{
    "type": "entry",
    "author": {
        "name": "#indieweb",
        "url": "https://mastodon.social/tags/indieweb",
        "photo": null
    },
    "url": "https://tilde.zone/@xandra/112917435269217006",
    "content": {
        "html": "<p>the <a href=\"https://tilde.zone/tags/32bitcafe\">#<span>32bitcafe</span></a> is joining the <a href=\"https://tilde.zone/tags/fediverse\">#<span>fediverse</span></a>! we have launched a pixelfed instance at <a href=\"https://pixel.32bit.cafe\"><span>https://</span><span>pixel.32bit.cafe</span><span></span></a> \ud83e\udd42 \ud83d\udcf8 </p><p>right now, the feeds are alive with cats and dogs! <img alt=\":neofox_boop_cute:\" height=\"16\" src=\"https://files.mastodon.social/cache/custom_emojis/images/000/756/664/original/648a4a75ea27a295.png\" title=\":neofox_boop_cute:\" width=\"16\" /></p><p>for more information about why we did this, head over to our discourse announcement: <a href=\"https://discourse.32bit.cafe/t/32-bit-cafe-joins-the-fediverse/1173\"><span>https://</span><span>discourse.32bit.cafe/t/32-bit-</span><span>cafe-joins-the-fediverse/1173</span></a></p><p><a href=\"https://tilde.zone/tags/fedi\">#<span>fedi</span></a> <a href=\"https://tilde.zone/tags/smallweb\">#<span>smallweb</span></a> <a href=\"https://tilde.zone/tags/indieweb\">#<span>indieweb</span></a> <a href=\"https://tilde.zone/tags/decentralized\">#<span>decentralized</span></a> <a href=\"https://tilde.zone/tags/community\">#<span>community</span></a> <a href=\"https://tilde.zone/tags/internet\">#<span>internet</span></a></p>",
        "text": "the #32bitcafe is joining the #fediverse! we have launched a pixelfed instance at https://pixel.32bit.cafe \ud83e\udd42 \ud83d\udcf8 \n\nright now, the feeds are alive with cats and dogs! \n\nfor more information about why we did this, head over to our discourse announcement: https://discourse.32bit.cafe/t/32-bit-cafe-joins-the-fediverse/1173\n\n#fedi #smallweb #indieweb #decentralized #community #internet"
    },
    "published": "2024-08-06T22:28:46+00:00",
    "post-type": "note",
    "_id": "41855712",
    "_source": "8007",
    "_is_read": false
}

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    "type": "entry",
    "author": {
        "name": "#indieweb",
        "url": "https://mastodon.social/tags/indieweb",
        "photo": null
    },
    "url": "https://writing.exchange/@ernie/112917065915321760",
    "content": {
        "html": "<p>They\u2019re trying to get some attention on this to support <a href=\"https://writing.exchange/tags/indieweb\">#<span>indieweb</span></a> ideals so if you care about that, please share and tell a friend! </p><p><a href=\"https://writing.exchange/@ernie/112916962621825311\"><span>https://</span><span>writing.exchange/@ernie/112916</span><span>962621825311</span></a></p>",
        "text": "They\u2019re trying to get some attention on this to support #indieweb ideals so if you care about that, please share and tell a friend! \n\nhttps://writing.exchange/@ernie/112916962621825311"
    },
    "published": "2024-08-06T20:54:50+00:00",
    "post-type": "note",
    "_id": "41854966",
    "_source": "8007",
    "_is_read": false
}

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    "type": "entry",
    "author": {
        "name": "#indieweb",
        "url": "https://mastodon.social/tags/indieweb",
        "photo": null
    },
    "url": "https://indieweb.social/@barrd/112914987171326737",
    "content": {
        "html": "<p>New instance <a href=\"https://indieweb.social/tags/introduction\">#<span>introduction</span></a><br />Hi \ud83d\udc4b I'm Dave AKA 'barrd' \u2014 very interested in learning all I can about the <a href=\"https://indieweb.social/tags/IndieWeb\">#<span>IndieWeb</span></a>. Open to hearing from anyone on that topic with a special interest in establishing the best means of implementing via the <a href=\"https://indieweb.social/tags/WordPress\">#<span>WordPress</span></a> CMS. I've been a WebDev for over 20 years, now taking a bit of a backseat career wise in that direction and looking at the advantages/power of IndieWeb for personal ventures.</p>",
        "text": "New instance #introduction\nHi \ud83d\udc4b I'm Dave AKA 'barrd' \u2014 very interested in learning all I can about the #IndieWeb. Open to hearing from anyone on that topic with a special interest in establishing the best means of implementing via the #WordPress CMS. I've been a WebDev for over 20 years, now taking a bit of a backseat career wise in that direction and looking at the advantages/power of IndieWeb for personal ventures."
    },
    "published": "2024-08-06T12:06:11+00:00",
    "post-type": "note",
    "_id": "41853948",
    "_source": "8007",
    "_is_read": false
}

