In The Margins #newsletter no 2:
What differentiates a writer from someone who writes? What makes a blogger? What happens when people you know IRL start reading you blog?
More questions, thoughts and lots of #smallweb links in this week's edition. Available to read with no ads, tracking or nonsense:
https://mikegrindle.com/newsletter/itm-2
#neocities #blogging #indieweb
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@zakb no worries! I’m right up there with forgetting about the “tech” and enjoying the indie web as the websites and friends we make along the way #indieweb
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AH! I just figured out how to install a plugin on my blog to make external links safer and changed it to include noopener and nofollow. i don't know what i'm doing but it's working! what?! do i know what i'm doing? no way! what?! no way sounds fake
#blogging #eleventy #11ty #indieweb
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"html": "<p>\ud83d\udd16 Bookmarked Hope for the web | James' Coffee Blog (<a href=\"https://jamesg.blog/2024/08/29/hope-for-the-web/\"><span>https://</span><span>jamesg.blog/2024/08/29/hope-fo</span><span>r-the-web/</span></a>)</p><p>James shares his hope for the web.</p><p>\ud83d\udd25 <a href=\"https://flamedfury.com/bookmarks/hope-for-the-web-or-james-coffee-blog/\"><span>https://</span><span>flamedfury.com/bookmarks/hope-</span><span>for-the-web-or-james-coffee-blog/</span></a></p><p>#<a href=\"https://social.lol/tags/web\">#<span>web</span></a> #<a href=\"https://social.lol/tags/smallweb\">#<span>smallweb</span></a> #<a href=\"https://social.lol/tags/indieweb\">#<span>indieweb</span></a></p>",
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Thanks to Matthew for reading my post on recent IndieWeb discourse and adding a new section with his responses and notifying me about it via email.
There are certainly a number of things in Matthew’s response that tempt me to respond, but I’d like to focus on this:
I am, nevertheless, a little annoyed by the exhortation to “talk with us”. What does it look like I’m doing over here, anyway? Oh, no, it’s not good enough to post one’s opinion on the web. I’m supposed to use one of the IndieWeb’s chats, either IRC, Slack, or Discord. […] I am already talking with you. I’m doing it here, on my own website for all to see, in the best IndieWeb tradition. And you are talking to me if you quote me on your own website or email me.
I don’t consider my post a reply to Matthew’s post. I do not see his post as an invitation to conversation. I read it as a “take” - an opinion piece intended to make the reader feel a certain way and then close the topic, complete with clickbait headline.
I shouldn’t have to point out that bloggers-blogging-at-bloggers has a long history of unproductive conversation. Reducing the impact of unproductive conversations is part is why there’s not an IndieWeb mailing list. It’s easy in these formats to go hard on the abstract, and to spend time constructing arguments instead of asking questions.
That’s not to say that posts can’t inspire change. In the past day or so indieweb.org/discuss has been updated to mention right in the opening sentence that the IRC, web, Slack, and Discord chats are all bridged. Discussions have also kicked up (not for the first time) around making the homepage more welcoming, focusing on principles first, etc.
Those changes are being decided in the real-time chat, where you can meet and talk with the individuals (all volunteers!) who make up the IndieWeb community. I reckon it beats trying to reverse-engineer that community from a wiki.
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Part 1 of my little "manifesto" is almost ready. Is it good? No. Is it unique? Also no. Is it sincere? Yes.
It's a mishmash of Buddhist, anarchist and humanist thought.
An inspirations was https://youtu.be/TWVmcuqpIB0 check it out as a preview. Also add http://mycabinetofcuriosities.com to your RSS or microformat reader for the update.
#writing #nonfiction #politics #religion #ecology #humanism #buddhism #zen #leftism #anarchism #communism #degrowth #revolution #paultillich #indieweb
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In our current digital landscape, where a corporate algorithm tells us what to read, watch, drink, eat, wear, smell like, and sound like, human curation of the web is an act of revolution. A simple list of hyperlinks published under a personal domain name is subversive.
