New on the blog: The one where I present you 10 prointless facts about myself as prompted by @daj@gofer.social in his recent blog post.
I also updated my stylesheet and added a page for my Python art.
#personalWebsite #personalBlog #personalWeb #smallWeb #indieWeb #blogQuestionsChallenge #pointless10 #bloggingChallenge
I've been looking for a "web stack" that shares my values around permanence/sustainability for a long time without much success. Something that goes beyond "just make a static site". I want to make small dynamic web pages but every piece of modern web tech I see feels like a house of cards that is just about to tumble.
Today I found another way via @alexpetros !
Watch his talk "Building the Hundred-Year Web Service with htmx": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lASLZ9TgXyc
Or listen to his ideas on the Sustain podcast: https://podcast.sustainoss.org/261
Or read his websites:
* https://unplannedobsolescence.com
* https://thefloatingcontinent.com
* https://alexanderpetros.com
Hopefully this helps someone else get unstuck.
#web #indieweb #permanence #theWorkshop
For each FrESH I attach a unique background to myself during the Zoom, most of which have some significance to web technology history and are a sort of jumping off point for discussion and learning. #IndieWeb #FrontEnd https://codepen.io/artlung/full/zxxwYzE
I updated my site dropdown menus so they only need CSS and (as far as I was able to ascertain) you can tab through with a keyboard!
The secret seems to be using the CSS :focus and :focus-within selectors. I have a minimal CodePen example here (https://codepen.io/reillypascal/pen/PwwPewM?editors=1100), and here's the article where I got the idea: https://moderncss.dev/css-only-accessible-dropdown-navigation-menu/
Congratulations to Joe Crawford for a year of organizing the Front End Study Hall meetups! Here’s a little badge:
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Congratulations to Joe Crawford for a year of organizing the Front End Study Hall meetups! Here’s a little badge:
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Next one in 2 weeks. See https://events.indieweb.org/ #IndieWeb #FrontEnd
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
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.
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.
An old post/rant from yesteryear's ask DNA about #web, #indieweb, #blogging, #socialmedia, blah blah blah.
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
Curious to know what you think?
💚 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!).