I made a site/plaything where you can hold hands with strangers:
1. go to https://hands.sonnet.io/
2. wait for a buddy
3. hold hands
(recommended with sound on)
Ben Werdmuller on the latest People & Blogs:
My site is my online identity; I write about things that I find interesting. That’s all I want it to be. It’s just me.
Ben’s blog has become one of my favorites. Lately a mix of tech, politics, fediverse, and the IndieWeb.
Here's a question for fellow website-havers / #IndieWeb folks. What's something you would like to do with your site that you haven't done, not because you haven't had the time, but because you're just not sure how to do it?
I've always wanted to add a mini changelog section to each of my posts like what Alex has done here https://muxup.com/2023q1/whats-new-for-risc-v-in-llvm-16. I have a site-wide changelog here https://shellsharks.com/changelog/ and all of my commits are in GitHub, but not sure how I'd use either to create a pagelog...
Celebrating 16 years since I created my first website!
Here's a blog post commemorating this occasion from last year.
https://stefanbohacek.com/blog/15-years-of-running-a-personal-website/
The fourth edition of the "Scrolls" newsletter is live!
https://shellsharks.com/scrolls/scroll/2025-02-21
Enjoy all the usual weekly #IndieWeb, #Fediverse & #Cybersecurity goodness!
Also a reminder that you can subscribe directly to the newsletter via #RSS using this link https://shellsharks.com/feeds/scroll-feed.xml.
Shoutout once more to everyone who has unknowingly contributed something awesome to this week's issue. Here's the credits wall!
@ttntm @darius @artlung @feedle @danirabbit @robb @lunathemoongirl @jcrabapple @donthatedontkill @jcrabapple @atomicpoet @weekinfediverse @liaizon @sheep @jerry @jlsksr @NiwlCraft @phrack @ttscoff @artlung @dreamindani @countablenewt @paulsanders @Em0nM4stodon @_elena @jimfuller @tychotithonus @annie @PagedOut @mihobu @jdp23 @philipp @sophie @ben @balint @fediversereport @jedda @hyde @mbjones @pspaul @vae @axxuy @slash @andypiper @micahflee @me@derekmartin.org
These are the #website #goals for the next month (or 2?):
- aria labels for navigation
- aria labels for the content parsers for the links
- adding wiki content
I find it impossible to argue with the sentiment “The internet is a dying mall. Let’s squat it.” https://ideastore.dev/blog/The-Rad-Web/ from @nim of @octothorpes #TheRadWeb #SmallWeb #IndieWeb
Pushed a whole new design to my personal site! Check it out at https://samclemente.me
#indieweb #buildinpublic #WebDevelopment #Design #technology
Surfing the Web in Reader View
If you are familiar with the Firefox web browser, then I am sure you are familiar with its reader view functionality. Wouldn't be nice if you could surf the entire web in reader view mode only. Well, you can (almost).
#web #webbrowsers #firefox #productivity #readitlater #rss #readerview #indieweb #smallweb #bookmarking
@nim here with an account of teaching a room full of people to make art sites with basic HTML in the former back room of a Lady Footlocker in 2025. https://ideastore.dev/blog/The-Rad-Web/ The radness was greatly enhanced by code and work of @glitchdotcom @stefan @spencerchang and @eleventy #indieweb #webart #ladyfootlocker #octothorpes
The best blogpost I ever shared: https://birming.com/best-blog-post/
@matrix.org has gone from $0 to $561K in recurring revenue in just 2 years. But our expenses run $1.2M/yr. We've burned through reserves and are at a crossroads.
YOU have a role to play in shaping what happens next: matrix.org/blog/2025/02...
#Matrix #IndieWeb #FOSS #OpenSource #Privacy #Security
We're at a crossroads
@matrix has gone from $0 to $561K in recurring revenue in just 2 years. But our expenses run $1.2M/yr.
We've burned through reserves and are at a crossroads.
It's the classic FOSS fundraising problem: use and adoption are at an all-time high, wealthy companies and countries use it, and secure decentralized comms have never been important. And yet, we can't pay our bills.
YOU have a role to play in shaping what comes next: https://matrix.org/blog/2025/02/crossroads/
#Matrix #FOSS #OpenSource #IndieWeb #Fediverse
Open Web Conversations
Ich habe einen neuen Podcast! 🎉
...naja, nicht ganz ☺️
Aber ich darf (neben Courtney Robertson, Dave Lockie und Robert Jacobi) eine Show auf @dothewoo.io hosten!
Knapp 17 Jahre nach der ersten und fast 14 Jahre nach der letzten Episode des OpenWebPodcasts darf ich wieder mit Gästen über das Fediverse, das IndieWeb, das OpenWeb im Allgemeinen und diesmal speziell (aber nicht zwingend) im Kontext von WordPress sprechen.
Same Same But Different: Der Titel ist […]
https://notiz.blog/2025/02/20/open-web-conversations/
Deep Dive Into Sleep Token’s “Sundowning” Album
https://blog.shrediverse.net/posts/deep-dive-into-sleep-tokens-sundowning-album
Um, actually, Kittybox is a dynamic web server, but the HTML it serves as the post content (i.e. the text you are reading right now) is a string stored in the database as part of the MF2-JSON object.
This means that to inject a style in a post, I need to somehow hash the style block and then communicate the CSP hash to the web-server (maybe as a technical property on the HTML blob inside the MF2-JSON I store in the database?).
Parsing the HTML is the hard part, but I guess as I already have a parser for Webmention processing, I could reuse the same parser for that. Storing the hashes somewhere and injecting them into the post is also not easy, as I'd have to combine two CSP headers into one (subsequent CSP headers can only restrict the policy). This should probably be done on middleware layer, I guess.
In other words, I'm lazy! ✨ (For now. Until it hurts too much and I'll bite the bullet)
Did some SVG for my web garden as a little treat.
Blog Questions Challenge: TV Shows
stevenbrady.com/blog-questions…
@jcrabapple @blog_challenge #IndieWeb #Blogger