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Tantek Çelik blogged about IndieWebCamp Portland:
We wrapped up with our usual Create Day Demos session, live streamed for remote attendees to see as well. Lots of great demos of things people built, designed, removed, cleaned-up, documented, and blogged! Everyone still at the camp showed something on their personal site!
I miss IndieWebCamp. Don’t think I’ve attended one since we hosted in Austin a couple weeks before COVID hit.
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I'm working on updating her #website, https://mskiersten.com with a full page dedicated to the album and how to listen, but the changes aren't quite ready to go yet 😅
Feel free to check it out anyway and check back later for a shiny new page!
And please #boost the above post for visibility if you'd like to spread the word!
#PersonalSites #Hugo #smallweb #indieweb #webdev
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New blog post 📰
I’ve owned several AppleTV models since the first generation. But as my current devices stop getting updated, I’m not sure I want to keep purchasing them.
I’ve also had Google’s devices but only on the dumb TV’s my family doesn’t use. They are stuck in the Apple ecosystem for now.
#blog #smallweb #indieweb
https://basic.bearblog.dev/appletv-and-me/
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Avete mai voluto un vostro piccolo spazio sul web, più statico, fuori dall'urgenza social? Ho scritto una piccola guida per chi è alle prime armi!
«Come creare un proprio sito web carino piccino picciò»
https://serime.net/blog/posts/2024-08-30-tutorial-sito.html
#indieweb #smallweb #neocities #nekoweb
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"html": "<p>Friendly reminder that you can share your personal website with me and I will link it on mine, here:</p><p><a href=\"https://fredrocha.net/like-minded/\"><span>https://</span><span>fredrocha.net/like-minded/</span><span></span></a></p><p>Rationale here:</p><p><a href=\"https://fredrocha.net/2023/04/21/build-your-own-website-and-they-will-not-come/\"><span>https://</span><span>fredrocha.net/2023/04/21/build</span><span>-your-own-website-and-they-will-not-come/</span></a></p><p><a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/indieweb\">#<span>indieweb</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/aifam\">#<span>aifam</span></a></p>",
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Hey, #indieweb - who is dressing their sites for Halloween? It only a month now!
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I wrote another article about #coffee . This time I did a little deep dive on the state of academic study on coffee.
Four Observations In Two Papers: What Science can tell us about Coffee Grinding
https://caffeineandlasers.neocities.org/blogs/WhatScienceSaysAboutCoffeeGrinding
#espresso #blog #neocities #indieweb
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SO excited to announce that the #32bitcafe is launching our monthly newsletter, 32-BIT CAFE BYTES!
you can expect:
* 32-Bit Cafe community updates, including any announcements and launches
* Discourse-specific updates
* most popular forum threads of the month
* discussion questions of the week
* calls for volunteers for projects
* upcoming events
* blog posts, either written by 32-Bit Cafe members or outside the community, that talk about the personal web and subjects related to our community mission
* featuring websites of our members
i'm so excited about this, so forgive my plugging! :) keep up with what we're doing in the cafe to help spread the good word of #webdev as a hobby, get more folks building their own #website, and bringing creativity and self-expression back to our web use again!
