My friend Joe wrote some good reflections about one year of the Front End Study Hall meetups.
If you’re interested in HTML/CSS, this is the place to be. It’s a fun, supportive group of people meeting every couple weeks. Join an upcoming one!
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Startin’ up a POSSE
Owning one’s identity, online or otherwise, is a fundamental responsibility. It is a core tenet of individual liberty and the capacity to respond to any challenge on one’s own terms. Free from the influence of censorious agents who would silence or sway opinion to insidious ends.
Connections made with others still matter, absolutely. Even as prisoners in the walled gardens of convenience, we are social animals and thrive on like-minded interaction. Yet we must demand the right to choose how we interact, through the constructed idioms of whatever culture we embrace. There is no ‘one size fits all’ muzzle, and we must not be compelled to phrase our words carefully for fear of external erasure.
Repeated attempts were made last year to sabotage my social presence. Although ultimately futile, these attacks deliberately targeted time-critical announcements. Weaponising an already-opaque appeals process to silence me at crucial moments, with intent to expunge everything.
Separate from this circumstance, friends’ fringe fashion, design, and dance profiles have weathered similar storms. With innocuous posts and stories reported for nebulous (and often misogynistic) reasons, harming their legitimate businesses.
Behind the cowardly cloak of anonymity, there is no objective difference between malign mischief and corporate diktat. Those who spam such reports remain anarcho-statist bootlickers of the lowest order.
Nonetheless, I found a way through – with a little inspiration from other digital dissidents pushing back against such trite totalitarianism.
The IndieWeb movement embodies this defiance with a people-first philosophy. Advocating the return of personal data to independent self-ownership, the use of open standards to share one’s web presence, and the freedom to be individually unique and creative about it.
It is that determination I choose to carry forward by example: Sharing experiences and solutions with those who have been similarly targeted, but with a greater intent to empower all.
Liberty does not cease at the inflection point of ire.
Despite the authoritarian overreach of SocMed, detaching does not necessarily mean deletion. Even those who have no desire to play the game have to sustain some form of online presence or become disconnected. Especially so if their business needs to be known.
Private chats, mailing lists, and semi-public forums still exist, of course. Authors can publish on sites that specialise in long-form screeds. Countless websites and blogs exist in independent isolation, covering an infinity of interests.
Discoverability is the determining factor. Chats, often hidden behind new app protocols, lack visibility or permanence. Independent websites with something original to say are deprioritised in search engine results, lost in a morass of AI-generated pseudo-sites and duplicated drivel.
Hosting content away from one’s control runs afoul of silencing concerns. The administrators of third party sites, or worse, volunteer moderators, will always push their own agenda. Abdicating responsibility to others binds one to their intractable whims, necessitating thorny topics be hidden behind cute phrasing to get past ham-fisted word filters.
And none of this provides a unified presence, an arguable advantage of centralisation.
The goal, then, is to regain ownership of one’s online identity, with freedom to write unfettered while sustaining the authentic connections made along the way. A challenge faced by the IndieWeb community, whose principles propose a way to take things back.
And it starts by claiming one’s domain.
The HeathenStorm website had been plodding along for years in various stages of development. Starting off as a placeholder page for the production business, it slowly expanded to cover my various creative projects. The main feature of the site was a series of portal pages for the tours I brought into the country – hosting news updates and band bios alongside ticket and event links. Nonetheless, most of my updates remained on SocMed, with the website an overall afterthought.
Truth is a subjective concept, provoking conflict between those who believe their differing interpretations absolute. In the specific context of distributed publishing, a “Single Source of Truth” refers to a central location holding the most current and consistent version of data, no matter where else it may be duplicated.
I had diluted my truth, smearing it across SocMed sites and exposing it to expunction – so I turned to the IndieWeb practice of POSSE to reclaim it.
Meaning ‘Publish (on) Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere’, this simple principle flipped everything around. Instead of scrawling scraps that risk censure to appease a disconnected, divided audience, I would simply write for myself on my website. Canonically consolidating my online presence secured the source of truth, providing proof of identity away from unreliable platforms and malicious actors. Anything of worth would be posted there first, then syndicated to SocMed as required.
That’s all it took to return business to normal, but it’s still just the beginning. My website posts have become more authentic and personal as result of this refocus, and that’s the voice I wish to project.
I’ve barely posted directly to SocMed in the past months but still retain the accounts. Not just for syndication, but also as a backup point of contact should the site have technical problems. Where friends are unavailable elsewhere, I sustain connections with comments, direct messages, and an abundance of emoji. But I no longer permit myself to be drained by it all.
