Taking the indie web to the next level—self-hosting on your own hardware.
Tired of Big Tech monopolies, a community of hobbyists is taking their digital lives off the cloud and onto DIY hardware that they control.
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"text": "I bagged another geohash yesterday. All it took was rescheduling and redirecting my normal walk, because the target location was just over 5 km from my home. How often does that happen? I wrote it up on the wiki, to the best of my ability, but adhering to IndieWeb principles I\u2019m hosting my own suitably edited version here.",
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September 25th, online:
We’ll discuss and brainstorm ideas related to wikis, commonplace books, digital gardens, zettelkasten, and note taking on personal websites and how they might interoperate or communicate with each other. This can include IndieWeb building blocks, user interfaces, functionalities, and everyones’ ideas surrounding these. Bring your thoughts, ideas, and let’s discuss and build.
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I’ve updated my IndieWeb wiki profile page to better reflect my recent projects.
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A very open and honest post by Nolan on trying to live with technology without sacrificing privacy.
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Right now I'm attending the #IndieWeb #IndieAuth pop-up to look at further improving the specifications, and making it easier for folks to implement and integrate
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Micro Camp has wrapped up, but there are IndieWeb online events about once a month. I’ll be attending the IndieAuth popup session next week!
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@vv4rner While I love what RSS enables and there's a huge ecosystem for it, I am against it for DRY reasons. It's stable in the fact that no one has iterated on it in over a decade. It also helps that WordPress core handles a lot of the admin tax for me on maintaining it, but it has caused metacrap issues for me in the past.
So what to do to replace RSS? If you look at most of my content, I've got the HTML marked up with (richer) microformats for those who'd like to consume that directly without needing a side file for it. There's an existing ecosystem of microformats parsers and even social readers that use microformats over RSS. Incidentally microformats are also part of the semantic layer that makes site-to-site converstions on IndieWeb-based sites work better.
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Your attentive kindness doesn’t get picked up by any analytical tool I’ve got other than my heart and my memory—however short lived.
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"text": "On IndieWeb chat, a question recently came up, namely the origin of the term \u201cplanet\u201d when it comes to a news-aggregating site. I was a little sad to see that nobody else in the chat remembered!Back in the day, there was a website, Planet Quake, which was a hand-curated collection of all the news about the game Quake. This led to a bunch of other gaming-related \u201cplanet\u201d sites (such as Planet Dreamcast), and then the company behind it, CriticalMass Communications, eventually got into other areas of reporting. Eventually they sold to GameSpy, which in turn eventually got bought out by IGN1.At some point, a couple of other sites emerged with the name \u201cplanet\u201d as what I believe was a tongue-in-cheek reference to the \u201cplanet\u201d gaming sites. Planet Debian is the first one I remember seeing but I have no idea if it was the first to exist. Many of these sites were built using auto-aggregation from the then-new RSS protocol. This joke ended up spreading pretty far and wide and at one point there was even a \u201cplanet planet\u201d to keep track of all the planets.2A fun side note, Something Awful was originally a spinoff of Planet Quake; at the time Lowtax claimed it was because of a \u201cfalling out\u201d but that may have been an attempt at satire. In retrospect, he might have named it \u201cPlanet Awful!\u201d\n\n\n\n\nIGN was eventually bought out by J2 Global which, oddly enough, owns the company where I work too. \u21a9and I have now officially reached semantic satiation on the word \"planet\" \u21a9comments"
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"html": "<p>I\u2019m always paying attention to new platforms that pop up, especially when there is some overlap with Micro.blog. The iOS-only photo sharing app <a href=\"https://photo.glass/\">Glass</a> launched last week as an interesting alternative to larger social networks. Today I\u2019m announcing a new version of Micro.blog with special support for Glass.</p>\n\n<p>Glass has no public API or web version, but it does have a way to share a simple web page of your photo. We\u2019ve leveraged this so that you can take one of your Glass photos and send a copy directly to your own blog.