A cohesive and unified identity for IndieWeb protocols · Paul Robert Lloyd

I really enjoyed hanging out with Paul at Indie Web Camp in Nuremberg last weekend. And I like the iconography he’s proposing:

This design attempts to bring together a set of icons that share the concept of a node – a line and a point – and use this to add counters to each letter shape.

#indieweb #icons #iconography #branding #identity #formats #protocols #graphic #design #building #blocks

Updated my neocities site CSS last night to cut out all purples and adjust remaining color scheme. More tweaks here and there. Still planning to restructure, simplify overall. Less JS. More HTML.

https://jasonmcfadden.neocities.org/

#indieweb #html #blogging

I got my links page set up on my site! Let me know if you'd like to be net neighbors 😁
#smallWeb #indieWeb
https://gusbus.space

Didn't have time to do much non-work coding tonight, so just added myself to an IndieWeb webring and calling it a night.

https://xn--sr8hvo.ws/directory

#IndieWeb #IndieAuth

#webrings watch No. 28

The #IndieWeb #webring
https://xn--sr8hvo.ws/directory

Since 2018,
@schmarty has been kicking butt and writing code in an effort to bring the Personal Web just a little bit closer together. This is one of my favorites, join today!

#tech #webdev #retro #html #programming #web #smallweb #random

The border:none conference was in Germany last week followed by an IndieWebCamp event, so several indieweb people were there. In the chat, the amount of current Covid cases was brought up and a mention of how few were masked in a crowd of about 200.

My heart sank — a feeling I’m unfortunately getting more and more used to. I commented “in-person conferences may just be a thing of the past for me at this rate 🫠.” I followed that with an explanation that it’s the psychological and emotional weight of being in spaces like that. I have to psych myself up. It feels really isolating; the “alone in a crowded room” feeling.

Tantek helpfully tried to put a positive frame on it as “an interesting exercise in independence and not bowing to implied / perceived social pressure” and the idea that it can help train us to be independent thinkers. I’ve been thinking on that for a bit now. I think there is some truth to that, but I also feel pretty well-trained in that regard after almost 4 years of this.

For me, it’s important to remember that the context of this training is the nearly unmitigated spread of a virus with long-term health impacts. That’s a big part of the psychological weight. I can’t emphasize enough how important community care has become to me. It’s not just my health that I’m concerned about when I’m in a crowd. Looking around and seeing that the majority are not taking basic precautions (for whatever reason) really weighs on me. We know these precautions make everyone safer, but so many people have bought into the hyper-individualism of the moment.

I love the work that Clean Air Club is doing in Chicago, crowdfunding and trying to make concerts safer by providing free air purifiers. They posted a reel recently that I think explains the importance of being proactive in prioritizing Covid safety and accessibility. Here is a transcript of the audio (emphasis mine):

Going to shows the past few years, it seems like nobody is masking anymore. But the reality is that Covid cautious people are being pushed out of these spaces. There’s a selection bias at crowded events. If you do attend and choose to mask, you feel like the only one. But you’re not.

This is a classic paradox of inaccessibility. Because a space is inaccessible to Covid cautious people, they aren’t able to join. But because they aren’t able to join, it appears that there is no demand for Covid cautious spaces. It’s feedback loop that entrenches ableism in our music scene. Artists, event hosts, and venues most of all have an obligation to interrupt this loop.

Prioritize Covid safety.

Clean Air Club,

This has me mulling over what policies I will promote if/when I’m in a position to organize in-person events again, as well as what I will request/encourage other event organizers to implement. I hope to write more on that soon.

The border:none conference was in Germany last week followed by an IndieWebCamp event, so several indieweb people were there. In the chat, the amount of current Covid cases was brought up and a mention of how few were masked in a crowd of about 200.

My heart sank — a feeling I’m unfortunately getting more and more used to. I commented “in-person conferences may just be a thing of the past for me at this rate 🫠.” I followed that with an explanation that it’s the psychological and emotional weight of being in spaces like that. I have to psych myself up. It feels really isolating; the “alone in a crowded room” feeling.

Tantek helpfully tried to put a positive frame on it as “an interesting exercise in independence and not bowing to implied / perceived social pressure” and the idea that it can help train us to be independent thinkers. I’ve been thinking on that for a bit now. I think there is some truth to that, but I also feel pretty well-trained in that regard after almost 4 years of this.

