Bookmarked: 100 things you can do on your personal website. Stumped for something to add to your website?  This may be the definitive list. #indieweb #doitwithhtml   Liked this post? Follow this blog to get more. 
Source https://indieseek.xyz/2024/02/27/1226/

Maggie Appleton’s site is a special place and the work that resonates most with me is the post on The Digital Garden. I chanced across Maggie’s site following Alex Komoroske’s Be a Gardener, not a Builder and a search on Google led me to Maggie’s site.

If you’ve not read it, I highly recommend it.

The Darth Mall‘s post questioning what we lose by living an RSS only life led me back to Maggie’s post on Digital Gardens.

And reading it in on the site was one of the most zen experiences I’ve had in a while.

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https://gurupanguji.com/2024/02/27/%f0%9f%94%97-a-brief-history-ethos-of-the-digital-garden-maggie/

#articles #indieWeb #openWeb #web #webDesign

Suite à l’épisode sur la séparation du web, Daoro et Mayeu présentent un petit florilège de liens et pratiques qui rappellent le Web 1.0

https://taches-de-the.fm/episode-43/fourretout-de-web/

#newsletters #blogs #openWeb #indieWeb #podcast #podcastfrancais

Now we know the answer to when people say "idk how but this site is hosted for FREE by Netlify" or some such.

RT @oldschooldev it has been always my philosophy that using the „free“ tier of services like netlify (or centralise the content after doing so with the code at github) isn’t really #indieweb. https://www.reddit.com/r/webdev/comments/1

it has been always my philosophy that using the „free“ tier of services like netlify (or centralise the content after doing so with the code at github) isn’t really #indieweb. https://www.reddit.com/r/webdev/comments/1b14bty/netlify_just_sent_me_a_104k_bill_for_a_simple/

I made a short list of music inspiration for busywork, thanks to some #IndieWeb buddies. I was doing dishes while listening to hard German techno (as you do) and pinged the Slack to see what others find motivating.

Give it a whirl!

https://alabut.com/writing/musicforchores/

#music

I updated my blog! It now has comments via Mastodon, fluid type and spacing, and uses two very nice variable typefaces. https://nathanupchurch.com/blog/up-to-my-eyeballs/ #eleventy #11ty #blog #personalblog #indieweb

Buffer's 2023 Annual Shareholder Letter

🗞 New episode of Changelog News!

🗣️ Natural Language Programming via GPTScript
🧐 @adamwiggins' Muse retro
🤢 @nikitonsky on JS bloat in 2024
🗒️ A no-hassle CMS for GitHub pages
🫥 @jimniels on the subversive hyperlink
🎙 hosted by @jerod

🎧 https://changelog.com/news/83

#software #news #github #llms #indieweb #podcast

I left it a bit late for this month's #IndieWeb #blog #carnival on #DigitalRelationships hosted by Manuel Moreale at <manuelmoreale.com/indieweb-car…>.

This one's called "Digital Relationships; or, How I Met My Wife and Why I Might Not Try That Again". It's a bit of a ramble.

I know better than to echo the received wisdom of my youth and insist that online acquaintances aren’t real. It’s not that digital relationships aren’t real. If anything, they can be hyperreal. The right words on a page or a screen can pierce your defenses and make you feel in a way you might not let let yourself if those words were spoken in person. The right words from the wrong person can shatter you, especially if they come at the wrong time.


starbreaker.org/blog/digital-r…

#amwriting #NonFiction #romance #OnlineDating

Anyone have thoughts on flickr/ @flickrfdn? I’m impressed with https://mstdn.party/@stewf/111990577659110657 but at the end of the day I kinda lean towards #indieweb photo hosting that isn’t encouraging of likes/comments/empty commodified hype. I don’t need to see “excellent capture!” from some rando on a contextless photo

19,831 and counting 🕵️‍♂️

#geocities #indieweb #88x31 #gif

I wrote a #Chrome extension in #svelte for sending a page (screenshot, selected text, meta tags, etc) to a #webhook. I'm using #n8n to handle the the request, processing it their, using #Gemini to generate additional tags and then posting to my #11ty blog via a #GitHub commit/pr.

https://parteux.com/

#automation #indieweb

@‌capjamesg@indieweb.social posted a good list of ideas for things people can do on their site. https://jamesg.blog/2024/02/19/personal-website-ideas/ #smallweb #indieweb

@‌facundoolano@hachyderm.io expanded on that to suggest adding EPUB downloads for your blog or subsets of it.
https://olano.dev/2024-02-22-a-few-more-things-you-can-do-on-your-website

These made me realize my hike journal might make an interesting sample book. It was easy to add a cover image, an introduction, and some metadata. Voilà: a book!

Just the quick post today. Not my best day, nor my best work.

But I will try again tomorrow. #writing #writers #indieweb #habits #consistency #etc etc etc

h-anniversary

In the world of information overload, RSS (Really Simple Syndication) feeds allow you to stay updated with your favorite websites and content creators without getting lost in the noise of social media. But what if you want to find the RSS feed for a particular site or profile that doesn’t have an obvious link? Here are some tricks to follow:

but if I come across a website that doesn’t explicitly advertise an RSS feed, I try appending /feed/ to the domain[1]. For example https://example.com/feed/. A lot of the time – possibly the majority in the last few years – this returns an RSS feed.

https://chrismcleod.dev/blog/its-probably-wordpress/

Why does this work? Because, for better or worse, it’s probably WordPress under the hood. WordPress is reckoned to power over 40% of all websites. WordPress exposes the default feed on the /feed/ path[2].

https://chrismcleod.dev/blog/its-probably-wordpress/

This also works on Substacks.