</p>\n\n<p>Here\u2019s a quick screencast video showing this feature in action:</p>\n\n<p>This might look normal enough, but because Glass shares a web page URL instead of the photo, if you use any other app you\u2019re just going to get a link. Micro.blog downloads the HTML, parses it looking for the photo URL and caption, then moves that into a Micro.blog post. The new photo is hosted on your blog, with your own domain name if you have one.</p>\n\n<p>Glass is so new that it remains to be seen where the app will go, and how it might expand in the future. It shares some of the same principles as Micro.blog \u2014\u00a0no ads, no algorithms, no likes \u2014\u00a0but Glass lacks important open web features like domain names and IndieWeb APIs.</p>\n\n<p>I\u2019ll always prefer posting photos to my own blog instead of a silo. We <em>do</em> need more social networks, though, and any attention that can be pried away from Facebook and Instagram is a win. Best of luck to the Glass folks.</p>",
"text": "I\u2019m always paying attention to new platforms that pop up, especially when there is some overlap with Micro.blog. The iOS-only photo sharing app Glass launched last week as an interesting alternative to larger social networks. Today I\u2019m announcing a new version of Micro.blog with special support for Glass.\n\nGlass has no public API or web version, but it does have a way to share a simple web page of your photo. We\u2019ve leveraged this so that you can take one of your Glass photos and send a copy directly to your own blog.\n\nHere\u2019s a quick screencast video showing this feature in action:\n\nThis might look normal enough, but because Glass shares a web page URL instead of the photo, if you use any other app you\u2019re just going to get a link. Micro.blog downloads the HTML, parses it looking for the photo URL and caption, then moves that into a Micro.blog post. The new photo is hosted on your blog, with your own domain name if you have one.\n\nGlass is so new that it remains to be seen where the app will go, and how it might expand in the future. It shares some of the same principles as Micro.blog \u2014\u00a0no ads, no algorithms, no likes \u2014\u00a0but Glass lacks important open web features like domain names and IndieWeb APIs.\n\nI\u2019ll always prefer posting photos to my own blog instead of a silo. We do need more social networks, though, and any attention that can be pried away from Facebook and Instagram is a win. Best of luck to the Glass folks."
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"text": "Taking a cross country flight\n\n\n\nHowdy! Let me introduce myself; my name is Marcus Povey, and I\u2019m a software developer / full stack software engineer currently based in Europe. My clients include software houses, financial and governmental institutions, news agencies, and companies both large and small.\n\n\n\nI have helped build life saving medical software, secure messaging systems, high performance video platforms, and Open Source projects used around the world.\n\n\n\nMost recently, I\u2019ve been heading up a team of skilled software engineers developing software to facilitate and deliver cutting edge science across Europe, primarily in the fields of structural biology. I collaborate with some of the most important centres of scientific excellence, across Europe and beyond. I am involved in some of the most important and large scale EU Open Access projects developing new ways to access and reuse scientific research, including helping with the response to the global COVID-19 pandemic. I have spoken at large scale scientific conferences, and have helped shape EU data sharing policy.\n\n\n\nPreviously, I was the technical lead on the Elgg project, an Open Source social networking platform. This software is used by companies, universities and governments around the world to improve the efficiency of communication both internally and externally. I am also involved in the development of the Known platform, a modern social publishing platform that incorporates many Indieweb technologies.\n\n\n\nIf you\u2019re interested in knowing more about my professional experience, you can check out my resume. I am also available to hire!\n\n\n\n\u00bb Work with me!\nOutside of my professional life, I am passionate about travel. I live a fairly nomadic existence, and am always interested in exploring and living somewhere new.\u00a0\n\n\n\nI also collect hobbies like precious shinies.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRight now I am training a number of martial arts (currently Judo, Capoeira, Boxing, Muay Thai and Krav Maga), I enjoy rock music, power lifting, archery, black smithing, I climb when I can, ride motorcycles, and pilot light aircraft.\n\n\n\nLet\u2019s go!",
