Use a new branch of webmentiond that lets me pull in all webmentions for
all pages in a single JSON response
Before, Hugo would make one request to webmentiond per page to ask for
approved webmentions for that page. Sometimes, it makes two requests
because some pages used to have a different canonical location. In all,
it ended up making over 150 requests within a second or two. Webmentiond
can handle this for now, but this isn't sustainable: page count will
only increase with time. I wanted to have Hugo instead get all
webmentions for all pages in one cached request.
I recompiled webmentiond from
https://github.com/zerok/webmentiond/pull/65, which updates the API to
support admin access keys. The admin API allows pulling in all
webmentions for all pages, instead of pulling them in for one page at a
time.
Doing so requires getting a bearer token, so I had to manage a new CI
secret: the password for getting a token. I get the token in a shell
script (get-token.sh) and write it to a temporary file, then have Hugo
read the token from that file. The shell script gets the password using
either the CI secret (in CI) or using my password manager (on my
workstation).
TODO: support marginalia (mentions with fragments in their targets)
- Replace achecker flags with a config file
- Bring back webhint
- Amend check-whole-site so that it will deploy to staging if all checks
pass, and then run webhint on every staging page.
Update the Makefile to download the old version of the site, run
static-webmentions, and collect the WebMentions to send in a json file
saved as a build artifact.
Don't send these automatically; just save them for now. Until I work out
a solution to save sent WebMentions and avoid sending duplicates, I'll
keep the sending of WebMentions manual.
For some reason this caused webhint's axe/aria test to error out with a
"Protocol error" so I disabled it. Axe tests are covered by Lighthouse
anyway.
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Does the animal know how JavaScript works? Did it anticipate the need
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To some, this fascination with JavaScript seems arbitrary and
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However, we know that complex behaviour need not be cognitively
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minds of animals, and help us to learn what capacities we share with
them — and what might have changed to allow for the incontrovertibly
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block scope.
