My website looks terrible on purpose (sort of). It’s certainly minimal on purpose, for a few reasons:



  1. I want it to be fast on any device and regardless of the kind of internet connection the reader has,
  2. I didn’t want to be burdened with having to make sense of and potentially maintain someone else’s template or theme,
  3. I want the distraction-less environment allows readers to actually focus on the writing rather than page aesthetics.

In any case, I hope you’re not actually reading this on my website but on the RSS or social reader of your choice to avoid having to deal with my amateurish CSS.



#Internet
#IndieWeb
#RSS

Making it easier to build on the fediverse

I’ve kept a fairly regular links section going on this site for a few years now, but I’ve been neglecting it recently, mainly due to posting directly to Mastodon. Relatedly: been trying to get POSSE-ing again, so good to see how posts from the site appear elsewhere (i.e. am testing).



🏷 #Indieweb #POSSE

https://www.thisdaysportion.com/notes/forgive-me

Threads Adopting ActivityPub Makes Sense, but Won't Be Easy

Some more great #IndependentMusic on the #indieweb

@m2m is another #FediMusic artist well worth some ear time. Enjoy! :pg:

https://minutestomidnight.bandcamp.com/album/the-die-is-cast-ep

A question for the #ActivityPub #WebMentions #IndieWeb experts: We used to have WebMentions displayed as comments on @osi blog. Now the mentions only show up as icons, without the content of the mention and no direct link to the #Mastodon mention itself
Why this changed? How to get the full comment in #WordPress again?
https://blog.opensource.org/towards-a-definition-of-open-artificial-intelligence-first-meeting-recap/

Folks, my teenager is interested in starting his own weblog so he can write about video games. He does not necessarily want to start out with learning HTML and CSS, so a hosted service might be best. What’s a good place for a beginner?

#indieweb #blog

Hello #indieweb, #writing and #webdev. Do you know stretchtext (aka telescopic text, aka expando)? Ever seen it in action? Has any thoughts on it?

Example: @tectonic's page: https://andrewcantino.com/

Doing some field research before consolidating an opinion and a blog post on it. Maybe.

Because however much I do really like the fediverse – conceptually and practically, it turns out – just providing me with a box to type shit in and then have that shit starred and “boosted” (or not) is not a good thing. I knew this first time round. I miss good writing. I reload the page a lot. I need the feedreader and the website back.
#IndieWeb #POSSE

@manton @adactio

#Indieweb for the win. ✊

The syndicate

#social #networks #syndication #crossposting #indieweb #medium #twitter #mastodon #flickr #bluesky #posse #rss #feeds #writing #publishing #sharing

Testing to see if I can sign my guestbook with Bridgy Fed, webmentions and mastodon.

http://lifeofpablo.com/guestbook

#indieweb #ownyourdata #webmentions

These past few weeks my brain has been firing up so many ideas that I might as well revive my blog. So hyped up to start my blog again, this time I'm gonna really focus on content.
#blogging #neocities #indieweb

I'm setting up an #indieweb website to "own my voice" via federation and self-hosting. I'm not sure how it all works but i'm following along some tutorials at indieweb.org and following in the footsteps of our fearless "leader" @david . you can check it out at https://norcalgeek.com. More content to follow!

What do you all think about low-data / low-energy ways to implement replies to messages in a relational database, that are resilient long-term? You can see the app in question here: https://groundtalk.land/feed (and code here: https://github.com/sbutler-gh/coop-media)

The app currently gets all messages from the database, returns them as HTML, and caches them in localStorage. On subsequent page loads, it gets messages from localStorage first and then only checks the database for newer messages.

Thinking about how to implement replies on top of this this (also, welcoming input on the overall architecture as well).

Hacker News/Reddit nested replies is what's coming to mind, for informational architecture at least? I don't know how heavy it is to implement finding all the replies at each nested level and then rendering them in HTML. Probably much simpler technically with Twitter/Mastodon style (no nesting display), but kind of feels like nesting is the right direction for informational longevity (which is part of the idea)? Then again, not necessarily assuming that nesting a la HN/Reddit nesting always leads to better discussions.

What do you all think?

@scanlime @hydroponictrash @trashrobot @becomethewaifu @pikselkraft @alive @wwahammy @rzr @milo_bytes @yhancik @nolwennm @joachim boitam.eu @aral

#database #tech #backend #webdev #html #htmx #ux #design #architecture #postgres #relational #permacomputing #socialmedia #socialnetwork #indieweb #sql #fullstack #networking #computers #it

As the fediverse grows, new people will hear about Micro.blog and send us feedback about how we can improve. Always good! I listen to everything. On the other hand, the fact that the fediverse is so big means we can do things differently and still be successful. Not all platforms should be the same.

IndieWeb Carnival revisited

the 32-bit cafe is hosting its first-ever community code jam, and YOU are invited! :) from the week of july 16-22, we're #coding webpages about "that special thing close to my heart" — any of our fleeting interests! read more here and get your ideas ready:

https://discuss.32bit.cafe/f/32bitcafe/43/new-monthly-event-community-code-jam-1-starts-july-16

#webdev #codejam #indieweb