you'll have our inaugural newsletter in your inbox this weekend if you subscribe by august 31st! 👀
https://listmonk.32bit.cafe/subscription/form
#HTML #css #code #coding #neocities #smallweb #personalweb #indieweb #smolweb #internet #webdesign
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"text": "SO excited to announce that the #32bitcafe is launching our monthly newsletter, 32-BIT CAFE BYTES!\n\nyou can expect:\n\n* 32-Bit Cafe community updates, including any announcements and launches\n* Discourse-specific updates\n* most popular forum threads of the month\n* discussion questions of the week\n* calls for volunteers for projects\n* upcoming events\n* blog posts, either written by 32-Bit Cafe members or outside the community, that talk about the personal web and subjects related to our community mission\n* featuring websites of our members\n\ni'm so excited about this, so forgive my plugging! :) keep up with what we're doing in the cafe to help spread the good word of #webdev as a hobby, get more folks building their own #website, and bringing creativity and self-expression back to our web use again!\n\nyou'll have our inaugural newsletter in your inbox this weekend if you subscribe by august 31st! \ud83d\udc40 \n\nhttps://listmonk.32bit.cafe/subscription/form\n\n#HTML #css #code #coding #neocities #smallweb #personalweb #indieweb #smolweb #internet #webdesign"
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Had a great time at IndieWebCamp Portland 2024 this past Sunday — our 10th IndieWebCamp in Portland!
https://events.indieweb.org/2024/08/indiewebcamp-portland-2024-8bucXDlLqR0k
Being a one day #IndieWebCamp, we focused more on making, hacking, and creating, than on formal discussion sessions.
Nearly everyone gave a brief personal site intro with a summary of how they use their #IndieWeb site and what they would like to add, remove, or improve.
* https://indieweb.org/2024/Portland/Intros
There were lots of informal discussions, some in the main room, on the walk to and from lunch, over lunch in the nearby outdoor patio, or at tables inside the lobby of the Hotel Grand Stark.
We wrapped up with our usual Create Day¹ Demos session, live streamed for remote attendees to see as well. Lots of great demos of things people built, designed, removed, cleaned-up, documented, and blogged! Everyone still at the camp showed something on their personal site!
* https://indieweb.org/2024/Portland/Demos
Group photo and lots more about IndieWebCamp Portland 2024 at the event’s wiki page:
* https://indieweb.org/2024/Portland
Thanks to everyone who pitched in to help organize IndieWebCamp Portland 2024! Thanks especially to Marty McGuire (@martymcgui.re) for taking live notes during both the personal site intros and create day demos, to @KevinMarks.com (@kevinmarks@xoxo.zone @kevinmarks @kevinmarks@indieweb.social) for the IndieWebCamp live-tooting, and Ryan Barrett (@snarfed.org) for amazing breakfast pastries from Dos Hermanos.
The experience definitely raised our hopes and confidence for returning to Portland in 2025.²
References:
¹ https://indieweb.org/Create_Day
² https://indieweb.org/Planning#Portland
This is post 19 of #100PostsOfIndieWeb. #100Posts #2024_238
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OK, this is very interesting! This is a collection of websites with no CSS whatsoever, at all! No CSS Club https://nocss.club/ #SlowWeb #IndieWeb
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Sharing for my fedi-peeps. That’s a term, right?
Has the IndieWeb become discourse, again?
https://martymcgui.re/2024/08/29/141602/
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It\u2019s a collective\nmemory of experiments, some successful and some not, from a group of\nexperimenters that has changed greatly over time.\nFor example, I find that criticisms like \u201cf*ck the corporate web and f*ck\nIndieWeb for interoperating with the corporate web\u201d don\u2019t really hold up when\na lot of that stuff doesn\u2019t even work anymore.\nOn corporate complicity\nAutomatic POSSE, syndicating posts from your own\nsite out to your profiles on social silos, only ever barely (and briefly)\nworked for Instagram, was turned off for Facebook a few years ago, and was all\nbut destroyed for Twitter shortly after its last acquisition. backfeed -\npulling comments and likes from these platforms to display on your own site -\nhas similarly been blocked by technical measures.