Webmentions are fun

On Implementing webmentions

When going through the process of implementing [webmentions](https://indieweb.org/Webmention)

I found the process to be a little challenging. However, I would imagine most of my issues

were due to having a static site. Lucking, I found some really excellent examples of people

who had set things up and also used hugo!

So for those looking to for some help, I found [kaushalmodi](https://gitlab.com/kaushalmodi/hugo-theme-refined/-/tree/master)

and also [integrating-webmentions-into-hugo](https://www.jayeless.net/2021/02/integrating-webmentions-into-hugo.html)

to have an excellent partial to follow. Mostly using the getJson function from hugo. The only

real gotcha was remembering to use `hugo serve --ignoreCache`.

So as for receiving webmentions, all done and complete. However, the real fun was just starting.

When looking into how to actually send webmentions, it looks like I get to do some coding. My

approach is to use vercel as a lambda to activate a scan of my rss feed whenever I publish a specific

kind of taxonmy in hugo.

So I started with these steps

Add custom rss field for if im mentioning anothers site, like a comment. I did this through creating an index.rss.html in layouts/_default
Create a new github project, I used this template as an example for how to setup the vercel project

I signed up with upstash, so i could have a little cloud db. Since its only for saving webmentions it should be low maintenance

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updated: 19 August 2022.