Stop giving away your work to people who donāt care about it. Host it yourself. Distribute it via methods you control. Build your audience deliberately and on your own terms.
Two of my favourite things: indie web and service workers.
This makes me so happy. I remember saying when my book came out, that the best feedback I could possibly get would be readers making their websites work offline. The same can be said for the talk of the book.
Reminder: itās Homebrew Website Club Brighton this evening (and every Thursday) in the @Clearleft studio from 6pm:
https://indieweb.org/HomebrewWebsiteClub#Brighton
Everyone welcome!
Iām attending
!Brightonians with websites: Homebrew Website Club Brighton is now happening every Thursday evening in the @Clearleft studio:
https://indieweb.org/HomebrewWebsiteClub#Brighton
Show up from 6pm and weāll mess about with our websites.
Me: [scrolling through posts in Monocle, the IndieWeb reader]
Monocle:
Me: I don't want to open up 8 tabs for Twitter. I'll just visit Tantek's homepage where I bet he shows these tweets in full context.
tantek.com:
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Looking forward to my third IndieWeb Summit! Itās amazing to reflect on the improvements coming out of the IndieWeb every year. I wonder what I will hack on this time around??