The encouraging thing about IndieWeb is that it’s presented as a series of incremental improvements. It’s not an all-or-nothing replacement and it’s possible to expand in parallel. There are many options to further increase connectivity, such as Webmentions and Microformats, which I can investigate and implement in due course.
Syndication is a manual process for now. I duplicate these posts on Instagram, which (eventually) feeds into Facebook. Although there are ways to automate this, Instagram’s caption limits are painfully tight – requiring a lot of pasting into comments which then have to be reassembled on FB – so it’s best to do it by hand.
I have options here. I can continue to syndicate the full text of my posts or just publish an excerpt with a link back to the original. As Instagram doesn’t make links clickable, full syndication offers less friction to the reader.
Although there are other SocMed sites to syndicate to, I choose to focus on these two for now, although Instagram used to happily post to Twitter, Tumblr et. al. before the Meta merge. Any further syndication must make use of protocols, standards, and APIs to automate the connection where possible, and the tried and tested RSS feed is always available if required.
This covers the basic needs, but there are limits to the types of content I can publish directly from the site. The blog format comes from a much simpler time, and there are more possibilities than just text and pictures, especially for those of a creative ilk.
For example, I would love a better way to deliver short form video from the site, then syndicate it out to the Instagram Stories or Reels that I still use directly.
More metadata would be useful, such as well-structured event and location details that syndicate targets can make use of. My posts occasionally include musical cues, so attaching those in a more reliable (and provider-selectable) format will help. It would also be good to somehow collate my likes and other interactions from elsewhere back onto the site.
So, what I’m really looking for is a way to compose any type of content on the site. Audio, Video, Photos, Text, Event Information, and whatever else may come. Then syndicate it out in a format that other services can usefully interpret and respond to. All without compromising editorial control.
And it’s getting there.
Next: Into the Fediverse
(Photo taken by Manton Reesce (@manton) at Fediverse House, SXSW 2025)
https://heathenstorm.com/2025/04/25/startin-up-a-posse/
#censorship #culture #indieweb #posse #rss #socialmedia #syndication #technology #truth #wordpress #DigitalManifesto
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Weaponising an already-opaque appeals process to silence me at crucial moments, with intent to expunge everything.</p><p>Separate from this circumstance, friends\u2019 fringe fashion, design, and dance profiles have weathered similar storms. With innocuous posts and stories reported for nebulous (and often misogynistic) reasons, harming their legitimate businesses.</p><p>Behind the cowardly cloak of anonymity, there is no objective difference between malign mischief and corporate diktat. Those who spam such reports remain anarcho-statist bootlickers of the lowest order.</p><p>Nonetheless, I found a way through \u2013 with a little inspiration from other digital dissidents pushing back against such trite totalitarianism.</p><p>The <a href=\"https://indieweb.org/\"><strong>IndieWeb</strong></a> movement embodies this defiance with a people-first philosophy. 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Countless websites and blogs exist in independent isolation, covering an infinity of interests.</p><p>Discoverability is the determining factor. Chats, often hidden behind new app protocols, lack visibility or permanence. Independent websites with something original to say are deprioritised in search engine results, lost in a morass of AI-generated pseudo-sites and duplicated drivel.</p><p>Hosting content away from one\u2019s control runs afoul of silencing concerns. The administrators of third party sites, or worse, <em>volunteer moderators</em>, will always push their own agenda. Abdicating responsibility to others binds one to their intractable whims, necessitating thorny topics be hidden behind cute phrasing to get past ham-fisted word filters.</p><p>And none of this provides a unified presence, an arguable advantage of centralisation.</p><p>The goal, then, is to regain ownership of one\u2019s online identity, with freedom to write unfettered while sustaining the authentic connections made along the way. A challenge faced by the IndieWeb community, whose <a href=\"https://indieweb.org/principles\">principles</a> propose a way to take things back.</p><p>And it starts by claiming one\u2019s domain.</p> <p>The HeathenStorm website had been plodding along for years in various stages of development. Starting off as a placeholder page for the production business, it slowly expanded to cover my various creative projects. The main feature of the site was a series of portal pages for the tours I brought into the country \u2013 hosting news updates and band bios alongside ticket and event links. Nonetheless, most of my updates remained on SocMed, with the website an overall afterthought.