Published new blog entry on my site: https://www.meeknot.es/p/be-daring/

This one is more on the personal side instead of tech so be warned.

#indieweb

What I absolutely adore about the indie/ personal/ small web: Everybody's approach is very different. There are super modern looking websites and there are the ones who seem to come straight out of the 1990's/ early 2000's. There are ones that are specially made to work on the oldest computers. There are ones with and ones without Java Script. Ones made by pro web devs and ones made my people who are just starting to learn the basics. There are people who've been there from the beginning and those who are very new. And everything in between. People of all ages, backgrounds, and walks of life.
In visiting personal websites you are seeing and experiencing the diversity of the world. And it's glorious!

#indieWeb #personalWeb #personalWebsite #smallWeb

Here’s how I really feel about the #IndieWeb “community”. https://davegoesthedistance.com/.well-known/

Common paths for web feeds

Do you follow any #blog about ancient world? Egypt, Rome and so. I’d love to foków some archeologists:-)

#indieweb #SmallWeb

I've just tweaked my main RSS feed to incorporate both articles and micro posts... apologies if doing that flooded your feedreader or timeline like it did mine. #indieweb

https://lee-perry.co.uk/microfeed/2025-03-08-micro

Here's a roundup of some great indie/small web newsletters this week. Most of these were delivered to my RSS reader.

Scrolls by Shellsharks: https://shellsharks.com/scrolls/scroll/2025-03-07
People and Blogs: https://manuelmoreale.com/pb-james
This Week in Self-Hosted: https://selfh.st/newsletter/2025-03-07/

#SmallWeb #IndieWeb

Is there a good, real way to keep search engines from indexing your site? The whole "nobots" thing everyone sticks in their headers, does that actually work?

#WebDev #IndieWeb

ReadBeanIceCream Slash Pages

I recently asked for some tips on improving my site. In doing so, I learned about slash pages.

https://readbeanicecream.surge.sh/2025/03/08/readbeanicecream-slash-pages/

Thanks to @shellsharks for the recommendation!

#indieweb #smallweb #blogging #blogs #bloggers #personalwebsite

+1 journalism

Would love to see some of these move to Ghost, or Buttondown, or other systems that are independent of tech enshittifiers like Substack. I'd bet some already are, do you know of any?

"London Centric is one of perhaps a half-dozen Substacks [sic]—with names like London Spy, The Londoner, Capital Letter, The London Minute—that have sprung up, mostly in the past year or so." https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/letter-from-the-uk/london-is-a-local-news-desert-what-comes-next (also at https://archive.ph/e1u7d ) #London #journalism #IndieWeb

I’ve experimented with print styles on my site. My resume is a PDF printable version of a page on my site. I also love the idea of a printed book of my website. I think there are a few (mostly defunct) services for that listed on the IndieWeb wiki somewhere.

I've been thinking about adding printing support for my #blog posts. So I'm curious about this: do you print blog posts or save them as PDFs for offline #reading?
#Blogging #indieweb

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Recent Chris Hayes interview on Marc Maron podcast namechecks RSS, “Really Simple Syndication,” web pages, and open protocols. My girlfriend: “how’s it feel to hear your arguments parroted back to you?” Roughly 50 minutes in. #IndieWeb #RSS https://www.wtfpod.com/podcast/episode-1621-chris-hayes

Memories of Phantasm has some GREAT theme songs. As an exercise, I wanted to figure out the meaning behind its most famous one, and make singable lyrics of it. Do lmk what you think...👉🏼👈🏼
https://prayag.hudsons.network/blog/?id=68

#blog #rss #webdev #indieweb #art #fanart #touhou #song
Sorry this is so late!!! Bu'hey, good opportunity to hit that orange "Subscribe" button on my website and try getting updates earlier, right?? 🟠

Thinking about working on my #PWA and #WellKnown folder so I get banned from the #IndieWeb by the elitists in charge of it.

Thanks to all who participated in the #IndieWeb Blog Carnival in February on the topic "Affirmations." I've posted a roundup piece. Go read, and go click links! Personal websites are a throwback that never left. Get one. https://artlung.com/blog/2025/03/07/blog-carnival-roundup/ #writing #blogging

Per Zufall die Blogosphäre entdecken

Es gibt offenbar noch eine Menge Leute, die ihre unabhängigen Blogs betreiben. Mit zwei Links kann man sich in einen zufällig ausgewählten Blog-Artikel beamen lassen und so Dinge entdecken, die man gar nicht gesucht hat.

https://kaffeeringe.de/2025/03/07/per-zufall-die-blogosphaere-entdecken/

#Blog #IndieWeb #ThomasGigold #Uberblogr #Webring

Via Porkbun's website, small price increases for certain (niche) TLDs coming April 1 (and no, it doesn't appear to be an April Fool's joke 😂) https://porkbun.com/blog/domain-name-prices-increase-april-2025

#TLDs #SmallWeb #IndieWeb #PersonalWebsites #Porkbun

It's CSS Naked Day on April 9th - consider this toot your one month warning to get your website ready in time to promote web (html!) standards and accessibility!

I still have lots of work to do on the accessibility front but I'm ready to get naked (sfw!) - in fact I made "no CSS" a theme option on my site to keep me fully aware of any html changes I make!

https://fyr.io/post/CSS_naked_day_2025_is_next_month

#web #indieweb #css #cssnakedday #html #webstandards