How Webmentions Work on brennan.day

It's been awhile since I've written a technical breakdown looking at specific functionality on my site. I actually wrote that I would post a tutorial on how Webmentions work on my site... but then never did. And that was all the way back in March! It's June now, somehow. It's actually almost July. What the heck? Anyways, my friend Melo runs a blog using a custom Rails solution (which is far more impressive than my simple static blog) and I hope this walkthrough can help her and anyone else with their own IndieWeb site integrate these cross-site interactions! It's been one of the neatest features on my site, in my opinion. What Are Webmentions, Anyways? Good question. Webmentions enable notifications across websites, and are a W3C Recommendation. If somebody links to your content from their own site, then the server involved can send a webmention to your endpoint, which allows you to both receive and display likes, reposts, replies and mentions. You can think of it being similar to the…