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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Blog Trump’s Third Term May Not Need Trump - 2026-08-29 Another reason to leave WordPress behind - 2026-08-26 I shipped my comment plugin to a service that could never accept it - 2026-08-21 More on rmendes.net Deployments Cloudron — Production deployment at rmendes.net Last build: chore: update plugin-registry submodule (comments ^1.4.0, in (2026-08-31, 2m 34s) Docker Compose — Standalone server deployment Last build: feat: registry-driven plugin selection + site-builder (retir (2026-07-15, 2m 58s) npm Downloads 8,782 downloads last month across 32 packages Package Downloads indiekit-endpoint-activitypub 2,434 indiekit-endpoint-auth 778 indiekit-endpoint-comments 641 indiekit-endpoint-microsub 465 indiekit-endpoint-cv 423 See all 32 packages Package Downloads indiekit-endpoint-posts 364 indiekit-endpoint-micropub 359 indiekit-endpoint-webmention-sender 353 indiekit-endpoint-site-config 321 indiekit-frontend 279 indiekit-syndicator-indienews 222 indiekit-endpoint-blogroll 195 indiekit-endpoint-github 165 indiekit-endpoint-funkwhale 160 indiekit-endpoint-files 154 indiekit-startup-gate 135 indiekit-syndicator-bluesky 127 indiekit-preset-eleventy 117 indiekit-endpoint-conversations 105 indiekit-endpoint-rss 101 indiekit-endpoint-webmention-io 94 indiekit-endpoint-donation 89 indiekit-endpoint-linkedin 86 indiekit-post-type-page 84 indiekit-syndicator-mastodon 82 indiekit-endpoint-youtube 80 indiekit-endpoint-lastfm 70 indiekit-endpoint-syndicate 69 indiekit-endpoint-podroll 63 indiekit-endpoint-readlater 62 indiekit-syndicator-linkedin 58 indiekit-endpoint-share 47