Hi, I'm Ricardo Mendes

Middleware engineer and DevOps based in Brussels. Building Indiekit plugins to bring the IndieWeb to everyone. Passionate about RSS, open-source software, and the Fediverse.

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Recently Active indiekit-cloudron — Indiekit deployment for Cloudron with IndieWeb-native Eleventy theme chore: activitypub 3.11.4 -> 3.11.6 (reply threading + perma (2026-03-29) indiekit-endpoint-activitypub — ActivityPub federation endpoint for Indiekit fix: resolve in_reply_to_id for threading + append permalink (2026-03-29) newsdiff-deploy — Docker Compose deployment for NewsDiff — self-hosted news article diff tracker feat: add newsdiff as submodule, build from submodule in CI (2026-03-29) cloudron-newsdiff — Cloudron packaging for NewsDiff — news article diff tracker feat: subscribe dropdown, lock file fix (2026-03-29) newsdiff — Monitor RSS feeds for article changes and display visual diffs feat: subscribe dropdown with RSS + Atom options on homepage (2026-03-29) indiekit-eleventy-theme — Eleventy theme for Indiekit-powered IndieWeb blogs fix: exclude .interface-design from sitemap (2026-03-29) indiekit-endpoint-cv — CV/Resume editor endpoint for Indiekit. Manage work experience, projects, skills docs: document startup-gate usage in CLAUDE.md (2026-03-28) indiekit-endpoint-microsub — Microsub endpoint for Indiekit docs: document startup-gate usage in CLAUDE.md (2026-03-28) Recently Starred social-web-foundation/acct-handler — Experiment with the acct: URL format nekromoff/mastodon-bots — ActivityPub / Mastodon compatible instance to quickly create and deploy multiple mvanhorn/last30days-skill — AI agent skill that researches any topic across Reddit, X, YouTube, HN, Polymark fedify-dev/botkit — A framework for creating ActivityPub bots dynamicskillset/stream — A velocity-based RSS reader. Articles arrive, linger, and fade. You are not behi seldo/zeitgeist — A tiny webapp to summarize your social media feed so you don't have to read it a rmdes/newsdiff — Monitor RSS feeds for article changes and display visual diffs simonw/claude-code-transcripts — Tools for publishing transcripts for Claude Code sessions

Blog Trumps Foreign Policy (if that can be called a policy) is all fury no strategy - 2026-03-28 Two Waves of Bombing: New Videos Reveal Further Details About Iran School Strike - 2026-03-28 Building NewsDiff: Tracking How News Changes After Publication - 2026-03-27 More on rmendes.net Deployments Cloudron — Production deployment at rmendes.net Last build: chore: activitypub 3.11.4 -> 3.11.6 (reply threading + perma (2026-03-29, 2m 0s) Docker Compose — Standalone server deployment Last build: fix: pin endpoint-json-feed to beta.25 (beta.27 never publis (2026-03-25, 3m 32s) npm Downloads 44,883 downloads last month across 32 packages Package Downloads indiekit-endpoint-activitypub 11,206 indiekit-endpoint-microsub 2,696 indiekit-endpoint-comments 2,276 indiekit-endpoint-posts 1,821 indiekit-endpoint-conversations 1,752 See all 32 packages Package Downloads indiekit-endpoint-github 1,738 indiekit-endpoint-share 1,594 indiekit-endpoint-syndicate 1,536 indiekit-syndicator-bluesky 1,459 indiekit-endpoint-files 1,459 indiekit-endpoint-homepage 1,355 indiekit-endpoint-micropub 1,279 indiekit-endpoint-auth 1,218 indiekit-endpoint-readlater 1,046 indiekit-endpoint-podroll 1,038 indiekit-endpoint-webmention-sender 968 indiekit-frontend 934 indiekit-endpoint-funkwhale 931 indiekit-endpoint-cv 918 indiekit-endpoint-webmention-io 908 indiekit-endpoint-lastfm 819 indiekit-preset-eleventy 816 indiekit-post-type-page 771 indiekit-endpoint-rss 697 indiekit-syndicator-mastodon 690 indiekit-syndicator-indienews 675 indiekit-endpoint-blogroll 590 indiekit-endpoint-linkedin 446 indiekit-syndicator-linkedin 420 indiekit-endpoint-youtube 411 indiekit-endpoint-webmentions-proxy 304 indiekit-startup-gate 112