</p><p>Truth is a subjective concept, provoking conflict between those who believe their differing interpretations absolute. In the specific context of distributed publishing, a \u201cSingle Source of Truth\u201d refers to a central location holding the most current and consistent version of data, no matter where else it may be duplicated.</p><p>I had diluted my truth, smearing it across SocMed sites and exposing it to expunction \u2013 so I turned to the IndieWeb practice of <a href=\"https://indieweb.org/POSSE\"><strong>POSSE</strong></a> to reclaim it.</p><p>Meaning \u2018<em><strong>P</strong>ublish (on) <strong>O</strong>wn <strong>S</strong>ite, <strong>S</strong>yndicate <strong>E</strong>lsewhere</em>\u2019, this simple principle flipped everything around. Instead of scrawling scraps that risk censure to appease a disconnected, divided audience, I would simply write for myself on my website. Canonically consolidating my online presence secured the source of truth, providing proof of identity away from unreliable platforms and malicious actors. Anything of worth would be posted there first, then syndicated to SocMed as required.</p><p>That\u2019s all it took to return business to normal, but it\u2019s still just the beginning. My website posts have become more authentic and personal as result of this refocus, and that\u2019s the voice I wish to project.</p><p>I\u2019ve barely posted directly to SocMed in the past months but still retain the accounts. Not just for syndication, but also as a backup point of contact should the site have technical problems. Where friends are unavailable elsewhere, I sustain connections with comments, direct messages, and an abundance of emoji. But I no longer permit myself to be drained by it all.</p><p>The encouraging thing about IndieWeb is that it\u2019s presented as a series of incremental improvements. It\u2019s not an all-or-nothing replacement and it\u2019s possible to expand in parallel. There are many options to further increase connectivity, such as Webmentions and Microformats, which I can investigate and implement in due course.</p> <p>Syndication is a manual process for now. I duplicate these posts on Instagram, which (eventually) feeds into Facebook. Although there are ways to automate this, Instagram\u2019s caption limits are painfully tight \u2013 requiring a lot of pasting into comments which then have to be reassembled on FB \u2013 so it\u2019s best to do it by hand.</p><p>I have options here. I can continue to syndicate the full text of my posts or just publish an excerpt with a link back to the original. As Instagram doesn\u2019t make links clickable, full syndication offers less friction to the reader.</p><p>Although there are other SocMed sites to syndicate to, I choose to focus on these two for now, although Instagram used to happily post to Twitter, Tumblr et. al. before the Meta merge. Any further syndication must make use of protocols, standards, and APIs to automate the connection where possible, and the tried and tested <a href=\"https://heathenstorm.com/feed\">RSS feed</a> is always available if required. </p><p>This covers the basic needs, but there are limits to the types of content I can publish directly from the site. The blog format comes from a much simpler time, and there are more possibilities than just text and pictures, especially for those of a creative ilk.</p><p>For example, I would love a better way to deliver short form video from the site, then syndicate it out to the Instagram Stories or Reels that I still use directly.</p><p>More metadata would be useful, such as well-structured event and location details that syndicate targets can make use of. My posts occasionally include musical cues, so attaching those in a more reliable (and provider-selectable) format will help. It would also be good to somehow collate my likes and other interactions from elsewhere back onto the site.</p><p>So, what I\u2019m really looking for is a way to compose any type of content on the site. Audio, Video, Photos, Text, Event Information, and whatever else may come. Then syndicate it out in a format that other services can usefully interpret and respond to. All without compromising editorial control.</p><p>And it\u2019s getting there.