Static Blog Comments

June 21, 2026 2 min read

All posts written without LLM assistance unless otherwise noted.

I had read about IndieWeb, webmentions, and Fediverse a few years ago and was very excited about it! It’s a monumental under taking and a great example of good (read: ethical) tech.

But I am not a web developer 🤣, and while I can appreciate what the engineers have accomplished, I was never too sure how to get it going, end-to-end.

I’ve been burning quite a few tokens while LLMs are still basically “free” (see shellac’s analysis), so I decided to let Claude Code slop together a plan from the following resources, particularly the posts by engineers that have implemented for their own static sites.

You can see this site’s source to see how the implementation went. I suppose it’s not tested until this post goes live and I see it federated.

Update: it’s working!

#Bridgy Fed & federation

#Webmentions (receiving replies)

#Updating webmentions on a static site

#Microformats2 (h-card / h-entry / h-feed)

#Bluesky / AT Protocol (custom-handle verification)

#Feed discovery

#Refresh-workflow plumbing

#GitHub-comments fallback & safety

#Landscape / inspiration

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