New domain!

Since there’s now a lot more to PlaidWeb than just Publ, there is now a new organization website which will become the top-level home of these different things, which allows for better organization of this stuff to begin with.

While I’m still trying to work out how I’m going to organize things, my expectations are as follows:

• The Publ documentation and demo site will live at publ.plaidweb.site
• This dev/release blog will move to the main domain at some point
• Elements which don’t have their own website will get a microsite on the main domain
• Every incoming webmention that the old domain received will remain missing/broken in perpetuity (or at least until I get around to adding native webmentions to Publ)

Also, publ.beesbuzz.biz is intended to redirect over here, but it’s disappeared from my DNS host for some reason; it was actually this happening which inspired me to finally take this action. It seems to be a bug with how LiNode’s wildcard domains work, and I have an active support ticket open. Update: Turns out this was a subtle issue with how DNS wildcards work, which is explained below the cut.

Publ v0.6.7

Publ v0.6.7 is out now. Various changes:

• Now using Poetry for the build system
• Cleaned up some Redirect-Url logic to cut down on the number of page load hops
• Renamed the main branch to main¹
• Bail out on files which repeatedly fail indexer fixups
• Default entry title and slug are now blank, rather than trying to guess from the filename
• Officially deprecated Python 3.5 support, which hasn’t worked for quite some time anyway
• Defer Authl loading, and other Authl-related changes to support the latest version
• Add support for line-numbering and captions in code blocks

I’m already regretting some of the decisions I made with the fenced code amendments; in the future it will almost certainly switch to using <figure> and <figcaption>, and change some of the other structural bits. Feel free to share your opinions.

There’s also a known issue where the quick-login link (for e.g. Twitter) doesn’t work on pages which are login-required; this is actually an issue with the Authl login template, and has already been fixed in Authl pending the next release.

And speaking of Authl, the online docs are way better now. Hopefully it’s finally in a state where other people will be able to use it!

Authl v0.4.2: poetry in motion

Authl v0.4.2 is out. Mostly infrastructural changes, but a few other changes too:

• Switched the development environment to poetry
• Made some internal naming changes, and renamed the technically-incorrect force_ssl to the more-accurate force_https
• It is also now up to handlers to do all of their own exception catching, which cleans up some stuff
• Massively overhauled the docs, and got doc site generation working with Sphinx (many thanks to Khr for help!)

In theory there will now be docs visible at authl.readthedocs.io, although I’m still having trouble getting some of it to actually appear.

But, speaking of appearing, somehow the hostname for this site stopped resolving, so hopefully by the time this site comes back, the readthedocs stuff will be working too!

Authl 0.4.1

Authl 0.4.1 is out. Changes below:

• Better unit test coverage
• Some better error messaging in some places
• Removed the IndieLogin handler, which serves no real purpose when there’s native IndieAuth support anyway