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After months of reading, experimenting and a lot of coding, I'm happy that the first release candidate of the Drupal IndieWeb module is out. I guess this makes the perfect time to try it out for yourself, no? There are a lot of concepts within the IndieWeb universe, and many are supported by the module. In fact, there are 8 submodules, so it might be daunting to start figuring out which ones to enable and what they exactly allow you to do.

Lately, Mastodon is getting a lot of attention as an alternative for Twitter. It's a microblogging platform which allows you to setup your own instance, and still interact with users on a totally different domain.

It's official: I'm not going to perform the complete Moonlight Sonata this year. I'm not giving up the dream though, it will just take a little longer. The main reason for the delay is simply time, so I need to come up with a plan to make sure I have more time next year to study the entire piece. Hopefully, more on that later.

For a custom project, we use a taxonomy to tag nodes. Some terms have their own page, while others redirect to a node. The search on the site has one index which contains both nodes and terms, but the terms which are redirecting shouldn't show up when viewing a search results page. While it's possible to use hook_search_api_index_items_alter(), a nicer way to exclude them is by using a processor plugin so you can enable them in the UI per index. The relevant code is underneath. Adjust to your own likings - and maybe inject the service if you want to as well :)

Over the last few weeks, I've been working on a Drupal module for IndieWeb and Indigenous, an Android application which supports micropub and microsub. I'm using it already to post notes, images and even awesome geocaches to my site, often syndicating them to Twitter.