Your "Second Brain" is trapped in a Walled Garden. 🚨

Stop treating your knowledge as digital compost! Rewilding the Network means moving from isolated vaults to a **Federated Digital Garden**.

🌱 Why it matters: Compound interest on your learning.

πŸ”— How it works: Obsidian β†’ RSS β†’ ActivityPub β†’ Serendipity.

We’re building a content-dependent web, not a platform-dependent one. Own your knowledge.

https://digitallyliterate.net/federating-second-brain/

#ReclaimOpen25 #RewildingTheNetwork #DigitalGarden #IndieWeb #PKM

IWC Berlin 2025 in too few photos

#IndieWeb #IWC #Berlin #IWCBerlin

I couldn't find a modern function to check if a font is available on a web page or not. A few hours later: Check if a Font is Available on a Web Page with JavaScript

https://www.alanwsmith.com/en/35/17/1f/zv/

#webdev #indieweb

In the ever going cat and mouse game with AI scrapper bots it seems Anubis is not enough, and use of Cloudflare is warranted. Using Cloudflare results in federation policy issues though. Is there really no cheap anti-AI bot proxy service HQ’d in the EU or otherwise not in the US? Can’t a gal have her money for fun tea and dolls, fight AI, and follow other artists?

These options are sucky:
- Deploy #Cloudflare anti-AI bot shielding. Get defed’d from any artists on MastodonArt or other stuff ran by WelshPixie on top of other instances with a similar policy
- Let all my stuff get slurped up by AI scrapper bots to appease other fediverse instances so I can continue to follow other artists

https://fxgn.dev/blog/anubis/

#NoAI #IndieWeb

The site dashboard view now supports editing the build and publish commands! Next step will be to get the welcome wizard out the gate. I’m thinking about maybe doing a bit more refactoring first though.

I love how it’s coming along! #11ty #11tyCMS #indieweb

We just posted an update on Patreon for our supporters!

If you haven't joined yet, we'd love to see you there. You don't have to donate, but we'd be grateful if you were able to.

https://www.patreon.com/posts/great-birthday-142823785?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link

#IndieWeb #IndieWebSocial #FediAdmin #Admin #ThankYou

πŸŽ‰ It's my #birthday and I've got a new domain name as a gift from my wife. πŸ’• So, from now on, my blog can be found at https://blog.gridranger.dev

Old links still work and will direct you to the same page.

I'm really happy. I helped others managing their domains from time to time, but I've never had a domain name of my own. It's a great help for staying independent from the tech giants.

#blogging #indieweb #domainname

I really wanted to delete this post, but had to acknowledge the effect the mentioned article had on me:

https://chavanniclass.wordpress.com/2025/11/04/a-loss-of-a-quote-is-no-big-deal/

#writing #reading #blog #blogging #IndieWeb

I really want to delete this post, but I couldn't not acknowledge the effect the mentioned article had on me

https://austinkleon.com/2017/11/20/a-few-notes-on-daily-blogging/

#writing #blogging #blog #IndieWeb #reading

It's been years since I implemented an RSS/Atom feed myself, and I'm struggling with content encoding for the ATOM <content> element.

From my reading, it should be html-escaped (see first screenshot). But Newsblur and feeder.co are both showing unrendered HTML (second shot).

Are these maybe cached from a previous broken version (as I've been working on this) or is the code wrong?

Current feed URL: https://monkinetic.blog/feed.xml

any help appreciated #RSS #ATOM #syndication #indieweb

Any bloggers here? I want to see and read your blogs because I am curious about how others create their blogs, what the topics are about, and the design. πŸ˜„β˜€οΈ

#bloggers #weblog #selfhosting #indieweb #fediverse #humane_tech #webdesign #writing #techcommunity #blogging #curiosity #opensource #newblog #itstudent #creative #design #internet #community #sharing

Back in the 1990s.
Text-oriented β€” no videos, just a few images.
No ads, no beacons, no platform filtering.
Each page had an email address β€”
you could write to the author directly.
The web was small and hand-made,
pages written in raw HTML, shared without templates.
A slower web β€”
where we could publish whatever we thought.
We can build that environment again.

#LegacyWeb #SlowWeb #IndieWeb #SmallInternet #DigitalGarden

OS community: "But you can self-host a #GitHub alternative".
Me: Probably not.

An #UnpopularOpinion on #FLOSS, #selfhosting, and #indieweb.

What GitHub is, and thus what its key features are, differs a lot over users, and use-cases.

Start with asking what Github *is* for the people it now serves, and the use case when you want to replace it.

Some "key features" for projects where I used GitHub are:

Another morning, another attack by petalbot.
Give me a break, and a coffee.
#webmaster #website #indieweb #webrevival

Just pushed a little design refresh to stygiantech.dev

Was able to refactor some code to stop calling useEffect() to swap between light and dark mode for device mockups to keep more of the site rendered server-side

Check it out!

#WebDev #Technology #React #NextJS #IndieWeb #SmallWeb

Just pushed a little design refresh to https://stygiantech.dev

Was able to refactor some code to stop calling useEffect() to swap between light and dark mode for device mockups to keep more of the site rendered server-side

Check it out!

#WebDev #Technology #React #NextJS #IndieWeb #SmallWeb

πŸ“ The Beta PawBorough Experience

In this one I ramble about this little cat game I've been playing lately :blobcat:

https://sainthood.xyz/blog/posts/the-beta-pawborough-experience

#IndieWeb #SmallWeb #PersonalWeb #PersonalWebsite #blog #blogging #pawborough

Ugh broke my blog again #blogging #selfhosting #indieweb

Hi #weirdweboctober friends. Your work this year was so fun and inspiring! We're honored that OP could assist in such wild webweaving. We've been working on something we call the #OPMultiPass, which is like a mixtape for websites. So, as a show of our appreciation, the very first one is a commemorative Weird Web October 2025 MultiPass. Here it is! Find out how it works here: https://docs.octothorp.es/blog/introducing-multipass/ or watch this short demo https://v.usetapes.com/2XstvTcGmu #SmallWeb #personalweb #weirdweb #indieweb

I like to maintain a list of cool #smallweb #retroweb ##indieweb #smolweb services on a links page at my photo blog. Any suggestions of nice community oriented services you've come across?