{
    "type": "entry",
    "author": {
        "name": "#indieweb",
        "url": "https://mastodon.social/tags/indieweb",
        "photo": null
    },
    "url": "https://mastodon.social/@balint/114054640643194684",
    "content": {
        "html": "<p>Made a custom 404 page for my personal site today to get my mind off\u2026things</p><p><a href=\"https://balintmagyar.com/404.html\"><span>https://</span><span>balintmagyar.com/404.html</span><span></span></a></p><p><a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/IndieWeb\">#<span>IndieWeb</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/SmallWeb\">#<span>SmallWeb</span></a></p>",
        "text": "Made a custom 404 page for my personal site today to get my mind off\u2026things\n\nhttps://balintmagyar.com/404.html\n\n#IndieWeb #SmallWeb"
    },
    "published": "2025-02-23T18:35:03+00:00",
    "post-type": "note",
    "_id": "43992246",
    "_source": "8007",
    "_is_read": false
}

{
    "type": "entry",
    "author": {
        "name": "#indieweb",
        "url": "https://mastodon.social/tags/indieweb",
        "photo": null
    },
    "url": "https://mementomori.social/@james/114054609376824839",
    "content": {
        "html": "<p>\"Sometimes a role model repels us and sometimes it draws us in.\" <a href=\"https://mementomori.social/tags/indieweb\">#<span>indieweb</span></a>, <a href=\"https://mementomori.social/tags/hiddenconnections\">#<span>hiddenconnections</span></a></p><p><a href=\"https://kiko.io/post/You-will-never-know-whose-butterfly-you-were/\"><span>https://</span><span>kiko.io/post/You-will-never-kn</span><span>ow-whose-butterfly-you-were/</span></a></p>",
        "text": "\"Sometimes a role model repels us and sometimes it draws us in.\" #indieweb, #hiddenconnections\n\nhttps://kiko.io/post/You-will-never-know-whose-butterfly-you-were/"
    },
    "published": "2025-02-23T18:27:06+00:00",
    "post-type": "note",
    "_id": "43992247",
    "_source": "8007",
    "_is_read": false
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    "type": "entry",
    "author": {
        "name": "#indieweb",
        "url": "https://mastodon.social/tags/indieweb",
        "photo": null
    },
    "url": "https://fosstodon.org/@JanMiksovsky/114054504696415940",
    "content": {
        "html": "<p><span class=\"h-card\"><a class=\"u-url\" href=\"https://social.lol/@nsmsn\">@<span>nsmsn</span></a></span> recently launched a personal site he rebuilt with <a href=\"https://fosstodon.org/tags/WebOrigami\">#<span>WebOrigami</span></a>: <a href=\"https://www.nicksimson.com/posts/2025-ye-olde-blogging-questions-challenge\"><span>https://www.</span><span>nicksimson.com/posts/2025-ye-o</span><span>lde-blogging-questions-challenge</span></a></p><p>By design Origami\u2019s audience includes creative people that don\u2019t think of themselves as engineers, or primarily as engineers. It\u2019s gratifying that Nick \u201cwas able to get this to work the way [his] brain works\u201d and that he finds it fun to use. <a href=\"https://fosstodon.org/tags/indieweb\">#<span>indieweb</span></a></p>\n<a class=\"u-mention\" href=\"https://social.lol/@nsmsn\"></a>",
        "text": "@nsmsn recently launched a personal site he rebuilt with #WebOrigami: https://www.nicksimson.com/posts/2025-ye-olde-blogging-questions-challenge\n\nBy design Origami\u2019s audience includes creative people that don\u2019t think of themselves as engineers, or primarily as engineers. It\u2019s gratifying that Nick \u201cwas able to get this to work the way [his] brain works\u201d and that he finds it fun to use. #indieweb"
    },
    "published": "2025-02-23T18:00:28+00:00",
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    "post-type": "photo",
    "_id": "43991969",
    "_source": "8007",
    "_is_read": false
}

