#petproject
My pet projects are commonly about issues I care about in my work at large (e.g. privacy, accessibility, human-friendly design). These are either independent projects or spin-offs from client projects.
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No matter how thoroughly a website is checked for accessibility by its creators, content editors play an important role in keeping it that way. Two little tools assist editors in their work, alerting them if content added through the CMS breaks certain accessibility principles. As a key building block in an inclusive publishing strategy, I look at the options and provide a turnkey solution for Kirby. -
Many think of designers as those restlessly creative, artist minds whose work consists mainly of producing ever new ideas and concepts. While that kind of work is genuinely fun to do, I have always seen design mostly as the work of digging ever deeper, working out the details, and most importantly taking the perspective of somebody unfamiliar with the subject.
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When I set out to create a Micropub endpoint as flexible as the Kirby CMS itself, this turned out to be a rather complex task. The result, however, opens up opportunities that frankly surprised myself. Once the initial setup is done, publishing content is more flexible than ever. -
I adapted the open source Selfauth server into a Kirby 3 plugin, allowing to log in to IndieAuth-enabled websites using one’s own domain. -
I wrote a small Kirby 3 plugin for temporarily shutting down my website on 20 Sep. -
Designing and creating my personal Kirby 3 webmentions solution. -
In my January post titled Identity, content, audience and the (independent) web, I described the approach of using a self-owned website as the primary place to publish online content, while sending out (“syndicating”) copies of the content to social platforms. My motive was to reflect […]