I recently finished the Hyperion Cantos series and I've been thinking about some of the ideas... Notably what happens at the end of the second book and how I see it as a metaphor to what some of us in the fediverse and indieweb are trying to do in terms of tech and healing that part of our society. I'm going to try to write a blog post or maybe do a video talking about it. I just hope it's intelligible to others. 😬
#Hyperion #HyperionCantos #reading #fediverse #indieweb #books #sciencefiction

Spent way too many hours today struggling with customizing my #Docuwiki that I'm determined to make work as a personal website, but I did it! and it looks pretty good! Check it out! https://www.pixietails.club/

#indieweb

Kanbaning, Timeboxing, & Doom Scrolling

Without even realizing it, I have applied the concepts of Kanban and Timeboxing to my Social Media and RSS habits... and it appears to have helped me limit the amount of time I spend on doom scrolling.

https://readbeanicecream.surge.sh/2025/03/13/kanbaning-timeboxing--doom-scrolling/

#technology #tech #socialmedia #rss #fediverse #doomscrolling #indieweb #blogging #blog #blogs

I'm checking out free web hosting providers that can be used for fun and personal websites.

I wanted to know what to recommend to people who want to make their own website, so I decided to try things out for myself!

Testing Free Website Hosts
https://web.pixelshannon.com/freehosts

#WebHost #PersonalSites #SmallWeb #IndieWeb #Website #PersonalWebsite

DID YOU KNOW? There's a weekly Zoom call hosted out of the UK with folks from all around the world talking about personal websites, the #IndieWeb, and more? And it has good manners and smart conversation and occasional jokes? People ask questions and get--if not answers--LINKS? It's pretty great. TODAY. https://events.indieweb.org/2025/03/homebrew-website-club-europe-london-jYD9iLxrMP47

#bloggers how often you post to your #blog ?

#indieweb #personalwebsite #personalsite

Daily
Weekly
Monthly
Whenever the Hell I feel like it.

We elder millennials need to do a better job at promoting the actual internet. Apps and platforms have dominated. Podcasts can be listened to via RSS. How do we show folks the way? #indieweb #podcasts #buildtheweb

I finally managed to add a proper robots.txt generation system to my personal website, and added a comprehensive blocklist anti-AI crawlers.

Changelog updated: https://www.mauromotion.com/changelog/

#AI #Astro #blog #indieweb #webdev

I'm improving my Semantic Extractor that is used behind the scenes on https://w3blogy.cz for improved Author Attribution, Descriptions and Tags.

Now I can read metatags, rel and rev links, JSON-LD scripts, microdata and RDFa Lite.

The most used are OpenGraph and TwitterCard metadatada. There are some JSON-LD, a few microdata and none RDFa in my list of recommended articles.

I'm about to implement microformats parser because I'm very curious if there will be some.

#indieweb #semanticHTML

@marginalia Small feedback on the new design since I use Marginalia as my main search engine: on mobile, the options in the sidebar are now unlabelled icons, and I'm not sure what exactly they do without rotating the screen to see the label.
In the old design, they were text-only and I knew exactly what I was switching on or off: vintage, tildes, no JS and such.

I use those filter options extensively and it'd be nice if that was changed somehow.

#MarginaliaSearch #SearchEngine #IndieWeb

Designing my blog post draft web experience

Got my refurbished miniPC up and running as an ubuntu server and will be going through the #LinuxUpskillChallenge

Also on the roadmap is to try some self hosting, expand this into a lab with more miniPCs to test out k8. If anyone in the #indieweb has any ideas or resources I am all ears!

My blog post category suggestion tool

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

#Blogging #IndieWeb

@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

ref: https://www.therebooting.com/the-newsletter-bubble/

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).

#SmallWeb #indieWeb #webDev