after watching doug block's Home Page (1999) documentary a half-dozen times over the past year, i realized how much i missed having a personal home page.

not an itch.io page. not a github repo. not an imgur album.

an actual personal home page full of links to interesting places and people, and a little blog area to write personal stuff in. i haven't had a personal blog since the early 2000s.

i wanted to have some fun, so I hauled my dusty ol' iMac G5 out of storage and installed Macromedia Dreamweaver and Fireworks. i hadn't used any of them in almost 20 years.

i thought it might take me a week to build a home page...

... it took me a year 😅

so this is my little attempt at rebuilding what we lost in the 90s. let me know if you've got a little homepage i can link back to in my hyperlinks area.

http://www.dialup.cafe/~vga256

#smallWeb #worldWideWeb #homePage #indieWeb

I posted a while back about the need for a Google-like search engine for the #IndieWeb. Something simple, clean, and privacy-focused. I think this is it.
https://stract.com

I haven't been on mastodon lately but I see people talking about bridgy and consent issues, and I'm not sure the context.

Some folks (like me) copy the replies made on their own blog posts posted to mastodon to their own blogs as webmentions. Is that bad, should I not be doing that?
#IndieWeb

What domain registrar should I move my domain to when I shutdown my Squarespace site? Hover.com?

And for hosting my new #11ty site I’m thinking about Netlify.com (free) or Neocities.org but still open to suggestions.

#eleventy #domainname #webhost #SmallWeb #IndieWeb
(Edited for clarification)

I hate that I can't follow #Gemini for the application-layer protocol because Google took over the name for its LLM so fast. I mean.. the zodiac sign, the constellation and the NASA project all had their fair share, didn't they? 😉

Dear SmallWeb fellows - we have to use #GeminiProtocol to keep it visible! 💙

https://geminiprotocol.net/

#SmallWeb #indieweb #lowtech #gopher #smolweb

Twenty years and two days ago, @KevinMarks.com (@KevinMarks@xoxo.zone @KevinMarks) and I introduced #microformats in a conference presentation.

I wrote a long retrospective last year: https://tantek.com/2023/047/t1/nineteen-years-microformats

Since that update nearly a year ago, here are the top three interesting developments in microformats:

1. Growing rel=me adoption for distributed verification:
 * Wikipedia: https://tantek.com/2023/139/t1/wikipedia-supports-indieweb-rel-me
 * Threads: https://tantek.com/2023/234/t1/threads-supports-indieweb-rel-me
 * omg.lol profile links by default: https://home.omg.lol/info/profile-items

2. A proposal to merge h-review into h-entry, since reviews are in practice always entries with a bit more information:
 * https://github.com/microformats/h-entry/issues/32
 
3. #metaformats adoptions, implementations, and iteration
 * There was growing practical interest in metaformats, so I updated the spec accordingly
 * A half dozen implementations shipped: https://indieweb.org/metaformats#IndieWeb_Examples
 * Active discussion for evolving metaformats to support more real world use-cases: https://github.com/microformats/metaformats/issues

Hard to believe it’s been 20 years of iterating and evolving microformats, to #microformats2, growing adoption as #IndieWeb building blocks, distributed verification (those green checkmarks) in #Mastodon and across the #fediverse, and implementing metaformats parsing to standardize parsing various meta tags for link previews into equivalent microformats2.

From last year’s activity, it’s clear there’s more use-cases, implementer interest, and community activity than ever.  Looking forward to seeing what we can build in 2024.


Post Glossary

h-entry
  https://microformats.org/wiki/h-entry
h-review
  https://microformats.org/wiki/h-review
link-preview
  https://indieweb.org/link-preview
metaformats
  https://microformats.org/wiki/metaformats
microformats
  https://microformats.org/wiki/
microformats2
  https://microformats.org/wiki/microformats2
rel-me
  https://microformats.org/wiki/rel-me
#microformats #metaformats #microformats2 #IndieWeb #Mastodon #fediverse

Anyway if your #fediverse instance has already blocked the brid.gy root domain I suggest bugging your #MastoAdmin / #FediAdmin to change that to only block atproto.brid.gy (and maybe bsky.brid.gy as well, though I'm getting conflicting info on which subdomain is going to be used) and nostr.brid.gy.

web.brid.gy which actually works right now is perfectly fine, and you're just doing a disservice to your users who would want to interact with the #indieweb. ​:seija_coffee:​

#fediblock #fediblockmeta #fediversemeta #bridgy #bridgyfed #bluesky #blueskybridge #nostr

RE:
https://makai.chaotic.ninja/notes/9pp4ngznnl

Manuel Moreale is the host of this month's #IndieWeb carnival. The theme is Digital Relationships. I'm still working on my piece, but here are the submissions so far. Check them out--and submit your own!

https://manuelmoreale.com/indieweb-carnival-digital-relationships

#blog #blogging

For the past month, I've been tinkering with my blog like it is 2005 again… And I love it!

#indieweb #blog #openweb

the 32-bit cafe's valentine's day event has concluded, and i'm so stoked about the entries! check out the valentines from all over the #web: https://tilde.32bit.cafe/~ribose/events/valentines2024/

#smallweb #indieweb #webdev #valentinesday #codejam #personalweb #cozyweb

If you are replying to a remote post and that instance supports BOTH ActivityPub AND Webmention…

Which protocol should be used/prioritized?

#activitypub #indieweb

ActivityPub
Webmention

Almost there

OK I’m 90% satisfied with the look and feel of the site now. Archives and single notes and links are exactly what I want. Posts archive and single posts don’t feel quuuite right yet… It’s enough that I can stop spending all my free time messing around with it, thought. Right? Right?! …

https://lars-christian.com/notes/31eb15af3c/
#indieweb #WebDesign #wordpress

Extending our Mastodon social media trial

Moving all my newsletters to #rss has been great so far, minus a few drawbacks here and there. Has anyone else run into any issues not outlined here?

https://bryanmanio.com/blog/email-newsletters-to-rss/

#indieweb #blog #newsletter

Issue 31 of the 11ty Bundle Blog is out: v3.0.0-alpha.5 arrives...Release of v4.0 of the eleventy-img plugin...Don't miss next week's meetup...And 9 posts, and 4 sites to see.

#11ty #eleventy @eleventy #webdevelopment
#indieweb

https://11tybundle.dev/blog/11ty-bundle-31/

New blog post on The Shrediverse blog!

The Rise of Sleep Token (Part 1)

https://blog.shrediverse.net/posts/the-rise-of-sleep-token-part-1

#SleepToken #metal #music #indieweb

Obviously, I'm approaching bridging from an #IndieWeb angle, and a belief that people should have the ability to move their data around the web without losing their networks in the process. I **like** the idea of interoperability, and that's one of the key benefits of the Fediverse in my mind. In the same way that #RSS enables people to access posts on these services, I'd like that to apply to the social interactions as well.

Perhaps there is a way to make that opt-in versus opt-out...

How Machines Took Over the Internet, and Why We Need to Take It Back!: AI makes things worse because now we have machines generating SEO-friendly articles to talk to machines. The cycle is complete—machines talking to machines. What we need is people talking to people, discussions, the web as the big enabler. We need more human curators instead of automated curators. Astute observation from Maho. Machines…
https://lars-christian.com/notes/cfd53146f6/
#ai #curation #indieweb #smallweb