\nThese were experiments that worked for a time. People used them for a time. That\ntime has passed and the people have moved on.\nSome folks have replaced their Twitter usage with something like Mastodon, or\nBlue Sky, or Threads, and amazing people like Ryan have\nstepped up to help experiment with bridging personal sites and federated services.\nThere is no \u201cthe way\u201d, only \u201cyour way\u201d\nPeople don\u2019t have to move on for purely technical reasons. Even before\nTwitter closed their APIs, many in the IndieWeb community were shuttering their\nTwitter accounts and removing posts. They moved on from Twitter, despite all\nthose documented pages on the IndieWeb wiki, because they didn\u2019t want to use\nthe web this way anymore.\nAnd to me, this is actually what \u201cbeing IndieWeb\u201d or \u201cdoing IndieWeb\u201d is\nabout: using the web in ways that fit your wants and needs, being mindful of\nwhen (and to whom) you give up control over your stuff and your connections.\nFiguring out how you want to use the web is a daunting task, to say the least!\nThe IndieWeb wiki is full of interesting examples and ideas - but as a logbook\nof ways of using the web, it can be inscrutable. It was never intended that\nevery way of using the web would be suitable for everyone. A collective memory\nis extremely hard to keep up-to-date and to signpost for navigation. Trying to\nrely on the wiki alone is a recipe for frustration.\nI freely admit that the community has fallen into some serious prescriptive\ntraps over time. Like with tools like indiewebify.me\nthat offer a checklist of implementation details, without accompanying reasons\nwhy you might want these features.\nThis isn\u2019t the first time this has happened, by any means, and it won\u2019t be the\nlast, but the criticisms of these tools and models do make their way back into\nthe collective memory. (see: generations\nand IndieMark)\nTalk with us\nThat\u2019s why the IndieWeb chat exists. It\u2019s a\nplace where real actual people, who are working to use the web in ways that\nsuit them, are ready to help in whatever ways we can. We love to share what is\n(and is not) working for us, what we\u2019re trying, and so on. More importantly, we\nwant to help you find ways of using the web that work for you.",
"html": "<p>I recently read <a href=\"https://starbreaker.org/blog/tech/has-indieweb-become-irrelevant/\">Has the IndieWeb Become Irrelevant</a> from <a href=\"https://starbreaker.org/\">starbreaker.org</a>.</p>\n<p>The post does a great job linking to and summarizing a spate of posts that I\nwill call \u201cpeople being mad at the IndieWeb\u201d, while also <em>being</em> one of these posts.</p>\n<p>These posts accuse \u201cthe IndieWeb\u201d of being elitist, exclusionary,\noverengineered, complicit, and unnecessary, among many other things.</p>\n<p>There are some common threads I noticed among these posts:</p>\n<ul><li>None of them mention <a href=\"https://micro.blog/\">micro.blog</a>!</li>\n<li>They seem to attack a \u201cstraw person\u201d version of the IndieWeb, where one is\nexpected to read, follow, and implement over a decade of experimentation on the web.</li>\n</ul><h2>Micro.blog is real</h2>\n<p>Folks that would like to try a turnkey website hosting service, where:</p>\n<ul><li>you bring your own domain (or register a new one!)</li>\n<li>you can leave and take your content with you whenever you want</li>\n<li>requires no coding (and no plugins to configure, and no \u201cfiles and folders\u201d)</li>\n<li>offers mobile and desktop apps that let you post (and read) the kinds of content you want</li>\n<li>supports IndieWeb building blocks to let you follow and interact with other\npeople via your own websites</li>\n</ul><p>I don\u2019t see eye-to-eye with its creator Manton Reese about everything, but\nmicro.blog is a great example of a real world service that makes use of IndieWeb\nbuilding blocks in ways that customers benefit from without having to build\nanything!