"The #fediverse won’t succeed just because it’s better. It will succeed if and only if people choose it. If they reject the idea that being trapped in someone else’s ecosystem is just the cost of existing online. If they stop believing that “free” means surrendering ownership of your own connections, your own history, your own data. The #internet was built to connect us, not silo us to pad a wealth-extremist’s bank account." (#westenberg)
#bigtech #openweb #indieweb
https://www.joanwestenberg.com/the-fediverse-isnt-the-future-its-the-present-weve-been-denied/

I'm procrastinating right now. So, I wrote a post about procrastinating.

https://shellsharks.com/i-am-procrastinating

Now, I'm procrasti-tooting about my procrasti-blogging.

Wanna procrastinate with me by reading the post? You can tell me what you thought about it so I can procrasti-read and procrasti-respond to your comments.

Thanks!

#indieweb #blogging

'tis Friday, so I've published the latest edition of the 'Scrolls' newsletter. Check it out and lemme know what ya think!

https://shellsharks.com/scrolls/scroll/2025-03-07

#indieweb #fediverse #cybersecurity #infosec

Thanks to everyone who's content or stuff-they-shared helped make this week's edition so great!

@Kaiern @askDNA @Weld @ben @axxuy @maxsidman @podfeet @Daojoan @ChrisHardie @indieaisle @davey_cakes @wuchta @faker @hyde @Daojoan @cernezan @Flipboard @chaosresearchparty @cdevroe @sainthood @daj @atomicpoet @nannnsss @felixthehat @matt @joel @beejjorgensen @firstdotorg @pfefferle @theresmiling

Is there any account of individual, or small, independent website's and cyber social spaces that were shutdown by their owners/administrators citing perceived threats by #GDPR?
#indieweb #self-hosting

I am a professional maker of sand thoughts
#Programmer #Technology #Developer #Apps #IndieWeb

A persistent need in web development is to solve the problem of a footer that's not at a the foot. A main content area that's not tall doesn't push the footer down to the bottom. Here's one solution, inspired by a request in #IndieWeb chat this morning. #webdev https://lab.artlung.com/mid-air-footer/

i'm asking once again.
should i leave fedi and/or delete portfolio/blog site?
i really have reasons...

(for now changed domain of that site so crap isn't visible here)

#AskFedi #meta #WebDev #Blog #ai #Coding #Fediverse #indieweb #opensource #ethics #inconsistency

del both
del fedi
del site
don't del (risky)

⁉️ I'm interviewing folks interested in my federated link sharing project "linkblocks". If you use a bookmark manager, lemmy / reddit, are.na, or any other app for curating and sharing stuff, I'd love to ask you about your bookmarking needs and dreams.

🗨️ A session takes about 30 minutes in a voice chat. If you're interested, send me a DM!

Boosts appreciated!

#fediverse #selfhosted #indieweb #smallweb #lemmy #reddit

New blogpost out now:
"Mopidy & my new music player server setup at home" :dragn_loaf:

Read it here: https://xaselgio.net/posts/23.mopidy/

#mopidy #MusicPlayerDaemon #selfhosted #indieweb

Question for @artlung if anyone knows it’s you :)

These album images are always 250px wide but variable height. I’m setting the img height atttribute to 250 and leaving out width. This seems to mostly work just fine. Is this the best way to handle it with just HTML but maybe there’s a cool CSS trick where I apply the image to the cover of for example a CD jewel case?

I was thinking max-width stuff for img/div + then maybe a bg image on an element and then absolute the div?

#indieweb #librefm

Added album art to Libre.fm album pages tonight.

Let me know if you see anything weird?

https://libre.fm/artist/Half+Man+Half+Biscuit/album/CSI%3AAmbleside for example

#indieweb #librefm

This one was kinda fun to think and write about. I've attempted to catalog the numerous quirks and peculiar writing mannerisms I have.

https://shellsharks.com/writing-mannerisms

Let me know what you think! If you've ever read anything on my site, has any of these things stood out in particular?

Tell me what quirky writing mannerisms you know *you* have! I'm interested to hear about them.

#indieweb #blogging

I've been thinking for a while about adding comments to my blog by pulling them from other sources (like Mastodon replies) but I figured I was going to have to write some complicated logic to fetch them, save them to a cache, and invalidate them periodically.

I just noticed that's the *entire* thing eleventy-fetch already does! I am very excited to try this out sometime soon.

https://www.11ty.dev/docs/plugins/fetch/

#11ty #WebDev #IndieWeb

Introduction

Doing an #introduction as I'm new to Friendica, which is quickly becoming one of my favorite ways to engage with the fediverse, and friendica.world. I'm always happy to meet people with similar interests, so feel free to boost / share!

I'm a human who loves weird art, all sorts of music (from Hindustani to Death Metal), tech, sunny days, green hills, incense, tea, spirits, soft couches, cats, and books. I'm a prolific vegan cook, and I design, code, write, play games, and produce, write, and play music for fun.

Some relevant tags are: #ADHD #arch #atheist #chicago #design #endeavouros #exmo #ExMormon #FLOSS #FOSS #GNU #incense #indieweb #introductionspost #KDE #LGBT #libregraphics #leftist #linux #music #scotland #tea #TransRights #trombone #vegan #vegancooking #webdev #writing

Recently, there was this insightful interview in our local newspaper that I found really interesting and seemed almost philosophical to me. So I decided to curate and share some passages.

https://dominikhofer.me/zooming-out

#people #philosophy #history #indieweb

I'm a bit obsessed with working on my website currently. And inspired by all the fantastic personal websites I'm finding. So here's another update to my website:
I added three pages: a sitemap, a page where I want to collect all the single pages I want to make, and one such single page.
I also put the change log on my
homepage into a scrollable box. I'm not super happy with how it looks, but I do like a scrollable box thing.
I am feeling a bigger re-design coming... I have ideas, but don't know when I'll actually sit down to try it out. I have some ideas of single pages first.

#personalWebsite #neocities #smallWeb #personalWeb #indieWeb