@matthiasott A little late getting this to you (I just saw this post yesterday). Love the newsletter though!
https://shellsharks.com/notes/2023/11/21/how-has-my-site-changed-my-life
Decided to play around with #neocities and to learn some #html and #css to make a small personal website eventually.
The whole web revival thing seems fun! Maybe I don't agree on all aesthetic fronts, but the idea of people having their own little personal sites again sounds wonderful! Hopefully I can get something decent done to show to people.
#webrevival #webdev #indieweb
My strategy and philosophy for syndicating content from my site.
https://shellsharks.com/syndication-strategy
#indieweb #posse #pesos #syndication #mondayblogs #nablopomo
My first pass at my micro.blog companion thingy for my main blog #microblog #indieweb
I signed up for a micro.blog trial today and set it up on a subdomain as an experiment.
Anyone use micro.blog as a type of companion platform for your main blog?
Wondering if it adds a missing element to my site or if it feels redundant. We'll see. I'll play around with it for the month I have it and then make a decision.
Avoid Services that Don't Make it Easy to Get Your Data: http://calebhearth.com/m/services-and-data #NaBloPoMo #IndieWeb
@Perl #TIL about @jmac's https://metacpan.org/pod/Web::Mention #Perl #CPAN module for #Webmentions, a key #IndieWeb standard and @w3c Recommendation that enables #federated conversation across #blogs, #SocialNetworks, or anything that supports it.
More about #Webmention here: https://webmention.net
@wood Seen https://metacpan.org/pod/Web::Mention, as linked from the #IndieWeb wiki? https://indieweb.org/Webmention-developer#Perl
Webmentions: how I used 1990s technology to avoid writing JavaScript.
> When I started building websites over 20 years ago, I used Perl and CGI to run simple scripts, like a guestbook (I wrote my own). I prefer Ruby these days—and Perl has deprecated CGI—but could that approach still work? I thought it would be fun to try. It turns out it does work!
https://joshuawood.net/webmentions
#Blog #IndieWeb #Jekyll #Ruby #Perl #CGI #Apache #JavaScript
Is there an #opensource backed standard for annotating others’ webpages?
I’m thinking specifically being able to tag others’ sites with #IndieWeb h-cards (eg. Adding machine readable event tags to pages like this: https://www.ewanbleach.com/events)
or something more fancy, like letting me attach (#ipvm runnable?) WASM to that page that will extract an iCal file.
I want to make microformats and standard metadata more available without everyone having to get on board.
Receiving webmentions was easy to set up with webmention.io and webmention.js. For a static site, sending webmentions is a little messier, but there is a netlify plugin that I’ve found helpful. Always room for improvement though.
A post on The Verge about #indieweb POSSE
Today I built a silly webpage by hand in a couple of hours. (I’m not going to tell you what it was, except that it was frivolous af.)
I started out by looking for a template, but everything I found was way too involved, so I ended up writing the HTML and CSS from scratch, throwing it in a cloud-hosted directory, and nudging the DNS settings to point there.
This turned out to be a ridiculously nostalgic experience. I built a lot of weird little websites like this when I was about eleven years old, saving the HTML of sites that I liked so that I could access them when the phone line was being used by someone else, and changing pieces around to figure out how it all fit together.
It struck me that:
a) by this measure I’ve been doing web dev for almost a quarter-century now 😳
b) there is nothing stopping me from making websites this way. I can still write HTML and yeet it out there if I want to, no matter what it’s for. Pages load quickly. It’s not fancy. It works. Underneath it all, the web is still there.
If you feel so inclined, I can highly recommend seizing an afternoon, taking a silly webpage idea, and having a play.
Issue 3 of #OwnYourWeb is out. 🥳
This time, we’re answering the question: (how) does a personal website change your life?
Plus links to talks, podcasts, and posts by @sophie, @paulrobertlloyd, @adactio, @fonts, Scott Tolinski, and Wes Bos.
Personal site of the (every other) week by @rach
🌈🦜
Webmentions have been great to work with on my site. I haven’t had much success with microsub at this point though. The Indiepass app looks really nice and has been great for posting. But my indieauth login seemed to have issues logging into the couple microsub apps I tried so probably a problem on my end. Still love the reader concept and I know a few people use it regularly.