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    "type": "entry",
    "author": {
        "name": "#indieweb",
        "url": "https://mastodon.social/tags/indieweb",
        "photo": null
    },
    "url": "https://mas.to/@noc/112916440101235532",
    "content": {
        "html": "<p>i caved and went back to <a href=\"https://mas.to/tags/WordPress\">#<span>WordPress</span></a>. </p><p>as fun as it was learning how <a href=\"https://mas.to/tags/eleventy\">#<span>eleventy</span></a> works (as little as i did), i\u2019m simply not far enough in my self-taught <a href=\"https://mas.to/tags/webdev\">#<span>webdev</span></a> journey to make proper use of it yet. </p><p>feels a bit like giving up but i\u2019m just gonna put it on pause while i learn more basics, and i\u2019ll try again another time. in the meantime i\u2019ll have more <a href=\"https://mas.to/tags/indieweb\">#<span>indieweb</span></a> functions thanks to wp plugins</p><p>gonna rebuild what i had up yesterday on the <a href=\"https://mas.to/tags/blog\">#<span>blog</span></a> and go from there. happy <a href=\"https://mas.to/tags/blaugust2024\">#<span>blaugust2024</span></a> everyone!</p>",
        "text": "i caved and went back to #WordPress. \n\nas fun as it was learning how #eleventy works (as little as i did), i\u2019m simply not far enough in my self-taught #webdev journey to make proper use of it yet. \n\nfeels a bit like giving up but i\u2019m just gonna put it on pause while i learn more basics, and i\u2019ll try again another time. in the meantime i\u2019ll have more #indieweb functions thanks to wp plugins\n\ngonna rebuild what i had up yesterday on the #blog and go from there. happy #blaugust2024 everyone!"
    },
    "published": "2024-08-06T18:15:41+00:00",
    "post-type": "note",
    "_id": "41853690",
    "_source": "8007",
    "_is_read": false
}

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    "type": "entry",
    "author": {
        "name": "#indieweb",
        "url": "https://mastodon.social/tags/indieweb",
        "photo": null
    },
    "url": "https://mastodon.design/@dominik/112916163568715270",
    "content": {
        "html": "<p>Another chapter of \u201cDominik learns all the countries in the world so he can compete in a silly online-quiz\u201c has come to an end. I can now name all Asian countries and locate them on a map \u2013 yesss!</p><p>Here are some interesting facts of the countries I got to know better:<br /><a href=\"https://dominikhofer.me/learning-all-the-countries-asia\"><span>https://</span><span>dominikhofer.me/learning-all-t</span><span>he-countries-asia</span></a></p><p>(Be careful, you might actually learn something new \ud83d\ude09)</p><p>As always, if you have more trivia about these states (or spot an error), send them my way :)</p><p><a href=\"https://mastodon.design/tags/geography\">#<span>geography</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.design/tags/asia\">#<span>asia</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.design/tags/trivia\">#<span>trivia</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.design/tags/indieweb\">#<span>indieweb</span></a></p>",
        "text": "Another chapter of \u201cDominik learns all the countries in the world so he can compete in a silly online-quiz\u201c has come to an end. I can now name all Asian countries and locate them on a map \u2013 yesss!\n\nHere are some interesting facts of the countries I got to know better:\nhttps://dominikhofer.me/learning-all-the-countries-asia\n\n(Be careful, you might actually learn something new \ud83d\ude09)\n\nAs always, if you have more trivia about these states (or spot an error), send them my way :)\n\n#geography #asia #trivia #indieweb"
    },
    "published": "2024-08-06T17:05:21+00:00",
    "post-type": "note",
    "_id": "41853171",
    "_source": "8007",
    "_is_read": false
}

