Expanding on some recent posts on Mastodon, I wrote my entry for this month's IndieWeb Carnival (topic: Digital Relationships).

TL;DR — Words are crucial to build a sense of online community, however many of us have been using them straight out of a soulless corporate lingo in order to sell ourselves as a product.

https://minutestomidnight.co.uk/blog/kafkaesque-digital-relationship-with-ourselves/

#IndieWeb #debrand #PersonalWebsite #blog

I've spent the last couple of days working on this, and I’ve rejigged it to the best of my liking. For the first time since I re-opened my blog, I’m quite happy with how everything is set up.

Next undertaking is to nail down categorisation (tags included) and properly document it for future reference..! #indieweb #SmallWeb #blogging #blogs

Notes: Meet Feedle a New RSS Feed Search Engine

My new blogroll is live! https://shellsharks.com/blogroll

These are a list of blogs/sites I read and recommend. They are great!

Featuring @adeptsof0xcc @ApisNecros @flamed @jcrabapple @sophie @macstories @theverge

This is something I will continue to maintain and add to as I discover new cool blogs and re-discover those I've been subbed to via RSS.

#blogroll #indieweb #smallweb #blogging

We've got an exciting #QueerTech #Bristol meetup coming up on 20th Feb - let's talk about feminist/queer #DevOps :mycomputer:

not sure what that means? come and find out!

https://hdfst.uk/e102998

#feministinternet #servermanifesto #devops #computing #indieweb #idonotunderstandhashtagsyet

Bluesky has added another million users this week, bringing the total to over 4 million. By comparison, the ActivityPub-based fediverse has about 10 million users according to FediDB. The situation will change when Threads is added, but if Bluesky keeps growing it’s worth asking how they’ve done it.

#privacy #SmallWeb #indieweb #tinfoilhatcommittee they tried to warn us in the 90's. Education failed and we gave up everything for convenience. I'm glad this piece of history was archived to look back and wonder what the hell happened. The writing was on the wall. https://youtu.be/FeeCKGYAenA?si=kIUJ2jVCGDfKM5J3

Another article on the modern era of blogging surfaced on my RSS feed today.

Jim Nielsen boldly proposes that we live a new golden era of blogging.

I don't know. We modern bloggers inhabit a tiny self-indulging bubble that is not comparable with the original scene, but you know what, I feel comfortable in it.

https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2024/golden-era-blogging/

#blogging #indieweb

New short blog post in my People series about the time I didn't process what a coworker said to me until much later

#IndieWeb #SmallWeb #PersonalSites
https://www.vzqk50.com/blog/people/lonely-lunch-break/

Musing about #WebComponents and #ColdFusion during the #IndieWeb Homebrew Website Club Europe/London meeting... has anyone used Web Component technology to make a .CFM page work client side?

New blog post!

Best Fedi Posts of the Past Week IMO - Cool As Heck

https://cool-as-heck.blog/posts/best-fedi-posts-of-the-past-week-imo

#indieweb

New blog post!

Link Drop - Feb 7, 2024 - Cool As Heck

https://cool-as-heck.blog/posts/link-drop-feb-7-2024

#indieweb

ok I'm pretty sure my website should be able to receive webmentions now.

https://a-blog-with.relevant-information.com/

#SmallWeb #IndieWeb