One of my goals this years is to blog more, which has made me think about the process of choosing what to write about.

I'm trying to keep it simple, so this framework of writing about Technology, Stories and Thoughts should be able to capture everything.

https://bryanmanio.com/blog/what-im-choosing-to-write-about/

#indieweb #blog

Today was a good day. I wrote two blog posts (one for #IndieWeb carnival and one as an invited guest writer) and rewrote two messy scripts to be more like CLI tools with proper interface and better documentation.

When considering modern web development, I keep these two images in mind.

The factory image captures how many devs approach creating websites: constructing an enormous, gleaming, automated system that can produce complex artifacts on a massive scale.

In contrast, an individual artisan working in a studio directly creates something simple but useful using their own hands and understandable tools. To me this second image captures the #smallweb / #indieweb spirit.

@zef Perplexity is good and getting better fast. I'm still preferring Kagi though, for more and slightly more relevant results; and for their focus on prioritizing #smallweb and #indieweb sites.

Didn’t realize until reading this blog post from the Fediverse Report that much of the new migration to Bluesky is from Japan. Seems significant as Twitter X was always popular in Japan.

I should update my post on #indieweb and using Cloudron for my VPS. I’m getting closer to a situa memo.axbom.com
I should update my post on #indieweb and using Cloudron for my VPS. I’m getting closer to a situation where all the cloud software I need is on my own server.

Really enjoying the new app Outline for drafting documents, collaborating on documents and making them available for external review. It has replaced my bit.ai subscription. Will be used a lot for allowing clients to review and give feedback on reports.

cal.com has replaced my Calendly subscription.

I’m using Baserow instead of Airtable.

And of course, I’m running about six Ghost installations for different projects.

If all fares well with MiroTalk, that will replace any online meeting platforms I’m paying for (Whereby at the moment).

Nextcloud is in line to replace Dropbox.

If I need to sketch interfaces I’ve got Penpot.

I’m using Umami for web stats but that’s been going on for a long time now.

Not sure I’ll want to replace Harvest, but there is the possibility of Invoice Ninja.

Anyway, there is so much satisfaction in hosting my own services rather than relying on corporate big tech versions of the similar software.

Decided to join this month's Indieweb Carnival and post about Digital Relationships. Thanks to Manu for hosting this month's theme!

the evolution of online BFFs - https://chronosaur.us/2024/02/09/the-evolution-of-online-bffs/

#indieweb #indiewebcarnival #personalwebsite #onlinejournal #blog

Quick Q about Bridgy for the #indieweb community: Can I use Bridgy to monitor “the fediverse” (or just a single Mastodon instance?) for mentions/interactions of my blog posts, and feed it as webmentions to my WP blog?

I’m a little confused about the functionality and options, given I’m already using the ActivityPub plugin to federate my content.

Thanks to @adele ¹, I finally found the perfect minamilist #hugo theme ² to use as a base for a new custom theme!

Too bad I found it right after I edited my all theme for the #indieweb microformat 2 weeks ago…
Guess, I'm making a minimal #indieweb ready version of the smol hugo theme now :]

¹: https://phpc.social/@adele/111885705290506481
²: https://themes.gohugo.io/themes/smol/

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