Static Website Comments Section

A developer implemented webmentions and a comments section for a static website using Claude Code, drawing on resources from the IndieWeb and Fediverse communities. The project, hosted on GitHub, successfully federated after going live.

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.