I'm really quite terrible at graphic design (I'm not even fit to sarcastically claim it's my passion), but I finally forced myself to make an 88x31 website button.

It's hard to fit any context into just 2728 pixels, so I'm forced to run on a vague non-sequitur of a domain name, and a drawing of a cute girl.

The URL (in text form) is https://bigraccoon.ca

#IndieWeb #PersonalSites

Finally, a new blog post! Inspired by @kev 's "Blog Questions Challenge", I followed suit and wrote up my answers to these eight questions. I loved these kinds of things back in the MySpace days. I've also tagged @shellsharks and a couple other to hopefully continue the trend :)

#IndieWeb #SmallWeb #PersonalSites #blogging
https://vzqk50.com/blog/get-to-know-my-blog/

Speaking of online communities, is your personal website part of a webring?

#indieweb #webring #PersonalWebsite #internet #TheWeb #community

Yes!
Yes, a few?
I run one or few myself!
Not really
No, but thinking about it!
I don't have a personal website
What's a "web ring"?
Something else?

We should be making more internet forums. Like with Discourse. Or more old school ones.

We need to invest in our communities and build new ones. That's how we get through the difficult times. Together.

#indieweb #community #internet #TheWeb #forum #discourse

🤖 There’s a new post on Michael Burkhardt’s Whirled Wide Web:

It’s Time To Ditch My Old Report Cards

#Downsizing #IndieWeb

https://mihobu.lol/time-to-ditch-my-old-report-cards

The only way to use AI as a writing tool is if you have a bigger ego than the robot.

I wrote a blogpost about it

https://caffeineandlasers.neocities.org/blogs/KeepYourEgoInCheck(AboveTheAI)

#ai #llm #writing #blog #indieweb

Thursday will be Front End Study Hall #019 - https://events.indieweb.org/2025/01/front-end-study-hall-019-WjRE1WdPjK1v - we have a good time exploring #HTML and #CSS (and related tech!). If #FrontEnd things interest you, our informal study hall might be something you dig. Prior shared notes linked from https://indieweb.org/Front_End_Study_Hall #IndieWeb

There are many good use cases for AI-based solutions.

One use case I find deceivingly dangerous but often discussed is using it in your notes system to automate creation or extraction of notes.

For this month's IndieWeb Carnival, I wrote about why the friction created by writing and reading your notes - also known as thinking - is such an important part that shouldn't be automated.

Thanks @vhbelvadi for hosting this month!

https://hamatti.org/posts/be-careful-with-introducing-ai-into-your-notes/

#blogging #notes #IndieWeb #IndieWebCarnival

We’re halfway through January and there have been some excellent submissions to the #IndieWeb carnival.

Have you written yet? Do you have a personal website/blog (or are you looking to start one this year)? Do you enjoy writing, and perhaps thinking about interesting things?

The theme this month is ‘on the importance of friction’ and has broad interpretations, so let your ideas run wild.

Here are all the details you’ll need: https://vhbelvadi.com/indieweb-carnival-friction

#IndieWebCarnival @thisweekinIndieweb

Hey fedi, anyone got some tips, war stories, or resources they can share regarding setting up #Pixelfed in a Docker container? :boost_please:

#AskFedi #SelfHosting #IndieWeb

https://slashpages.net/

What a fantastic list made by @robb ! It includes suggestions for standard pages to include on one's personal website.

#indieweb

I finally managed to fix images' links in my personal website RSS feed, in #astro
It wasn't trivial at all! And I have to thank Billy and his post here:

https://billyle.dev/posts/adding-rss-feed-content-and-fixing-markdown-image-paths-in-astro

Still not super happy because I need to find a way to include multiple collections to this set up, which I can't make it work right now...

Also ditched many bad practices like using <br> in md files.

Still need to find a way to deal with <figcaption>.

But for now my #RSS feed looks fine!

#indieweb #blog #webdev

Do I brag too much or not enough? It occurred to me that Micro.blog might be on the only platform of its kind that has built-in support for exporting content in several different file formats. And multiple APIs to get your data out? JSON, XML-RPC, Micropub. Our commitment to portability is absolute.

🤖 There’s a new post on Michael Burkhardt’s Whirled Wide Web:

Beautiful Bavaria

#Weeknotes #IndieWeb

https://mihobu.lol/weeknotes-week-02-2025

The web is siting!

We now have a cute little table-of-contents going which also conveniently tracks along with where you are on the page.

It's surprisingly painless to do this with just raw Javascript and a bit of care - the JS engines now have all the tools for it :D

And it's snappy, too! ((IntersectionObserver helps a LOT there))

Lookit goooo

#website #WebDev #selfhosted #indieweb

Just learned about https://blamensir.neocities.org/ from @maya! An amazing website! Thanks for the recommendation!
#indieweb

Bit by little wiggly bit, I'm getting #IndieWeb components back on the site. POSSE links are the easiest, though I did have to finish scrubbing out a few Twitter and Facebook links.

Testing webmentions for my blog post about brewing ideas lazily:

https://www.shreyasprakash.com/brew-your-ideas-lazily/

#webmentions #test