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What I’ve watched
I keep a little log.
A little while ago (on 19 October, to be precise) someone mentioned , an open source commenting system for websites. It looked interesting, so I tried to leave a comment on . Despite a few problems with login, I managed it, and asked whether Commento could play nicely with webmentions. No reply there, but I also took the matter up with support at Commento.
Today I got a reply. It didn't really address the login point, but did speak to Webmentions:
For the past three weeks, I have each day downloaded my website's access log by hand, at first literally, using FTP, and then, after a couple of days, with a command to do so. And each time, I would go look at the file and change it's name from access.log.0 to access.log.yyyy-mm-dd where dd is actually yesterday's date. The point of all this is to try and get into a position to make use of a neat-sounding analytical tool called Bise (see ).
Grav, the CMS behind this site, aggressively caches pages that it has built in the recent past. That's a good thing for people visiting the site, and not such a good thing for me when I want to see that anything new is working well. I do have a Firefox extension that zaps the cache locally, but that has no effect on the cache at the other end. Time to change that.
As I work on my new theme for this site, I noticed again that the old theme's way of dealing with the webmentions I send is not 100 per cent functional. Specifically, quite a few sites seem not to like the h-card here, which is present on every post as a <div> that contains pure <data> elements.
The balance I try to maintain, between doing things and writing about doing things, has swung too far in the doing direction. Sure, there are good reasons, like wanting to get the new theme for this site up and running before Friday, but I've got so many little notes scribbled that really wouldn't take much more than half an hour if I put my mind to it in the moment. Onward