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Hey Fedi people, do you use IRC? What server(s) and channels do you connect to? What clients do you use?

No good reason, I'm just curious.

#IRC #oldWeb #indieWeb #boostsWelcome
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New Blogroll Post

“How to use RPG Games to figure out what to do with your life” by Akash Bhat

«Social media and movies have convinced us that we can be anything. Do everything. Pivot constantly. Reinvent ourselves every six months.»

#blog #indieweb

https://akashbhat.com/how-to-use-rpg-games-to-figure-out-what-to-do-with-your-life/?ref=blr.indiewebclub.org
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continuing reef today: prompt an AI agent to shape markdown into a personal site. i've been building web apps my whole life, but this is completely different: local-first, programmable, git-backed, WordPress for publishing #indieweb
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New Blogroll Post

“Faster than the speed of RTFM” by George Supreeth

«Lately, I have been adding a ridiculous amount of new functionality to Emacs thanks to A.I. tools like Google’s Gemini. I really mean ridiculous. There is code dribbling out of my ears.
It has gotten…»

#blog #indieweb

https://georgesupreeth.com/web/blog/blog_geo_260527_faster_than_the_speed_of_rtfm/?ref=blr.indiewebclub.org
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The Cartography of an Open Palm https://sightlessscribbles.com/the-cartography-of-an-open-palm/ #IndieWeb #Blog #Blogging #Blogs
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It’s so frustrating that AI is both destroying the open web by drowning it in slop and burying it in scrapers while it’s also a powerful tool for folks who want to launch their own blog or website. By making the technical challenges tractable, AI makes the indieweb more accessible than ever, and used properly can enable human communication and connection instead of destroying it. But that doesn’t feed the capitalist machine. #ai #indieweb (https://b-ark.ca/CEIqOM)
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So I updated my website today with new features and some other small improvements.

Let’s see if you can notice them. Reply with what you find.

#Website #IndieWeb
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Other People’s Love Letters



The IndieWeb Carnival May 2026 theme of Love Letters gave me some interesting and happy reading.

I started trying to work out what this Webmentions business was all about while writing this but failed. I've a plugin installed named that but couldn't quite unpick what dependencies it might have or whether it's working, before I became trapped in a circular loop of documentation, so we'll see I suppose!

It was pleasantly old school clicking through list of themed posts by different […]

https://www.leia.cymru/2026/05/26/other-peoples-love-letters/
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#BurgeonLab #WeekNotes 028 is a bit late (again)

2026: Week 21/52 (May 18 – May 24)

➡️ https://burgeonlab.com/weeknotes/2026/w21/

In this weeknote I talk a bit about #pokemonCards #wordpress #wp #cms #ssg #markdown #activitypub

This is post 47 of #100DaysToOffload
📈 https://burgeonlab.com/tags/100daystooffload/

#blogging #blogs #smallweb #indieweb #weeknote #personalBlog #weeklynote #linkdump #blog
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People from my #coop don't appreciate my hand-crafted no-framwork, handwritten HTML+CSS+js. They say it looks unprofessional. They are 100% non-tech normies.

#webdev what do I do? They want to take an AI shortcut. It's not an option for me.

Is there a way to make something "look professional"? I don't even know what it means. I don't think they know either.

#noai #slowweb #SmallWeb #oldInternet #www #web #indieweb
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So far, we've gotten 21 wonderful entries to this month's IndieWeb Carnival but there's still time until the end of the week!

I'm encouraging you to write a love letter for something you hold dear, are passionate about or want to share with the world.

I ask you to unapologetically geek out about something. Add your drop of positivity into the world that is dominated by so much pain and negative stories right now.

https://hamatti.org/posts/indieweb-carnival-write-a-love-letter/

#IndieWebCarnival #IndieWeb #Blogging #Blog #LoveLetter
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Gemini, Gophers, and Fingers. Oh My! Alternative Internets Beyond HTTPS | 🔗 https://brennan.day/gemini-gophers-and-fingers-oh-my-alternative-internets-beyond-https/

#Indieweb #SmallWeb #Technical #DigitalCulture #History #Decentralization
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Pure Blog Update - Lesezeitanzeige

Meine post.php ignoriert Updates, da sie die Indieweb-Erweiterungen von Lee Perry (https://prry.uk/adding-indieweb-features-to-a-pureblog-site) enthält. Nach dem Versuch, die Lesezeit-Anzeige aus dem letzten Pure Blog Update zu übernehmen, funktionierte das automatische posten auf Mastodon nicht mehr 🤷

https://indie.liedersaenger.de/pure-blog-update-lesezeitanzeige

#pureblog #indieweb
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Hey, Wednesday let's talk story about your website. 6pm Pacific Time, whatever time it will be for you. All topics about maintaining your digital garden, home page, landing page, webmention endpoint, micropub, h-card, tilde site, etc etc. https://events.indieweb.org/2026/05/homebrew-website-club-pacific-4oOTgSb1mgpm #IndieWeb
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The Cartography of an Open Palm https://sightlessscribbles.com/the-cartography-of-an-open-palm/ #Blog #Blogs #Blogging #IndieWeb #NoPaywall
gRegor Morrill gregorlove.com

I’m working on a new search feature in indiebookclub which uses Open Library and supports cover images. It has me tinkering with the UI of the posting form and I’m interested in feedback about this first pass.

