@renchap yes, but I can't see any of the mastodon.social followers of @colours

@derickr to be fair, I'd forgotten that

@derickr aha! That might be what I'm missing. Ta!

@julian @dt

I am.

But I'm not seeing any of the MS followers on @colours

@dt I'm on mastodon .social and I can see a list of your followers.

OK Fedifriends, I need your help with some complex ActivityPub stuff.

Mastodon won't show a list of followers for @colours

It has an orderedcollection at https://colours.bots.edent.tel/followers which paginates properly.

The mimetype and JSON are all correct, I think.

You can check out the source code at https://gitlab.com/edent/activity-bot/

What magical incantation do I need to do to help Mastodon see the details of the account's followers?

Feel free to reply here or on the repo.

#ActivityPub #MastodonAPI #JSON

The unreasonable effectiveness of simple HTML

I've told this story at conferences - but due to the general situation I thought I'd retell it here.

A few years ago I was doing policy research in a housing benefits office in London. They are singularly unlovely places. The walls are brightened up with posters offering helpful services for people fleeing domestic violence…

Read More: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2021/01/the-unreasonable-effectiveness-of-simple-html/

#html5 #web #weeknotes #work