I've created a system on my site where I can upload photos to the Pixelfed instance I'm on and then pull the photo and content back down and post it on my site. Known as PESOS on the #indieweb. I'm using #11ty and the brilliant utility 11ty/eleventy-import. The utility pulls in the Atom feed from my Pixelfed instance at build time. I also had to figure out how to create a page template to use the metadata the import utility pulls down. Added bonus was discovering a few… https://techlifeweb.com/blog/2025/01/post-2025-01-21T174949/
https://skate.michaelgale.dev/
Added lil thumbnails of the album covers and started noting the weather.
Start a hobby site! It's so much fun.
Let me know if you'd like help setting one up.
#HobbySite #Blogging #Diary #Skateboarding #SkatersOfMastodon #IndieWeb
Two easy things you can do with your website to make it more fediverse-ready:
Add a rel=me link so you can get a "verified" mark on your profile, see https://stefanbohacek.com/blog/verification-in-the-fediverse/ (this works for a few platforms)
And if you're on Mastodon, you can show a little "author tag" when someone posts your links:
If you want more ideas for what you can do with your website, see the "Grow your website" section:
https://stefanbohacek.com/blog/resources-for-keeping-the-web-free-open-and-poetic/#grow-your-website
What's on your personal website?
#PersonalWebsite #websites #indieweb
A bit about me
A picture of me
My hobbies
My work portfolio
A blog
Link to my blog
Organizations I support
Social media links
My email
A contact form
Something else
I don't have a personal website
I'm a fan of friction. I think friction in creativity, design and UX/UI should exist.
Modern technology is all about the removal of friction. These things feel at odds but I like to think of friction as opportunities for agency.
@coucoulesplantes ce qui est marrant c'est que c'est l'esprit du web à son origine moi qui est connu ses débuts en 1998, le partage était légion, sans pub, des sites perso de passionné.e.s. le mouvement #indieweb existe toujours à nous de le mettre en-avant
Upgraded mastodon to 4.3.3
#Mastodon
#IndieWeb
Upgraded my one-user server from 4.2.something to 4.3.3. Went smoothly once I remembered to do the 4.2 to 4.3 upgrade procedure first…
https://www.synesthesia.co.uk/stream/upgraded-mastodon-to-4.3.3/
On Transient Slash Pages • Robb Knight
This is a great idea that I’m going to file away for later:
I like the idea of redirecting
/nowto the latest post tagged asnowso one could see the latest version of what I’m doing now.
@neil Probably not. I see no effect from setting an "external account". (But then, I could hardly find the "logout" button.)
(Un)relatedly, does #Discourse support #IndieAuth? Seems not: https://meta.discourse.org/t/indieauth-login/48182
Our new home is https://pixelfed.neverwasskates.com
#neverwasskateboarding #pixelfed #indieweb #fediverse
🤖 There’s a new post on Michael Burkhardt’s Whirled Wide Web:
A Snowy House Call
* 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
← https://tantek.com/2025/012/t1/eight-years-webmention
→ 🔮
Glossary:
login wall
https://indieweb.org/login_wall
offline first
https://indieweb.org/offline_first
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
← https://tantek.com/2025/012/t1/eight-years-webmention
→ 🔮
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