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    "type": "entry",
    "author": {
        "name": "#indieweb",
        "url": "https://mastodon.social/tags/indieweb",
        "photo": null
    },
    "url": "https://front-end.social/@sia/112915944351052993",
    "content": {
        "html": "<p>I just published my first blog post since becoming a freelancer again!</p><p>**Migrating from Netlify to Cloudflare for AI bot protection**</p><p>My step-by-step guide for how I moved my <a href=\"https://front-end.social/tags/11ty\">#<span>11ty</span></a> blog site over to Cloudflare so I could block AI bots, scrapers, and crawlers.</p><p>Includes how I manage the contact form. Should be useful for any static site as none of this is 11ty-specific except for the build commands.</p><p><a href=\"https://front-end.social/tags/IndieWeb\">#<span>IndieWeb</span></a> <a href=\"https://front-end.social/tags/webdev\">#<span>webdev</span></a> <a href=\"https://front-end.social/tags/staticsite\">#<span>staticsite</span></a> <a href=\"https://front-end.social/tags/cloudflare\">#<span>cloudflare</span></a> cc <span class=\"h-card\"><a class=\"u-url\" href=\"https://noc.social/@cloudflare\">@<span>cloudflare</span></a></span> <br /><a href=\"https://sia.codes/posts/migrating-netlify-to-cloudflare/\"><span>https://</span><span>sia.codes/posts/migrating-netl</span><span>ify-to-cloudflare/</span></a></p>\n<a class=\"u-mention\" href=\"https://noc.social/@cloudflare\"></a>",
        "text": "I just published my first blog post since becoming a freelancer again!\n\n**Migrating from Netlify to Cloudflare for AI bot protection**\n\nMy step-by-step guide for how I moved my #11ty blog site over to Cloudflare so I could block AI bots, scrapers, and crawlers.\n\nIncludes how I manage the contact form. Should be useful for any static site as none of this is 11ty-specific except for the build commands.\n\n#IndieWeb #webdev #staticsite #cloudflare cc @cloudflare \nhttps://sia.codes/posts/migrating-netlify-to-cloudflare/"
    },
    "published": "2024-08-06T16:09:36+00:00",
    "post-type": "note",
    "_id": "41852511",
    "_source": "8007",
    "_is_read": false
}

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    "type": "entry",
    "author": {
        "name": "#indieweb",
        "url": "https://mastodon.social/tags/indieweb",
        "photo": null
    },
    "url": "https://mastodon.social/@diegologs/112915235711665071",
    "content": {
        "html": "<p>Chavales recomendadme gente a la que seguir en Mastodon, cuentas que os molen mucho, ya sean en espa\u00f1ol o ingl\u00e9s.</p><p>Me interesa cuentas <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/indieweb\">#<span>indieweb</span></a>, <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/videojuegos\">#<span>videojuegos</span></a>, la <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/musica\">#<span>musica</span></a> electr\u00f3nica, <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/internet\">#<span>internet</span></a> en general y cualquier cosa que sea interesante.</p>",
        "text": "Chavales recomendadme gente a la que seguir en Mastodon, cuentas que os molen mucho, ya sean en espa\u00f1ol o ingl\u00e9s.\n\nMe interesa cuentas #indieweb, #videojuegos, la #musica electr\u00f3nica, #internet en general y cualquier cosa que sea interesante."
    },
    "published": "2024-08-06T13:09:23+00:00",
    "post-type": "note",
    "_id": "41850826",
    "_source": "8007",
    "_is_read": false
}

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    "type": "entry",
    "author": {
        "name": "#indieweb",
        "url": "https://mastodon.social/tags/indieweb",
        "photo": null
    },
    "url": "https://social.lol/@mihobu/112914967636720546",
    "content": {
        "html": "<p>I posted to my blog!</p><p>On the Road, On the Trail<br /><a href=\"https://social.lol/tags/Weeknotes\">#<span>Weeknotes</span></a> <a href=\"https://social.lol/tags/IndieWeb\">#<span>IndieWeb</span></a><br /><a href=\"https://mihobu.lol/2024/08/weeknotes-week-31-2024\"><span>https://</span><span>mihobu.lol/2024/08/weeknotes-w</span><span>eek-31-2024</span></a></p>",
        "text": "I posted to my blog!\n\nOn the Road, On the Trail\n#Weeknotes #IndieWeb\nhttps://mihobu.lol/2024/08/weeknotes-week-31-2024"
    },
    "published": "2024-08-06T12:01:13+00:00",
    "post-type": "note",
    "_id": "41850001",
    "_source": "8007",
    "_is_read": false
}

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    "type": "entry",
    "author": {
        "name": "#indieweb",
        "url": "https://mastodon.social/tags/indieweb",
        "photo": null
    },
    "url": "https://stefanbohacek.online/@stefan/112914897356860359",
    "content": {
        "html": "<p>Is your first website still online? Or maybe your oldest website? I'd love to see it!</p><p><a href=\"https://stefanbohacek.online/tags/indieweb\">#<span>indieweb</span></a> <a href=\"https://stefanbohacek.online/tags/PersonalWebsite\">#<span>PersonalWebsite</span></a> <a href=\"https://stefanbohacek.online/tags/website\">#<span>website</span></a> <a href=\"https://stefanbohacek.online/tags/FirstWebsite\">#<span>FirstWebsite</span></a></p>",
        "text": "Is your first website still online? Or maybe your oldest website? I'd love to see it!\n\n#indieweb #PersonalWebsite #website #FirstWebsite"
    },
    "published": "2024-08-06T11:43:20+00:00",
    "post-type": "note",
    "_id": "41850002",
    "_source": "8007",
    "_is_read": false
}

