I watched a great video by Lauren Kim titled “I deleted all my social media and made a website” (runtime 26:55).

She broke it into a few chapters. In “Why a website,” I liked the focus on a website as a long-term project. She also emphasized creating things for ourselves/the sake of creativity, not so much for the social validation.

Then there was the website tour itself. It was great to see how excited she was and how much thought she’d put into the whole process. I’m glad to see younger generations making these connections and working on personal websites.

The indieweb kids are alright.

I watched a great video by Lauren Kim titled “I deleted all my social media and made a website” (runtime 26:55).

She broke it into a few chapters. In “Why a website,” I liked the focus on a website as a long-term project. She also emphasized creating things for ourselves/the sake of creativity, not so much for the social validation.

Then there was the website tour itself. It was great to see how excited she was and how much thought she’d put into the whole process. I’m glad to see younger generations making these connections and working on personal websites.

The indieweb kids are alright.

Setting up my goal for the week. Adding some “cornerstones" to the website (thanks, @glyn, for the suggestion!).

There's so much inspiration to draw from across the #indieweb community. Thank you all for your continued awesomeness!

https://microblog.rjomara.com/2024/03/04/new-week-new.html

#blog

I watched a great video by Lauren Kim titled “I deleted all my social media and made a website” (runtime 26:55).


She broke it into a few chapters. In “Why a website,” I liked the focus on a website as a long-term project. She also emphasized creating things for ourselves/the sake of creativity, not so much for the social validation.


Then there was the website tour itself. It was great to see how excited she was and how much thought she’d put into the whole process. I’m glad to see younger generations making these connections and working on personal websites.


The indieweb kids are alright.

I spent the last week scraping through a terabyte of GeoCities archives and collecting ALL THE #88x31 buttons! In the end, I gathered 29257 unique buttons (75k with duplicates). They are available at https://hellnet.work/8831/

Check them out!

I also have the dataset (~160MB), stats and a bit about the scraping process here: https://hellnet.work/8831/stats.html

#indieweb #smallweb #geocities #neocities

Minutes to Midnight - De-brand https://minutestomidnight.co.uk/blog/de-brand/

This is refreshing to read: an approach to remove notions of personal brand and fishing for user emails and making a sale from personal websites.

#indieweb #blogging

@kasparsd I would probably pick this back up if enough people were interested; the thing is, I don’t really use it myself, not anymore.

I’m rather happy with my current workflow, which is: Micropub app → WordPress → (optionally) crosspost to Mastodon.

Although I crosspost less and less, seeing as my site supports ActivityPub natively (which supports [some] HTML, something the Mastodon API does not).

#indieweb #wordpress

Our friends at @Iconfactory are less than $1,000 from reaching their first stretch goal in the final day of their #kickstarter! Boost and share and let’s push them over the line today to get the next great #indiedev app built!

#RSS #ActivityPub #IndieWeb #OpenWeb #ProjectTapestry #apple #mastodon

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/iconfactory/project-tapestry/posts/4038974

Some little gems to power your web by humans:

rss-is-dead.lol: A little app that scan your Mastodon following and show who have an RSS feed. Great to find other bloggers!

RSS Anything: Transform any old website with a list of links into an RSS Feed

StreetPass: This extension warns you when you browse a website and the people running it has a Mastodon profile.

#blog #rss #indieweb

Hey #WebDev could you let clients know that every time they force me to disable ad block I just don't read their website/content? Thank you! The same goes for #IndieWeb bloggers. Trust me, your content is not, nor will it ever be, good enough for me to get rid of my ad blocker thank you!

@emerson Perhaps friendi.ca can serve your purpose. It's like a micro-blogging platform with social media integration. You control who can view your content by creating groups (others need to also have an account to a friendi.ca instance, or some other fediverse platform).

#smallweb #blogging #indieweb #opensource

my big webdev finds page! layouts, snippets, tools, webhosting, all this stuff (ꈍᵕꈍ) (kaomoji proud face)
https://homewatcher.neocities.org/webdevfinds
tags: #Neocities #IndieWeb #IndieWebDev

Internationalizing the Fediverse

If you liked Finally, there’s a comic book store for the blind. my feed URL is https://robertkingett.com/feed/ #RSS #IndieWeb #SmallWeb

I finished a rebuild of my personal site using #eleventy !

If you'd like to read a long post on the process from start to finish, I wrote one! I covered everything from design to details like filters and collection organization!

https://wonderfulfrog.com/posts/version-3/

#11ty #webdev #indieweb

@matthiasott’s latest “Own Your Web” has me wondering about building a little app to simulate #SocialBookmarking based on feeding in #RSS feeds from #linklogs. Very #IndieWeb.

I'm using March 2024 to try and move more and more of my digital self to open source software.

#indieweb #Linux #opensourcegoals #movingtoopensource

https://llamasec.com/post/to-continuing-new-beginnings/

This is how I generate a social media preview thumbnail for my blog posts, by using just an HTML template!
#webdev #webdesign #indieweb #smallweb
https://distinctivequality.com/blog/social-preview-thumbnail/

Does anyone know a good simple blogging platform (NOT wordpress) that also has password protection? Like blogging but to a small group of known people #smallweb #blogging #indieweb #opensource #privacy