If you use an RSS reader like NetNewsWire, you can harness the power of its NetNewsWire extension in your browser. This extension has a feed-detecting superpower, sniffing out RSS feeds wherever they may hide. Just browse to the website or profile you’re interested in, and if there’s a feed lurking in the shadows, the extension will reveal it to you.

Mastodon users rejoice: add .rss to the public profile URL. For example https://mastodon.social/@gurupanguji.rss

YouTube, the land of cat videos and makeup tutorials, also offers RSS feeds, but they can be a bit trickier to track down. Why? Because you need to know the channel ID. But fear not, most RSS readers are clever enough to parse the source code of a YouTube page and uncover its hidden RSS feed.

Simply copy the channel’s YouTube URL, paste it into your RSS reader, and voilà! The feed will appear like magic. Here’s a fun example to try: https://www.youtube.com/@JustJoshTech. Paste this URL into your RSS reader, and you’ll be treated to a stream of Just Josh Tech’s latest videos, delivered straight to your feed reader. How cool is that?

The key to unlocking the Indie web is RSS feeds. Once you’re subscribed to a few RSS feeds, you’ll start to see a whole new side of the internet. You’ll discover independent writers, artists, and musicians who are creating amazing content that you might have missed relying on a feed.

While you’re at it, you can also subscribe to this site’s feed via https://gurupanguji.com/feed/. Enjoy! And thanks for subscribing.

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https://gurupanguji.com/2024/02/26/%f0%9f%94%97-its-probably-wordpress-chris-mcleods-blog/

#indieWeb #openWeb #rss #web

# h-anniversary

TL;DR

<time class="dt-duration" duration="P20Y">    20 Jahre Microformats 🎉</time>

Longread

Vor zwanzig Jahren haben @KevinMarks und @tantek.com Microformats in einer Konferenzpräsentation vorgestellt.

Happy Birthday 🎉

Ich bin ein bisschen spät dran, ich weiß, ich weiß, aber es gibt wenig, was mich schon so lange (online) begleitet wie das Format und die Community (abgesehen vielleicht von WordPress), dass ich das nicht unkommentiert lassen kann!!

Microformats is the glue that bridges web content with a richer online experience.
@chrismessina

Zu meiner Historie: Im Gegensatz zu vielen Anderen in der Branche, mache ich meinen Job nicht, weil ich Spaß am programmieren alleine habe. Ich hatte nie das Bedürfnis, als Kind oder Jugendlicher an einem Computer oder C64 herumzubasteln. Statt dessen bin ich Ende der 90er dem Internet/Web/Bloggen verfallen.

Das Web war:

But if you think of the years 1995-2005, you remember when the web was our social network: blogs, comments on blogs, feed readers, and services such as Flickr, Technorati, and BlogBridge to glue things together. Those were great years […]

Why Micro.blog is Not Another App.net

Eigentlich passt auch die Beschreibung des IndieWebs:

It is a community of independent and personal websites connected by open standards and based on the principles of: owning your domain and using it as your primary online identity, publishing on your own site first (optionally elsewhere), and owning your content.

indieweb.org

Ich habe damals angefangen Webseiten mit Frontpage zu bauen, hab den HTML Code verändert und geschaut wie sich das auf sie Seite auswirkt, hab CSS „drüber gelegt“, ein wenig Dynamik mit JavaScript dazu „gebastelt“… Es hat Spaß gemacht!

Ich bin also nicht durch die Freude am Programmieren im Web gelandet, sondern habe durch die Faszination am Web, programmieren gelernt 🙂

Wer sich damals, im deutschsprachigen Raum, mehr oder weniger seriös mit dem Thema HTML beschäftigt hat, ist früher oder später über die Webkrauts gestolpert und über diesen Dunstkreis, habe ich 2006 auch das erste Mal von Microformats gelesen.

Wenn man in letzter Zeit durchs Internet surft, stolpert man immer häufiger über den Begriff „Microformats“ oder sieht das grüne Symbol auf Kontaktseiten. Aber was genau sind Microformats und für was sind sie gut?

Microformats

Ich glaub es war das Blog von @pixelgraphix auf dem ich dieses „grüne Symbol“ zum ersten Mal entdeckt habe.

Die Idee hat mich tief beeindruckt! Ein Format, „designed for humans first and machines second„! HTML als API „nur“ unter Verwendung von class und rel Attributen, also klassisches Plain Old Semantic HTML (PoSH)!

Und irgendwie beschäftigen mich Microformats bis jetzt:

Durch die Erfahrung der letzten Jahre habe ich mittlerweile eine etwas differenziertere Meinung zu „HTML als API“, das Ändert aber nichts an meiner generellen Faszination für Websemantiken.

Die Microformats Community hat mir außerdem die Welt des Open Webs und der Open Standards offenbart, immerhin haben Microformats direkt oder indirekt auch Initiativen wie DataPortability.org, DiSo und das IndieWeb beeinflusst.

Danke Microformats und noch einmal Happy Birthday 🥳!

https://notiz.blog/b/6vA

#IndieWeb #Jubiläum #Microformats #OpenWeb