May 2024 Divestment

Freeing up space and tabs this month are a few themed stock image collections and an odd assortment of other stuff.

Fun fact: Did you know more than 30 people live in the UK?

Bridges and stairs

Most of these were sitting in my download folders for a project I like to call, “train your AI on this” which can be found on Matrix […]

#AI #divestment #IndieWeb #ProjectsAndIdeas

Linking Indirectly, No Content Shared (LINCS)

I think there may be a trend in some spaces on the web to make moral judgments about how the web is used. Or maybe not. Maybe I’m just reading into it. A recent blog entry by Manuel Moreale about how chooses to allow readers to interact with his "content"1 got me thinking about how I chose to engage via the OpenWeb.

My content lives here, on my site. Everything in here is under my control and it’s then distributed through three distribution channels.

The first—and most obvious—is [...]

https://islandinthenet.com/the-indieweb-is-whatever-you-want-it-to-be/

Still sitting with the awesomeness that was this past week and weekend’s 1-2 combination of:

#IndieWebCamp Düsseldorf — https://indieweb.org/2024/DUS
#btconf Düsseldorf — https://beyondtellerrand.com/events/dusseldorf-2024

Great seeing old friends and meeting new amazing people as well. So many thoughtful inspiring conversations germinating new ideas for creative projects.

Took lots of photos and notes.

We recorded all the IndieWebCamp day 1 #BarCamp style breakout sessions, and I believe all the Beyond Tellerand talks were recorded as well. I’m looking forward to rewatching the sessions and talks and reconnecting with all the ideas and open tabs in my browser.

Aside: this past Tuesday, the second day of the 2024 Beyond Tellerand talks, was also the five year anniversary of my closing talk at btconf DUS 2019: _Take Back Your Web_ (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBLob0ObHMw )
#IndieWebCamp #btconf #BarCamp

It’s 2024. Do you still expect sites to support dark and light mode?

#indieweb #SmallWeb

Yup
Nah

Are we turning #internet into waste dump? As much as I would like to answer no, it would be a naive answer. I love the idea of #indieweb, and try to publish relevant content myself. But there seems to be no stopping the ai-supported generation of low-quality content. I think legislation is likely the only tool that is powerful enough to work. Unfortunately, technology is moving so fast that we as a society are not capable of keeping up. But we must try.

https://www.theintrinsicperspective.com/p/here-lies-the-internet-murdered-by

#ai #technology

Good news: I got #webmentions working locally with @astro ! 🥳

Bad news: They're not showing in production, there's not even a request, nor is my try & catch throwing me an error 🤡

Why is it SO HARD to get them working with #astro?? Meanwhile the #11ty community has tons of resources on how to do it...

I assume that it's some client-side issue but I've had enough of this, time to start the weekend

#WebDev #Frontend #indieweb

Immediately took https://i.madethis.site for myself 😂

#indieweb

Woah, just now learning about Tusks from @bardi

I’ve been posting about wanting blogging to feel more like posting on here forever and…I think this gets me there. Why bother hosting a #blog and all of that hassle when your #Mastodon account could literally be a blog?

It’s amazing what a well-maintained API enables in for client apps like this. When the UI is in play, Mastodon effectively becomes infrastructure

🧐

#indieWeb

From: @jonathanreed
https://techhub.social/@jonathanreed/112462234679954283

If you like cool looking #indieweb sites then look no further than @johnnydecimal site https://johnnydecimal.com.

Finally, my website: https://www.schwitzd.me/ where I will talk about all my nerdy journey days.

#website #indieweb #cybersecurity #cloud #nerd

Gig publishing is clogging up the indie publishing space. https://robertkingett.com/posts/6564/ #IndieWeb #SmallWeb #NoPaywall

Can anyone recommend a Google Analytics alternative that isn’t a privacy nightmare for a personal website?

#indieweb

i am fascinated by this typeface history. as it turns out, Gerald Giampa was the owner of the LTC Spire typeface when it was licensed for use in the GeoWorks operating environment.

i had no idea that he was canadian, and moved his foundry to Prince Edward Island before it was destroyed in a tidal wave. P22 bought his font faces, and designed this absolutely gorgeous traditional web site called The Giampa Tour. it disappeared from the web over 10 years ago, and this is probably the first time it has been seen in a decade. it's full of incredibly nerdy typeface history, including some fantastic rants on how shitty Adobe was to deal with, even back in the late 1980s. 😆

*this* is what the world wide web was made for, and i'm so glad WBM managed to preserve a working copy, as P22 has been out of business for many years - and its website gone with it.

i've rebuilt the entire site using the WBM's snapshot for public viewing here, where it will remain as an online museum and tribute to Gerald Giampa's incredible work:

https://www.dialup.cafe/~giampa

#fonts #typefaces #history #canada #retroComputing #indieweb #smolweb

Do you have a personal website? Any website which is primarily about you, the human being? It can be tiny, or messy, or literally anything.

Let me bookmark it, please! 🙏

#web #IndieWeb #PersonalWebsite #humans

Well this is moving quickly! You can now spin up FedCM on your own website and log in to https://webmention.io thanks to this open source project from Sam Goto! This is so much better than having to type out your website or even email address when logging in! Full instructions here:

https://github.com/fedidcg/FedCM/issues/240#issuecomment-2118606184

New blog post AND OMAKE!

「 I am proudly introducing the first Omake on this site: User Friendly Archive. This adds over 5000 subpages, so I am now a webmaster of a significant website. 」

https://michal.sapka.me/blog/2024/omake-uf-archive/

#blog #indieweb #smallweb #100daystooffload #nerd #comic #userfriendly #userfriendlydotorg

New blog post! I talk about what I want from the social internet, the "carcinization" of social media, and positive interactions on the IndieWeb/Fediverse.

I recently implemented Webmentions, so you can interact with it that way if you want.

https://reillyspitzfaden.com/blog/05-17-2024

#Blog #Blogging #IndieWeb #SocialMedia #SocialWeb #Fediverse #Webmentions