Hello.

I am Paul Kinlan.

A Developer Advocate for Chrome and the Open Web at Google.

I love the web. The web should allow anyone to access any experience that they need without the need for native install or content walled garden.

Adding ActivityPub to your static site

Paul Kinlan

I added ActivityPub support to my static Hugo blog hosted on Vercel. It now automatically announces new posts to followers on the Fediverse. Key challenges included implementing the ActivityPub protocol for a static site, handling WebFinger discovery, managing Follow/Unfollow requests, and sending signed HTTP requests. I used Vercel Serverless Functions for dynamic request handling and Firebase Firestore for storing follower data. Check out the code and follow me @paul@paul.kinlan.me to see it in action!

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Buzz Slides from TwitterDevNest (Feb 2010)

Paul Kinlan

Back in February, I presented at TwitterDevNest about getting data in and out of Buzz. The slides are now available on SlideShare. I covered WebFinger, OpenID, Buzz feeds, Pubsubhubbub, and Salmon. I also promised to open-source the demo code, which I'll be pushing to Github later today (covering most of the topics except Salmon).

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