🤘 New episode of Changelog & Friends!

@jerod goes one-on-one with our old friend @searls!

We talk build vs buy decisions, dependency selection & how Justin has implemented POSSE (Post On Site Syndicate Elsewhere) in response to the stratification of social networks.

#indieweb #itdepends #posse #softwaredev #dependencies

šŸŽ§ https://changelog.com/friends/22

"Redesigning your personal website is one of life’s great pleasures." says @chriscoyier in the newest People & Blogs interview.

I so agree. It's fun to have your own space where you make all the decisions and don't have to only do things for the bottom line.

#IndieWeb #Blogging

https://manuelmoreale.com/pb-chris-coyer

Good news from Bluesky that a public web interface is coming this month. They’ve had a ā€œstagingā€ web app, but it required signing in. Also:

As a reminder, Bluesky is a public social network, so your posts, likes, etc. have always been publicly accessible through the API. We designed Bluesky with the openness of the internet in mind, and you can think of your profile as a blog on the internet.

In the future, it will be easier to have actual blogs that seamlessly act as ActivityPub and AT Protocol profiles. We’re halfway there with Micro.blog already.

BUILDING OUR OWN NETWORKS.
New workshop klaxon: I'll be in #Bristol celebrating #TransPride on the 25th, and running a workshop on DIY radio, #indieweb and alternative #networks.

Watch this space for an online zine that will be published afterwards. šŸ“» šŸ›°ļø 🌐 🌷

https://www.headfirstbristol.co.uk/checkout/queer-practices-and-creative-technologies

LB: Ɖ bem necessĆ”rio. Vez ou outra o feed estĆ” lĆ” anunciado via
<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" ...> mas você só descobre olhando o código-fonte.

https://layer8.space/@sebastianlaube/111374796056620546

#RSS #IndieWeb #Browser

Uncertain future for Tumblr

I'm going through Broken Pencil (a Canadian #magazine about #zines and weird print) and they recc'd Prehistoric Times, an indie magazine about #dinosaurs. The website looks like something out of the 90s and a year subscription is $40USD. I'm so tempted. #zine #dinosaur #smolweb #indieweb

https://www.prehistorictimes.com/

@amin Oh good god my workflows are very opinionated and specific to what I do šŸ˜‚ A lot of it also relies less on the existence of a generator and more of abusing the way it works. But here’s the main things I’m trying to get working/have already and love.

- Nunjucks and Markdown Templating Support
- Some kind of decent support for getting a post from iOS pushed to whatever repo stores the site and triggers a build
- Ability for multiple post types (ex. Posts as one category and notes as another)
- API connections to other services to grab extra metadata without custom functions (ex. Adding a book ISBN to the metadata and being able to pull whatever expected data for the book into the post itself)

My reqs./wishes are a bit odd and eventually I’ll build my own system (#IndieWeb FTW) but I have literally zero free time to work on it. Maybe over the summer but that’s also very much up in the air (waiting on internships but I won’t hear about the one that I’m really banking on until like March).

For anyone making use of my RSS feeds, I made some changes to simplify the template while making some content formatting changes (e.g. inlining the feature image at the start of longer articles/reviews). I’ve also limited the main feed to 25 posts instead of 50, which seemed excessive. While I tested with an offline reader, I can’t guarantee things won’t break, so if they do, please let me know!

#indieweb

(https://b-ark.ca/aeWseM)

I'm moving servers so it's time for another #introduction. I'll replace this later, but I'm moving my account from arush@indieweb.social to this one. #indieweb member since 2015, #WordPresser since 2005, web developer and web accessibility professional always looking to improve my craft, proudly #Jewish since my conversion in 2000, and proudly #disabled since 1980. Plus book lover and jazz lover. #Mazeldon

@ben @fallenhitokiri there's also https://xn--sr8hvo.ws/ for a more traditional version of an webring for the #IndieWeb

Plugin Inventory, 2023

All the plugins I’m running with WordPress (it’s a lot), and the functionality I get.

https://nicks.im/b/tZ

#ThisSite #IndieWeb #WordPress

Yesterday I started a page that hosts my drawings or renders I made for this year’s Huevember and Meowvember challenges!

āž”ļø https://synergyeclipse30.neocities.org/huevember2023

This page has commentary for each piece as I've been trying some different things. I still have catching up to do with sketches I started but haven't finished yet for days that now passed but I'm still going forward.

#ArtChallenge #OldWeb #IndieWeb

There’s about $5000 of budget ready for someone to help me build ActivityPub deeply into Known such that it can interoperate with Mastodon users. Email me at ben@benwerd.com if you’re interested.

#activitypub #known #indieweb

Two weeks ago @matthiasott asked people to share the stories behind their personal blog's domains.

After @michelle and @flamed blogged about their domain choices, I decided to join the discussion in blogosphere!

#IndieWeb #PersonalSites #Website #Domain #blogging

https://hamatti.org/posts/whats-in-the-name-the-story-behind-my-domain/

Joe brought CSS Battle to my attention today. I enjoy CSS but most of my daily work with it is routine stuff like forms, nothing too fancy or creative. I decided to try it out and in true indieweb fashion, I wanted to post the results on my site.

The 2023-11-14 Daily Target seemed like a good chance to brush up on CSS Grid. I got my solution down to 342 characters when minified. I must say it hurt a little to remove the quotation marks on HTML attributes. :]

It looks like the daily target switches over at midnight UTC, so I was too late to submit this today. Still a fun exercise and looking forward to more.

Shout out to @marksuth for picking up the torch on IndiePass and continuing to improve it! The fact that I can post to my own bespoke blog from my phone as easily as I can post to Mastodon is a testament to the power of the Indieweb and protocols over platforms.

#indieweb

(https://b-ark.ca/gCwS8g)