Tiny websites have always fascinated me, along with internet web portals (which haven't been a thing for many years-- at least in the way we used to know them). I'm talking a simple HTML page with just a graphic or two, and a bunch of links. Something that might resemble the early days of Yahoo, etc.

The idea for this site I made has been buzzing around in my head for a while now. It is NOT responsive, there is NO JavaScript, and there's just a TINY bit of CSS. The whole site (one HTML page) is only about 9kb!

A simple site like this one might look primitive compared to some of the huge, complicated websites we see as standard on the internet today, but this site is guaranteed to work on any browser or device.

I used links for sites/documents that I frequent or use a lot, and mixed in my own personal projects for fun. It's a super simple page-- mostly for my own usage. But I really love the design of it!

I don't have a URL set up for it other than just on my free server at freehostia, but here it is! I call it 'Mr Beamer's Old Timey Web Portal'. 😂

http://jakbea3.freehostia.com/oldtimeywebportal

#html #simplesites #webportal #webportals #htmlmostly #css #bareboneshtml #weirdweb #personalsites #personalwebsites #indieweb

And here's a fun one on TILvids. I love Guestbooks! #IndieWeb @veronicaexplains

https://tilvids.com/w/7pTHGVbQkfPSQKHQufcYi7

This is a bit nerdier blog post about my recent migration to CapRover. If you're looking for a self-hosted alternative to Heroku, either for your own project, or to try some of the self-hosted apps it supports, you should give it a try.

https://stefanbohacek.com/blog/o-captain-my-captain

#IndieWeb #selfhosted #website #webdev #WebDevelopment #heroku #DigitalOcean

Posted this week’s Core Intuition, all about social networks and blogging. Bluesky, the AT Protocol, Micro.blog, WordPress, ActivityPub, and Nostr.

Wrote about #indieweb and what I've done to get my website on board! https://www.joelotter.com/posts/2023/03/indieweb/

new blog post!

my thoughts about different languages and frameworks, and the importance of easily being able to translate thoughts into results

https://andrewconl.in/thoughts/2023/03/10/putting-thoughts-into-action.html

#blog #webdev #indieweb

It's really awesome seeing all the innovation and experimenting around Mastodon, fediverse, and ActivityPub.

Some of my own work includes:

- https://fediverse-explorer.stefanbohacek.dev: browse the most recent posts by tags
- https://github.com/stefanbohacek/mastodon-tools: a Mastodon extension that adds instance switcher and profile cards (currently beta-testing, feedback welcome!)

#mastodon #fediverse #OpenWeb #IndieWeb #BrowserExtension #feedback #HelpWanted #OpenSource

OAuth Support in Bluesky and AT Protocol

Bluesky, a new social media platform and AT Protocol, is unsurprisingly running up against the same challenges and limitations that Flickr, Twitter and many other social media platforms faced in the 2000s: passwords!
#oauth #indieauth #bluesky #atproto #indieweb

inspired by @simon, i've started a til repository. anytime i find a funky bug that i take a while to solve, i'll post the full error message and the solution i found.

hopefully, if anyone runs into the same error, they'll be able to find my solution!

my first til is now up on my github (github.com/andrwcnln/til) as well as over at:

https://andrewconl.in/2023/03/01/nextcloud-php-errors.html

#nextcloud #selfhosted #indieweb

Tik Tok is next to tell you what kind of links you can put on your online profile.

"TikTok has begun blocking links to app stores in creators’ bios, [....] The block [...] also extends to third-party link-in-bio solutions like Linktree."

And this is why you need to own your web presence, even if it's a basic, single page hosted on https://neocities.org or https://glitch.com.

https://techcrunch.com/2023/03/08/tiktok-begins-blocking-links-to-app-store-pages-from-creators-bios via @Sarahp

#IndieWeb #OpenWeb #news #TikTok

Metadata standards for publishers

Spent some of my afternoon attempting to better implement #MicroFormats2 and schema.org #MicroData into my blog.

I think I've done a reasonable job (according to the various parsers I can check) but all in all it's just made my head hurt for no tangible benefit I can glean.

It shouldn't be this tricky right?

#IndieWeb #SelfHost #WebDev

Hey - it’s #ADHDObsessionWednesday!

I want to hear from my #adhd peeps: what’s your current obsession or passion?

I’m still obsessed with #Mastodon, the #Fediverse, and the possibility of a better internet. So I added a bunch of #IndieWeb features to my new site.

(I was gonna do this on Monday but… I got distracted & forgot 😆)

https://whatwasidoingagain.com/adhd-asides/adhdobsessionwednesday/

How to use your own domain as your BlueSky handle

I recently got access to the BlueSky beta, and decided to poke around to see what it's all about. I will save the details of what it is and how I feel about it for a different post. However, one of the first things you do when you sign up is choose a username that exists under the bsky.app domain. I have zero interest in another name rush where everyone tries to claim the shortest username possible, so I went with aaronpk.bsky.app rather than trying to get a or apk.
#indieweb #bluesky #atproto

Fully managed website hosting resources.

**whispers** hey #Twitter peeps, guess what? If you get your own website/blog, you won't have to depend on renting social media space anymore. Sure, you can't shoot off piffy one line social media posts, but you will get subscribers and readers. Here's some services to try,

Assume all of the below ban porn. I didn't check.

MicroBlog, https://micro.blog/

The next two are free with some added paid bonuses.

https://mataroa.blog/

https://bearblog.dev/

A free blog/website,

https://paper.wf/

you can also,

make your own free website at Wordpress.com.

Try Write.as, the main arm behind WriteFreely,

https://write.as/start

If you wanna try a fully managed version of CRAFT you can find fully managed versions on this page,

https://craftcms.com/hosting

#IndieWeb #Blogging #Blogs #Blog

@yosh This is one of the things I like about the #IndieWeb, that it clearly separates authoring, hosting, aggregation, subscribing, reading, mentioning into different composable parts.

Good thing that it’s possible to bridge Mastodon and the IndieWeb.

Now eg clients are not built for open standards but rather a Mastodon specific one, whereas the IndieWeb has #MicroPub and #MicroSub + the ability to advertise where your such servers are similar to how you add email server discoverability to DNS

I'm glad to see that BlueSky supports custom domains! I have zero interest in sitting on a username in the bluesky namespace. Setting it up was roughly the same as pointing your own domain to a hosting provider, and a lot easier than Mastodon/ActivityPub!
#activitypub #atproto #bluesky #indieweb