Azhdarchid now supports Webmentions

As per my last post, I am now in full control of this blog's faculties. A big motivation here was to start working towards incorporating various IndieWeb features, generally at my own pace and with my own considerations for how I want things to work. The first step in that direction is having some support for webmentions, which really means "doing several distinct things that, together, constitute participation in an ecosystem that we call webmentions as a gestalt entity." Webmentions really are just a way of notifying a website that you linked to it—if you're old enough to know what a "pingback" is, webmentions are basically pingbacks but hopefully perhaps without the problems that plagued that system.[1] Theoretically, you can just add a little metadata to your website page templates that points to an API endpoint that can receive webmentions (which is provided as a service by Webmention.io). You can then just treat webmentions as notifications you can see on that service. But in…