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    "type": "entry",
    "author": {
        "name": "#indieweb",
        "url": "https://mastodon.social/tags/indieweb",
        "photo": null
    },
    "url": "https://social.mkj.earth/@mkj/114054453652732215",
    "content": {
        "html": "<p>There! My web site and little corner of the World Wild Web now has a dark mode, too, for those who prefer that. \ud83c\udf1a</p><p>It keys off of the visitor's browser preference (using a CSS prefers-color-scheme media query) so should work readily without requiring any special action from anyone.</p><p>Also a few other usability and appearance tweaks including easier-to-hit targets on mobile and some font adjustments, and two brand new pages.</p><p><a href=\"https://michael.kjorling.se/\"><span>https://</span><span>michael.kjorling.se/</span><span></span></a></p><p><a href=\"https://social.mkj.earth/tags/PersonalWebSite\">#<span>PersonalWebSite</span></a> <a href=\"https://social.mkj.earth/tags/WebSite\">#<span>WebSite</span></a> <a href=\"https://social.mkj.earth/tags/DarkMode\">#<span>DarkMode</span></a> <a href=\"https://social.mkj.earth/tags/IndieWeb\">#<span>IndieWeb</span></a></p>",
        "text": "There! My web site and little corner of the World Wild Web now has a dark mode, too, for those who prefer that. \ud83c\udf1a\n\nIt keys off of the visitor's browser preference (using a CSS prefers-color-scheme media query) so should work readily without requiring any special action from anyone.\n\nAlso a few other usability and appearance tweaks including easier-to-hit targets on mobile and some font adjustments, and two brand new pages.\n\nhttps://michael.kjorling.se/\n\n#PersonalWebSite #WebSite #DarkMode #IndieWeb"
    },
    "published": "2025-02-23T17:47:29+00:00",
    "post-type": "note",
    "_id": "43991891",
    "_source": "8007",
    "_is_read": false
}

{
    "type": "entry",
    "author": {
        "name": "#indieweb",
        "url": "https://mastodon.social/tags/indieweb",
        "photo": null
    },
    "url": "https://shellsharks.social/@shellsharks/114053962850540983",
    "content": {
        "html": "<p>I spent last night writing about the things on my site that I am the most proud of <a href=\"https://shellsharks.com/devlog/build-then-smile\"><span>https://</span><span>shellsharks.com/devlog/build-t</span><span>hen-smile</span></a></p><p>The <a href=\"https://shellsharks.social/tags/IndieWeb\">#<span>IndieWeb</span></a> allows us to express ourselves in many ways, through our writing, through our site aesthetics, etc... over the last 5 years+ I've built a place on the web that I really enjoy hanging out at. So for everyone out there similarly building a digital \"home\" on the web, remember to look back and smile at what you've accomplished!</p>",
        "text": "I spent last night writing about the things on my site that I am the most proud of https://shellsharks.com/devlog/build-then-smile\n\nThe #IndieWeb allows us to express ourselves in many ways, through our writing, through our site aesthetics, etc... over the last 5 years+ I've built a place on the web that I really enjoy hanging out at. So for everyone out there similarly building a digital \"home\" on the web, remember to look back and smile at what you've accomplished!"
    },
    "published": "2025-02-23T15:42:40+00:00",
    "post-type": "note",
    "_id": "43990938",
    "_source": "8007",
    "_is_read": false
}

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    "type": "entry",
    "author": {
        "name": "#indieweb",
        "url": "https://mastodon.social/tags/indieweb",
        "photo": null
    },
    "url": "https://mastodon.me.uk/@coffeenow/114053765069621073",
    "content": {
        "html": "<p>Building an IndieWeb house (I): introduction<br /><a href=\"https://coffeenow.moomop.uk/post/2025/02/indieweb-i/\"><span>https://</span><span>coffeenow.moomop.uk/post/2025/</span><span>02/indieweb-i/</span></a></p><p><a href=\"https://mastodon.me.uk/tags/blog\">#<span>blog</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.me.uk/tags/blogging\">#<span>blogging</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.me.uk/tags/IndieWeb\">#<span>IndieWeb</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.me.uk/tags/SmallWeb\">#<span>SmallWeb</span></a></p><p>Part I of a write up of a talk I gave on \u2018Building an IndieWeb house: the why and hows of Coffee Now\u2019. Covers what is the IndieWeb, what is a website and writing in markdown.</p>",
        "text": "Building an IndieWeb house (I): introduction\nhttps://coffeenow.moomop.uk/post/2025/02/indieweb-i/\n\n#blog #blogging #IndieWeb #SmallWeb\n\nPart I of a write up of a talk I gave on \u2018Building an IndieWeb house: the why and hows of Coffee Now\u2019. Covers what is the IndieWeb, what is a website and writing in markdown."
    },
    "published": "2025-02-23T14:52:22+00:00",
    "post-type": "note",
    "_id": "43990368",
    "_source": "8007",
    "_is_read": false
}

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    "type": "entry",
    "author": {
        "name": "#indieweb",
        "url": "https://mastodon.social/tags/indieweb",
        "photo": null
    },
    "url": "https://social.tchncs.de/@kaffeeringe/114053151472918687",
    "content": {
        "html": "<p>\"Social media sucks - Writing for myself again\" -- <span class=\"h-card\"><a class=\"u-url\" href=\"https://indieweb.social/@marclittlemore\">@<span>marclittlemore</span></a></span> <a href=\"https://www.marclittlemore.com/writing-again/\"><span>https://www.</span><span>marclittlemore.com/writing-aga</span><span>in/</span></a></p><p><a href=\"https://social.tchncs.de/tags/indieweb\">#<span>indieweb</span></a> <a href=\"https://social.tchncs.de/tags/blogging\">#<span>blogging</span></a> <a href=\"https://social.tchncs.de/tags/blog\">#<span>blog</span></a></p>\n<a class=\"u-mention\" href=\"https://indieweb.social/@marclittlemore\"></a>",
        "text": "\"Social media sucks - Writing for myself again\" -- @marclittlemore https://www.marclittlemore.com/writing-again/\n\n#indieweb #blogging #blog"
    },
    "published": "2025-02-23T12:16:20+00:00",
    "post-type": "note",
    "_id": "43989268",
    "_source": "8007",
    "_is_read": false
}

