It's been over a year since I last wrote one of these, so I did a little update on where my site is at in relation to the #indieweb.

https://www.joelotter.com/posts/2024/08/indieweb/

A bit of a nerdier post this time: How I setup my VPS (a guide for me that might help you as well šŸ˜‡)

https://dominikhofer.me/setup-secure-vps

#indieweb #selfhosting #vps

Has the IndieWeb become discourse again? - Marty McGuire

Has the IndieWeb become discourse again? - Marty McGuire #indieweb

https://martymcgui.re/2024/08/29/141602/

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

@zakb no worries! Iā€™m right up there with forgetting about the ā€œtechā€ and enjoying the indie web as the websites and friends we make along the way #indieweb

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

šŸ”– Bookmarked Hope for the web | James' Coffee Blog (https://jamesg.blog/2024/08/29/hope-for-the-web/)

James shares his hope for the web.

šŸ”„ https://flamedfury.com/bookmarks/hope-for-the-web-or-james-coffee-blog/

##web ##smallweb ##indieweb

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 Matthewā€™s response that tempt me to respond, but Iā€™d like to focus on this:

I am, nevertheless, a little annoyed by the exhortation to ā€œtalk with usā€. What does it look like Iā€™m doing over here, anyway? Oh, no, itā€™s not good enough to post oneā€™s opinion on the web. Iā€™m supposed to use one of the IndieWebā€™s chats, either IRC, Slack, or Discord. [ā€¦] I am already talking with you. Iā€™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 donā€™t consider my post a reply to Matthewā€™s post. I do not see his post as an invitation to conversation. I read it as a ā€œtakeā€ - an opinion piece intended to make the reader feel a certain way and then close the topic, complete with clickbait headline.

I shouldnā€™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 thereā€™s not an IndieWeb mailing list. Itā€™s easy in these formats to go hard on the abstract, and to spend time constructing arguments instead of asking questions.

Thatā€™s not to say that posts canā€™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.

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

Raw dog the open web!

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.

#indieweb #personal #publishing #curation #sharing #linking

Tantek Ƈelik 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. Donā€™t think Iā€™ve attended one since we hosted in Austin a couple weeks before COVID hit.

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 šŸ˜…

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

New blog post šŸ“°

Iā€™ve owned several AppleTV models since the first generation. But as my current devices stop getting updated, Iā€™m not sure I want to keep purchasing them.

Iā€™ve also had Googleā€™s devices but only on the dumb TVā€™s my family doesnā€™t use. They are stuck in the Apple ecosystem for now.

#blog #smallweb #indieweb

https://basic.bearblog.dev/appletv-and-me/

Avete mai voluto un vostro piccolo spazio sul web, piĆ¹ statico, fuori dall'urgenza social? Ho scritto una piccola guida per chi ĆØ alle prime armi!

Ā«Come creare un proprio sito web carino piccino picciĆ²Ā»

https://serime.net/blog/posts/2024-08-30-tutorial-sito.html

#indieweb #smallweb #neocities #nekoweb

Friendly reminder that you can share your personal website with me and I will link it on mine, here:

https://fredrocha.net/like-minded/

Rationale here:

https://fredrocha.net/2023/04/21/build-your-own-website-and-they-will-not-come/

#indieweb #aifam

Hey, #indieweb - who is dressing their sites for Halloween? It only a month now!

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

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! šŸ‘€

https://listmonk.32bit.cafe/subscription/form

#HTML #css #code #coding #neocities #smallweb #personalweb #indieweb #smolweb #internet #webdesign

Had a great time at IndieWebCamp Portland 2024 this past Sunday ā€” 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 DayĀ¹ 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 eventā€™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.Ā²


References:
Ā¹ https://indieweb.org/Create_Day
Ā² https://indieweb.org/Planning#Portland

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