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    "type": "entry",
    "author": {
        "name": "#indieweb",
        "url": "https://mastodon.social/tags/indieweb",
        "photo": null
    },
    "url": "https://stefanbohacek.online/@stefan/112914890245602374",
    "content": {
        "html": "<p>\"On August 6, 1991 [33 years ago], the first website was introduced to the world. [It] contained information about the World Wide Web Project. It launched at the European Organization for Nuclear Research, CERN, where it was created by British computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee.\"</p><p><a href=\"http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html\"><span>http://</span><span>info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/The</span><span>Project.html</span></a></p><p>Happy birthday, web!</p><p>Via <a href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/08/06/1025554426/a-look-back-at-the-very-first-website-ever-launched-30-years-later\"><span>https://www.</span><span>npr.org/2021/08/06/1025554426/</span><span>a-look-back-at-the-very-first-website-ever-launched-30-years-later</span></a></p><p><a href=\"https://stefanbohacek.online/tags/WorldWideWeb\">#<span>WorldWideWeb</span></a> <a href=\"https://stefanbohacek.online/tags/WWW\">#<span>WWW</span></a> <a href=\"https://stefanbohacek.online/tags/TheWeb\">#<span>TheWeb</span></a> <a href=\"https://stefanbohacek.online/tags/indieweb\">#<span>indieweb</span></a> <a href=\"https://stefanbohacek.online/tags/FirstWebsite\">#<span>FirstWebsite</span></a> <a href=\"https://stefanbohacek.online/tags/internet\">#<span>internet</span></a> <a href=\"https://stefanbohacek.online/tags/history\">#<span>history</span></a> <a href=\"https://stefanbohacek.online/tags/OTD\">#<span>OTD</span></a></p>",
        "text": "\"On August 6, 1991 [33 years ago], the first website was introduced to the world. [It] contained information about the World Wide Web Project. It launched at the European Organization for Nuclear Research, CERN, where it was created by British computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee.\"\n\nhttp://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html\n\nHappy birthday, web!\n\nVia https://www.npr.org/2021/08/06/1025554426/a-look-back-at-the-very-first-website-ever-launched-30-years-later\n\n#WorldWideWeb #WWW #TheWeb #indieweb #FirstWebsite #internet #history #OTD"
    },
    "published": "2024-08-06T11:41:32+00:00",
    "photo": [
        "https://files.mastodon.social/cache/media_attachments/files/112/914/890/642/680/031/original/7f9ce7896274c85e.png"
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    "post-type": "photo",
    "_id": "41850003",
    "_source": "8007",
    "_is_read": false
}

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    "type": "entry",
    "author": {
        "name": "#indieweb",
        "url": "https://mastodon.social/tags/indieweb",
        "photo": null
    },
    "url": "https://mastodon.online/@mauricerenck/112914412767805978",
    "content": {
        "html": "<p>After almost half a year of development, it's finally here: IndieConnector 2 has arrived with numerous new features like: webmentions without webmention.io, bluesky integration, mastodon filters and image upload, queues, new statistic panel view \u2026</p><p><a href=\"https://mastodon.online/tags/indieconnector\">#<span>indieconnector</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.online/tags/kirbycms\">#<span>kirbycms</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.online/tags/kirby\">#<span>kirby</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.online/tags/indieweb\">#<span>indieweb</span></a></p><p><a href=\"https://maurice-renck.de/en/blog/2024/indieconnector-2\"><span>https://</span><span>maurice-renck.de/en/blog/2024/</span><span>indieconnector-2</span></a></p>",
        "text": "After almost half a year of development, it's finally here: IndieConnector 2 has arrived with numerous new features like: webmentions without webmention.io, bluesky integration, mastodon filters and image upload, queues, new statistic panel view \u2026\n\n#indieconnector #kirbycms #kirby #indieweb\n\nhttps://maurice-renck.de/en/blog/2024/indieconnector-2"
    },
    "published": "2024-08-06T09:40:06+00:00",
    "post-type": "note",
    "_id": "41849176",
    "_source": "8007",
    "_is_read": false
}

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    "type": "entry",
    "author": {
        "name": "#indieweb",
        "url": "https://mastodon.social/tags/indieweb",
        "photo": null
    },
    "url": "https://hachyderm.io/@leitzke/112913829896870334",
    "content": {
        "html": "<p><span class=\"h-card\"><a class=\"u-url\" href=\"https://bladerunner.social/@stevelord\">@<span>stevelord</span></a></span> <span class=\"h-card\"><a class=\"u-url\" href=\"https://mastodon.well.com/@ianb\">@<span>ianb</span></a></span> <span class=\"h-card\"><a class=\"u-url\" href=\"https://mastodon.org.uk/@penguin42\">@<span>penguin42</span></a></span> there\u2019s also the Gemini Protocol which seems pretty interesting as a piece of the <a href=\"https://hachyderm.io/tags/indieweb\">#<span>indieweb</span></a> </p><p><a href=\"https://geminiprotocol.net/\"><span>https://</span><span>geminiprotocol.net/</span><span></span></a></p>\n<a class=\"u-mention\" href=\"https://bladerunner.social/@stevelord\"></a>\n<a class=\"u-mention\" href=\"https://mastodon.org.uk/@penguin42\"></a>\n<a class=\"u-mention\" href=\"https://mastodon.well.com/@ianb\"></a>",
        "text": "@stevelord @ianb @penguin42 there\u2019s also the Gemini Protocol which seems pretty interesting as a piece of the #indieweb \n\nhttps://geminiprotocol.net/"
    },
    "published": "2024-08-06T07:11:52+00:00",
    "post-type": "note",
    "_id": "41848334",
    "_source": "8007",
    "_is_read": false
}

