An online home

The other day I decided I wanted a cloud-based feed reader. Reader is excellent, but sometimes I just want access from another computer than my private Macbook. (I know, entirely contradictive to what I mentioned the other day about local-first sofware.)

A while later I was logging in to the admin section of this website to post a note. I then realised how nice it would be to integrate my reading experience into this website. To make it the hub of both my content creation and consumption.

I searched around for some suitable existing options. All of them seemed like complete overkills. Inspired, I decided to have a go at making my own. After a few hours I had the basic functionality down. Happy, I shared what I was doing in the #indieweb chat. To nobody’s surprise, the always excellent Jan Boddez nudged me in the direction of one of his plugins that does… exactly what I wanted to do with this!

Safe to say, I will be using his solution. It is already more polished and user-friendly than I had ambitions for with my own solution. Still, there is a feature or two that I was thinking about adding that Jan hasn’t implemented yet. Perhaps I’ll see if I can do something about that and contribute to Jan’s great work.

That, or I can get back to adding the functionality required to have this website replace Goodreads as my book reading tracker. It’d be nice to get that one sorted, too, and take yet another step towards making this website the hub of all my online activity.

My online home.

#Feedreader #Indieweb #Smallweb #Wordpress

https://lars-christian.com/an-online-home/

⚠️ DDoS attacks can threaten the independent Internet

「 The heads of big cloud providers are not democratically elected. Their terms of service aren't written by the people, for the people. There are no checks and balances for their actions. But the fact remains that the only real mitigation against a DDoS attack is to hide behind a big expensive server run by one of these providers 」

https://www.macchaffee.com/blog/2024/ddos-attacks/

#DDoS #Indieweb #Censorship #Infosec #Privacy

Just added a Playlists page to my blog.

https://cool-as-heck.blog/playlists/

#indieweb #blogging

🔗: Now that we have IndieWeb how are others to find it? via disassociated #Blogging #Tech #IndieWeb

How do people who don’t know about IndieWeb, but would like to escape the web-scape funk they’re beholden to, find out about IndieWeb, asks Delyo Dobrev. This is the million dollar question....

https://disassociated.com/now-we-have-indieweb-how-to-find/

Front End Study Hall #006 will be on July 2, 2024. With an earlier time to accommodate folks closer to the Greenwich prime meridian. Spread the word. #CSS #HTML #IndieWeb https://events.indieweb.org/2024/07/front-end-study-hall-006-SSFMWaLFzMng

Want to block Big Tech AI scrapers from accessing your site for content farming purposes?

Say goodbye to your search engine visibility as well!

https://www.lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/artists-notebook/posts/overlap-between-search-bots-and-ai-scrapers

#Google #Microsoft #OpenAI #LLM #SEO #DarkVisitors #RobotsTxt #AI #WebDevelopment #Blogging #IndieWeb

I've been trying to avoid using social media for entertainment, and to only use it to interact with people. This has left some gaps in my day, and I've been rediscovering reading fiction in my search for more hobbies.

https://reillyspitzfaden.com/blog/06-18-2024

#Blog #Fiction #Books #Bookstodon #SciFi #Fantasy #Hobby #IndieWeb #SocialMedia

I was reminded by the OnThisDay feature that I used many X4 screenshots and recordings as background for presentations and video conferences during the self isolation times of the first Covid waves. The media was recorded in-game before, of course.

I also wish I’d had recorded that IndieWeb presentation alas I did not ☹

https://beko.famkos.net/2024/06/18/x4-as-screenshot-generator/

#IndieWeb #x4foundations

@ambrwlsn thank you for checking it out! I'll keep this one in mind if I decide to go the #webmentions route.

During a dust-up between and among a few different #IndieWeb services recently, someone who quit one of them wrote a blog post where they tell on themselves:

> I’m not interested in social media as a social justice vehicle.

My man, *everything should be a social justice vehicle*.

Good riddance.

I'm not sure Google's AI is that into the #indieweb.

Front End Study Hall is Tuesday at noon California time tomorrow. All are welcome from around the world. 90 minutes dense with ideas and learning #HTML and #CSS - an #IndieWeb event.

Curious? @ me.

https://events.indieweb.org/2024/06/front-end-study-hall-005-WD3wbGiCIija

Reminder that I write about a lot of stuff, blindness, life stuff, my author news. I never stick to 1 topic so if you wanna follow, my RSS feed is https://robertkingett.com/feed/ #RSS #Blog #IndieWeb

New blog-post up where I break down the algorithm that you may have seen me using recently for generating watercolor-like effects. If you are interested in how its done and some of the maths behind it, then I do my best to break it all down with interactive examples.

https://j.holmes.codes/20230612-watercolorizer-js/

#TypeScript #AlgorithmicArt #Programming #Blog #indieweb

I added a #links section to my website with links to interesting things I read or watched recently https://www.mariosangiorgio.com/links/2024-06-16/
#indieweb

Looking for feedback on the current state of the OWTS-01 #specification (Guidelines for Open Web Technologies) as well as the certification process and tiers.

🔗 Specification: https://github.com/open-webtech/owta-publications/blob/main/specs/drafts/owts-01.md

🔗 Certification Process and Tiers: https://github.com/open-webtech/owta-publications/blob/meta/owta-certification/meta/certification.md

#OpenWebTech #IndieWeb #Web #Technology #OpenSource #FOSS #Openness #Freedom