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    "type": "entry",
    "author": {
        "name": "#indieweb",
        "url": "https://mastodon.social/tags/indieweb",
        "photo": null
    },
    "url": "https://social.tchncs.de/@kaffeeringe/114053089228903810",
    "content": {
        "html": "<p>Lass Dich inspirieren - <br />Dieser Link bringt dich zu einem zuf\u00e4llig ausgew\u00e4hlten Blogpost:<br /><a href=\"https://indieblog.page/random\"><span>https://</span><span>indieblog.page/random</span><span></span></a></p><p><a href=\"https://social.tchncs.de/tags/indieweb\">#<span>indieweb</span></a></p>",
        "text": "Lass Dich inspirieren - \nDieser Link bringt dich zu einem zuf\u00e4llig ausgew\u00e4hlten Blogpost:\nhttps://indieblog.page/random\n\n#indieweb"
    },
    "published": "2025-02-23T12:00:30+00:00",
    "post-type": "note",
    "_id": "43989269",
    "_source": "8007",
    "_is_read": false
}

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    "type": "entry",
    "author": {
        "name": "#indieweb",
        "url": "https://mastodon.social/tags/indieweb",
        "photo": null
    },
    "url": "https://thoresson.social/@anders/114053040941317180",
    "content": {
        "html": "<p>For years (we are talking well over a decade here) I've tried to get a smooth workflow for discovery, reading, posting, sharing thoughts online. </p><p>And thanks to <a href=\"https://thoresson.social/tags/RSS\">#<span>RSS</span></a>, my <a href=\"https://thoresson.social/tags/remarkable2\">#<span>remarkable2</span></a>, Apple Shortcuts, <span class=\"h-card\"><a class=\"u-url\" href=\"https://indieapps.space/@drafts\">@<span>drafts</span></a></span>, <a href=\"https://thoresson.social/tags/Obsidian\">#<span>Obsidian</span></a>, <span class=\"h-card\"><a class=\"u-url\" href=\"https://mastodon.online/@ia\">@<span>ia</span></a></span>, <span class=\"h-card\"><a class=\"u-url\" href=\"https://fosstodon.org/@eleventy\">@<span>eleventy</span></a></span>, and <span class=\"h-card\"><a class=\"u-url\" href=\"https://bird.makeup/users/n8n_io\">@<span>n8n_io</span></a></span>  I'm finally getting there! Still some small annoyances to fix, but I'm getting there!</p><p><a href=\"https://thoresson.social/tags/indieweb\">#<span>indieweb</span></a> <a href=\"https://thoresson.social/tags/posse\">#<span>posse</span></a></p>\n<a class=\"u-mention\" href=\"https://bird.makeup/users/n8n_io\"></a>\n<a class=\"u-mention\" href=\"https://fosstodon.org/@eleventy\"></a>\n<a class=\"u-mention\" href=\"https://indieapps.space/@drafts\"></a>\n<a class=\"u-mention\" href=\"https://mastodon.online/@ia\"></a>",
        "text": "For years (we are talking well over a decade here) I've tried to get a smooth workflow for discovery, reading, posting, sharing thoughts online. \n\nAnd thanks to #RSS, my #remarkable2, Apple Shortcuts, @drafts, #Obsidian, @ia, @eleventy, and @n8n_io  I'm finally getting there! Still some small annoyances to fix, but I'm getting there!\n\n#indieweb #posse"
    },
    "published": "2025-02-23T11:48:13+00:00",
    "post-type": "note",
    "_id": "43989270",
    "_source": "8007",
    "_is_read": false
}

{
    "type": "entry",
    "author": {
        "name": "#indieweb",
        "url": "https://mastodon.social/tags/indieweb",
        "photo": null
    },
    "url": "https://mastodon.social/@susam/114053010670396890",
    "content": {
        "html": "<p>The IndieWeb Doesn't Need to \"Take Off\": <a href=\"https://susam.net/indieweb-does-not-need-to-take-off.html\"><span>https://</span><span>susam.net/indieweb-does-not-ne</span><span>ed-to-take-off.html</span></a></p><p><a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/blog\">#<span>blog</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/post\">#<span>post</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/indieweb\">#<span>indieweb</span></a></p>",
        "text": "The IndieWeb Doesn't Need to \"Take Off\": https://susam.net/indieweb-does-not-need-to-take-off.html\n\n#blog #post #indieweb"
    },
    "published": "2025-02-23T11:40:31+00:00",
    "photo": [
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    "post-type": "photo",
    "_id": "43989089",
    "_source": "8007",
    "_is_read": false
}

