Webmentions on my blog, Part 1: Incoming

I'm unsure if everyone is really talking about webmentions or if I'm just noticing them more because I'm working on mine, but it certainly feels like the former.[1] A few weeks ago, I mentioned that my site now supports webmentions. Since then, I've continued to iterate on my implementation, and I think I've finally gotten to the point where I'm happy with everything. My site and requirements # I build my site with 11ty, and it's hosted on a VPS over at Capsul. Many people host their static sites on something like Netlify or GitHub Pages, but I do not. Instead, I have a homelab with a Proxmox LXC host. This runs a cron job that checks my git repo, which is hosted locally only, for new commits, which then triggers a build and rsync pushes to the VPS. My goal is to reduce and eliminate third-party dependencies, so while many people use Webmention.io and Bridgy for their blog webmentions, I wanted to try to avoid that. In the interest of full disclosure, I did use Claude Code to help me…

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