Every two weeks I proctor a Zoom where we look at #CSS and #HTML and solve #FrontEnd problems as best we can. We call it Front End Study Hall on the #IndieWeb next one? Tomorrow! Join us! https://events.indieweb.org/2025/02/front-end-study-hall-022-Ml4JWHiZeiVt

Last week I published my first Cybersecurity Friday post with three key steps for indieweb cybersecurity. In summary:

1. Email MFA/2FA. Add multi-factor authentication (sometimes called two-factor authentication) to everywhere you store or check email. Do not use phone/cell numbers.
2. Domain Registrar MFA. Add multi-factor authentication to your domain registrar account.
3. Web Host MFA. Same for your web host and any intermediate name servers (DNS) or content delivery network (CDN) service accounts.

Full post: https://tantek.com/2025/052/b1/steps-indieweb-cybersecurity

Next time: entropy is your friend in security.

If you want my #Cybersecurity Friday posts as soon as I publish them, follow my site https://tantek.com/ directly in your reader rather than using #socialMedia or #Mastodon or some other notes-centric #fediverse client.

You can subscribe to my site directly with an h-feed supporting #indieweb Social Reader, or if you use a classic feed reader, it can auto-discover my Atom feed from my home page.

You can also read my article blog posts and those from other Mozillians on the Mozilla Planet:
* https://planet.mozilla.org/
If you look closely you might even find my not-so-secret articles-only Atom feed linked there if you prefer.


This is post 9 of #100PostsOfIndieWeb. #100Posts #cyber #security

https://tantek.com/2025/020/t1/seek-2024-year-in-review
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Glossary

article post
  https://indieweb.org/article
Atom
  https://indieweb.org/Atom
content delivery network
  https://indieweb.org/content_delivery_network
cybersecurity
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/cybersecurity
DNS
  https://indieweb.org/DNS
domain registrar
  https://indieweb.org/domain_registrar
entropy
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entropy_(information_theory)
feed reader
  https://indieweb.org/feed_reader
h-feed
  https://indieweb.org/h-feed
MFA / 2FA
  https://indieweb.org/multi-factor_authentication sometimes called Two Factor Authentication or Second Factor Authentication
mobile number for MFA
  https://indieweb.org/SMS#Criticism
note post
  https://indieweb.org/note
social reader
  https://indieweb.org/social_reader
web host
  https://indieweb.org/web_hosting

i think i will scrap it, so here is a fancy star background i made. the layers here are ordered from bottom to top:

  • colorful noise ("light"): bottom layer. should be fixed if the others scroll, or should scroll if the others are fixed.
  • mostly black ("pinpricks): this layer reveals only some of the pixels from the light layer, creating stars of a variety of shades.
  • black blobby texture ("voids"): this layer covers up even more of the stars, making them less repetitive.

the final image is what the background looks like put together.

if implemented correctly, the stars should twinkle as you scroll!
i like to display all the images at 2x scale, which makes the stars both softer and brighter.

example usage in css:

background:
url('./star-voids.png') center 0 / 146px,
url('./star-pinpricks.png') center 0 / 262px,
url('./star-light.png') fixed center 0 / 146px,
#000;

sorry if mastodon butchers the images somehow. i wouldn't expect it to since it's presumably made by people who are actually smart.

#neocities #indieweb #retro #webcore #webdesign #graphicdesign #css

If not self-hosted, what email providers do people like on the #SmallWeb #indieweb ?

Something I'm really proud of: a CSS-only toggle to enable a "Game Boy Color screen filter"

```
:has(#gbc-filter:checked) img[src*=".gbc."] {
mix-blend-mode: multiply;
filter: saturate(0.8) hue-rotate(-2deg);
}
```

The page background is based on a real photo of a GBC.

#CSS #IndieWeb #Pokemon

--- NEW SHRINE PAGE ---

🆕 Pokémon shrine

💬 My Pokémon shrine is finally ready to be seen! Includes thoughts about Pokémon Type Calculator, Pokémon Blue, and recent screenshots of Pokémon Crystal

https://www.wavebeem.com/shrines/pkmn/

#IndieWeb #Blog #Pokemon

--- NEW BLOG POST ---

🆕 Simulating JS await with generator functions

💬 Did you know that before async functions existed in JS, we simulated them with generator functions? Come with me on a code journey, in which I reveal the relatively short helper function that made it all possible.

https://www.wavebeem.com/blog/2025/js-await-generators/

#Blog #IndieWeb #JavaScript

Le web indépendant souffre d'un problème de découvrabilité de nouveau contenu. Voici deux outils pour découvrir du contenu indépendant de qualité :

- 5 liens de blog #IndieWeb aléatoires dans votre terminal :
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43148408
Cette commande retourne 5 articles aléatoires du catalogue https://indieblog.page/

- le "RSS Discovery Engine", un moteur de recherche qui permet de découvrir les flux RSS de blogs similaires à un site en particulier. https://quakkels.com/posts/rss-is-wonderful/