{
    "type": "entry",
    "author": {
        "name": "#indieweb",
        "url": "https://mastodon.social/tags/indieweb",
        "photo": null
    },
    "url": "https://indieweb.social/@elgg/114052722246234556",
    "content": {
        "html": "<p>Discover the <a href=\"https://indieweb.social/tags/IndieWeb\">#<span>IndieWeb</span></a>, one blog post at a time</p><p><a href=\"https://indieblog.page\"><span>https://</span><span>indieblog.page</span><span></span></a></p>",
        "text": "Discover the #IndieWeb, one blog post at a time\n\nhttps://indieblog.page"
    },
    "published": "2025-02-23T10:27:10+00:00",
    "post-type": "note",
    "_id": "43988693",
    "_source": "8007",
    "_is_read": false
}

{
    "type": "entry",
    "author": {
        "name": "#indieweb",
        "url": "https://mastodon.social/tags/indieweb",
        "photo": null
    },
    "url": "https://mementomori.social/@james/114051899089667063",
    "content": {
        "html": "<p>\"Despite hating all these places, ads, and garbage interactions between weirdos and robots, i don\u2019t think i\u2019ll be leaving anything anytime soon.\"</p><p><a href=\"https://sliceofplant.com/blog/online-kinda-sucks\"><span>https://</span><span>sliceofplant.com/blog/online-k</span><span>inda-sucks</span></a> <a href=\"https://mementomori.social/tags/indieweb\">#<span>indieweb</span></a> <a href=\"https://mementomori.social/tags/roteconomy\">#<span>roteconomy</span></a></p>",
        "text": "\"Despite hating all these places, ads, and garbage interactions between weirdos and robots, i don\u2019t think i\u2019ll be leaving anything anytime soon.\"\n\nhttps://sliceofplant.com/blog/online-kinda-sucks #indieweb #roteconomy"
    },
    "published": "2025-02-23T06:57:50+00:00",
    "post-type": "note",
    "_id": "43987503",
    "_source": "8007",
    "_is_read": false
}

{
    "type": "entry",
    "author": {
        "name": "#indieweb",
        "url": "https://mastodon.social/tags/indieweb",
        "photo": null
    },
    "url": "https://tilde.zone/@hyperreal/114051260657227636",
    "content": {
        "html": "<p>I'm going to create a section on my website for links to really cool people on the interwebz who have independent websites (IndieWeb, etc). Sort of like a blogroll but for indie websites.</p><p><a href=\"https://tilde.zone/tags/indieweb\">#<span>indieweb</span></a></p>",
        "text": "I'm going to create a section on my website for links to really cool people on the interwebz who have independent websites (IndieWeb, etc). Sort of like a blogroll but for indie websites.\n\n#indieweb"
    },
    "published": "2025-02-23T04:15:28+00:00",
    "post-type": "note",
    "_id": "43986848",
    "_source": "8007",
    "_is_read": false
}

{
    "type": "entry",
    "author": {
        "name": "#indieweb",
        "url": "https://mastodon.social/tags/indieweb",
        "photo": null
    },
    "url": "https://mastodon.social/@readbeanicecream/114050663310643660",
    "content": {
        "html": "<p><span class=\"h-card\"><a class=\"u-url\" href=\"https://phpc.social/@davidbisset\">@<span>davidbisset</span></a></span> It's like <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/stumbleupon\">#<span>stumbleupon</span></a> but for <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/indieweb\">#<span>indieweb</span></a></p><p><a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/socialmedia\">#<span>socialmedia</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/butbetter\">#<span>butbetter</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/smallweb\">#<span>smallweb</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/blogging\">#<span>blogging</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/blogger\">#<span>blogger</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/personalwebsite\">#<span>personalwebsite</span></a></p>\n<a class=\"u-mention\" href=\"https://phpc.social/@davidbisset\"></a>",
        "text": "@davidbisset It's like #stumbleupon but for #indieweb\n\n#socialmedia #butbetter #smallweb #blogging #blogger #personalwebsite"
    },
    "published": "2025-02-23T01:43:33+00:00",
    "post-type": "note",
    "_id": "43986152",
    "_source": "8007",
    "_is_read": false
}

