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: pin the five republished forks + theme 7ce6b16 (2026-10-08) indiekit-plugin-registry — Shared plugin catalog for indiekit-cloudron and indiekit-deploy chore: pin preset-eleventy beta.40, mastodon 1.1.3, bluesky (2026-10-08) bsky.rss — A configurable RSS poster for Bluesky - fleet or standalone mode - actively bein chore(deps): Update renovatebot/github-action action to v46. (2026-10-05) rsc — RSC — Really Simple Conversations — is a feeds-native social timeline: people wh Merge pull request #17 from rmdes/renovate/major-vitest-mono (2026-09-13) indiekit-endpoint-auth — IndieAuth authentication and authorization endpoint for Indiekit release: v1.0.0-beta.41 (2026-10-07) indiekit-preset-eleventy — Eleventy publication preset for Indiekit release: v1.0.0-beta.40 (2026-10-07) indiekit-frontend — Frontend components for Indiekit (fork with floating selection toolbar) release: v1.0.0-beta.54 (2026-10-07) indiekit-syndicator-mastodon — Mastodon syndicator for Indiekit with external like support release: v1.1.3 (2026-10-07) Recently Starred DreambigOu/ELI5 — ELI5 — A Claude Code skill that explains anything to anyone: kids, managers, eng joshuaswarren/omarchy-apple-dev — Build and deploy iOS SwiftUI apps from Omarchy Linux on Apple Silicon, no Xcode sosoj92/jarvis-assistant-vocal — Assistant vocal local en francais : Claude ou Ollama (offline), domotique Hue, O morluto/rea — Reverse engineer anything with agents, from app behavior down to native binaries ChristopherKahler/base — AI builder operating system. Turn Claude Code from a per-session tool into a wor charlesdove977/claude-x-jev — Fast, cheap, typed decisions for Claude Code. Jev (TypeSafe's decision model on parseablehq/parseable — Parseable is an open source, unified infrastructure observability platform built autohandai/getzit — Zit: a git extension that lets developers and coding agents change one repositor

Blog DisInfo2026 : Europe cannot defend itself with its eyes shut - 2026-10-07 EEAS runs scared of US 'disinformation' debate - 2026-10-07 Israel cannot edit its crimes out of history - 2026-10-04 Vous saviez. - 2026-10-02 September 2026: the world today, as seen by one Polish guy | Tom Wojcik - 2026-09-30 More on rmendes.net Deployments Cloudron — Production deployment at rmendes.net Last build: chore: pin the five republished forks + theme 7ce6b16 (2026-10-08) Docker Compose — Standalone server deployment Last build: feat: registry-driven plugin selection + site-builder (retir (2026-07-15, 2m 58s) npm Downloads 23,486 downloads last month across 33 packages Package Downloads indiekit-endpoint-rss 2,322 indiekit-endpoint-activitypub 1,641 indiekit-endpoint-syndicate 1,255 indiekit-endpoint-webmention-io 1,236 indiekit-frontend 1,225 See all 33 packages Package Downloads indiekit-syndicator-bluesky 1,126 indiekit-endpoint-posts 809 indiekit-endpoint-micropub 804 indiekit-endpoint-auth 803 indiekit-endpoint-site-config 770 indiekit-endpoint-github 749 indiekit-endpoint-blogroll 735 indiekit-syndicator-mastodon 714 indiekit-endpoint-webmention-sender 693 indiekit-endpoint-cv 654 indiekit-endpoint-microsub 647 indiekit-startup-gate 639 indiekit-endpoint-funkwhale 572 indiekit-endpoint-files 553 indiekit-endpoint-share 551 indiekit-endpoint-linkedin 542 indiekit-endpoint-readlater 536 indiekit-endpoint-youtube 518 indiekit-endpoint-podroll 515 indiekit-endpoint-lastfm 514 indiekit-syndicator-linkedin 513 indiekit-preset-eleventy 424 indiekit-endpoint-comments 373 indiekit-endpoint-donation 321 indiekit-endpoint-homepage 265 indiekit-post-type-page 173 indiekit-endpoint-conversations 169 indiekit-syndicator-indienews 125