Hey Thanks for reading, and I'm glad you found it interesting.
To my understanding, Webfinger provides a standard API for discovering the user profile details no matter the software running on the node.
For example,
$ curl https://programming.dev/.well-known/webfinger\?resource\=acct:snowe@programming.dev | jq
{
"subject": "acct:snowe@programming.dev",
"links": [
{
"rel": "http://webfinger.net/rel/profile-page",
"type": "text/html",
"href": "https://programming.dev/u/snowe"
},
{
"rel": "self",
"type": "application/activity+json",
"href": "https://programming.dev/u/snowe",
"properties": {
"https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams#type": "Person"
}
}
]
}
Haha this is exactly me. That habit of losing the knowledge rapidly post investigation is something I'm trying to break, and that's part of the reason I banged out this blog post immediately after my itch was satisfied.
The "I have to tell people about this NOW" vibe also carried me through completing my website (just so I could publish this blog post)