--- NEW BLOG POST ---

🆕 I actually had to use algebra at work one time

💬 After trying and failing to dust off my knowledge of trigonometry, I had to re-learn linear equations and algebraic systems of equations in order to solve a problem at work. I swear this was not an interview question.

https://www.wavebeem.com/toybox/fun-algebra/

#IndieWeb #Blog #JavaScript

Scott Lynch in his newsletter:

I have decided to post every short story I’ve ever written (once rights exclusivity periods or other arrangements for them expire, for those that haven’t already) on my website, for free, in perpetuity, at the same time I make them available as e-books. Many of them are available elsewhere for free already. I just want to centralize the archive.

Feels like a very IndieWeb-y statement. And more authors when self-publishing are fine with DRM-free, which is also great.

HTTP content negotiation was a mistake. The perceived wins are always overshadowed by all the new problems. I’ve long thought a slimmed down ActivityPub without content negotiation and without JSON-LD would be so much nicer. Sorry folks! Controversial hot take but it’s true. 🤪

🔗 This page is under construction via @sophie #Development #Indieweb #Webdev #Blogging

If you take just one thing away from this article, I want it to be this: please build your own website. A little home on the independent web.

https://localghost.dev/blog/this-page-is-under-construction/

"Something funny happened the other day when I was visiting a family member at the hospital: I was walking back to the foyer from their room, and a robot wheeled right by me." #indieweb

https://rldane.space/technology-has-promised-so-much-has-delivered-so-much-and-yet-im-horrified.html

🤖 There’s a new post on Michael Burkhardt’s Whirled Wide Web:

Imua

#Weeknotes #IndieWeb

https://mihobu.lol/weeknotes-week-08-2025

Indieweb Assimilation - Comment ne pas en parler, pour aller beaucoup plus loin, la liste d'outils de découverte #indieweb de @shellsharks avec un guide du débutant pour savoir ce que ça représente. Si des copaines sont interessé·es sans savoir par où commencer, envoyez-leur ce lien.

https://shellsharks.com/indieweb

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Ça fait un bon moment que je n'ai pas fait de #linkdump ! Et comme je suis en train de travailler un article sur le sujet, je vous propose ce fil 🧵 de liens par lesquels découvrir des sites et blogs personnels, indépendants, humains. De quoi commencer son voyage, (re)lier le web, et défaire le Dead Internet.

Liens dans le thread ⬇️

Thread 1/7

#personalsites #blog #indieweb #handcraftedwebsite

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
→ 🔮


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
#Cybersecurity #socialMedia #Mastodon #fediverse #indieweb #100PostsOfIndieWeb #100Posts #cyber #security

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
→ 🔮


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