Terrific first anniversary Front End Study Hall which ended up being about "art" and data visualization. And I got to monologue about how we all ought to make web pages. Thanks for participating/reading! The notes have tasty links. https://indieweb.org/events/2025-04-24-front-end-study-hall

#IndieWeb #FrontEnd

might make an article about safety when it comes to platforms like neocities. these are my two main points. is there anything i should add?

  • many cameras including basically all smartphones save the location and time a photo was taken inside its metadata. unlike social media and chat services that remove it for you, static site hosts serve the exact file you uploaded, including that location and time data.

you should remove this metadata yourself if you don't want people to know exactly where and when the photo was taken. for most people, it's probably bad for people to know where you live, so this is especially important for photos taken in and near your home.

(i would then explain how to do it.)

  • do not publish real-life secrets—the kind of stuff people really shouldn't know—in. args use things like html comments, base-64 strings, and invisible text precisely because they are meant to be solved in a reasonable amount of time. if you think you've found a clever way to hide a secret that nobody will find, no you haven't.

don't even upload encrypted archives with great passwords. having the encrypted data in the first place gets a bad actor a gigantic step closer to cracking it.

these methods are perfectly fine for fun little easter eggs, though.

#neocities #internet #indieweb #onlinesafety

So with threads.net switching to .com, I was a little worried about how this might impact the fediverse support. Thankfully looks like they’re sticking with .net for handles.

@Luke There is a calendar-ish thing on this page - https://events.indieweb.org/tag/frontend #indieweb

The iCal feed isn't functioning. I'm thinking of using @simon's GitScraper to monitor this page and build an alert from it (partly because I've wanted to use GitScraper for years).

Deeply enjoyable IndieWeb Study Hall today, where things got web arty.

I really needed this.

#indieweb

I love dystopian movies, but are we slipping into one?
https://skny.uk/posts/6-silos-part-i/

#silo #dystopia #movies #scifi #writing #indieweb

An old post/rant from yesteryear's ask DNA about #web, #indieweb, #blogging, #socialmedia, blah blah blah.

https://askdna.coffee/perweb/

Sharing a little project I've been working on lately — a score-based habit tracker.

The idea is simple: create a set of habits (or actions) that you can do in a day and assign them a score, positive or negative. The goal is to have more days with good scores, meaning you will try to do more good things for yourself and fewer bad things.

PWA iOS, data stored only locally, no sync, but has export and import

https://znovu.app?pwa

Curious to know what you think?

#buildinpublic #indieweb #pwa

💚 Thread Thursday #7 💚

What's one small detail on your site that makes you proud? Did you add it intentionally, or was it a happy accident? Let us know! 👇

https://smallweb.thecozy.cat/blog/%f0%9f%92%9a-thread-thursday-7-%f0%9f%92%9a/

@indieweb @smallweb @neocities ##indieweb ##neocities ##nostalgia ##oldweb ##smallweb ##webdesign ##webdev ##webrevival #Nekoweb

If the #IndieWeb can do this to a blogger, then I'm honestly glad I don't participate in it's bullshit. I know what this is about. Hint. It has to deal with #MicroBlog and Transphobia. https://archive.ph/o/1bo9O/https://notes.neatnik.net/2025/02/silenced

And this post has links that will guide you to figuring out what happened. https://craney.uk/posts/leaving-microblog-heart-view

Soupault 5.0.0, a static site generator based on HTML element tree rewriting, is now available: https://soupault.app/blog/soupault-5.0.0-release/
This release includes:
1. A built-in Markdown processor based on Cmarkit (in addition to configurable external convertors, not as a replacement for them).
2. A new built-in widget that feeds attributes and content of an HTML element to a template and replaces the element with that template's output (a simpler way to make "shortcodes" than writing Lua plugins).
3. Site index available to all pages by default, so things like a site-wide navigation sidebar are simpler and faster now.
4. A few smaller improvements and new plugin functions.

It also removes or reworks some obscure options, so existing configs may need small adjustments (hence the major version bump, read the post carefully!).

#webdev #html #indieweb #smallweb #foss #ocaml

the 32-bit cafe's second event of 2025 is kicking off in a couple of days! we're creating free templates and themes to share with new website owners in a tea party.

https://32bit.cafe/spring25/

join us if you like to code and/or design!~ we'll be making a directory of layouts and templates to share on the world wide web. :)

#indie #indieweb #smallweb #32bitcafe #webdev #webdesign #themes #website #html #css #code #coding #codingisart #oldweb #personalweb #blog #blogging #blogger #blogs #web #internet #FreeTemplateTeaParty

Great video! The IndieWeb community is a fun, supportive space to explore bringing back personal websites. I recommend checking out their virtual Homebrew Website Club meetups and the wiki, indieweb dot org. :)

Next Front End Study Hall tomorrow https://events.indieweb.org/2025/04/front-end-study-hall-026-5s7jpSP3fdKB - this'll be the 26th #IndieWeb event (a 1 year anniversary)...an open ended Zoom focused on HTML & CSS and all things #FrontEnd with an agenda set by the participants. See you there!

This site is the perfect representation of my cloud of choice to yell at

“…you have no fucking idea what a website is. All you have ever seen are shitty skeuomorphic bastardizations of what should be text communicating a fucking message. This is a real, naked website. Look at it. It's fucking beautiful.”

https://motherfuckingwebsite.com/

#HTML #WebDev #SmallWeb #IndieWeb

I wrote a personal post on a personal not-so-mathy site I just started on bearblog

https://toground.link/deep-in-the-sitka/

I think this fits the indie web carnival theme of renewal

#indieweb #blog #pnw #nature #elk #photography #blogging #hiking

We *try* to keep solid notes during our meetings. Here's today's #IndieWeb Europe/London notes. Great conversations! https://indieweb.org/events/2025-04-23-hwc-europe

Yay! People are sharing this! I know this because now I’m seeing people sharing in forums and I’m reading via RSS. I think YouTube harms users and creators, Sightless Scribbles https://sightlessscribbles.com/posts/20250414/ #YouTube #Blog #Tech #Journalism #IndieWeb

WP YEG joins the Fediverse



Because I jhope it makes us the target of friendly “DDoS” attacks, I finally installed and activated the ActivityPub plugin on WPYEG.org, allowing it to interact with the Fediverse like a Mastodon account. I also added the Friends and Webmention plugins, which facilitate decentralized interactions, creating a community-focused platform. Lots of details about that plus other WordPress news and hacking around.




https://wpyeg.org/2025/04/23/wp-yeg-joins-the-fediverse/

It was definitely time to re-do my #IndieWeb site, because I didn't have a proper front page. It was just a collection of projects.


So I moved those out to their own page, and created a landing page with some posts, my timeline and the latest photos.



#IndieWeb