Trunk Writings https://robertkingett.com/posts/6584/ #NoPayWall #IndieWeb
I put up a basic /Watching page that uses the Trakt.tv API to display what my wife and I are watching on Plex. All without paying for Trakt VIP.
Creating My Own Little Online Garden of Tranquility
https://kaigulliksen.com/creating-my-own-little-online-garden-of-tranquility/
Hosting IndieWebCamp Sacramento and Calls for Co-Hosts #IndieWeb #Sacramento https://lifeofpablo.com/blog/hosting-indiewebcamp-sacramento-and-calls-for-co-hosts via #IndieNews / @pablo
OK, how about a quick FOSS graphics tutorial? How to Draw Arrows in KolourPaint: https://www.friendlyskies.net/notebook/how-to-draw-arrows-in-kolourpaint
I hope this one is helpful to the screenshotters and diagrammers out there. Please boost to support the FOSS graphics community. Thanks!
#KolourPaint #FOSS #Linux #Graphics #Ubuntu #FOSSGraphics #Drawing #Tutorial #IndieWeb
Webnotes: a simple replacement for comments, pingbacks, and webmentions:
I’m removing comments, pingbacks, and webmentions from my website in favor of what I’m calling Webnotes.
Yesterday at the #IndieWeb Front End Study Hall event we talked about some older computer animation techniques which can inform how we do CSS. This #HTML and #CSS demonstrates basic “color cycling.” https://codepen.io/artlung/full/jOoZQRe
Finding the IndieWeb
Bookmarked https://disassociated.com/now-we-have-indieweb-how-to-find/.
Blogrolls/links-pages, web directories, and web rings, are among ways to promote the work of other IndieWeb adherents. But you need to be within the IndieWeb realm in the first place, to go on the journey these aggregators will take you. They’re great for their members, but, unfortunately, overwhelming for newcomers
Been thinking about this lately. I don’t know the solution, yet, but I think it starts with normalising a life outside big tech’s walled gardens. People have become accustomed to opening their browsers, typing a certain URL and then just working their way from that.
For the #indieweb to become more maintstream, we have to figure out how to offer up that kind of convenience for the average person who just wants a hit of information of whatever.
Also, topical aggregators that are manually curated and easy to “plug in” to will probably play a big role in this hypothetical future. It, of course, paves teh way for a whole host of different set of problems, but none that even registers on the scale of significance compared to relying on BigTech’s algorithms.
New #blog post about the blog in a new blog theme
“But to introduce more people, specifically audiences, to the joys of #IndieWeb, there needs to be an easy path for newcomers to trek.”
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.
⚠️ 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 」
Just added a Playlists page to my blog.
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!
#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
Announcing Aurora - James' Coffee Blog