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    "type": "entry",
    "author": {
        "name": "#indieweb",
        "url": "https://mastodon.social/tags/indieweb",
        "photo": null
    },
    "url": "https://go.mxtthxw.art/@inpc/statuses/01J4K514PJ4663ZA2B1PB3GAHJ",
    "content": {
        "html": "<p>Playing niche music, on a niche server, broadcasting to niche social networks. That's my plan to make billions and billions and billions...<br /><br /><a href=\"https://go.mxtthxw.art/tags/indieweb\">#<span>IndieWeb</span></a></p>",
        "text": "Playing niche music, on a niche server, broadcasting to niche social networks. That's my plan to make billions and billions and billions...\n\n#IndieWeb"
    },
    "published": "2024-08-06T06:11:40+00:00",
    "post-type": "note",
    "_id": "41847984",
    "_source": "8007",
    "_is_read": false
}

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    "type": "entry",
    "author": {
        "name": "#indieweb",
        "url": "https://mastodon.social/tags/indieweb",
        "photo": null
    },
    "url": "https://toot.lqdev.tech/@lqdev/112912585172117613",
    "content": {
        "html": "<p>Blogroll Club - A blog directory <a href=\"https://toot.lqdev.tech/tags/blog\">#<span>blog</span></a> <a href=\"https://toot.lqdev.tech/tags/rss\">#<span>rss</span></a> <a href=\"https://toot.lqdev.tech/tags/indieweb\">#<span>indieweb</span></a> <a href=\"https://www.luisquintanilla.me/feed/blogroll-club-blog-directory?utm_medium=feed\"><span>https://www.</span><span>luisquintanilla.me/feed/blogro</span><span>ll-club-blog-directory?utm_medium=feed</span></a></p>",
        "text": "Blogroll Club - A blog directory #blog #rss #indieweb https://www.luisquintanilla.me/feed/blogroll-club-blog-directory?utm_medium=feed"
    },
    "published": "2024-08-06T01:55:19+00:00",
    "post-type": "note",
    "_id": "41846824",
    "_source": "8007",
    "_is_read": false
}

