I've just updated my /now page!
To check it out, see https://lzon.ca/now.
#IndieWeb #PersonalWeb #Blog #Blogging #Now
I never really liked #IndieWeb (with capital I and W), as it always felt riddled with single points of failure. I’m not happy though that my assessment was correct.
Aaron Parecki, one of the main creators of many of its services (that other people built their sites around) recently decided to rewrite everything with Claude. Even his post admitting it was drafted with AI.
I sympathize with what Brennan had to say about it:
https://brennan.day/the-better-web-the-human-web-the-living-web/
Thing I learned building a link checker for static blogs: a lot of sites block requests coming from GitHub's runners, so a naive checker flags perfectly fine pages as dead. Linkguard marks those as blocked instead, and for links that really are gone it looks up a Wayback copy you can swap in. https://linkguard.persistwise.com
"I would like for this to not splinter the positive ecosystem indieweb principles have facilitated." I care about tools for human thriving and making common cause with others. https://artlung.com/blog/2026/10/19/be-indieweb-enough/ #IndieWeb
The Better Web / The Human Web / The Living Web
https://brennan.day/the-better-web-the-human-web-the-living-web/
i added a gallery mode for my bird photos, so you can just look at the photos, plus filtering by genus and family!
https://shuppy.org/posts/tagged/birds.html?gallery
check out cockatoos, honeyeaters, or starlings :3
«Tildes: the shared Unix computers»
This is not nostalgia for the 90s; it exists today, and it is called a tilde.
https://en.andros.dev/blog/03418ab0/tildes-the-shared-unix-computers/
#Linux #Terminal #IndieWeb #SmallWeb #Tildeverse
My episode on the Web Weaving podcast
In Episode 24, I chat with Alex, the author of alexsirac.com about, among other things, collective intelligence in public commons, what the IndieWeb can learn from Wikipedia, community in comments, and more. Huge thanks to James for hosting a conversation with me on his Web Weaving podcast! We were supposed to talk about multilingual blogging, but we got completely sidetracked. Listen (or read the excellent transcript, thanks so much Zachary!) to the episode to hear about what bloggers can […]https://alexsirac.com/my-episode-on-the-web-weaving-podcast/
It's been discussed at length the extent to which Big Tech search engines/indexers are basically garbage at this point. Even using a wrapper like Duckduckgo, which re-arranges the results from a Google + Bing search, the usefulness of these tools is really in decline compared to how well they *used to work* (that is to say, we know for a fact that a better quality is possible on a technical level!)
It's been of course noted that the feasibility of running your own web indexer is simply too high of a bar for typical folks to clear. The web is literally just too big. There's too many links, too many pages, and all too much text to store in a cache. Not even to mention the work required to keep it up to date by doing regular crawling.
So, what about a search engine that only aims at a portion of the web? When we remove all of the big players like social media (Reddit, Twitter, etc), large forums (StackOverflow, etc), major wikis (Wikipedia, fandom wiki, etc), and large news outlets (The New York Times, AP News, etc) -- what's left?
Say we let W be the set of all pages on the web. We know that len(W) is too big to store on something that isn't a giant datacenter. What about storing (W - M), the set of all pages *minus* all the pages from major web domains (as discussed above)? How big is len(W - M)? Is it reasonable, or would you have to truncate even further, taking only a subset of (W - M)?
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#webSearch #search #web #indieWeb #smallWeb #marginalia #google #bing #yandex #openSource
added a cute lil "recent commits" panel to my home page! ^-^ i'm using nextjs, so at build time my home page has a `getStaticProps` function that pulls the five most recent git commits and formats them into JSON, which are then provided to the component.
👋 Welcome our newest writer, lizzymouse1222600! Their avatar emoji is 🇪🇨.
View profile: https://moon-zine.net/profile/lizzymouse1222600
#writingcommunity #indieweb #avatar
Great post! You may have already come across this, but I wanted to mention the jf2 serialization format of microformats2. I believe that’s what webmention.io is using.
Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.
-- William Shakespeare
For more quotes, see https://lzon.ca/quotes.
#IndieWeb #PersonalWeb #Blog #Quotes
A few projects have been discontinued, including Bimbanet (bimbooo's intranet) and k-k1, mainly because I just don't have enough time to maintain them.
Also, runv.club was attacked earlier this morning, which forced me to tighten up user permissions and be a bit stricter about access.
#IndieWeb #SelfHosted #SmallWeb
Hop, une petite sélection de blogs personnels à découvrir sur… euh… mon blog personnel. 👼🏻
Added 359 sites to https://culdesac.site today: one button that drops you on a hand-made dead end of the internet. 969 in all now.
Some new ones: Library of Babel, One Million Checkboxes, Telehack, Is My Blue Your Blue?, Killed by Google, The Cube Rule.
No cookies, no accounts, no algorithm.
New folderblog release, the little tool that turns a folder of Markdown into a blog. Posts can have their own share image now, and there's an optional cookie-free visitor count with GoatCounter if you're curious whether anyone reads it lol