This is so cool.
I'm trying to get back into blogging! This time about our little adventure in Hiratsuka a couple weeks ago. I am going to try to come back with a Part 2 tomorrow!!
https://renkotsuban.com/posts/2025-03-12-A-weekend-in-Shonan.html
Another blog post up. I'm on a roll this month
https://axxuy.xyz/blog/posts/2025/howmanypostswillyouwrite/
@shellsharks A script to take your X archive and put into SSG #Indieweb would be stellar.
Some great points here about email newsletters — including that email open stats are starting to become unreliable due to AI and big tech like Apple screwing around with the inbox (no, email is not immune to enshittification!). All this is part of why I moved away from calling my site Cybercultural a "newsletter". I'm not exactly sure how to define Cybercultural currently, but it will involve fediverse as a community-driver going forward. #IndieWeb #WebLife2025
I've been writing a new personal site from scratch. It's been a while since I've done a site design entirely by hand, without any frameworks to lean on.
It's been a lot of fun, and I've been honing my html5 and css3 skills - trying to do everything the *right* way. Making use of some of the more esoteric CSS properties I'd never bothered with before (like margin-inline or padding-block) .
I've made all the graphics myself using #svg (thanks #inkscape!).
I'm focusing on having a *microscopic* footprint, with minimum connections (one markup, one stylesheet).
New page added! Link collection: Other People's Link Pages...because I have too many tabs open
* https://tantek.com/2015/069/t1/js-dr-javascript-required-dead
in reference to (primarily content) pages that were empty (or nearly so) without scripts.
Since then js;dr found its way into a book:
Page 88 of “Inclusive Design Patterns” by @heydonworks.com (@[email protected])
and stickers!
At the time I made the claim that:
“in 10 years nothing you built today that depends on JS for the content will be available, visible, or archived anywhere on the web.”
I’ve seen and documented many such sites, built with a hard dependency on scripting, that end up dead and unarchived. Many of these have been documented on the IndieWeb’s js;dr page:
* https://indieweb.org/js;dr
I have to ask though: does anyone remember building a site 10 years ago (Internet Archive citation) with a Javascript library/framework dependency to display content, that still works today?
E.g. using one of the popular libraries/frameworks used to build such sites back then like AngularJS (discontinued 2022), Backbone.js, Ember.js, or even React which was still quite new at the time.
The one almost exception I found was Facebook, e.g. this Smashing Magazine post on Facebook barely renders some content and all commentary is missing, in the earliest (2019) version saved on the Internet Archive:
* https://web.archive.org/web/20191123225253/https://www.facebook.com/smashmag/posts/10153198367332490
You can extract the direct Facebook link if you want to try viewing it in the present.
Regarding those libraries/frameworks themselves, I wrote:
“All your fancy front-end-JS-required frameworks are dead to history, a mere evolutionary blip in web app development practices. Perhaps they provided interesting ephemeral prototypes, nothing more.”
Of all those listed above, only React has grown since, likely at the expense of the others.
However instead of fewer such libraries and frameworks today, it seems we have many more (though it feels like their average hypespan is getting shorter with each iteration).
Since I wrote “js;dr”, the web has only become more fragile, with ever more dependencies on scripting just to display text content. The irony here is that Javascript, like XML, has draconian parsing rules. One syntax error and the whole script is thrown out.
This means it’s far too easy for any such JS-dependent site to break, in one or more browsers, whenever browsers change, or Javascript changes, or both.
You wouldn’t build a site today (or 20 years ago) that depends on fragile draconian XML parsing, so why build a site that depends on fragile draconian Javascript parsing?
I’ll repeat my claim from ten years ago, slightly amended, and shortened:
In 5 years nothing you (personally, not a publicly traded company) build today that depends on Javascript in the browser to display content will be available, visible, or archived anywhere on the web.
