I’ll never stop blogging: it’s an itch I have to scratch – and I don’t care if it’s an outdated format | Simon Reynolds | The Guardian

It me:

I’d do this even if no one read it. Blogging, for me, is the perfect format. No restrictions when it comes to length or brevity: a post can be a considered and meticulously composed 3,000-word essay, or a spurted splat of speculation or whimsy. No rules about structure or consistency of tone. A blogpost can be half-baked and barely proved: I feel zero responsibility to “do my research” before pontificating. Purely for my own pleasure, I do often go deep. But it’s nearer the truth to say that some posts are outcomes of rambles across the archives of the internet, byproducts of the odd information trawled up and the lateral connections created.

#blogging #blogs #writing #sharing #personal #publishing #indieweb #guardian

I've just noticed that the untappd year in beer has been updating as I check in beers this week. I will have to update my post over the next couple of days

https://flamedfury.com/posts/my-year-in-beer-2023/

#beer #blog #indie #indieweb

Remember when #photography was about the #art of it, not clout-chasing or product-pushing? For example, in the late 2000s so many cool (not just meaning 'popular') photographers were on #Flickr. Then #Instagram came around in 2010 and #Facebook bought them out in 2012.

IMHO the mid-2000s was when #tech & online platforms started going downhill quick and tech #enshittification began to spread. I think the introduction of the #iPhone had a lot to do with it, not to mention the many tech acquisitions that have been happening ever since. Correct me if I'm wrong.

Anyway, the 'art' of photography feels lost now; pay-walled, plundered, copied, capitalized, and even censored. All of it beholden to whatever satisfies the venture capitalists, advertisers, and/or shareholders. Fuck all that. Let's take back the web. Let's take back tech. This is why the #Fediverse (including #pixelfed) and more broadly, concepts like #smalltech, #indieweb, #smallweb and #selfhosting etc gives me glimmers of hope.

#capitalism sucks.

I was recently approached by a friend who had a website they manage be compromised. They offered to let me take a look at some of the files left behind by the attacker. In today's blog post, I go over my methods for deobfuscating a staging script they used.

#hacking #MalwareAnalysis #ReverseEngineering #PHP #CyberSecurity #InfoSec #IndieWeb #SmallWeb
https://www.vzqk50.com/blog/deobfuscating-a-malware-stager/

Words I wrote in 2023

#blog #posts #blogging #writing #journal #personal #publishing #indieweb #2023 #words

@tchambers Federated store front would be doable, federated payment would be harder (though possibly doable as well)

There has been some work on #hProduct in the #indieweb / #microformat space, which may be reusable: http://microformats.org/wiki/h-product

And also #relPayment: https://indieweb.org/payment

I’ve been building out a Calendar section for my #IndieWeb blog, listing out events I may be going to over the next year, so friends (old and new) can get in touch if they want to join me!
Being able to post even my potential physical location online is a privilege, but one I’ll happily invest to foster a more connected 2024 😊
Testing out the first few here: https://www.byjp.me/calendar/ (or /ipns/www.byjp.me/calendar/ on #ipfs)

2/2 On the other hand, my team and I've taken a new way for our platform and look to the future with new hope.
We've become a little closer to decentralization with #IndieWeb integration for #Elgg and we're preparing for a big breakthrough to release the ActivityPub plugin for Elgg too.

I''m writing this post from the hospital but tomorrow I'll be at home with my family.
And this also gives me hope.

I'm sure 2024 won't be the best year, but I'm hopeful.
I just hope.

I wish everyone hope!

IndieAuth for WordPress 4.4.1 Released - December 21, 2023

Indiewebifying a WordPress Site – 2023 Edition - December 19, 2023

Realizing the web is going full-circle (at least in my circles). Back to the days of web apps. Back to the days/vibes of the old internet (because of #mastodon and other #smalltech / #SmallWeb / #indieweb sites). It’s refreshing.

Following Bluesky users from Micro.blog

Genuine question, why do people have a blog **and** a newsletter? For my setup, I got it set up so that if I tag a blog post, mailing list, on my website, it goes to my mailing list, so that way, if my mailing list provider shuts down one day, everything is still on my website. I do this with IFTTT because I can output cleaner subject lines and body content with my tags RSS feed than what my mailing list provider outputs from my RSS feed. #IndieWeb #IFTTT #Newsletter

#smallweb #indieweb site of the day https://aywren.com/ Aywren's Nook

Getting some learning on and finally making time to master GitHub Actions. From what I have seen so far, I can use these to pursue my goal of having my website be a static site that is kept up-to-date via data pulls from APIs during compile time.

https://resources.github.com/learn/pathways/automation/essentials/application-testing-with-github-actions

#buildinpublic #github #indieweb