"I’d prefer to think of it as a manifesto for diversity of communications, the freedom to share your knowledge and lived experiences on your own terms, and maintaining the independence of freedom of expression from business interests."
Great blog from @ben on the how the #indieweb is for everyone: “it’s about building a social internet of people: a human network of gloriously diverse lived experiences, creative modes of expression, community affinities, and personalities.”
https://werd.io/2024/the-indieweb-is-for-everyone
#Development #Techniques
Make your feed easy to find, auto-discoverable even · How to help people find your RSS, Atom, or JSON feed https://ilo.im/15xspo
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#Business #NewsReader #RSS #Atom #JSON #OpenWeb #IndieWeb #WebDev #Frontend #HTML
In a world where publishers are finding that owning their own digital presences and relationships with their audiences is imperative, the #indieweb is more important than ever before. https://werd.io/2024/the-indieweb-is-for-everyone
Last year, I revived a site I had built back in the late 90s as a tribute to Dynamite Magazine. Part of that nostalgia was adding a guestbook, and I even included the comments I received way back then. Even some of the original staff signed it!
99% of the comments now are just bots. It's a struggle to bring back old school web like this without serious moderation safeguards. Using Netlify Forms works pretty well.
I have written too many words on another reason search engines have stopped working: what they are looking for no longer exists.
Bookmark Roundup – January
In which I dump a bunch of cool stuff I’ve found via my random browsing, the fediverse, or things people have sent to me.
Git stuff, Taxes, Radio Shows, Scrobbling, Cybersecurity Conferences, Books… and more
My /Now page now sports a “Supporting” section which simply lists the organizations, publications and people I am contributing to financially.
Recent thing on my website, We need less objective journalism https://robertkingett.com/posts/6437/ #IndieWeb #SmallWeb
More recently, I've implemented #lunrjs (https://lunrjs.com) which was pretty easy to get set up in my dev environment. It indexes pages by individual search terms so is not as strong at searching for phrases (multiple words) as super-search was, but for what I often need to search for, this is a compromise I’m willing to take in order to get full-text search of everything on the site.
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I've wanted to revamp my site’s Search capability for a while now. Up until recently, I've used super-search.js which came bundled with the #Jekyll theme I chose years ago. It’s fast but only seems to index a small portion of each page so if I want to search full-text in longer-bodied posts I was out of luck (I tried tweaking it but was unsuccessful, which isn't to say it can't be done by a more competent / patient tinkerer). #indieweb #webdev #IndieWebChat #ssg
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After many weeks of tinkering I'm finally launching my new (and very first) personal homepage + blog + future project showcase: https://tobiasm.dev
I used @eleventy to build it and had a fantastic time: intuitive to use, well documented and easily extended.
In case you're curious, I prepared a little write-up on the process: https://tobiasm.dev/projects/personal-website/
#webdev #Eleventy #BuiltWithEleventy #IndieWeb #Homepage