Tsunami ghosts, anti-LinkedIn post, digital gardens, Obsidian discoveries, NPCs and more

A roundup of interesting content I stumbled on recently.

  1. A digital garden on WordPress
  2. Ghostly encounters: The legacy of the 2011 tsunami in Japan
  3. The anti-Linkedin post
  4. If most content on the Internet is cruft, how do we find the original stuff?
  5. Cool software discoveries
  6. Magpies building a nest in a tiny balcony in China
  7. Think before you click.
  8. “My neck hurts”

A digital garden on WordPress

Notes on making a digital garden on WordPress

A lot of times the Digital Garden scene seems dominated by developers. People who exist in in-between places like me feel a bit frustrated that the tools used – the static site generators – are so unfriendly to non-developer minds.

So, I’m glad that there are some folks who are building digital gardens on WordPress.

I have plans to use Obsidian and a plugin – probably either Quartz, Eveloppe or digital garden – to generate my static site one day, but this is a good workaround while I plan the possibly very complicated transition.

I did think about using Astro but the mechanics of it seem so frightening.

Ghostly encounters: The legacy of the 2011 tsunami in Japan

Do I believe in ghosts? I mean, I lived in a haunted house, so…

https://youtube.com/watch?v=tr4ULTszi00&si=NbwiGtqnL2DvVsMq

The anti-Linkedin post

I’m happy to announce my retirement from UX.

Wonder if this guy wants more publicity, but I really appreciated his very, very honest LinkedIn post about retiring from UX. Had a look at his profile, and it looks like he made the transition from teaching to UX, not the easiest transition to make. And definitely not easy to leave due to the sunk cost-ness of it all.

If most content on the Internet is cruft, how do we find the original stuff?

“We’re about to drown in a sea of pedestrian takes. An explosion of noise that will drown out any signal. Goodbye to finding original human insights or authentic connections under that pile of cruft.” – The dark forest and generative AI

Cool software discoveries

  • Obsidian’s digital garden community plug-in – publish your vault online free: https://dg-docs.ole.dev/
  • Obsidian’s Mastodon threading plug-in – Share posts from your Obsidian vault to Mastodon.

Magpies building a nest in a tiny balcony in China

Video on xiaohongshu has been taken down, sadly, but it’s here on my Mastodon post.

If you’re wondering why the balcony is so tiny, if they’re anything like Malaysia (and I find many apartments in China very much like ours), it’s meant for the air conditioning compressor:

Think before you click.

“The point: there is so much content on the internet that makes us feel crappy without offering any actual information that can help you make the world a better place. When I’m taking good care of myself, I’m actively working to ignore such garbage.” – Justin Pot in his article, Think before you click

How I approach Malaysian political news, really. Heck, even world news these days.

“My neck hurts”

https://youtu.be/oQFg20ZDyH0?si=SSzWruVTr_jA0c4p

Sometimes we have to remind ourselves that while our life may suck, it may not suck as badly as an NPC’s.

#Birds #digitalgardens #indieweb #Internet #Obsidian #PKM

@renne @tiagojferreira @pBaesse @augustocc @gmgall @fediverse @fediverso @academicos @internet @tecnologia Na Alquimídia estamos incentivando muito o uso dos plugins ActivityPub https://alquimidia.org/fediverso/tecnologias/wordpress/ e Friends no WordPress. Inclusive, criamos um tema do Friends para melhorar a experiência do usuário: https://github.com/alquimidia/fedipress Acredito que essa seja uma das grandes ações para fortalecer a #IndieWeb.

Why is #Bluesky more prominent than #Mastodon in the #IndieWeb space?