</p>\n<h2>The rest is wiki</h2>\n<p>I think many of other complaints, from being \u201coverengineered\u201d to (paraphased)\n\u201cPOSSE makes IndieWeb complicit with the corporate web\u201d, come from misconstruing\nthe <a href=\"https://indieweb.org/\"><em>IndieWeb wiki</em> at indieweb.org</a> as the entirety of\n\u201cbeing IndieWeb\u201d.</p>\n<p>When I discovered indieweb.org (in maybe 2015?) I was intrigued and nearly\ninstantly overwhelemed. Trying to absorb all the concepts there would\nbe nearly impossible. Understanding and implementing all the techniques there is\n<em>actually</em> impossible.</p>\n<p>That\u2019s because indieweb.org is not a presciption or a cookbook or\nan exercise plan. It doesn\u2019t tell you how to \u201cbe IndieWeb\u201d. It\u2019s a <em>collective\nmemory</em> of experiments, some successful and some not, from a group of\nexperimenters that has changed greatly over time.</p>\n<p>For example, I find that criticisms like \u201cf*ck the corporate web and f*ck\nIndieWeb for interoperating with the corporate web\u201d don\u2019t really hold up when\n<em>a lot of that stuff doesn\u2019t even work anymore</em>.</p>\n<h3>On corporate complicity</h3>\n<p>Automatic <a href=\"https://indieweb.org/POSSE\">POSSE</a>, syndicating posts from your own\nsite out to your profiles on social silos, only ever barely (and briefly)\nworked for Instagram, was turned off for Facebook a few years ago, and was all\nbut destroyed for Twitter shortly after its last acquisition. <a href=\"https://indieweb.org/backfeed\">backfeed</a> -\npulling comments and likes from these platforms to display on your own site -\nhas similarly been blocked by technical measures.</p>\n<p>These were experiments that worked for a time. People used them for a time. That\ntime has passed and the people have moved on.</p>\n<p>Some folks have replaced their Twitter usage with something like Mastodon, or\nBlue Sky, or Threads, and amazing people like <a href=\"https://snarfed.org/\">Ryan</a> have\nstepped up to help experiment with <a href=\"https://fed.brid.gy/\">bridging personal sites and federated services</a>.</p>\n<h2>There is no \u201cthe way\u201d, only \u201cyour way\u201d</h2>\n<p>People don\u2019t have to move on for purely technical reasons. Even before\nTwitter closed their APIs, many in the IndieWeb community were shuttering their\nTwitter accounts and removing posts. They moved on from Twitter, despite all\nthose documented pages on the IndieWeb wiki, because <em>they didn\u2019t want to use\nthe web this way anymore</em>.</p>\n<p>And to me, this is <em>actually</em> what \u201cbeing IndieWeb\u201d or \u201cdoing IndieWeb\u201d is\nabout: using the web in ways that fit your wants and needs, being mindful of\nwhen (and to whom) you give up control over your stuff and your connections.</p>\n<p>Figuring out how <em>you</em> want to use the web is a daunting task, to say the least!\nThe IndieWeb wiki is full of interesting examples and ideas - but as a logbook\nof ways of using the web, it can be inscrutable. It was never intended that\nevery way of using the web would be suitable for everyone. A collective memory\nis extremely hard to keep up-to-date and to signpost for navigation. Trying to\nrely on the wiki alone is a recipe for frustration.</p>\n<p>I freely admit that the community has fallen into some serious prescriptive\ntraps over time. Like with tools like <a href=\"https://indiewebify.me/\">indiewebify.me</a>\nthat offer a checklist of implementation details, without accompanying reasons\n<em>why</em> you might want these features.</p>\n<p>This isn\u2019t the first time this has happened, by any means, and it won\u2019t be the\nlast, but the criticisms of these tools and models do make their way back into\nthe collective memory. (see: <a href=\"https://indieweb.org/generations\">generations</a>\nand <a href=\"https://indieweb.org/IndieMark\">IndieMark</a>)</p>\n<h2>Talk with us</h2>\n<p>That\u2019s why the <a href=\"https://indieweb.org/discuss\">IndieWeb chat</a> exists. It\u2019s a\nplace where real actual people, who are working to use the web in ways that\nsuit them, are ready to help in whatever ways we can. We love to share what is\n(and is not) working for us, what we\u2019re trying, and so on. More importantly, we\nwant to help <em>you</em> find ways of using the web that work for you.</p>"
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