Steve Bate

American living in Southern France.

Blog: https://www.stevebate.net
Code: https://github.com/steve-bate
Code: https://codeberg.org/steve-bate/mastodon-verification
BlueSky: @stevebate.social

Last Notes

2025-07-06 12:02:57 UTC

To follow up on my #ActivityPub C2S post from a few days ago, I wrote a blog article on my thoughts about improving the C2S protocol and a description of some related experimentation I've been doing.
https://www.stevebate.net/activitypub-client-api-a-way-forward/

2025-05-11 07:18:31 UTC

Just for fun... try this #ActivityPub quiz to test your knowledge of the protocol.
https://apquiz.stevebate.dev/

2025-03-15 15:46:15 UTC

I've been playing with the experimental GitHub Copilot agent mode in vscode. I've asked it to start from an empty directory and create an #ActivityPub server in C++, directed only by prompts (no human coding). So far, it has created a C++ project and implemented WebFinger, resource persistence, resource retrieval and a decent set of unit tests. At this point, Mastodon is able to discover our actors. The AI is currently implementing Follow processing. I'm curious to learn how far I can push this.

2025-01-08 08:51:09 UTC

The "Social Web" (#ActivityPub) Foundation's support from Meta and their links to Meta and X are even more dubious after Zuck's policy announcement. I think they should remove the links (and the associated accounts).

2024-09-14 06:23:32 UTC

I see discussions sometimes about developing recipe applications for #ActivityPub/AS2. In that spirit, I wrote a blog post describing how to use the schema.org Recipe type in an AS2 conformant manner. It's mostly a thought exercise about possibilities since most AP implementations won't render an AS2 conformant recipe correctly, if at all.
https://www.stevebate.net/extending-activitypub-a-recipe/