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    "type": "entry",
    "author": {
        "name": "#indieweb",
        "url": "https://mastodon.social/tags/indieweb",
        "photo": null
    },
    "url": "https://mastodon.social/@h4ckernews/114050494856706231",
    "content": {
        "html": "<p>Discover the IndieWeb, one blog post at a time \u2014 <a href=\"https://indieblog.page\"><span>https://</span><span>indieblog.page</span><span></span></a><br /><a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/HackerNews\">#<span>HackerNews</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/IndieWeb\">#<span>IndieWeb</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/Blogging\">#<span>Blogging</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/WebDevelopment\">#<span>WebDevelopment</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/OnlineCommunity\">#<span>OnlineCommunity</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/DigitalIdentity\">#<span>DigitalIdentity</span></a></p>",
        "text": "Discover the IndieWeb, one blog post at a time \u2014 https://indieblog.page\n#HackerNews #IndieWeb #Blogging #WebDevelopment #OnlineCommunity #DigitalIdentity"
    },
    "published": "2025-02-23T01:00:43+00:00",
    "post-type": "note",
    "_id": "43985941",
    "_source": "8007",
    "_is_read": false
}

Blog questions challenge

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    "type": "entry",
    "author": {
        "name": "Paul Robert Lloyd",
        "url": "https://paulrobertlloyd.com",
        "photo": null
    },
    "url": "https://paulrobertlloyd.com/2025/053/a1/blog_questions_challenge/",
    "published": "2025-02-22T18:40:00+00:00",
    "content": {
        "html": "<p>I\u2019d been meaning to do this chain-letter-like <a href=\"https://kevquirk.com/blog/blog-questions-challenge\">challenge</a>, but found enough excuses not to. But then <a href=\"https://sallylait.com/blog/2025/02/16/blog-questions-challenge/\">Sally tagged me</a>, so here I am with a meta blog post about blogging.</p><h2>Why did you start blogging?</h2><p>I\u2019m slightly envious of those who can point to their very first blog post. My blog emerged from an area on the homepage of my previous site (cringingly called LloydyWeb) that gave short, monthly updates. It only became more blog-like because the people I was following online were doing the same.</p><p>I moved my site to <code>paulrobertlloyd.com</code> in 2008, and <a href=\"https://paulrobertlloyd.com/2008/274/a1/taking_flight/\">the first post</a> outlined some early motivations:</p><blockquote><p>My previous site had a very personal bias, yet in retrospect the most interesting posts were those not about my own life, but commentary and thoughts on topics that interested me in the news and the world around me. As I move to this new (and more grown-up sounding) domain, so I would like to spend more time writing about these subjects.</p></blockquote><p>I\u2019m not sure the mix of topics ever really changed, or if that matters. This is a personal website, after all.</p><p>My second post was a write-up of my trip on the <a href=\"https://paulrobertlloyd.com/2008/267/a1/california_zephyr/\">California Zephyr</a>, and it\u2019s short <a href=\"https://paulrobertlloyd.com/categories/travel/\">travelogues</a> like this that form the bulk of my writing today. I also enjoy writing about <a href=\"https://paulrobertlloyd.com/categories/architecture/\">architecture</a> and <a href=\"https://paulrobertlloyd.com/categories/design/\">design</a>, and while there are posts about <a href=\"https://paulrobertlloyd.com/categories/web/\">the web</a>, more often these about the things I\u2019m doing on it, rather than anything about the specific technologies behind it.</p><h2>What platform are you using to manage your blog and why did you choose it?</h2><p>Like many others, I use <a href=\"https://www.11ty.dev/\">Eleventy</a>. I\u2019ve been using this static site generator since 2018, but that\u2019s not to say my head hasn\u2019t been turned. Eleventy is a remarkable piece of software, though I find it to be fiddly at times, undoubtedly the result of me using it to build a website that really should use a database in places.</p><p><a href=\"https://paulrobertlloyd.com/2023/054/a1/lume/\">I was considering moving to Lume</a>. This is a static site generator that credits Eleventy as inspiration, but avoids many of its pitfalls; <a href=\"https://lume.land/docs/core/searching/\">pagination is much more flexible in Lume</a>, for example.</p><p>I ended up aborting that move, mainly due to it requiring Deno. Building atop <a href=\"https://dbushell.com/2024/08/05/the-deno-package-paradox/\">a venture-backed runtime</a> seems like risky long-term bet. Meanwhile Node.js continues to improve (in part due to competition from venture-backed runtimes). If Lume were to support Node, I\u2019d move in a heartbeat. It\u2019s also possible that I\u2019ll still be using Eleventy in eleventy years time.</p><h2>Have you blogged on other platforms before?</h2><p>I covered this when I <a href=\"https://paulrobertlloyd.com/2023/054/a1/lume/\">wrote about moving to Lume</a>, so won\u2019t rehash the same history here. But in short, after a few months using Blogger I moved to <a href=\"https://www.movabletype.org/\">Movable Type</a> in 2004, doggedly sticking with that platform until 2015. I then used <a href=\"https://jekyllrb.com/\">Jekyll</a> before choosing Eleventy in 2018.