There’s a lot more to unpack about what we’ve collectively lost in the past ten years of fragile scripting-dependent site-deaths, and why web developers are choosing to build more fragile websites than they did 10 or certainly 20 years ago.
For now I’ll leave you with a few positive encouragements:
Practice Progressive Enhancement.
Build first and foremost with forgiving technologies, declarative technologies, and forward and backward compatible coding techniques.
All content should be readable without scripting.
Links, buttons, text fields, and any other interactive HTML elements should all work without scripting.
Scripts are great for providing an enhanced user experience, or additional functionality such as offline support.
Then make sure to test your pages and sites without scripts, to make sure they still work.
If it's worth building on the web, it's worth building it robustly, and building it to last.
--- NEW BLOG POST ---
🆕 In defense of the for...of loop
💬 Despite its introduction in ES2015 and implementation in all browsers over 8.5 years ago, I still see .forEach used in favor of the modern for...of loop. [...]
I rebuilt my website using Drupal instead of Ghost, so with that my /Uses page has been updated.
After lunch I ended up having to head out of town unexpectedly to visit family, so gonna miss the afternoon SXSW and Fediverse House events. It was amazing catching up with folks who I only knew online, and meeting some people for the first time. Have a great week and safe travels!
Would a Zoom call where you join a handful of folks to solve #CSS and #HTML conundrums interest you? I learn something new #FrontEnd every time. Front End Study Hall on the #IndieWeb -- See you tomorrow! https://events.indieweb.org/2025/03/front-end-study-hall-023-WmHNZ7nKEp1Z
Good morning, Austin. Back downtown after a great day yesterday at Fediverse House.
this is it, folks! we are in the final week before submissions are due for GOOD INTERNET, a new print periodical magazine about all the things that make the #web fun: things like the #smallweb, the fediverse, the #indieweb, and efforts to actively fight #enshittification. submissions are open until MARCH 15.
check the submission guidelines or sign up for email alerts to be notified when we publish in may!
https://goodinternetmagazine.com
if this is your first time hearing about this, you still have enough time to come up with and write an article or complete a digital #art piece, if you're passionate about the #internet and want to write about it! :) bloggers, it's your time to shine!~
i can't wait to show y'all the incredible stories that have been submitted from all over the 'net, and some of the coolest art i've seen about the web!
thank you to everyone who's been so supportive of this project already. this is why this side of the internet is amazing. ❤️ please boost, if you can; i want to make sure i did everything i could to include as many diverse voices as i can.
thank you! 🤟
original post: https://tilde.zone/@xandra/113913277766098384
#writing #blogging #personalweb #personalwebsites #webdev #html #css #js #coding #magazine #publishing #codingisart #indie #writers #fediverse #webdesign #digitalart #artist
John's first week of Indieweb experiments.
In reply to https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2024/03/20/indieweb-2.html
#indieweb #webmentions
@aimee@mastodon.nz
Here in the fedi the hashtags #indieWeb #smallWeb #personalWebsite are a good starting point.
Then theres the website directory on neocities.org. There are other hosting services like that that also have website directories, e.g. nekocweb.org.
The 32-Bit Café is a good rescource one, too. I'm a member the forum and it's a wonderful community there. They also have a Discord server, but I am not using that, so I can't say anything about it.
Then there are newsletters and e-zines, like Srolls from @shellsharks@malici.ous.computer, or ajazz's From the Superhighway, or Own your Web by @matthiasott@mastodon.social that are good entrypoints as well.
Lots of members and voices from the community are also in the fedi. You'll find them as soon as you explore those hashtags above.
And then it's all surfing form one to the other site from there. You'll be amazed about what you're going to find! Have fun!
I did some fiddling around with my website and wrote about it.
https://axxuy.xyz/blog/posts/2025/websiteupgrades/
#blog #blogging #indieweb #smolwe #personalwebsite
A great little utility app for your Mac that you didn’t know you needed.
What's the downside to #selfhosting all the things?