Flipboard on the fediverse: how the company is rebuilding with ActivityPub and Mastodon

Reminder to run your websites through Chrome/ium Lighthouse to find low hanging fruit, especially with performance and accessibility. So many personal sites have unlabelled buttons, images without alt, over-sized images, and [Read me] links

For example, "Read more" links are commonly seen on article excerpts. You should use screenreader-only text to expand on it:

```
<a href>
Read more
<span class="sr-only">
of {{ article.title }}
</span>
</a>
```

#webdev #indieweb #accessibility

@erinc makes sense, thanks for clarifying! I'm also interested to see where Threads is going with activitypub, we live in very interesting times. I hung out with @tantek.com this weekend at the #indieweb hackathon and he said he's got some longer notes coming from the meetings at FB.

Anyone know how to help with #Webmentions?

I have #Bridgy set up and it’s sending based on interactions on #Mastodon. However, nothing is being received by Webmention.io.

I’m lost at what to do next for https://justincox.com/. Any suggestions?

#AskMastodon #IndieWeb #webdev

An introduction to indie web

Wanted to have a personal website but couldn’t afford hosting and domain? Never knew how to use basic HTML and CSS?

I compiled a bunch of links that should help you start making your own personal house. Abandon all the linktrees, carrds and social media and hop on the actual web:

https://shimei.neocities.org/wiki/indieweb

#indieWeb #webmaster #coding

Was great to meet everyone at IndieWebCamp San Diego this weekend! Had some productive conversations and learned a lot about what other people are doing. I hope we can meet again soon.

Been having fun tweaking my HTML site on Neocities. Thinking I'll migrate Jason Journals there away from WordPress in 2024.

Just about purged almost all JS from the site, so just HTML and CSS.

https://jasonmcfadden.neocities.org

#indieweb #neocities #HTML

My #smallweb #indieweb link of the day https://maple.pet/ Mavica's Corner

It took all day to customize the Ghost theme, but I’m happy to say my website finally passed all the #IndieWeb checks!

Next up (some other day), connecting webmentions to the Fediverse.

Want to check it out? Visit https://justincox.com/!

at the first ever #IndieWebCamp San Diego, documented a bunch of discussions and content in new and updated wiki pages on https://indieweb.org/ and updated my home page static events listing.

#IndieWeb wiki pages created, from small stubs to longer and reasonably thorough:
* https://indieweb.org/December
* https://indieweb.org/joy
* https://indieweb.org/what_to_make_at_IndieWebCamp
#IndieWebCamp #IndieWeb

a couple of new residents have been added to the map @ https://marigold.town! 🌻

#webhosting #smallweb #indieweb #webdev #hobby

at the first ever #IndieWebCamp San Diego, documented a bunch of discussions and content in new and updated wiki pages on https://indieweb.org/ and updated my home page static events listing.#IndieWeb wiki pages created, from small stubs to longer and reasonably thorough:* https://indieweb.org/December* ht... tantek.com
at the first ever #IndieWebCamp San Diego, documented a bunch of discussions and content in new and updated wiki pages on https://indieweb.org/ and updated my home page static events listing.

#IndieWeb wiki pages created, from small stubs to longer and reasonably thorough:
* https://indieweb.org/December
* https://indieweb.org/joy
* https://indieweb.org/what_to_make_at_IndieWebCamp

Today I learned that Google Docs can do image to text of handwriting: https://artlung.com/blog/2023/12/17/handwriting-to-my-website/ #indieweb - thanks @chrisaldrich !

Photo of a typewritten sheet of paper which reads: Typecasting with IndieWeb Building Blocks I recently brough my old Smith-Corona out of deep storage and begun using it again as a thinking and writing tool. Because some of that work was ultimately for my website, I wanted to have a way to transfer the work easily to my site. With IndieWebCamp San Diego and a mention of typecasting a few months back, I had a small brainstorm. I figured that could easily leverage some of the workflow I had designed in December 2021 for handwriting posts to do the same thing with my typewriter. As it turns out, I didn't need to do much work. My flow using micropub in combination with Google Doc's optical character recognition was just just the ticket. Now I can type up almost anything, take a photo which I open up in Google Docs. Docs does the OCR work, I save the document, and IFTTT.com picks up the new document in my folder. IFTTT then sends aa copy of the post to my site using Micropub as a private post. If necessary, I can tweak it a bit and add tags, categories, etc. When I'm done, I can publish it directly or schedule it to a future date. Naturally with other infrastructure, I can automatically syndicate the post to other social media sites using POSSE as well. I remember people back in the day doing typecasting in the early blogosphere. I'm hoping my new IndieWeb method will make doing this for myself a little bit easier. I love this 'new' posting interface.

I wonder what’s my instances plan for federation regarding Threads.

#indieweb #indiewebsocial

White index card with the typewritten text IndieWebCamp San Diego 2023-12-17
My goal for the day 2 at camp is to get my site set up so that I can type a post and with a quick photo send it to my website as a post there. As a reach goal, I’d also like to get alt text working as well for accessibility. I'm hoping I can leverage some of my prior work on posting handwritten posts to get this all done. #IndieWeb #FTW
White index card with the typewritten text IndieWebCamp San Diego 2023-12-17
My goal for the day 2 at camp is to get my site set up so that I can type a post and with a quick photo send it to my website as a post there. As a reach goal, I’d also like to get alt text working as well for accessibility. I'm hoping I can leverage some of my prior work on posting handwritten posts to get this all done. #IndieWeb #FTW
White index card with the typewritten text IndieWebCamp San Diego 2023-12-17 My goal for the day 2 at camp is to get my site set up so that I can type a post and with a quick photo send it to my website as a post there. As a reach goal, I’d also like to get alt text working as well for accessibility. I'm hoping I can leverage some of my prior work on posting handwritten posts to get this all done. #IndieWeb #FTW

I have to say https://home.omg.lol/ is an example of a site that gives me hope for the future of the web.

#SmallWeb #indieweb #web