For me, it’s important to remember that the context of this training is the nearly unmitigated spread of a virus with long-term health impacts. That’s a big part of the psychological weight. I can’t emphasize enough how important community care has become to me. It’s not just my health that I’m concerned about when I’m in a crowd. Looking around and seeing that the majority are not taking basic precautions (for whatever reason) really weighs on me. We know these precautions make everyone safer, but so many people have bought into the hyper-individualism of the moment.

I love the work that Clean Air Club is doing in Chicago, crowdfunding and trying to make concerts safer by providing free air purifiers. They posted a reel recently that I think explains the importance of being proactive in prioritizing Covid safety and accessibility. Here is a transcript of the audio (emphasis mine):

Going to shows the past few years, it seems like nobody is masking anymore. But the reality is that Covid cautious people are being pushed out of these spaces. There’s a selection bias at crowded events. If you do attend and choose to mask, you feel like the only one. But you’re not.

This is a classic paradox of inaccessibility. Because a space is inaccessible to Covid cautious people, they aren’t able to join. But because they aren’t able to join, it appears that there is no demand for Covid cautious spaces. It’s feedback loop that entrenches ableism in our music scene. Artists, event hosts, and venues most of all have an obligation to interrupt this loop.

Prioritize Covid safety.

Clean Air Club,

This has me mulling over what policies I will promote if/when I’m in a position to organize in-person events again, as well as what I will request/encourage other event organizers to implement. I hope to write more on that soon.

New blog post: “Weekly Bookmarks 3: IndieWebCamp Edition”

https://blog.kizu.dev/weekly-bookmarks-003/

Slightly late, all due to me being very tired after the conference and the #IndieWebCamp event.

Gathered links related to some of the sessions I participate in (“Building Block Icons”, “Link Rot” and “How to stop rewriting your site and write more”)

(no CSS bookmarks this time; they would go into the next weekly)

#IndieWeb #LinkRot

Estoy leyendo sobre los eventos #IndieWeb y creo que deberíamos hacer en #Xalapa

https://indieweb.org/

@feditips Shame that for us POSSE #indieweb folks syndicating to multiple destinations, we still have to assume the worst. I personally just built my own basic link shortener so I could syndicate to silos that handle links poorly while preserving reader privacy.

#webrings watch No. 27

the AutisTBH #webring
https://autistbh.neocities.org/

While centered around personal & special interest pages, any site made with #autism is welcome! Join today!

#tech #webdev #retro #html #programming #web #SmallWeb #indieweb #autistic #rights #accessibility #a11y

Después de estas semanas iniciales en indieweb.social aún no logro encontrar mucha gente de habla hispana que ande con la movida #indieweb #jardinesdigitales y así. ¿Alguien ahí? ¿Alguien no sabe ni de qué hablo pero le interesa a rabiar y no puede esperar más?

Irwin: Dabbling with ActivityPub

Happy Halloween, IndieWeb!

October 31st may come around once a year; but Halloween 🎃 is forever 🦇. I wish you a Happy Haunted Halloween, filled with your favorite treats! #halloween #indieweb #self

https://mindcreatesmeaning.com/happy-halloween-indieweb/

Hey :fedi:! Connect with me @autonomyagency
Posted via ActivityPub :fedi: for :wordpress:

#WordPress #activitypub #fediverse #halloween2023 #mastodon
#selfhosted #selfhosting

Just recently finished adding Bluesky backfeeding support to @snarfed.org's Bridgy :)

https://www.joelotter.com/posts/2023/10/bridgy-bluesky/

#indieweb

IndieWeb Camp Nürnberg 2023

Indie Web Camp Nuremberg

#indiewebcamp #nuremberg #hacking #coding #linkrot #related #posts #links #blogs #blogging #indieweb #personal #publishing #code

The social web is a conversation, so I’ve made the Webmentions my personal website receives look like them!

Become part of the conversation; reply to, like or boost this post and, in a little while, it’ll show up on this short blog post I wrote about it.

https://www.johnpe.art/2023/10/31/making-webmentions-look-more-conversational/

#indieweb #socialmedia

Anyone who advocates for #POSSE and #indieweb and so on needs to keep in mind that having your own site is a non-trivial undertaking and not something that will ever gain widespread traction until we have a platform as easy to configure and post on as Mastodon or the sociopathic-billionaire-owned ones.