#AskFedi

I've had so many conversations with internet and non-internet people alike in the last six months about getting off of corporate social media or otherwise taking control of your life online that I've started a conscious project to reboot it for myself and document the process. Here's the first post: https://ideastore.dev/blog/Start-the-Reboot/ #indieweb #deplatform #socialweb #blogs #blogging You can also follow the #octothorpe https://octothorp.es/~/reboot-blog

is everybody indie-rsvp-ing to the homebrew website club tomorrow ? #indieweb

Cool things you can do in Mastodon and perhaps you weren't aware of:

* Create an RSS link from any Mastodon profile
* Validate your profile easily using your personal domain
* Use a column interface à là Tweetdeck (RIP)

Share your favorite use cases!

https://fredrocha.net/2025/03/18/how-i-use-mastodon-in-2025/

#fediverse #indieweb #openweb

is everybody indie-rsvp-ing to the homebrew website club tomorrow ? #indieweb

The social web beta is here

🗯️ The Fear of Vanishing | And So It Goes…

https://notes.krueger.ink/the-fear-of-vanishing/

#Blogging #IndieWeb

I just moved my website over to Bear because it's just so darned nice!

https://shortsongs.ca/

#bearblog #web #website #blog #indieweb #indiemusic

For a while I've viewed my website as my digital playground, so naturally last week's Webmention adventure—plus all the amazing blogs I've been diving into via RSS lately —have me wanting to get more involved with the #IndieWeb community. https://aboutmonica.com/blog/hello-indie-web/

Plain Text Kanban Board

You do not need a lot of fancy tools or subscription services to apply Kanban in your personal or professional life. Honestly, you to do not even need dedicated tool. You can create an easy Kanban workflow with default computing tools.

https://readbeanicecream.surge.sh/2025/03/17/plain-text-kanban-board/

#indieweb #productivity #keepitsimple

fluffy rambles: I'm fine BTW

As a result of the online safety bill, Libre.fm now has some terms and conditions and a privacy policy explicitly stated for the first time.

Have a read and let me know what you think. Trying to keep it as simple as possible as we don’t do all that much and I like that.

https://github.com/foocorp/hacienda/issues/72

Big thanks to @neil whose excellent website https://onlinesafetyact.co.uk is worth a read.

#librefm #indieweb

❤️ #Monday #Memes ❤️

Happy Monday! 🤪

#oldweb #smallweb #indieweb #lol #webdev

Still haven't had the time or motivation to sit down and write a real #blog post, but I've updated my #now page again. Check it out!

https://www.jack-case.pro/now/

#NowPage #PersonalSites #IndieWeb #Hugo #StaticSite

#introduction

Hello! My name's Aevisia & I'm working hard on a marketing campaign to help bring the #smallweb / #indieweb movement to mainstream.

This is a movement I've been part of for a little over two years now & have become really passionate about it. I have a bit of education in #socialmedia #marketing & #business I really want to use to help benefit this movement.

I'll be sharing fun posts daily. Please consider sharing to help these posts reach more people. Thanks for your help! ♥

ok maybe i should give yall a proper intro on me #introduction

i'm alex, i'm a kitty
:neocat: who moved from poland to netherlands (living in Utrecht as of now) in september 2024 kind of by force

i speak polish and english, as well as trying to learn dutch (with little to no results though)

at the time of writing this i am no longer a neet woohoo
:jamming: i got a job

i usually draw things in my free time or endlessly scroll the internet for no reason. i collect plushies and keep them on my desk, as well as collect pokemon TCG cards.

i also gamed a lot, but nowadays i am trying to find motivation to boot up something else than osu from time to time

if i get the inspiration i work on static websites, most notably my personal site, dokokashira.nl (that needs to be updated asap because of how many outdated things there are

still morphing and trying to discover myself now that i have a proper environment to do so

i'm a trans gay guy and started my HRT on february 8 2025
:neocat_floof:

i'm proudly disabled (HoH, AuDHD, C-PTSD, BPD et al) and i wish for a better world

where else to find me on fedi:
@kaaskop - art account
@alexander - private account for friends
@kaviaar - AD account, only for people i know that are 18+

also
@nugget from time to time when i test something on wafrn

as always, tag spam for reach and topics:
#furry #artistsOnFedi #pokemon #ActuallyAutistic #vocaloid #AuDHD #indieWeb #disability #hardOfHearing #LGBTQ #transmasc #ftm #queer #videoGames #digitalArt #netherlands #utrecht