Adding a Bookmarks Page

I mentioned over on The Underground that one thing I wanted to add to my site, to “do more” with it, was a space to collect bookmarks and fun links I com across. Well, I’ve added a quick and dirty “first draft” of the feature over on the new /bookmarks page. It’s even got its own feed you can use to follow along at home.

I’d had the idea for the page a while ago, but the real motivation to get it done came with a recent push to get more people sharing links they’d enjoyed on their website more often (See, for example: Cassidy, Hidde, and Joan). I wanted to have a way of sharing these links that in a way that didn’t need me to dedicate a whole blog post to them^[1], giving me the opportunity to be more spontaneous about it.

Fun(?) Technical Notes:

When I add a bookmark it should trigger a webmention to the page in question (if it supports webmentions), and if the other site supports microformats then it should show up as an IndieWeb “bookmark-of”. This was by far the most fiddly bit to get right.

In terms of adding bookmarks - I’m using a combination of IndieKit and a “bookmark on my site” iOS shortcut I made using the guide I wrote a few years back: IndieWeb Sharing with iOS Shortcuts . Hurrah for blog archives, otherwise I’d have had to figure this out again from scratch! I have a few minor niggles to iron out, but adding bookmarks is overall pretty easy for me to do.