He visto peña hablando de RSS y quiero aprovechar para recordar que tengo este artículo con una guía para usar RSS (a nivel consumidor).

https://diegologs.com/guia-rss

Si no sabéis que blog seguir también tengo una página de Blogroll en la que recomiendo varios blogs, entre ellos algunos en español (si tenéis blog os animo a crear vuestro propio Blogroll).

https://diegologs.com/blogroll

#blog #blogging #indieweb

Forever a work in progress, I fixed some broken pagination links on my website, added some fantastic art from Olly Costello on the frontpage, and polished it up a bit... take a look! <3
https://nannnsss.omg.lol
#indieweb #personalwebsite #smallweb

Today is one of those days when I wish I had a permanent, full time design/illustration job, a part time job, or even a few jobs with a retainer. Just something regular that I can get my teeth into! Something that has real world impact on sustainability and wellbeing a bonus! (examples of such work in portfolio)

Anyone in the market for a skilled designer with 18 years of industry experience, and is kinda nice as well 😅

https://andycarolan.com

#work #design #indieweb

Of course, if you don't know what "VPN" means (or if you can't be bothered because it reminds you of work too much) that's cool too!
Just pick an instance you feel fine about and remember moving your account to another fedi instance is a thing, and it's not hard to do, so if you no longer feel at home where you are, it is no big deal.

#indieweb #personalwebsite #smallweb #fediverse #gotosocial

Software/IT professionals/enthusiasts/curious: do you have a handful of bucks/quids/euros to spare a month? Can you find your way around ssh?
Then you should consider running your personal fediverse instance, just for yourself: it is honestly pretty damn simple.
Get yourself a tiny VPN (1 cpu/2 GiB RAM is plenty), a domain name if you're felling fancy, and deploy your own @gotosocial server: it's incredibly light, super easy to install and update, and perfectly tailored for single user/tiny instances (and consider sparing some change to the devs, as they really do an awesome job!)

Do you want a sustainable web that's independent from big predatory platforms? Because that's how you get a sustainable web that's independent from big predatory platforms!

#indieweb #personalwebsite #smallweb #fediverse #gotosocial

Surprendido de que nenhum leitor RSS suporte #webmentions (e, em particular, #FreshRSS).

Seria genial poder estar lendo um feed, dar-lhe ao coraçom, e enviar um like à entrada no blogue original.

KrautPress Website Club



@simon hatte eine Idee:

Wir starten Ende Februar eine neue kleine Veranstaltungsreihe: den KrautPress Website Club. Gemeinsam mit Matthias Pfefferle werden wir uns einmal im Monat treffen und ganz im Sinne des WordPress-Mottos „democratize publishing“ zusammen über persönliche Websites sprechen.

...und fand die perfekten Worte um mich zu umgarnen 🫶:

Matthias ist im deutschsprachigen Raum, aber vor allem in der WordPress-Welt, eine der Instanzen zum Thema IndieWeb. Mit […]

https://notiz.blog/2025/02/24/krautpress-website-club/

KrautPress Website Club

This page is under construction - localghost

I see the personal website as being an antidote to the corporate, centralised web. Yeah, sure, it’s probably hosted on someone else’s computer – but it’s a piece of the web that belongs to you. If your host goes down, you can just move it somewhere else, because it’s just HTML.

Sure, it’s not going to fix democracy, or topple the online pillars of capitalism; but it’s making a political statement nonetheless. It says “I want to carve my own space on the web, away from the corporations”. I think this is a radical act. It was when I originally said this in 2022, and I mean it even more today.

#indieweb #personal #publishing #websites #ownership #joy #fun #control #frontend #development #design #personality
#ThreeGoodThings #3GoodThings

- I've been slowly learning more about the #IndieWeb it's really great and the more I read about it, the more excited I get (but also more confused, should I implement #RSS / #Atom / #Activitypub / #webmentions on my blog, all of the above or none?). Also I've discovered some great blogs and dusted off my feed reader.

- I had a new, fresh haircut.

- Yesterday was the first day of the year it was comfortable enough to read a book in the garden, and it was nice and sunny.

today is officially *THREE* weeks until the submission deadline for Good Internet magazine!

Good Internet launches in May 2025. it's a volunteer-run, not-for-profit print and digital quarterly magazine for personal website owners and those interested in using the internet as a means of self-expression, art, and recreation.

🔍 we're looking for 1,500-4,000 word articles about anything related to that!

you could write about:

* #internet history
* personal #websites
* #accessibility on the #indieweb
* finding inspiration for a #blog
* #webdesign trends
* running from the #enshittification of the #web
* lessons or post-mortems from #webdev projects
* news or overviews of #opensource projects

if it relates to hobbies on "this side of the web," whether you call it the #smallweb or indieweb, we probably want to run it!

you can have your article as low-media (meaning only text and images) or interactive, where you code an entire webpage to help tell your story.

if you're interested in learning more, you can sign up for our email list for when we launch or you can check the submission guidelines @ https://goodinternetmagazine.com!

(please boost if you can! <3)