# Static Website Comments Section

> Source: <https://dev.to/jphutchins/static-website-comments-section-5118>
> Published: 2026-06-22 01:13:50+00:00

I had read about [IndieWeb](https://indieweb.org/), [webmentions](https://webmention.io/), and [Fediverse](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/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](https://she-llac.com/claude-limits?ref=wheresyoured.at)), 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](https://github.com/JPHutchins/interstellar-inclination) 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!

[!WARNING] LLM Disclosure

The following citations were assembled from the same

`claude-opus-4-8`

context that provided the webmentions + giscus implementation for this blog. The implementation is the result of my feeding in a subset of those articles and iterating until I approved the design and eventually the implementation itself.
