p2p and distributed storage systems and anything else that makes publishing easy and fun.

Itching

Small modules to power a personal site engine. No spaghetti code. Pure and separate plain text (eg twitter style), GHF Commonmark, and plain html documents inserted into DSL free html templates. Plain text + git storage engine.

Optional static site generation or dynamic server side rendering.

Data stored in a manner that lends itself to incremental rebuilds.

Fix up git pub and experiment with accepting JSON encoded micropub reqs.

Improve slides tooling: https://github.com/bcomnes/slides

Current IndieWeb Projects

base (working title) - A starter indieweb template for Jekyll.
bret.io - my personal website. Hosted on gh-pages and rendered in jekyll safe mode. source
- jekyll - Contributing and extending Jekyll's indieweb capabilities.
- Graceful note enhancement using metadata presence
gitpub - A publishing endpoint for static websites. Still experimental. Supports micropub clients. source
- Working on Features:
- Auto POSSE to twitter
- Configuration UI
Experimenting with camlistore, git-annex, bittorrent-sync, and telehash.
socialwg - participating in the w3c social WG/IG as an invited expert (applied).

Events

(2014) Indiewebcamp Cambridge - Remote
(2014) Indiewebcamp - PDX
(2014 - Present) Homebrew Website Club PDX
(2013) Indiewebcamp Hollywood - Remote
(2013) osfw3c - SF
(2013) Indiewebcamp - PDX

Stalled & Completed Projects

iwc-irc-logs-atom-feed - A simple project that turns the IWC IRC logs into a daily atom feed item so you can cache the logs for offline consumption on a mobile reader. Still needs a system to update consistently and to match the recent IRC display improvements. code
webmention.js - Displays data from webmention.io on a static site with javascript using jsonp. Needs some work. See webmention.herokuapp.com for a more functional and documented project currently. I'll return to this someday, but a broken version is running on my personal site currently.

About me

On freendode as "bret"
See my about page for more
Other non-indieweb projects