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"text": "Taking a cross country flight\n\n\n\nHowdy! Let me introduce myself; my name is Marcus Povey, and I\u2019m a software developer / full stack software engineer currently based in Europe. My clients include software houses, financial and governmental institutions, news agencies, and companies both large and small.\n\n\n\nI have helped build life saving medical software, secure messaging systems, high performance video platforms, and Open Source projects used around the world.\n\n\n\nMost recently I\u2019ve been heading up a team of skilled software engineers, working to develop software to facilitate and deliver cutting edge science, primarily in the fields of structural biology. I collaborate with some of the most important centres of scientific excellence, across Europe and beyond. I am involved in some of the most important and large scale EU Open Access projects developing new ways to access and reuse scientific research, including helping with the response to the global COVID-19 pandemic. I have spoken at large scale scientific conferences, and have helped shape EU data sharing policy.\n\n\n\nPreviously, I was the technical lead on the Elgg project, an Open Source social networking platform. This software is used by companies, universities and governments around the world to improve the efficiency of communication both internally and externally. I am also involved in the development of the Known platform, a modern social publishing platform that incorporates many Indieweb technologies.\n\n\n\nIf you\u2019re interested in knowing more about my professional experience, you can check out my resume. I am also available to hire!\n\n\n\n\u00bb Work with me!\nOutside of my professional life, I am passionate about travel. I live a fairly nomadic existence, and am always interested in exploring and living somewhere new.\u00a0\n\n\n\nI also collect hobbies like precious shinies.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRight now I am training a number of martial arts (currently Judo, Capoeira, Boxing, Muay Thai and Krav Maga), I enjoy rock music, power lifting, archery, black smithing, I climb when I can, ride motorcycles, and pilot light aircraft.\n\n\n\nLet\u2019s go!\n\nShare this:\nEmail\nLinkedIn\nTwitter\nFacebook\nWhatsApp\nSkype",
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"text": "I mentioned recently that there might be quite a difference in tone between my links and my journal here on my website:\n\n\n \u2019Sfunny, when I look back at older journal entries they\u2019re often written out of frustration, usually when something in the dev world is bugging me. But when I look back at all the links I\u2019ve bookmarked the vibe is much more enthusiastic, like I\u2019m excitedly pointing at something and saying \u201cCheck this out!\u201d I feel like sentiment analyses of those two sections of my site would yield two different results.\n\n\nMy journal entries have been even more specifically negative of late. I\u2019ve been bitchin\u2019 and moanin\u2019 about web browsers. But at least I\u2019m an equal-opportunities bitcher and moaner.\n\n\nMozilla, I complained about your Facebook Container extension for Firefox.\n\nApple, I complained about the ridiculous way Safari\u2019s update cycle is tied to operating system.\n\nGoogle, I complained about the way a breaking change was rolled out in Chrome (and the implications for future breaking changes).\n\nMicrosoft, you got off lightly. But please consider any of my criticisms of Chrome to apply to Edge too, seeing as they\u2019re basically the same now.\nI wish my journal weren\u2019t so negative, but my mithering behaviour has been been encouraged. On more than one occasion, someone I know at a browser company has taken me aside to let me know that I should blog about any complaints I might have with their browser. It sounds counterintuitive, I know. But these blog posts can give engineers some ammunition to get those issues prioritised and fixed.\n\nSo my message to you is this: if there\u2019s something about a web browser that you\u2019re not happy with (or, indeed, if there\u2019s something you\u2019re really happy with), take the time to write it down and publish it.\n\nPublish it on your website. You could post your gripes on Twitter but whinging on Jack\u2019s website is just pissing in the wind. And I suspect you also might put a bit more thought into a blog post on your own site.\n\nI know it\u2019s a clich\u00e9 to say that browser makers want to hear from developers\u2014and I\u2019m often cynical about it myself\u2014but they really do want to know what we think. Share your thoughts. I\u2019ll probably end up linking to what you write.",
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Why don’t they teach the concept of abstract syntax trees in school? It’s such a great learning aid to understand how to apply syntax rules in natural language!
I for real did not understand how all these rules worked until I unknowingly constructed an incomplete, over specialized version of Lisp inside my brain and started applying syntax rules according to the way the spoken tongue would convert into an s-expression.
I would probably give an example here but my brain is fried and I need some food so I’ll wait until I make a Micropub client with edit support.
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Announcing the Microformats translation layer for book data.
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This is so cool! Now I kinda want a thermal printer to have a live feed of webmentions on my desk... Having your internet life be reflected in something tangible feels interesting and engaging!
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Test Webmention sending I guess
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