</p><p>Some choices remain steadfast: always static, never a database and absolutely never WordPress \u2013 a decision that has proven itself many times over, and especially recently.</p><h2>How do you write your posts?</h2><p>I begin longer posts in <a href=\"https://ia.net/writer\">iA Writer</a> before moving to Visual Studio Code where I can tweak and fiddle while previewing locally before committing to git.</p><p>For shorter posts I use <a href=\"https://getindiekit.com/\">Indiekit</a>. I can use its own posting interface or its Micropub endpoint which allows me to post from <a href=\"https://micro.blog/\">Micro.blog</a>\u2019s apps.</p><p>I dearly wish more applications would support <a href=\"https://micropub.spec.indieweb.org/\">Micropub</a>. Funnily enough, iA Writer supports Micropub, though I\u2019ve yet been able to summon the courage to post from it. That might be because I can\u2019t see how a post will look on my website. If only <a href=\"https://redsweater.com/marsedit/\">MarsEdit</a> would add support for Micropub\u2026</p><h2>When do you feel most inspired to write?</h2><p>Annoyance has always been my greatest motivator, and many posts have started out as a comment, a tweet or shorter note.</p><p>This is best exemplified by <a href=\"https://haiprl.andyhiggs.uk/\">How Annoyed Is Paul Robert Lloyd</a>, a satirical tool my friend Andy Higgs built to crowd-source an analysis of my tweets to determine how annoyed I was.</p><img src=\"https://paulrobertlloyd.com/media/2025/053/a1/haiprl_screenshot.png\" alt=\"Screenshot of \u2018How Annoyed Is Paul Robert Lloyd\u2019.\" />My annoyance has to escalate through to fatalities before writing a blog post.<p>Andy resurrected the site a few years ago, and it now pulls in notes I\u2019ve cross-posted to Micro.blog. However, this tool was more a reflection on how Twitter encouraged pithy moans, with only the most enraging topics being allowed more thoughtful consideration in longer form.</p><p>Today, a <a href=\"https://paulrobertlloyd.com/categories/railways/\">railway adventure</a>, <a href=\"https://paulrobertlloyd.com/2023/106/a1/birmingham/\">building redevelopment</a> or <a href=\"https://paulrobertlloyd.com/categories/television/\">television show</a> may elicit a blog post, but there\u2019s much less ire.</p><h2>Do you publish immediately after writing, or do you let it simmer a bit as a draft?</h2><p>There\u2019s no point hanging about! I find it best to get a post written in one sitting if I can, else it\u2019ll languish forever in the dreaded drafts folder. But if anything I\u2019ve written might be controversial, painful experience has taught me to get a second opinion before publishing.</p><h2>What\u2019s your favourite post on your blog?</h2><p>There\u2019s no way I can pick one! Riffing of Sally\u2019s post a little, here a few favourites grouped by topic:</p><h3>Personal ones</h3><ul><li><a href=\"https://paulrobertlloyd.com/2018/068/a1/walsall/\">Wallowing in Walsall</a></li><li><a href=\"https://paulrobertlloyd.com/2018/058/a1/move_slowly_and_fix_things/\">Moving slowly and fixing things</a></li><li><a href=\"https://paulrobertlloyd.com/2015/341/a1/peaceful_reflection/\">Peaceful reflection</a> (originally published on the long since departed Pastry Box Project website)</li></ul><p>And of course, my <a href=\"https://paulrobertlloyd.com/collections/year_in_review/\">end of year reviews</a>.</p><h3>Travel ones</h3><ul><li><a href=\"https://paulrobertlloyd.com/2019/245/a1/brighton_to_lisbon/\">Brighton to Lisbon by train</a></li><li><a href=\"https://paulrobertlloyd.com/2017/206/a1/le_havre/\">A summer in Le Havre</a></li><li><a href=\"https://paulrobertlloyd.com/2011/082/a1/san_francisco/\">I never left my heart in San Francisco</a></li></ul><h3>Design ones</h3><ul><li><a href=\"https://paulrobertlloyd.com/2019/019/a1/slacks_new_logo/\">Several people are outraged</a></li><li><a href=\"https://paulrobertlloyd.com/2014/051/a1/olympic_websites/\">Landmark Olympic websites, where art thou?</a></li><li><a href=\"https://paulrobertlloyd.com/2009/271/a1/a_cohesive_and_unified_identity_for_british_government/\">A cohesive and unified identity for British Government</a></li></ul><h3>Architecture ones</h3><ul><li><a href=\"https://paulrobertlloyd.com/2018/276/a1/tempelhof/\">Tempelhof</a></li><li><a href=\"https://paulrobertlloyd.com/2015/210/a1/londons_olympic_stadium/\">London\u2019s Olympic Stadium: A legacy lost</a></li><li><a href=\"https://paulrobertlloyd.com/2011/087/a1/brasilia_palace_hotel/\">The Bras\u00edlia Palace Hotel</a></li></ul><h3>Ranty ones</h3><ul><li><a href=\"https://paulrobertlloyd.com/2016/238/a1/conference_sustainability/\">Conferences shouldn\u2019t cost the Earth</a></li><li><a href=\"https://paulrobertlloyd.com/2012/124/a1/inspiring_nobody/\">Inspiring nobody</a></li><li><a href=\"https://paulrobertlloyd.com/2011/228/a1/change_the_world/\">Change the world</a></li></ul><h2>Any future plans for your blog?</h2><p>With an abandoned redesign still recent memory, and having made a series of subtle updates last year instead, I suspect this may be the direction of travel; continual refinement instead of wholesale reform.</p><p>That said, my home page doesn\u2019t reflect the breadth of what the site has to offer, and was designed for earlier period in my freelance career. I sometimes have thoughts about making this an experimental, ever changing canvas of sorts, where I can go a bit more wild while allowing the rest of the site to remain more structured and restrained.</p><h2>Who\u2019s next?</h2><p>Most people I follow have already answered these questions. But <a href=\"https://roobottom.com/\">Jon</a> hasn\u2019t! If you haven\u2019t either, consider yourself tagged, too.</p><p>Reply via email</p>",