A re-introduction for Blaugust

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    "type": "entry",
    "published": "2024-08-06T00:22:05+00:00",
    "summary": "Yes, Blaugust. Say it with me.",
    "url": "https://werd.io/2024/a-re-introduction-for-blaugust",
    "name": "A re-introduction for Blaugust",
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        "text": "So, the Blaugust festival of blogging is a thing. Who knew?For anyone arriving here for the very first time Blaugust is a month-long event that takes place each August which focuses on blogging primarily and has started to include other forms of serialized content over the last several years. The goal is to stoke the fires of creativity and allow bloggers and other content creators to mingle in a shared community while pushing each other to post more regularly.Cool, cool. I already post very regularly, but I appreciate the spirit of this, and I\u2019m delighted to take part.\n\nI discovered this via Andy Piper\u2019s post, and I like the way he\u2019s taken a step back and (re-)introduced himself. So I\u2019ll try and do the same.\n\nYou can learn more about me on my About page or on my narrative resum\u00e9, which collectively explain who I am and how I got here at length. Or at least, they explain the professional version of me. So perhaps this \u201cabout me\u201d can be a little more personal.About MeI\u2019m Ben Werdmuller. I\u2019m in my mid-40s. My mother\u2019s family are half Russian Jews whose village was burned down in pogroms conducted by the White Army, and half institutional east coast Americans who can be traced back to the Mayflower. My dad\u2019s are Indonesian, Swiss, and Dutch: the Werdmuller von Elggs are a Swiss aristocratic family of textile merchants who were involved in the Reformation, among other things. My dad is one of the youngest survivors of Japanese concentration camps in Indonesia.\n\nWe moved around a bit when I was a kid, but the closest thing I have to a hometown is Oxford, England. These days I live in Greater Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, after twelve years or so in the San Francisco Bay Area. I also lived in Edinburgh, Scotland, for close to a decade.\n\nI see the world through a strongly internationalist lens, am fiercely pro-union and anti-war, love immigration, and believe in a strong Europe as long as it is a force for inclusive democracy and peace. I mostly align with progressive principles and emphatically reject the idea that the political center is the most reasonable \u2014 particularly in America, where the universal healthcare, gun control, and educational principles that are just accepted in most of the rest of the developed world are somehow considered to be incredibly left-wing.\n\nI\u2019ve lost five members of my family, including my mother, to a (so-far) incurable, genetic telomere dysfunction. Although I\u2019m grateful to not have the genetic trait, I would gladly have exchanged it with them. It doesn\u2019t and must not define any of their lives, but it hangs over my family. We\u2019ve experienced a lot of loss in a short time and we miss them all terribly.\n\nI\u2019ve founded a handful of startups, have been the first employee at a few more, and generally find myself in CTO roles across smaller, growing organizations. A few years ago I took a sharp career turn and started leading technology in non-profit newsrooms, because I became more and more concerned about the state of the world and wanted to be on the side of strengthening democracy. These days I lead tech at ProPublica. I care a lot about supporting the fediverse and the indie web, which I see as incredibly liberating in a human way: they\u2019re how the web should be.\n\nI\u2019m a lifelong Doctor Who fan. I remember watching the Daleks chase Peter Davison\u2019s Doctor when I was very small, and I still look forward to every new story. I wrote this story about the 50th anniversary, eleven years ago now.\n\nI care about using technology to make the world more informed and equal. If we\u2019re not doing that, what\u2019s the point?About My BlogOver time my blog has transitioned from just being my indie space to mostly talking about the intersection of tech and media. It\u2019s led to working interesting jobs and meeting interesting people. I don\u2019t have a ton of time to build new software or write longer work, but I\u2019ve made reflecting here an integral part of my life.\u00a0Lately I\u2019ve been thinking about making it more personal again.\n\nI\u2019ve been blogging since 1998, which feels like a very long time ago, but this particular space has been going since 2013. Prior to that, I blogged at benwerd.com, which I keep online as an archive. My sites before that have been lost to time but are probably still available on the Internet Archive.\n\nThis site runs on Known. I write posts using iA Writer, and power the email version using Buttondown.\n\nEvery so often I ask readers here what they\u2019d like me to write and think about. So I\u2019ll ask you, too.\n\nIf you\u2019re new here: glad to meet you! If you\u2019re a long-time reader: thanks for sticking around.",