My first thought was to display the selected book information in a more compact, read-only block at the top of the form so you only have to select the status (want to read, currently reading, finished reading), then optionally add tags and other choices if you are using Micropub.

However, I still want to give people the option to update the book information before they post, so I was considering a button that would change the book information into editable fields. I experimented with various options and did not come up with anything I loved. I am now leaning towards always showing the fields with the populated values. Keep it simple.

screenshot of new posting UI that has fields: read status, title, by, ISBN, tags, status, visibility, published date, and timezone offset; all displayed in a horizontal layout on a larger screen

Screenshot 1: on larger screens

screenshot of new posting UI with the same fields described above; all displayed in a vertical layout on a smaller screen

Screenshot 2: on smaller screens

I did make the form more compact overall: less padding inside the form fields, less vertical space between them, and a horizontal layout on larger screens (using this WCAG technique). I also moved the timezone offset field out of a collapsed details element.

For comparison, below is a screenshot of the form as it exists. There are still a few parts of it that need to be put into my mockups, like choosing ISBN or DOI.

screenshot of current posting UI with the same fields described above

Screenshot 3: the posting form as it appears currently, for comparison

There will still be an option to use this form without searching Open Library, so if you are using a bookmarklet or prefer to type in all the fields, that will continue to work.

I look forward to any feedback or questions!
#indieweb #dev #indiebookclub
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RE: https://indieweb.social/@blr/116550346047609773

The list of talks and full schedule for the #IndieWebClub #Bangalore: Special Edition meetup is out at https://blr.indiewebclub.org/2026-se/#schedule

#Indieweb
gRegor Morrill gregorlove.com

I’m working on a new search feature in indiebookclub which uses Open Library and supports cover images. It has me tinkering with the UI of the posting form and I’m interested in feedback about this first pass.

My first thought was to display the selected book information in a more compact, read-only block at the top of the form so you only have to select the status (want to read, currently reading, finished reading), then optionally add tags and other choices if you are using Micropub.

However, I still want to give people the option to update the book information before they post, so I was considering a button that would change the book information into editable fields. I experimented with various options and did not come up with anything I loved. I am now leaning towards always showing the fields with the populated values. Keep it simple.

screenshot of new posting UI that has fields: read status, title, by, ISBN, tags, status, visibility, published date, and timezone offset; all displayed in a horizontal layout on a larger screen

Screenshot 1: on larger screens

screenshot of new posting UI with the same fields described above; all displayed in a vertical layout on a smaller screen

Screenshot 2: on smaller screens

I did make the form more compact overall: less padding inside the form fields, less vertical space between them, and a horizontal layout on larger screens (using this WCAG technique). I also moved the timezone offset field out of a collapsed details element.

For comparison, below is a screenshot of the form as it exists. There are still a few parts of it that need to be put into my mockups, like choosing ISBN or DOI.

screenshot of current posting UI with the same fields described above

Screenshot 3: the posting form as it appears currently, for comparison

There will still be an option to use this form without searching Open Library, so if you are using a bookmarklet or prefer to type in all the fields, that will continue to work.

I look forward to any feedback or questions!
#indieweb #dev #indiebookclub
#indieweb mastodon.social/tags/indieweb

I love when people write secret special #RSS - only Easter egg style #blog posts for the dedicated few.

#indieweb #blogging
Marty McGuire martymcgui.re

I once offered gRegor to write up a bookmarklet for turning Bookshop.org book pages into want-to-read (or currently-reading or finished-reading) posts on your own site with Micropub courtest of IndieBookClub.biz.

Then I lost my main computer’s SSD and my browser bookmarks!

Today I re-created it to make some posts on my site, so here it is!

javascript:(function()%7Bconst%20ld%20%3D%20JSON.parse(document.querySelector('script%5Btype%3D%22application%2Fld%2Bjson%22%5D').textContent)%3B%0Aconst%20p%20%3D%20new%20URLSearchParams(%7B%0Atitle%3A%20ld.name%2C%0Aauthors%3A%20ld.author%5B0%5D.name%2C%0Aisbn%3A%20ld.isbn%2C%0Atags%3A%20'books'%2C%0A'post-status'%3A%20'published'%0A%7D)%3B%0Adocument.location%20%3D%20'https%3A%2F%2Findiebookclub.biz%2Fnew%3F'%20%2B%20p.toString()%3B%7D)()

Here’s the original source for study or to edit to your enjoyment! (I enjoy Marek Gibney’s Bookmarklet Editor for this!)

const ld = JSON.parse(document.querySelector('script[type="application/ld+json"]').textContent);
const p = new URLSearchParams({
  title: ld.name,
  authors: ld.author[].name,
  isbn: ld.isbn,
  tags: 'books',
  'post-status': 'published'
});
document.location = 'https://indiebookclub.biz/new?' + p.toString();

What does this do?

Bookshop.org book pages have a <script> tag marked as a “JSON-encoded Linked Data island” (pejorative) also known as JSON data.

The bookmarklet finds and parses this then (quick and dirty) pulls out likely book title, ISBN, and author and combines these with another couple of options (I tag all my reading posts with “books” and I want the posts to be published by default). Those options are turned into URL query string parameters, as described in IndieBookClub.biz’ documentation and sends your browser over there, where IndieBookClub(dot biz) handles the rest!
#IndieWeb #bookmarklets