        "text": "I\u2019d been meaning to do this chain-letter-like challenge, but found enough excuses not to. But then Sally tagged me, so here I am with a meta blog post about blogging.Why did you start blogging?I\u2019m slightly envious of those who can point to their very first blog post. My blog emerged from an area on the homepage of my previous site (cringingly called LloydyWeb) that gave short, monthly updates. It only became more blog-like because the people I was following online were doing the same.\n\nI moved my site to paulrobertlloyd.com in 2008, and the first post outlined some early motivations:My previous site had a very personal bias, yet in retrospect the most interesting posts were those not about my own life, but commentary and thoughts on topics that interested me in the news and the world around me. As I move to this new (and more grown-up sounding) domain, so I would like to spend more time writing about these subjects.I\u2019m not sure the mix of topics ever really changed, or if that matters. This is a personal website, after all.\n\nMy second post was a write-up of my trip on the California Zephyr, and it\u2019s short travelogues like this that form the bulk of my writing today. I also enjoy writing about architecture and design, and while there are posts about the web, more often these about the things I\u2019m doing on it, rather than anything about the specific technologies behind it.What platform are you using to manage your blog and why did you choose it?Like many others, I use Eleventy. I\u2019ve been using this static site generator since 2018, but that\u2019s not to say my head hasn\u2019t been turned. Eleventy is a remarkable piece of software, though I find it to be fiddly at times, undoubtedly the result of me using it to build a website that really should use a database in places.\n\nI was considering moving to Lume. This is a static site generator that credits Eleventy as inspiration, but avoids many of its pitfalls; pagination is much more flexible in Lume, for example.\n\nI ended up aborting that move, mainly due to it requiring Deno. Building atop a venture-backed runtime seems like risky long-term bet. Meanwhile Node.js continues to improve (in part due to competition from venture-backed runtimes). If Lume were to support Node, I\u2019d move in a heartbeat. It\u2019s also possible that I\u2019ll still be using Eleventy in eleventy years time.Have you blogged on other platforms before?I covered this when I wrote about moving to Lume, so won\u2019t rehash the same history here. But in short, after a few months using Blogger I moved to Movable Type in 2004, doggedly sticking with that platform until 2015. I then used Jekyll before choosing Eleventy in 2018.\n\nSome choices remain steadfast: always static, never a database and absolutely never WordPress \u2013 a decision that has proven itself many times over, and especially recently.How do you write your posts?I begin longer posts in iA Writer before moving to Visual Studio Code where I can tweak and fiddle while previewing locally before committing to git.\n\nFor shorter posts I use Indiekit. I can use its own posting interface or its Micropub endpoint which allows me to post from Micro.blog\u2019s apps.\n\nI dearly wish more applications would support Micropub. Funnily enough, iA Writer supports Micropub, though I\u2019ve yet been able to summon the courage to post from it. That might be because I can\u2019t see how a post will look on my website. If only MarsEdit would add support for Micropub\u2026When do you feel most inspired to write?Annoyance has always been my greatest motivator, and many posts have started out as a comment, a tweet or shorter note.\n\nThis is best exemplified by How Annoyed Is Paul Robert Lloyd, a satirical tool my friend Andy Higgs built to crowd-source an analysis of my tweets to determine how annoyed I was.My annoyance has to escalate through to fatalities before writing a blog post.Andy resurrected the site a few years ago, and it now pulls in notes I\u2019ve cross-posted to Micro.blog. However, this tool was more a reflection on how Twitter encouraged pithy moans, with only the most enraging topics being allowed more thoughtful consideration in longer form.