Clearly this is a sign we need to have an IndieWebCamp in Vienna #indie #foaf
#indieweb #indiewebcamp #foaf #indie
Published today, years of working with co-workers @Mozilla and something I'm proud of: https://webvision.mozilla.org/

#OpenWeb #IndieWeb fans & #WebDevs see https://webvision.mozilla.org/full/ with #HTML #CSS #JS, nods to nascent #OpenUI & #sustainability #s12y efforts, and a lot more.
#OpenWeb #IndieWeb #WebDevs #HTML #CSS #JS #OpenUI #sustainability #s12y

🐠 Robin Sloan: describing the emotions of life online

Obviously, no one does this, I recognize this is a very niche endeavor, but the art and craft of maintaining a homepage, with some of your writing and a page that’s about you and whatever else over time, of course always includes addition and deletion, just like a garden — you’re snipping the dead blooms. I do this a lot. I’ll see something really old on my site, and I go, “you know what, I don’t like this anymore,” and I will delete it.

But that’s care. Both adding things and deleting things. Basically the sense of looking at something and saying, “is this good? Is this right? Can I make it better? What does this need right now?” Those are all expressions of care. And I think both the relentless abandonment of stuff that doesn’t have a billion users by tech companies, and the relentless accretion of garbage on the blockchain, I think they’re both kind of the antithesis, honestly, of care.

#digital #gardens #indieweb #homepages #websites #personal #publishing #platforms #silos #facebook #crypto #web3 #blockchain #care #preservation #longevity

Meta Tags to Microformats - March 14, 2022

Introducing opengraph-mf2 a library, and service opengraph-mf2.tanna.dev, for converting OpenGraph metadata to Microformats2

Announcing an NPM package and a hosted service for converting OpenGraph metadata to a Microformats2 object.
#opengraph #opengraph-mf2 #indieweb #microformats2

Still cooking what I eat

Building a Digital Homestead, Bit by Brick

A personal site, or a blog, is more than just a collection of writing. It’s a kind of place - something that feels like home among the streams. Home is a very strong mental model.

#indieweb #personal #publishing #home #websites #blogs #homesteads #architecture #metaphors

Kickstarter video and transcript

Complete draft of Indie Microblogging published

How Websites Die ⁑ Wesley’s Notebook

This is like the Gashlycrumb Tinies but for websites:

It’s been interesting to see how websites die — from domain parking pages to timeouts to blank pages to outdated TLS cipher errors, there are a multitude of different ways.

#websites #deaths #silos #digital #preservation #linkrot #urls #tls #indieweb #longevity
Testing webmentions to my wiki.

[[jackson rising]]

https://commonplace.doubleloop.net/jackson-rising

Sorry for the noise.

Interoperable Personal Libraries and Ad Hoc Reading Groups

Speaking of hosting your own reading list, Maggie recently attended an indie web pop-up on personal libraries, which prompted these interesting thoughts on decentralised book clubs—ad hoc reading groups:

Taking a book-first, rather than a group-first approach would enable reading groups who don’t have to compromise on their book choices. They could gather only once or twice to discuss the book, then go their seperate ways. No long-term committment to organising and maintaining a bookclub required.

#indieweb #bookclubs #reading #groups #decentralisation #impromtu #adhoc #personal #publishing #libraries #books #discussion

Nelson’s Weblog: Goodreads lost all of my reviews

Goodreads lost my entire account last week. Nine years as a user, some 600 books and 250 carefully written reviews all deleted and unrecoverable. Their support has not been helpful. In 35 years of being online I’ve never encountered a company with such callous disregard for their users’ data.

Ouch! Lesson learned:

My plan now is to host my own blog-like collection of all my reading notes like Tom does.

#goodreads #silos #data #loss #digital #preservation #reading #books #indieweb #selfhosting
@seaotta is it a length of post thing (longer than a tweet) or only posts with titles?

or does neither matter as long as they’re on your own website (like this reply)?

or do you mean top level posts (not replies) on your own site?

#indieweb thoughts

Good Paper on Brid.gy

Introducing a Go command-line tool for interacting with Micropub servers

Announcing the initial release of micropub, a CLI for interacting with Micropub servers.
#go #micropub #micropub-go

Here’s another great post about the IndieWeb Personal Libraries pop-up, from Maggie Appleton who facilitated a session on reading groups.

Here’s another great post about the IndieWeb Personal Libraries pop-up, from Maggie Appleton who facilitated a session on reading groups.

The Ultimate Guide to Writing Online - David Perell

Blogging isn’t dead. In fact, the opposite is true. We’re about to enter a golden age of personal blogs.

Make it easy for people to find you. Buy a domain name and use it to create your own website, even if it’s very simple at first. Your website is your resume, your business card, your store, your directory, and your personal magazine. It’s the one place online that you completely own and control – your Online Home.

Good advice. Also:

Don’t write on Medium.

Look, I get it. Writing on Medium is an easy way to pick up readers and increases your chances of going viral. But the costs exceed the benefits. Medium is terrible for SEO. You don’t own your content and the platform makes it difficult to turn one-time readers into loyal ones.

The more you can use platforms you own, the better. Rather than writing on Medium, do the work to build a personal blog. That way, you can have a central place to point people to.

#writing #sharing #blogging #blogs #publishing #online #indieweb #medium #advice

Personal libraries next steps