#Brimstone

Note: Brimstone is no longer supported or maintained. I don't have the time at the moment so I migrated my blog to a static site generator. In the future I may re-attempt an Indieweb thing but it will likely involve writing the codebase from scratch. Brimstone was incredibly fun to write and maintain up until the end, and I regret nothing, but I just need a modicum more simplicity in my life right now!

Web presence software. Aim to do basic blogging + microblogging + federating out content to services like Twitter and Mastodon

#TODO

List of jobs and features on the horizon

• Implement Micropub endpoints for incoming posts (client to server)
• Implement ActivityPub endpoints to support posts appearing on the fediverse (server to server)

#Implemented

• Send Webmentions automatically when posting; if you have a link in your post it gets picked up and if that link has a valid webmention endpoint, it's getting mentioned.
• Receive Webmentions via discoverable webmention link, and displays them in basic table on the admin panel
• Add a /reflect or /summary path which presents summaries on posting habits (e.g. most used tags, average word length, average post frequency etc.)
• Embed microformats for Indieweb feed compatibility
• Support h-card properly
• Basic blogging and microblogging with Posts
• Type inferred, so that posts w/o titles display different to posts with titles etc
• Editable profile with about page
• Write in Markdown (a la Daring Fireball syntax)
• Import old posts via uploading an XML file
• Export posts in an xml file
• Produce an RSS feed containing one's articles
• POSSE posts to Twitterand Mastodon with checkboxes
• Exporting individual articles in Markdown files
• Added /pubkey route for retrieving pgp key.

#Discarded / On hold

• (Discarded) Consume Mastodon content via configurable profile
• (Discarded) Consume Twitter content via configurable profile
• (Discarded) Consume Indieweb content via reading microformats
• (Discarded) Add CardDav and CalDav support to act as a host (no client interface)

I felt the need to put these on hold because I first wanted to focus on allowing Brimstone to support writing/sharing my own content; it turns out I don't use Brimstone for reading others' profiles and feeds that often and I'm happy just going up to Mastodon or Twitter to read content.

• (Discarded) Support media attachments to posts e.g. images

I want Brimstone to be just for text. There's plenty of solutions out there for users wanting to host their own images. You may include images in your posts via Markdown.

• (On-hold) Upload pre-written posts via Markdown files

On hold in favour of implementing Micropub endpoints. Micropub technically offers pretty much what I want. If there are micropub clients that can take markdown files and turn then into posts; then this is what will enable that.

#Removed

• Consume RSS feeds

Removed this feature as I want Brimstone to be about writing content and reflecting on one's own writing. It's not meant to be a full stack social media replacement. I've moved to using a feed reader to collate my RSS feeds.