Your periodic reminder that you should consider starting a blog if you have something you want to say.
Or, if you don't know what you want to say yet, start following some blogs. Take a stroll in the less charted corners of the web - start on one blog and if they're not for you, see if they have a blogroll and follow the strands of the world wide web. Have an adventure out there - who knows what you'll find.
And leave the "walled gardens" behind. See here for why:
https://www.joanwestenberg.com/why-personal-websites-matter-more-than-ever
The web used to be wild. It still is, but it needs more wild and less commercial algorithm based content and ai slop. Plant something - join the world wild web and watch it continue to grow.
Working on some ActivityPub tweaks today, finally added some code to handle Question objects / polls. It was confusing to not have the context for these posts from Mastodon before. They look like this in the Micro.blog timeline now:
Personally I don’t use polls. I’ll revisit doing more later.
--- 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.
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
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
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
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
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.
--- 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