</p><p><strong>Next:</strong> Into the Fediverse</p><p>(Photo taken by Manton Reesce (<a class=\"u-url\" href=\"https://manton.org/activitypub/manton\">@manton</a>) at Fediverse House, SXSW 2025)</p><p><a href=\"https://heathenstorm.com/2025/04/25/startin-up-a-posse/\">https://heathenstorm.com/2025/04/25/startin-up-a-posse/</a></p><p><a class=\"u-tag u-category\" href=\"https://heathenstorm.com/tag/censorship/\">#censorship</a> <a class=\"u-tag u-category\" href=\"https://heathenstorm.com/tag/culture/\">#culture</a> <a class=\"u-tag u-category\" href=\"https://heathenstorm.com/tag/indieweb/\">#indieweb</a> <a class=\"u-tag u-category\" href=\"https://heathenstorm.com/tag/posse/\">#posse</a> <a class=\"u-tag u-category\" href=\"https://heathenstorm.com/tag/rss/\">#rss</a> <a class=\"u-tag u-category\" href=\"https://heathenstorm.com/tag/socialmedia/\">#socialmedia</a> <a class=\"u-tag u-category\" href=\"https://heathenstorm.com/tag/syndication/\">#syndication</a> <a class=\"u-tag u-category\" href=\"https://heathenstorm.com/tag/technology/\">#technology</a> <a class=\"u-tag u-category\" href=\"https://heathenstorm.com/tag/truth/\">#truth</a> <a class=\"u-tag u-category\" href=\"https://heathenstorm.com/tag/wordpress/\">#wordpress</a> <a class=\"u-tag u-category\" href=\"https://heathenstorm.com/category/digital-manifesto/\">#DigitalManifesto</a></p>\n<a class=\"u-mention\" href=\"https://manton.org/activitypub/manton\"></a>",
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Weaponising an already-opaque appeals process to silence me at crucial moments, with intent to expunge everything.\n\nSeparate from this circumstance, friends\u2019 fringe fashion, design, and dance profiles have weathered similar storms. With innocuous posts and stories reported for nebulous (and often misogynistic) reasons, harming their legitimate businesses.\n\nBehind the cowardly cloak of anonymity, there is no objective difference between malign mischief and corporate diktat. Those who spam such reports remain anarcho-statist bootlickers of the lowest order.\n\nNonetheless, I found a way through \u2013 with a little inspiration from other digital dissidents pushing back against such trite totalitarianism.\n\nThe IndieWeb movement embodies this defiance with a people-first philosophy. 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A challenge faced by the IndieWeb community, whose principles propose a way to take things back.\n\nAnd it starts by claiming one\u2019s domain. The HeathenStorm website had been plodding along for years in various stages of development. Starting off as a placeholder page for the production business, it slowly expanded to cover my various creative projects. The main feature of the site was a series of portal pages for the tours I brought into the country \u2013 hosting news updates and band bios alongside ticket and event links. Nonetheless, most of my updates remained on SocMed, with the website an overall afterthought.\n\nTruth is a subjective concept, provoking conflict between those who believe their differing interpretations absolute. In the specific context of distributed publishing, a \u201cSingle Source of Truth\u201d refers to a central location holding the most current and consistent version of data, no matter where else it may be duplicated.\n\nI had diluted my truth, smearing it across SocMed sites and exposing it to expunction \u2013 so I turned to the IndieWeb practice of POSSE to reclaim it.\n\nMeaning \u2018Publish (on) Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere\u2019, this simple principle flipped everything around. Instead of scrawling scraps that risk censure to appease a disconnected, divided audience, I would simply write for myself on my website. Canonically consolidating my online presence secured the source of truth, providing proof of identity away from unreliable platforms and malicious actors. Anything of worth would be posted there first, then syndicated to SocMed as required.\n\nThat\u2019s all it took to return business to normal, but it\u2019s still just the beginning. 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Although there are ways to automate this, Instagram\u2019s caption limits are painfully tight \u2013 requiring a lot of pasting into comments which then have to be reassembled on FB \u2013 so it\u2019s best to do it by hand.\n\nI have options here. I can continue to syndicate the full text of my posts or just publish an excerpt with a link back to the original. As Instagram doesn\u2019t make links clickable, full syndication offers less friction to the reader.\n\nAlthough there are other SocMed sites to syndicate to, I choose to focus on these two for now, although Instagram used to happily post to Twitter, Tumblr et. al. before the Meta merge. Any further syndication must make use of protocols, standards, and APIs to automate the connection where possible, and the tried and tested RSS feed is always available if required. \n\nThis covers the basic needs, but there are limits to the types of content I can publish directly from the site. 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Study Hall Reflections (a blog post about the #IndieWeb event I host about learning to make web pages: Front End Study Hall) #blogging #frontend
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10 Pointless facts about me
So all the cool kids are doing this blogging challenge, and I don’t want to be left out:
Do you floss your teeth?Yes. Probably more often than I brush them.
Tea, coffee, or water?Not…tea. You know there is water in coffee and tea, right?
Footwear preference?Boots for boot stuff. Sneakers for sneaker stuff. Wool socks though. Always.
Favourite dessert?Tiramisu. Always.
