Kicking off @IndieWebCamp Amsterdam with @ton_zylstra giving an intro to what is the #IndieWeb!
En route to my first IndieWebCamp (Amsterdam) after a great couple of days at DevOpsDays London. I'm really looking forward to meeting some folks and talking about owning more of my little corner of the Web, and meeting the faces behind the websites I frequent!
#IndieWebCamp Amsterdam this weekend!

Sat 28/9 unconference sessions on all things #IndieWeb
Sun 29/9 building your own next step on the IndieWeb.

Register and get more info at indieweb.org/2019/Amsterdam​

On my way to Amsterdam for @IndieWebCamp and @ViewSourceConf!

This 8 hour flight seems like nothing in comparison to last week's 15 hours to Australia!
I have written a post so long my Micropub endpoint rejects it for no reason in particular.

Going offline with microformats

#goingoffline #serviceworkers #cache #caching #microformats #hentry #indieweb #javascript #code #async #await #frontend #development
Why social networks are even called networks? They don't do networking, it's just one site! #IndieWeb is the true social network...

WordPress funding and market dominance

It’s Homebrew Website Club Brighton this evening in the @Clearleft HQ at 6pm:

https://indieweb.org/events/2019-09-19-homebrew-website-club

Come and work on your website (or get some writing done).

A love letter to my website

#personal-website #indieweb

People are developing "addiction" to social media silos. By that logic, I seem to be addicted to the #IndieWeb.

It's a webcomic called The Gamer, and the RSS link is here: https://www.webtoons.com/en/fantasy/the-gamer/rss?title_no=88

It's about a guy who accidentally got magic abilities and turned into a video game character, and the world around him became similar to a videogame - people started having stat blocks, special abilities and other stuff. It's originally Korean, but is translated to English and some other languages.

P.S. While writing this, I discovered my Micropub client doesn't have a field to set the in-reply-to property. I edited the JSON manually to include it. I hope you get a webmention!

Eine POSSE!

I think at https://www.jvt.me/events/homebrew-website-club-nottingham/2019/09/18/ tonight I'm going to write a how-to for setting up your first h-card, similar to https://www.jvt.me/posts/2019/08/21/rsvp-from-your-website/
#indieweb #microformats

A love letter to my website - DESK Magazine

We choose whether our work stays alive on the internet. As long as we keep our hosting active, our site remains online. Compare that to social media platforms that go public one day and bankrupt the next, shutting down their app and your content along with it.

Your content is yours.

But the real truth is that as long as we’re putting our work in someone else’s hands, we forfeit our ownership over it. When we create our own website, we own it – at least to the extent that the internet, beautiful in its amorphous existence, can be owned.

#indieweb #personal #publishing #homepages #websites #independent #ownership

I love my blog. It's like Twitter, but has more warm, fuzzy vibes. And my feed isn't toxic! #IndieWeb 😍

#IndieWeb #syndication #ownyourdata

I seriously need to make syndication work on my blog, because nobody reads me!

#IndieWeb #syndication #ownyourdata

Now I understand why @aaronpk has so much channels in his Monocle screenshots. I'm having 8 channels right now, they're:

  • Home (my IndieWeb feed)
  • Friends on Silos (mostly Twitter 'cause Instagram via Granary is unstable)
  • Comics (XKCD and Naver Webtoons - the last one is crashing @swentel's Indigenous)
  • News (Meduza, my favorite Russian electronic newspaper)
  • Podcasts (currently only myurlis.com)
  • YouTube (some of my YouTube subscriptions - I migrated my pop-science channels there)
  • Self (a view on my own posts, very useful for debugging!)

Channel Icons

I use emojis as icons for channel feeds to be more colorful. I like colorfulness of social media silos and I don't want my IndieWeb feeds to be less attractive than silos. Seems like I'm not the only one, since I saw other people do the same thing.

So, what does your reader feed look like?

I have solved my biggest problem since the first version of pyindieblog: webmentions were only sent from special fields, like u-in-reply-to, and not from e-content. Now my Micropub endpoint parses HTML content and sends webmentions for all URLs mentioned.

So, I'm migrating my YouTube subscriptions to Microsub, thanks to YouTube's RSS support. I think that when I make my own IndieWeb reader, I'll special-case YouTube posts by adding a YouTube embed inside of them. Or maybe by downloading the video with yt-dl and offering it as a u-video. It'll also serve as an archive... but my HDD would explode!

#YouTube #silos #IndieWeb #Microsub #ownyourdata