So I'm writing yet another CMS, well I'm hoping this will be the last one, stop laughing. It's a system I've been thinking about for a while now. A single place I can go to interact with the IndieWeb. I've only just found out about social readers and that's sort of the thing I want. But I also want it to work as my blog writing toolkit. Seeing as it's just a system for me I can make it the way I want so here is my current wish list for XBlog - Dave's CMS.

XBlog

Feed Reader I've been getting more annoyed with FreshRSS in the way it presents the posts and how you manage the feeds. Not to mention the way it makes me feel to see that I have over a hundred unread posts. I need to make my own reader.

Writer I need an all purpose posting tool, so I can do Micro, Photo, longform, and any other sort of post with the frontmatter/meta data easily accessible from the post screen.

Bookshelf I like to track the books I'm reading and I want something like what you get on The StoryGraph but I want it on my site.

Videodrome I like watching Films and TV shows and when I was doing the weekly updates I would list out the things I'd been watching. But it was a pain to go find the link to JustWatch. This is something that should be on my site.

Link Dump I come across loads of sites and pages on the web that I'd like to share with people. But the days of using a "share on Facebook" button are long gone, but maybe I can just do it on my site.

Blog Roll You lovely people deserve to know the sort of things I have in my Feeds so I need a Blog Roll.

Webmentions If I'm going to share links and mention people in my posts I need to be able to let the authors know I've done that, so…

Syndication If I do keep my accounts on other sites and to be honest there are very few of them now. I should figure out how to syndicate my posts, I mean that was the whole point of myPOSSE.

Bookmarklets I have two of these that I use on the regular, one is for making a Markdown link for the site in the current tab, the other is for adding the RSS feed of the current tab to FreshRSS. There is also a plugin that I use to post the current tab to Mastodon, I'll need to make my own versions of them.

Server Synch A feature I have in the current version of myPOSSE is that when it builds it can transfer the site to my server. I use it for sending the site to my UAT server for a last check to be sure I have no spelling mistaks. But I only send to a staging folder when it comes to going live because there are a few other things I do when I do that transfer. Like pulling down my logfiles for the log cutter. But XBlog could do all of that.

Server Stats Speaking of pulling the logs and giving me my server stats maybe I can finally make the dashboard I've always wanted.

All of this would live on my network because putting your admin functions on a publicly accessible site is asking for trouble and this is only ever going to be of use to me. So I can make it as polished or as janky as I can tolerate.

The only limit to what I could do is what ever I can dream up. As for interacting with other sites and participating in the IndieWeb, well there are standards for all this you know.

And to cap it all off I'll need a custom server, sort of, I'll need a server that can serve static pages and an API for some interactions.

Public Server

Static Site Nothing fancy just send the page as requested.

Comments It would be nice if people could leave comments.

Webmentions If I can send them I should be able to receive them.

Self Defence If you request a php file or a .env I will ban your IP address for 24 hours.

At the moment this is just a laundry list of things I want to make, and I'll probably change my mind about some if not all of it. But in the end that's what I get out of being a part of the IndieWeb. I get to play with my site and how I make it real.

Song for the Post

Today's Earworm is…

Numb - Linkin Park YouTube Spotify

The song was mistakenly played in the friendly football match between Malta and Slovakia on September 5th, 2014, during which it temporarily replaced the Maltese national anthem

P.S. - During last nights weekly "Homebrew Website Club Europe/London" Zoom call, James mentioned that I'd been adding these "Songs for the Post" and asked what inspires them.

I had to admit that at the moment it's just whatever I have stuck in my head at the time.

But I also had to confess to him that the likelihood of me ever including a Taylor swift song was nonexistent to which he pointed me to a post by flamed fury - "Taylor Swift Moshpit". Nice 🤘😛

I responded with another [Leo Classic(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCEq3-w8Ls4 "Shake It Off (metal cover by Leo Moracchioli) - YouTube")