The first […]
#Blogging #BloggingChallenge #IndieWeb
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"html": "<p><strong>10 Pointless facts about me</strong></p><p>So all the cool kids are doing this blogging challenge, and I don\u2019t want to be left out:</p><p>Do you floss your teeth?Yes. Probably more often than I brush them. </p><p>Tea, coffee, or water?Not\u2026tea. You know there is water in coffee and tea, right?</p><p>Footwear preference?Boots for boot stuff. Sneakers for sneaker stuff. Wool socks though. Always.</p><p>Favourite dessert?Tiramisu. Always. </p><p>The first [\u2026]</p><p><a class=\"u-tag u-category\" href=\"https://swduncan.com/tag/blogging/\">#Blogging</a> <a class=\"u-tag u-category\" href=\"https://swduncan.com/tag/bloggingchallenge/\">#BloggingChallenge</a> <a class=\"u-tag u-category\" href=\"https://swduncan.com/tag/indieweb/\">#IndieWeb</a></p>",
"text": "10 Pointless facts about me\n\nSo all the cool kids are doing this blogging challenge, and I don\u2019t want to be left out:\n\nDo you floss your teeth?Yes. Probably more often than I brush them. \n\nTea, coffee, or water?Not\u2026tea. You know there is water in coffee and tea, right?\n\nFootwear preference?Boots for boot stuff. Sneakers for sneaker stuff. Wool socks though. Always.\n\nFavourite dessert?Tiramisu. Always. \n\nThe first [\u2026]\n\n#Blogging #BloggingChallenge #IndieWeb"
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I really like personal homepages and have quite a list of them bookmarked. I'll post one every week unless I fall behind this schedule. 😉 So here's Cool Personal Homepages #CPH Vol. 41: "Charles in Clouds' Space" https://inclouds.space/
#SmallWeb #indieweb #homepage #blog
PS: @charles is on the Fediverse!
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Musing about the decentralized nature of both Mastodon and Bluesky.
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"html": "<p>Everything's back up and running...and now there's added yearly support for musicians too! </p><p><a href=\"https://mirlo.space/robertafidora/support\"><span>https://</span><span>mirlo.space/robertafidora/supp</span><span>ort</span></a></p><p><a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/Music\">#<span>Music</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/Musicians\">#<span>Musicians</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/Electronic\">#<span>Electronic</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/Coop\">#<span>Coop</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/Coops\">#<span>Coops</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/Indie\">#<span>Indie</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/IndieWeb\">#<span>IndieWeb</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/Fediverse\">#<span>Fediverse</span></a></p>",
"text": "Everything's back up and running...and now there's added yearly support for musicians too! \n\nhttps://mirlo.space/robertafidora/support\n\n#Music #Musicians #Electronic #Coop #Coops #Indie #IndieWeb #Fediverse"
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"html": "<p>New on the blog: The one where I present you <a href=\"https://theresmiling.eu/blog/2025/04/10-pintless-facts\">10 prointless facts about myself</a> as prompted by <a class=\"u-url\" href=\"https://gofer.social/@daj\">@daj@gofer.social</a> in his <a href=\"https://forkingmad.blog/ten-pointless-facts-about-me/\">recent blog post</a><span>.<br /><br />I also updated my stylesheet and added a page for my Python art.<br /><br /></span><a href=\"https://ibe.social/tags/personalWebsite\">#personalWebsite</a> <a href=\"https://ibe.social/tags/personalBlog\">#personalBlog</a> <a href=\"https://ibe.social/tags/personalWeb\">#personalWeb</a> <a href=\"https://ibe.social/tags/smallWeb\">#smallWeb</a> <a href=\"https://ibe.social/tags/indieWeb\">#indieWeb</a> <a href=\"https://ibe.social/tags/blogQuestionsChallenge\">#blogQuestionsChallenge</a> <a href=\"https://ibe.social/tags/pointless10\">#pointless10</a> <a href=\"https://ibe.social/tags/bloggingChallenge\">#bloggingChallenge</a></p>\n<a class=\"u-mention\" href=\"https://gofer.social/@daj\"></a>",
"text": "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.\n\nI also updated my stylesheet and added a page for my Python art.\n\n#personalWebsite #personalBlog #personalWeb #smallWeb #indieWeb #blogQuestionsChallenge #pointless10 #bloggingChallenge"
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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
