1 month ago today: Victory Column en route to @IndieWebCamp #Berlin.
Our second #IndieWebCamp @MozillaBerlin this year, we had amazing participants(2,3), hosted an @OptOutSocial hackathon, and a keynote by founder Teresa(4 📷 @cheukting_ho)!

About a dozen sessions with notes and some with session videos linked from the schedule: https://indieweb.org/2019/Berlin2/Schedule

Last but not least, great working with co-organizers Yulia (@ioctaptceb), @RosemaryOrchard, and @DShanske to put it all together and discuss community at the Organizers meetup the day before the camp(5).

Previously: https://tantek.com/2019/327/t1/amazing-start-indiewebcamp-berlin

#VictoryColumn #IndieWeb #community #organizers #grateful #2019_328 #20191124 #latergram #nofilter
#Berlin #IndieWebCamp #VictoryColumn #IndieWeb #community #organizers #grateful #2019_328 #20191124 #latergram #nofilter

The Accidental Side Project ◆ 24 ways

This gets me right in the feels.

I can’t believe I was lucky enough to contribute to 24 Ways seven times over its fifteen year lifespan!

#24ways #sideprojects #independent #indieweb #community #publishing
I'm going!

Looking forward to my fourth IndieWeb Summit! Join us in Portland, OR to learn, play, and use the web your own way!

@jackyalcine how secure do you think is Koype’s #IndieAuth via TOTP? what are the implementation details, what’s your threat model?

I’m building an auth endpoint and thinking what to use… Don’t worry I won’t hack you (for now 😉) #security

How many of you #IndieWeb people have your own sites as your homepages? I’ve set mine as a new tab.

Actually planning to have a React-based dashboard with an inbuilt indieweb reader and stuff

Reply to https://twitter.com/dhh/status/1208827334813351936

The modern web is becoming an unusable, user-hostile wasteland

The future of the web, isn't the web

#indieweb #metadata #microformats

Why not use it as a syndication target though instead of having an “add an event” UI? Do we not trust our own blogs to handle the markup correctly? :3 #ownyourdata #ownyourevents #IndieWeb #microformats2

#ownyourdata #ownyourevents #IndieWeb #microformats2

This Page is Designed to Last: A Manifesto for Preserving Content on the Web

Geocities, LiveJournal, what.cd, now Yahoo Groups. One day, Medium, Twitter, and even hosting services like GitHub Pages will be plundered then discarded when they can no longer grow or cannot find a working business model.

Considering the needs of someone who wants to make and maintain a website, without the ridiculous complexity of “modern” web tooling:

How do we make web content that can last and be maintained for at least 10 years? As someone studying human-computer interaction, I naturally think of the stakeholders we aren’t supporting. Right now putting up web content is optimized for either the professional web developer (who use the latest frameworks and workflows) or the non-tech savvy user (who use a platform).

#digital #preservation #independent #publishing #indieweb #performance #longevity #frontend #development #complexity #simplictiy #tooling

Reply to https://aaronparecki.com/2019/12/21/4/indieweb-events

Announcing events.indieweb.org!

#indieweb #indiewebcamp #events
Seventeen years ago, I was setting up my first blog using MovableType on my Powerbook G4, and some clever Python scripts. I still have every post, right here in this site! 🎉 #OwnYourData #IndieWeb

https://cleverdevil.io/2002/testing-this-out
#OwnYourData #IndieWeb

Reply to https://mrkapowski.com/2019/12/10257.html

What do all you lovely #IndieWeb folks use to consume Twitter? I'd like to hook some of my favourite people into my reader but not sure the best way to do it

So long Disqus, hello Webmention

#webmention #personal-website
I have repeatedly expressed to peers working on #IndieWeb #SocialWeb #SocialMedia #FederatedSocialWeb that tech/plumbing-centric framing of #dweb "Decentralized Web" "Distributed Web" is heavily problematic. Beyond MastoGab, there is now something much worse (not linking). I’ll follow up with a longer blog post (it’s been in my drafts for a while), explaining why, how we got here, and maybe some ways for how can we replace use of "Decentralized Web" or "Distributed Web" with something human-centric instead.

For a start, re-read Mozilla’s Manifesto and Principles:

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/about/manifesto/
#IndieWeb #SocialWeb #SocialMedia #FederatedSocialWeb #dweb

The sad state of personal data and infrastructure

#indieweb #personal-website #ownership

i don’t care if twitter is down tho cause I just use my website to post stuff! #IndieWeb #ownyourdata

#IndieWeb #ownyourdata
link preview agent — n. a user agent that crawls a web page for text, image(s), link(s) etc. to make a link preview https://indieweb.org/link-preview.

@24ways (ht @KevinMarks): it’s not a “microbrowser” (already an alias for mobile browser^1) #xkcd386

^1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/microbrowser

Web searches also reveal that existing definition for “microbrowser”:

E.g. all first page results on:
@DuckDuckGo: https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=microbrowser
@Google (which even shows a onebox definition for it!): https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=microbrowser

It’s futile to attempt to redefine longstanding term/phrase like that.

Always research what you think is a new term or phrase before attempting to define it.

At a minimum do a couple of web searches and check @Wikipedia.

To be fair, naming things is hard (https://tantek.com/t44u2).

To be clear, it’s *good* to identify a thing or class of things that exists but isn’t named, and give it a name, so we can talk about it. Reminded me of @timoreilly’s talk at the 2013 Brooklyn Beta (https://tantek.com/t4SV1).

Instead, when naming something, start with trying a name that is descriptive. E.g. as the @24ways article already mentions “link preview” as the canonical phrase for the thing that is generated and shown, it makes more sense to define “link preview agent” as:

“a class of User-Agents that also visit website links, parse HTML and generate a [non-interactive, representative] user experience”

And before this post, “link preview agent” had *zero* Duck Duck Go or relevant Google results for the actual phrase (just four in Google, two split by periods, and two adjacent text coincidences that are separated by page UI).
* https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=%22link%20preview%20agent%22
* https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=%22link%20preview%20agent%22