two years ago i finally lost my mind dealing with wordpress and markdown for clients.

it forced me to write an entire website construction kit in php from scratch (kiki). it forced me to learn how to write a customizable markup language (bug). all so i would never have to touch wordpress and markdown ever again.

https://tomotama.com/kiki

two years later, there are now dozens of kiki instances run by sysop-admins around the world. it's incredibly gratifying to see the web made less shitty by just elbow grease and diy learning. the instance admins are a blend of writers and coders who painstakingly find bugs, dig into the source, and inspectorgadget workarounds. improving it and patching it is a lifelong commitment, even if it doesn't pay the bills.

in the coming week is a feature that 0.01% of users will take advantage of, but i'm so happy to add it, to keep the dream of an indie web alive: kiki will now generate RSS 2.0 compliant podcast feeds. i thought regular old web RSS was bad. but RSS for podcasts is about 10x worse 😅

the attached screenshot is a new site i'm building with kiki 1.2.0, which autogenerated a podcast feed using metadata in each post.

this morning i'm updating a client's wordpress site, and for all my moaning about how bad RSS is, i can't believe how much worse wordpress is. 😆

#indieweb #smallweb #selfhosting #kiki #rss

Alguma Técnica de Comunicação ou Amadorismo?

Podcasts e audiovisuais produzidos pela esquerda, inclusive no contexto da universidade e cursos de comunicação, parecem organizar a publicação dos conteúdos curtos (de agitação) tudo em torno do Instagram.

Daí chamam para assistir na íntegra no YouTube.

Mas qual o drama de usar os "shorts" do próprio YouTube também pro trabalho de agitação?

Do ponto de vista tático, não faz sentido aproveitar a facilidade de acesso e ubiquidade (abre fácil em TVs, PCs, etc) do YouTube pra fazer essa agitação antes da propaganda?

Os caras não usam o que tá pronto e gente sonha que venham ajudar a construir as mídias livres e federadas.

A esquerda midiática não se ajuda! :angery:

#vemprofediverso #posse #indieweb #thefutureisfederated

@colinstu Just this GIF has literally been distracting me in my mastodon dashboard for the past day.

I only hope that someone else posts some #indieweb shit soon to push it down in the feed. 😂

Back for a celebratory one-off weekend Homebrew Website Cub London in-person, July 25th from 10am https://events.indieweb.org/2026/07/-hwc-london-celebrating-10-years-in-person-event--2a76zv5YisHX #indieweb

I really need to stop breaking my tooling I built to build my website so thoroughly that I can't publish anything for weeks. 😫 You'd think as a professional software developer I'd know better (I don't) 🙄 #indieweb

Content warning:Article: A Selfhosted Static Site Editor

Inspired by the way that Nekoweb's editor 'Nekode' works, I came up with a low-effort way to let my eldest get started with HTML and CSS editing, right from her browser, with the results selfhosted directly from the household NAS.
Read more: https://danq.me/2026/05/22/selfhosted-static-site-editor/

#article #caddy #css #geocities #hosting #html #indieweb #nas #smolweb #textEditors #webDesign #webDevelopment

It seems the weird POSSE mechanism on my website now works for the three content types: articles, photos and book reviews. All will be posted as normal content to this account, and a cronjob periodically checks for interactions, and adds them to the content on my website. Had to rewrite a significant portion because of some edge cases.

#POSSE #indieweb #personalwebsite #smallweb

#IndieWeb Ring 上闲逛看到的,真好啊

https://www.autisticasfxxk.com/

Mastodon definitely seems like the most popular social network for Pagecord customers. I should probably make more of an effort to connect with people here.

Trouble is, I’m trying to reduce social media presence and prioritise (micro)blogging on my own site!

Either way feel free to AMA on here and I’ll definitely answer. And if you have any ideas or feedback for Pagecord, I’d love to hear it! For support, be sure to use email because you’ll reach me quicker.

#blogging #indieweb #indiedev

I wrote a blog post about my experience learning braille for the last few years and a technique involving free software Diffuse for comparing transcribed files that I think would be helpful for sighted braille learners. https://futurehorizondesign.net.au/posts/2026-05-22-How-I've-Been-Teaching-Myself-Braille.html

#indieweb #blog #blogging #smallweb #rss #webdev #accessibility #a11y #visionimpaired #braille

New Blogroll Post

“Incompetence as a Skill.md” by Yash Garg

@yashgarg: «People are replacing their brains with tokens.»

#Writing #Personal #blog #indieweb

https://yashgarg.dev/posts/incompetence-as-a-skill/?ref=blr.indiewebclub.org

Neat couple of changes behind the scenes in my Pure Blog admin.

I added a new training selector to my content menu, with the title meta preloaded ready for content.

Sounds dull, but that will save plenty of tab shuffling! But can you spot the next easter egg?

https://prry.uk/2026-05-21-2055

#Indieweb #PureBlog

Hello world! Happy to be here & share my latest paintings from a long pose figure session (second included to show initial process). Acrylic on paper, 24in x 36in, ~ an hour each
#painting #acrylic #portrait #lifedrawing #art #introduction

Also into #scifi #poetry #dnd #vinylrecords #mycology #indieweb #fuckice

The author of @allaboutberlin on how Google AI Overviews are killing independent web publishing, citing a 70% drop in traffic after seven years of steady growth. His work trains the model. The model is replacing his site. There is no credit, clicks, or revenue. This is what the "enshittification" of the open web looks like in practice.

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/nicolasbouliane_ai-is-killing-all-about-berlin-when-you-share-7463188284924616705-I3Mn

#AI #OpenKnowledge #Berlin #Google #Enshittification #OpenWeb #IndieWeb

It's as distracting yet fun enough to play with for like 30 seconds as ever.

#OldWeb #IndieWeb

Plume

Post to your IndieWeb blog from any page — toolbar composer or right-click capture. Cross-browser, multi-account, no telemetry.


You need a micropub compatible blog engine to use this extension List

🔗 https://rmendes.net/notes/2026/05/21/05d93

@lqdev Yes, yes it is. #indieweb FTW!

A love letter to mornings



This is my contribution to the IndieWeb Carnival May 2026: Write a love letter.

I love mornings.

There's something magical about starting a new day. The vast openness of fresh opportunities, the renewed hope, the stillness in the air before everything begins. Every day I wake up f…



https://robida.net/entries/2026/05/21/a-love-letter-to-mornings

Self-hosted Analytics with Next.js and PostgreSQL

How I built a fully anonymous, privacy-first analytics system for mxd.codes using Next.js API routes and PostgreSQL without any third-party tracking service.

https://mxd.codes/articles/self-hosted-analytics-with-next-js-and-postgresql

#NextJs #React #Selfhosted #DataPrivacy #IndieWeb #Javascript