\n\nToday, a railway adventure, building redevelopment or television show may elicit a blog post, but there\u2019s much less ire.Do you publish immediately after writing, or do you let it simmer a bit as a draft?There\u2019s no point hanging about! I find it best to get a post written in one sitting if I can, else it\u2019ll languish forever in the dreaded drafts folder. But if anything I\u2019ve written might be controversial, painful experience has taught me to get a second opinion before publishing.What\u2019s your favourite post on your blog?There\u2019s no way I can pick one! Riffing of Sally\u2019s post a little, here a few favourites grouped by topic:Personal onesWallowing in WalsallMoving slowly and fixing thingsPeaceful reflection (originally published on the long since departed Pastry Box Project website)And of course, my end of year reviews.Travel onesBrighton to Lisbon by trainA summer in Le HavreI never left my heart in San FranciscoDesign onesSeveral people are outragedLandmark Olympic websites, where art thou?A cohesive and unified identity for British GovernmentArchitecture onesTempelhofLondon\u2019s Olympic Stadium: A legacy lostThe Bras\u00edlia Palace HotelRanty onesConferences shouldn\u2019t cost the EarthInspiring nobodyChange the worldAny future plans for your blog?With an abandoned redesign still recent memory, and having made a series of subtle updates last year instead, I suspect this may be the direction of travel; continual refinement instead of wholesale reform.\n\nThat said, my home page doesn\u2019t reflect the breadth of what the site has to offer, and was designed for earlier period in my freelance career. I sometimes have thoughts about making this an experimental, ever changing canvas of sorts, where I can go a bit more wild while allowing the rest of the site to remain more structured and restrained.Who\u2019s next?Most people I follow have already answered these questions. But Jon hasn\u2019t! If you haven\u2019t either, consider yourself tagged, too.\n\nReply via email"
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        "html": "<p><a href=\"https://indieblog.page/\"><span>https://</span><span>indieblog.page/</span><span></span></a> lets you randomly explore the <a href=\"https://phpc.social/tags/IndieWeb\">#<span>IndieWeb</span></a> by clicking a button and being redirected to a random post from a personal blog.</p>",
        "text": "https://indieblog.page/ lets you randomly explore the #IndieWeb by clicking a button and being redirected to a random post from a personal blog."
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        "html": "<p>Integrated Mastodon Comments</p><p>Commenting on posts directly from Mastodon is now available!</p><p><a href=\"https://readbeanicecream.surge.sh/2025/02/22/integrated-mastodon-comments/\"><span>https://</span><span>readbeanicecream.surge.sh/2025</span><span>/02/22/integrated-mastodon-comments/</span></a></p><p><a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/indieweb\">#<span>indieweb</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/blogging\">#<span>blogging</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/fediverse\">#<span>fediverse</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/mastodon\">#<span>mastodon</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/smallweb\">#<span>smallweb</span></a></p>",
        "text": "Integrated Mastodon Comments\n\nCommenting on posts directly from Mastodon is now available!\n\nhttps://readbeanicecream.surge.sh/2025/02/22/integrated-mastodon-comments/\n\n#indieweb #blogging #fediverse #mastodon #smallweb"
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        "html": "<p>I was browsing some <a href=\"https://indiepocalypse.social/tags/IndieWeb\">#<span>IndieWeb</span></a> sites the other day and found this little thing:</p><p>\"Decentralised, minimalist microblogging service\"</p><p>Haven't tried it yet (I'm not sure if people even still use it), but it looks interesting. It's using simple text files, which it scrapes for new messages.</p><p><a href=\"https://github.com/buckket/twtxt\"><span>https://</span><span>github.com/buckket/twtxt</span><span></span></a></p>",
        "text": "I was browsing some #IndieWeb sites the other day and found this little thing:\n\n\"Decentralised, minimalist microblogging service\"\n\nHaven't tried it yet (I'm not sure if people even still use it), but it looks interesting. It's using simple text files, which it scrapes for new messages.\n\nhttps://github.com/buckket/twtxt"
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        "html": "<p>I really like personal homepages and have quite a list of them bookmarked. I'll post one every week unless I fall behind this schedule. \ud83d\ude09 So here's Cool Personal Homepages <a href=\"https://mastodon.online/tags/CPH\">#<span>CPH</span></a> Vol. 38: \"This is definitely a website\" <a href=\"https://www.pixouls.xyz/\"><span>https://www.</span><span>pixouls.xyz/</span><span></span></a></p><p> <a href=\"https://mastodon.online/tags/SmallWeb\">#<span>SmallWeb</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.online/tags/indieweb\">#<span>indieweb</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.online/tags/smolweb\">#<span>smolweb</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.online/tags/PersonalSites\">#<span>PersonalSites</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.online/tags/homepage\">#<span>homepage</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.online/tags/blog\">#<span>blog</span></a></p>",
        "text": "I really like personal homepages and have quite a list of them bookmarked. I'll post one every week unless I fall behind this schedule. \ud83d\ude09 So here's Cool Personal Homepages #CPH Vol. 38: \"This is definitely a website\" https://www.pixouls.xyz/\n\n #SmallWeb #indieweb #smolweb #PersonalSites #homepage #blog"
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