        "html": "<p>So, <a href=\"https://aggronaut.com/2024/07/12/blaugust-2024-is-coming/\">the Blaugust festival of blogging</a> is a thing. Who knew?</p><blockquote><p>For anyone arriving here for the very first time Blaugust is a month-long event that takes place each August which focuses on blogging primarily and has started to include other forms of serialized content over the last several years. The goal is to stoke the fires of creativity and allow bloggers and other content creators to mingle in a shared community while pushing each other to post more regularly.</p></blockquote><p>Cool, cool. I already post <em>very</em> regularly, but I appreciate the spirit of this, and I\u2019m delighted to take part.</p><p>I discovered this via <a href=\"https://andypiper.co.uk/2024/08/04/a-re-introduction-to-my-blog/\">Andy Piper\u2019s post</a>, and I like the way he\u2019s taken a step back and (re-)introduced himself. So I\u2019ll try and do the same.</p><p>You can learn more about me <a href=\"https://about.werd.io\">on my About page</a> or on <a href=\"https://resume.werd.io\">my narrative resum\u00e9</a>, which collectively explain who I am and how I got here at length. Or at least, they explain the professional version of me. So perhaps this \u201cabout me\u201d can be a little more personal.</p><h3>About Me</h3><p>I\u2019m Ben Werdmuller. I\u2019m in my mid-40s. My mother\u2019s family are half Russian Jews whose village was burned down in pogroms conducted by the White Army, and half institutional east coast Americans who can be traced back to the Mayflower. My dad\u2019s are Indonesian, Swiss, and Dutch: the Werdmuller von Elggs are a Swiss aristocratic family of textile merchants who were involved in the Reformation, among other things. My dad is one of the youngest survivors of Japanese concentration camps in Indonesia.</p><p>We moved around a bit when I was a kid, but the closest thing I have to a hometown is Oxford, England. These days I live in Greater Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, after twelve years or so in the San Francisco Bay Area. I also lived in Edinburgh, Scotland, for close to a decade.</p><p>I see the world through a strongly internationalist lens, am fiercely pro-union and anti-war, love immigration, and believe in a strong Europe as long as it is a force for inclusive democracy and peace. I mostly align with progressive principles and emphatically reject the idea that the political center is the most reasonable \u2014 particularly in America, where the universal healthcare, gun control, and educational principles that are just accepted in most of the rest of the developed world are somehow considered to be incredibly left-wing.</p><p>I\u2019ve lost five members of my family, including my mother, to a (so-far) incurable, genetic telomere dysfunction. Although I\u2019m grateful to not have the genetic trait, I would gladly have exchanged it with them. It doesn\u2019t and must not define any of their lives, but it hangs over my family. We\u2019ve experienced a lot of loss in a short time and we miss them all terribly.</p><p>I\u2019ve <a href=\"https://resume.werd.io\">founded a handful of startups</a>, have been the first employee at a few more, and generally find myself in CTO roles across smaller, growing organizations. A few years ago I took a sharp career turn and started leading technology in non-profit newsrooms, because I became more and more concerned about the state of the world and wanted to be on the side of strengthening democracy. These days I lead tech at <a href=\"https://propublica.org\">ProPublica</a>. I care a lot about supporting the fediverse and the <a href=\"https://indieweb.org\">indie web</a>, which I see as incredibly liberating in a human way: they\u2019re how the web should be.</p><p>I\u2019m a lifelong <a href=\"https://www.doctorwho.tv/\">Doctor Who</a> fan. I remember watching <a href=\"https://tardis.fandom.com/wiki/Resurrection_of_the_Daleks_(TV_story)\">the Daleks chase Peter Davison\u2019s Doctor</a> when I was very small, and I still look forward to every new story. <a href=\"https://medium.com/doctor-who/sofabeds-snuggling-and-the-blinovitch-limitation-effect-4a1a7dcfb196\">I wrote this story about the 50th anniversary</a>, eleven years ago now.</p><p>I care about using technology to make the world more informed and equal. If we\u2019re not doing that, what\u2019s the point?</p><h3>About My Blog</h3><p>Over time my blog has transitioned from just being my indie space to mostly talking about the intersection of tech and media. It\u2019s led to working interesting jobs and meeting interesting people. I don\u2019t have a ton of time to build new software or write longer work, but I\u2019ve made reflecting here an integral part of my life.\u00a0Lately I\u2019ve been thinking about making it more personal again.</p><p>I\u2019ve been blogging since 1998, which feels like a very long time ago, but this particular space has been going since 2013. Prior to that, I blogged at <a href=\"https://benwerd.com/2013/05/31/werd-io-and-idno/\">benwerd.com</a>, which I keep online as an archive. My sites before that have been lost to time but are probably still available on the Internet Archive.</p><p>This site runs on <a href=\"https://known.co\">Known</a>. I write posts using <a href=\"https://ia.net/writer\">iA Writer</a>, and power the email version using <a href=\"https://buttondown.email\">Buttondown</a>.</p><p>Every so often I ask readers here <a href=\"https://airtable.com/app68RpySPG9rjHll/shroodj2nnni0ecCX\">what they\u2019d like me to write and think about</a>. So I\u2019ll ask you, too.</p><p>If you\u2019re new here: glad to meet you! If you\u2019re a long-time reader: thanks for sticking around.</p>"
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    "url": "https://social.lol/@flamed/112911783259593809",
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        "html": "<p>\ud83d\udd16 New bookmark: Flamed Fury - A Personal Website Well Done </p><p>\ud83d\udd17 <a href=\"https://linkage.lol/flamed-fury-a-personal-website-well-done/\"><span>https://</span><span>linkage.lol/flamed-fury-a-pers</span><span>onal-website-well-done/</span></a></p><p>&gt; New Zealander, Flamed, has a well designed and maintained personal website that serves as an example for any new Indy Web folks looking for inspiration</p><p>\ud83d\udd25 <a href=\"https://flamedfury.com/bookmarks/flamed-fury-a-personal-website-well-done/\"><span>https://</span><span>flamedfury.com/bookmarks/flame</span><span>d-fury-a-personal-website-well-done/</span></a></p><p><a href=\"https://social.lol/tags/smallweb\">#<span>smallweb</span></a> <a href=\"https://social.lol/tags/indieweb\">#<span>indieweb</span></a> <a href=\"https://social.lol/tags/blog\">#<span>blog</span></a> <a href=\"https://social.lol/tags/personalwebsite\">#<span>personalwebsite</span></a></p>",
