A Server for a Purpose

A little while ago, I decided that I would really like a better webmentions experience on this site. I’m currently indebted to Pelle Wasserman’s app to collect them for me and deliver them here, which I appreciate very much, but my effort to understand how I might improve the presentation, for example by separating and grouping the various kinds of reaction, taught me only that I have far too much to learn about doing that in a browser. So I turned my attention back to a plugin that I last looked at (checks notes) nine years ago. The plan is to modernise the plugin and make it work on my site. The original author has abandoned it and is happy for someone else to take it on. That someone will probably not be me. But I will give it a good try. To work efficiently, I need to work with a live site. I’ve been having a lot of trouble using SFTP with the sites I have at Hetzner web hosting, so I thought I would first take a crack at creating a self-managed server, which would allow me full…