Frank Meeuwsen wrote about the classic children's movie The Neverending Story 1 and noted that it influenced the, equally classic, arcade game Space Harrier. Reading his post I was immediately transported back to my teens spending all my time (and money) in the arcades. I grew up on The Isle of Wight having moved there from South East London when I was 6. With a relatively small populations and tourism dominating the local economy, like other typical sea-side destinations, there was very little for local kids to do _ especially during 'off season' from October to April. That meant we usually spent ... colinwalker.blog

@colinwalker Thanks for the shout-out Colin, I appreciate it. Space Harrier is still a gem of a game. On a technical note, can you see if your WordPress installation sends out a webmention to my blog? I just sent one manually successfully. But I don’t see it (yet?) on my blog, even after a rebuild.

@frank It’s not WordPress (it’s my custom CMS) but it should send a webmention. It’s picking up the endpoint properly ‘micro.blog/webmention’ but I don’t know why a mention isn’t going though or how the m.b endpoint operates. @manton any thoughts? I can’t see any items in the json here

@colinwalker @frank The webmention will be ignored by Micro.blog if the link doesn’t include a u-in-reply-to class. I haven’t looked closely at the logs but I expect that’s what’s happening.

@manton @frank Ah, thanks. So it doesn’t support generic mentions, only conversational ones.