        "text": "\ud83d\udd16 New bookmark: Flamed Fury - A Personal Website Well Done \n\n\ud83d\udd17 https://linkage.lol/flamed-fury-a-personal-website-well-done/\n\n> New Zealander, Flamed, has a well designed and maintained personal website that serves as an example for any new Indy Web folks looking for inspiration\n\n\ud83d\udd25 https://flamedfury.com/bookmarks/flamed-fury-a-personal-website-well-done/\n\n#smallweb #indieweb #blog #personalwebsite"
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    "url": "https://fosstodon.org/@jnv/112911422809928158",
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        "html": "<p>I always wanted to try one of these power banks and decided to pick one up during the Prime Days sale.</p><p><a href=\"https://basic.bearblog.dev/my-ef-ecoflow-journey/\"><span>https://</span><span>basic.bearblog.dev/my-ef-ecofl</span><span>ow-journey/</span></a></p><p><a href=\"https://fosstodon.org/tags/blog\">#<span>blog</span></a> <a href=\"https://fosstodon.org/tags/indieweb\">#<span>indieweb</span></a> <a href=\"https://fosstodon.org/tags/blogging\">#<span>blogging</span></a> <a href=\"https://fosstodon.org/tags/tech\">#<span>tech</span></a> <a href=\"https://fosstodon.org/tags/review\">#<span>review</span></a></p>",
        "text": "I always wanted to try one of these power banks and decided to pick one up during the Prime Days sale.\n\nhttps://basic.bearblog.dev/my-ef-ecoflow-journey/\n\n#blog #indieweb #blogging #tech #review"
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    "url": "https://hachyderm.io/@reillypascal/112910883949852619",
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        "html": "<p>\"Apple made a fateful decision that mobile-phone internet should be app-centric, not browser/website centric. Then Android copied their mistake.\"</p><p>Many interesting things in this article, but this is one particular gripe I have about today's Internet. I will go to so much unnecessary trouble just to avoid using somebody's app.</p><p><a href=\"https://www.tumblr.com/accordion-druid/685175656750972928/dont-lie-to-me-about-web-20\"><span>https://www.</span><span>tumblr.com/accordion-druid/685</span><span>175656750972928/dont-lie-to-me-about-web-20</span></a></p><p><a href=\"https://hachyderm.io/tags/IndieWeb\">#<span>IndieWeb</span></a> <a href=\"https://hachyderm.io/tags/Enshittification\">#<span>Enshittification</span></a> <a href=\"https://hachyderm.io/tags/Web3\">#<span>Web3</span></a> <a href=\"https://hachyderm.io/tags/SocialMedia\">#<span>SocialMedia</span></a> <a href=\"https://hachyderm.io/tags/Blog\">#<span>Blog</span></a></p>",
        "text": "\"Apple made a fateful decision that mobile-phone internet should be app-centric, not browser/website centric. Then Android copied their mistake.\"\n\nMany interesting things in this article, but this is one particular gripe I have about today's Internet. I will go to so much unnecessary trouble just to avoid using somebody's app.\n\nhttps://www.tumblr.com/accordion-druid/685175656750972928/dont-lie-to-me-about-web-20\n\n#IndieWeb #Enshittification #Web3 #SocialMedia #Blog"
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        "html": "<p><span class=\"h-card\"><a class=\"u-url\" href=\"https://toolsforthought.social/@boris\">@<span>boris</span></a></span> not hCard? <a href=\"https://toolsforthought.social/tags/indieweb\">#<span>indieweb</span></a> <br /><a href=\"http://webseitz.fluxent.com/wiki/hCard\"><span>http://</span><span>webseitz.fluxent.com/wiki/hCar</span><span>d</span></a></p>\n<a class=\"u-mention\" href=\"https://toolsforthought.social/@boris\"></a>",
        "text": "@boris not hCard? #indieweb \nhttp://webseitz.fluxent.com/wiki/hCard"
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        "html": "<p>\u201cSocial media wasn\u2019t Web 2.0, it\u2019s what killed Web 2.0!\u201d</p><p>Web 2.0 was not social media!<br />You\u2019re rewriting history that\u2019s less than 20 years old!</p><p>\u201cYou might think I\u2019m arguing over mere nomenclature, but the important fact is that this era existed, and the Web3 pitch pretends it didn\u2019t. We already had decentralized internet with social features. [...]</p><p><a href=\"https://www.didiermary.fr/notes/social-media-killed-web2/\"><span>https://www.</span><span>didiermary.fr/notes/social-med</span><span>ia-killed-web2/</span></a></p><p><a href=\"https://masto.ai/tags/Blockchain\">#<span>Blockchain</span></a> <a href=\"https://masto.ai/tags/Blog\">#<span>Blog</span></a> <a href=\"https://masto.ai/tags/IndieWeb\">#<span>IndieWeb</span></a> <a href=\"https://masto.ai/tags/POSSE\">#<span>POSSE</span></a> <a href=\"https://masto.ai/tags/Web\">#<span>Web</span></a> <a href=\"https://masto.ai/tags/Web3\">#<span>Web3</span></a></p>",
        "text": "\u201cSocial media wasn\u2019t Web 2.0, it\u2019s what killed Web 2.0!\u201d\n\nWeb 2.0 was not social media!\nYou\u2019re rewriting history that\u2019s less than 20 years old!\n\n\u201cYou might think I\u2019m arguing over mere nomenclature, but the important fact is that this era existed, and the Web3 pitch pretends it didn\u2019t. We already had decentralized internet with social features. [...]\n\nhttps://www.didiermary.fr/notes/social-media-killed-web2/\n\n#Blockchain #Blog #IndieWeb #POSSE #Web #Web3"
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