I'm working on a web component for embedding youtube videos. I'm setting it up to use the parent page's stylesheet. If I put the custom element on the page in the `<main>` element everything work as expected. If I move the custom element inside a `<section>` tag the styles get messed up. I spent an hour on it and made no progress. This page shows what's going on if that kind of puzzle appeals to you:

https://yt-player.alanwsmith.com/issue/

#WebDev #WebComponents #IndieWeb

This is super exciting, and I look forward to having my blog be fully federated this year!

https://activitypub.ghost.org/the-story-so-far/

#Technology #GhostCMS #Blog #Fediverse #IndieWeb

đź”— Range via @louie #Indieweb #Blogging #Rss

Whenever I beat the RSS drum, someone always asks about discoverability, so I want to put this bluntly: it is through algorithmic discoverability features that harmful posts become visible. Whether they are original posts, reposts, or replies, harmful posts are only able to successfully reach their intended audience by depending on those features functioning as social media websites built them.

https://lmnt.me/blog/range.html

Okay Meta might not have a consumer product of more significance than the iPhone, but React is still hugely important in the tech world

While Swift is definitely great for app development and backend, React is still my go to for web frontend, all of my sites are built in Next.JS

With that being said, SwiftWASM looks fun

#Technology #Meta #Apple #React #IndieWeb #NextJS #SwiftLang

I’m interested in the IndieWeb, books, and thinking about curation, so of course I love this post from Ben Werdmuller:

The indieweb should feel like the Norrington Room: an expansive world of different voices, opinions, modes of expression, and art that you can explore, peruse, or have curated for you. It’s not about any particular goal aside from the goal of being enriched by people sharing their lived experiences, creativity, and expertise. It’s a journey of discovery, conversation, and community, not a journey of extraction.

Hope to visit Blackwell’s one day too.

The indie web should be a universe of discovery

I’m interested in the IndieWeb, books, and thinking about curation, so of course I love this post from Ben Werdmuller:

The indieweb should feel like the Norrington Room: an expansive world of different voices, opinions, modes of expression, and art that you can explore, peruse, or have curated for you. It’s not about any particular goal aside from the goal of being enriched by people sharing their lived experiences, creativity, and expertise. It’s a journey of discovery, conversation, and community, not a journey of extraction.

Hope to visit Blackwell’s one day too.

The #indieweb should be a journey of discovery, conversation, and community, not one of extraction. That demands different tools and a different approach to search. werd.io/2025/the-ind...

The indie web should be a univ...

The #indieweb should be a journey of discovery, conversation, and community, not one of extraction. That demands different tools and a different approach to search. https://werd.io/2025/the-indie-web-should-be-a-universe-of-discovery

@point5a @Vivaldi @johnbeen So, I happened to get my #VivaldiMail address, after all. I previously did it, but I still need to set it up in on my #MacBook app for downloading. Meanwhile, I also now have a secondary #Mastodon account at #VivaldiSocial.
I have also been completing my #Fediverse, #Mastodon, #BlueSky, and other connections at #WordPress, thanks to #ActivityPub, #Jetpack, #Webfinger, #Friends, #Hum, #Webmention, and other #plugins. Thanks also to people like @pfefferle and many others who have been making these plugin applications happen over the years. Big improvements! Almost there in my setup… getting better everyday. I’ve been incredibly productive, and on the way! Thanks to the community here!! @mastodonmigration too.

Ha! I’m again able to have *my silly website* “boost” “Fediverse posts.”

I mark these up using #microformats2 – which after parsing look like this: https://pin13.net/mf2/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fjan.boddez.net%2Fnotes%2F786b644f01 – and have my “ActivityPub sender” pick that up, so that instead of a “Create” activity, it POSTs an “Announce.”

I’d previously implemented this as an addon for #WordPress’ #ActivityPub plugin and now have it working for my #Laravel site, too.

#IndieWeb

Hello (again), indieweb dot social!

Here's a new #introduction

I've been active on and off on this account, but with my previous home instance allthingstech dot social being shut down in the near future, this is where I will be now!

I'd like to thank @CliffWade and @beardedtechguy for really introducing me to both the fediverse and blogging

I wouldn't be an #IndieWeb builder if it weren't for them and AllThingsTech

@nikswonder Yeah #goodreads is cluttered. I also don't like how books are rated. Ideally I jus want my own #indieweb corner of the internet where I can rate my books & share my thoughts. I went w/my own published notion pg w/ #GoogleSheets charts embedded! https://librarymonster.io/lair.html

I can easily & quickly update my reading progress & status updates thru the notion app. Deeper analytics (of my own; #storygraph is good but I want to crunch my own stats) go into gsheets' published charts ✨🍷

"It’s easy to forget how simple a website can be. A website can be just one page. It doesn’t even need CSS. You don’t need a content management system like Wordpress. All you have to do is write some HTML and drag that file to a server"

lmnt.me/blog/how-to-...

#Website #WebDev #IndieWeb

I certainly don't mean to imply that people "should" find this easy — I recognize that even "basic" HTML requires some technical ability — but I do think it would be nice if we emphasized that plain HTML is *enough*.

#Website #WebDev #IndieWeb

Also while the IndieWeb often promotes things like webmentions, and many blogs have nice comment sections, a simple way to add interaction is to put an email link on your posts! I've responded by email to friends' posts, and it's a very nice way to interact.

I certainly don't mean to imply that people "should" find this easy — I recognize that even "basic" HTML requires some technical ability — but I do think it would be nice if we emphasized that plain HTML is *enough*.

#Website #WebDev #IndieWeb

Also while the IndieWeb often promotes things like webmentions, and many blogs have nice comment sections, a simple way to add interaction is to put an email link on your posts! I've responded by email to friends' posts, and it's a very nice way to interact.

#Website #WebDev #IndieWeb


Also the article mentions FTP for servers, but if you're willing to use something like www.netlify.com, getting your pages online can be as simple as dragging and dropping!

#Website #WebDev #IndieWeb

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I often feel a little sad that we've turned websites into these complex things. I wish it were more widely accepted to just write some basic, raw HTML and call it a day. I would love to have a web of basic homemade pages like this.

#Website #WebDev #IndieWeb