My Seek 2024 Year in Review:
* 141 new species observed, of those, the top three kinds:
* 79 plants
* 20 insects
* 16 fungi
* 56 challenge badges earned
June was the month I observed the most new species in 2024, followed by March, and then July.
Seek also gave me a graph of observations per month, and also a map of where I made my discoveries.
Rather than posting screenshots of the Year in Review that Seek provided me in the app, I am posting the relevant content here in a post on my personal site, which I know I’ll be able to search and look up in the future.
Seek is a delightful free (like actually free, free of tracking, free of surveillance) native mobile application for identifying species.
Made by the iNaturalist folks (https://www.inaturalist.org/pages/seek_app), Seek works without creating an account, and is able to work completely offline to identify species out in the wild (and add them to your local collection).
Seek awards you Species Badges when you discover a number of species of a particular grouping, as well as Challenge Badges when you complete one or more of their monthly challenges that they post.
In some ways it’s like Pokemon Go, except based on finding and collecting observations of real living things.
I have found it quite useful especially when traveling, and wondering is that plant (or animal) the same as one I’ve seen elsewhere, perhaps around home, or is it a slightly different species?
I also really like the good example that Seek provides for how an app can be immediately useful without requiring extra labor (like creating an account, or logging on) on behalf of the person using it.
Lastly, Seek is an excellent example of a truly offline capable app where nearly all of its functionality works just fine without a network connection.
Both of these capabilities (offline first, no login wall) are what we should aspire to when we build #indieweb apps or websites for ourselves and our friends.
This is post 8 of #100PostsOfIndieWeb. #100Posts #yearInReview #iNaturalist #SeekApp
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Glossary:
login wall
https://indieweb.org/login_wall
offline first
https://indieweb.org/offline_first
As promised, a blog post on why and HOW I'm leaving Facebook and other Meta services: https://blog.riley.pub/walking-away-from-facebook/
In it, I share the steps I'm taking to unwind my Facebook dependence in an orderly fashion, what alternatives I'm using, and how I'm getting settled in.
I hope someone out there finds it useful.
New update to my personal website. I added a new list to the Links page and added a notes feature to it. Now I can attach related notes to links. In this case archiving the removal date of featured videos on the home page
Calling all @nextcloud Home users (especially those that migrated from Apple’s ecosystem)!
I was about to start self-hosting an instance on my #truenas server. Any thoughts? Opinions? Things you would do differently?
Did you go for a full migration, or is it more piecemeal?
#selfhosting #indieweb #privatecloud
I added a dark theme to my #Blog and shaved many yaks 🐃 https://www.henryleach.com/2025/01/adding-dark-mode-to-my-site-shaving-yaks-and-questioning-my-sanity
indieweb-bashblog
Bookmarked indieweb-bashblog: a single script SSG with Webmentions and more by Jo.
This looks like a great blog project to get up and running with webmentions.
Thanks for contributing a wonderful read to the #IndieWeb Carnival!
If you've been thinking about setting up your own website, you should check out https://neocities.org and https://glitch.com, which will let you make one for free.
Not interested in diving into HTML and CSS quite yet?
Here's a little tool I made that can help!
And some more resources to get you started: https://stefanbohacek.com/blog/resources-for-keeping-the-web-free-open-and-poetic/
Semanário 03 (2025)
https://curadoria.bearblog.dev/semanario-03-2025/
#Semanario #Semanario2025S03 #IndieWeb #SmallWeb #SurfandoWeb #CuradoriaDaInternet #BlogsBR @blogsbr #blog
@Moss I've been dabbling with using WP as my homebase and pushing to Mastodon, accepting Webmentions etc. in #IndieWeb style. The ActivityPub plugin was too complicated and invasive to me (code injected into my frontend DOM to make it work). So I'm using "Share on Mastodon" plugin, which has a sibling called "Share on Pixelfed". I'm assuming that'll work well - but it's basically automagic crossposter to Pixelfed and I'm not sure that's what you're looking for.
This is my entry for January’s IndieWeb Carnival: On the importance of friction - https://vhbelvadi.com/indieweb-carnival-friction (hosted by @vhbelvadi ):
https://aleemshaun.com/posts/of-cassette-tapes-and-dial-up-internet
If you have yet to contribute you should write something too!
Maybe they tried to bury RSS, not knowing it was an indieweb seed :)
[1] https://blog.whatwg.org/feed-autodiscovery
[2] https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-whatwg-archive/2009Oct/0206.html
Permalink: https://www.ragman.net/notes/8
#coding, #rss, #indieweb
(5/5)
After a year, how has my Pixel 6a with GrapheneOS changed?
stevenbrady.com/after-one-year…
#GrapheneOS #Android #Google #Pixel #Pixel6a #IndieWeb #Blog
I was just reading Taliesyn Walker’s post[1] about RSS and TIL that you can add a <link> element to your website that points to your RSS feed!
It looks like this:
<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" href="<your rss link here>" />
This allows RSS readers (and search engines) to more easily find your feed. Neat!
[1] https://www.johnwalker.nl/posts/escape-the-walled-garden-with-rss
Permalink: https://www.ragman.net/notes/7
#coding, #rss, #indieweb
New design is online @ http://frans.today/ 🥂
Took 3 months of iterating on ideas, designing and writing my own static web generator.
There are still some things I wanna fix and mobile responsiveness is totally poop.
But I was too stoked, and wanted to get it online!
Idly mocking up a POSSE microblog that I will probably never implement because of the rabbit hole it would send me down that I may never emerge from! #IndieWeb #ActivityPub #ATProto
OMG blown away right now … with my digital friend Claude, I was able to implement a pretty snazzy caching strategy using Deno KV (their edge key/value store) and properly set http caching headers including ETags 🎉
Find the code here: https://github.com/nilsborg/nilsb.org