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"html": "<p>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.</p><p>Today I found another way via <span class=\"h-card\"><a class=\"u-url\" href=\"https://indieweb.social/@alexpetros\">@<span>alexpetros</span></a></span> !</p><p>Watch his talk \"Building the Hundred-Year Web Service with htmx\": <a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lASLZ9TgXyc\"><span>https://www.</span><span>youtube.com/watch?v=lASLZ9TgXy</span><span>c</span></a></p><p>Or listen to his ideas on the Sustain podcast: <a href=\"https://podcast.sustainoss.org/261\"><span>https://</span><span>podcast.sustainoss.org/261</span><span></span></a></p><p>Or read his websites:<br />* <a href=\"https://unplannedobsolescence.com\"><span>https://</span><span>unplannedobsolescence.com</span><span></span></a><br />* <a href=\"https://thefloatingcontinent.com\"><span>https://</span><span>thefloatingcontinent.com</span><span></span></a><br />* <a href=\"https://alexanderpetros.com\"><span>https://</span><span>alexanderpetros.com</span><span></span></a></p><p>Hopefully this helps someone else get unstuck.</p><p><a href=\"https://merveilles.town/tags/web\">#<span>web</span></a> <a href=\"https://merveilles.town/tags/indieweb\">#<span>indieweb</span></a> <a href=\"https://merveilles.town/tags/permanence\">#<span>permanence</span></a> <a href=\"https://merveilles.town/tags/theWorkshop\">#<span>theWorkshop</span></a></p>\n<a class=\"u-mention\" href=\"https://indieweb.social/@alexpetros\"></a>",
"text": "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.\n\nToday I found another way via @alexpetros !\n\nWatch his talk \"Building the Hundred-Year Web Service with htmx\": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lASLZ9TgXyc\n\nOr listen to his ideas on the Sustain podcast: https://podcast.sustainoss.org/261\n\nOr read his websites:\n* https://unplannedobsolescence.com\n* https://thefloatingcontinent.com\n* https://alexanderpetros.com\n\nHopefully this helps someone else get unstuck.\n\n#web #indieweb #permanence #theWorkshop"
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Out of context learning HTML:
#html #indieweb #webdev
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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
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If anyone notices any issues with the site menus I'd be interested to hear — I did come across a number of unexpected things while I set them up
#WebDev #HTML #CSS #Coding #Programming #IndieWeb #SmallWeb
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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!
https://reillyspitzfaden.com/
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/
#WebDev #HTML #CSS #Coding #Programming #IndieWeb #SmallWeb
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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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Congratulations to Joe Crawford for a year of organizing the Front End Study Hall meetups! Here’s a little badge:

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"text": "Congratulations to Joe Crawford for a year of organizing the Front End Study Hall meetups! Here\u2019s a little badge:\n\n\n\nBadge made with badge.design. Download badge in PNG or SVG format.",
"html": "<p>Congratulations to <a class=\"h-card\" href=\"https://artlung.com/\">Joe Crawford</a> for a year of organizing the <a href=\"https://indieweb.org/Front_End_Study_Hall\">Front End Study Hall</a> meetups! Here\u2019s a little badge:</p>\n\n<p><img alt=\"badge with a colored ring, bottom half of ring is orange, upper half is yellow (both are IndieWeb colors). Text 'One Year of Keeping it FrESH' curves around the top, a large number 1 in the middle, and text at the bottom: 'Awarded to artlung.com April 24, 2025 for one year of organizing Front End Study Hall'\" src=\"https://gregorlove.com/site/assets/files/7038/ff159818-5866-4f01-a077-bcd7c04556e8.png\" /></p>\n\n<p>Badge made with <a href=\"https://badge.design/\">badge.design</a>. Download badge in <a href=\"https://gregorlove.com/site/assets/files/7038/ff159818-5866-4f01-a077-bcd7c04556e8.png\">PNG</a> or <a href=\"https://gregorlove.com/site/assets/images/6c3aa920-c266-4d24-9224-bfdc5ce4e3ef.svg\">SVG</a> format.</p>"
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"html": "<p>Next one in 2 weeks. See <a href=\"https://events.indieweb.org/\"><span>https://</span><span>events.indieweb.org/</span><span></span></a> <a href=\"https://xoxo.zone/tags/IndieWeb\">#<span>IndieWeb</span></a> <a href=\"https://xoxo.zone/tags/FrontEnd\">#<span>FrontEnd</span></a></p>",
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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
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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
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"html": "<p>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?</p><ul><li>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.</li></ul><p>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.</p><p>(i would then explain how to do it.)</p><ul><li>do not publish real-life secrets\u2014the kind of stuff people really shouldn't know\u2014in. 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, <em>no you haven't</em>.</li></ul><p>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.</p><p>these methods are perfectly fine for fun little easter eggs, though.</p><p><a href=\"https://wetdry.world/tags/neocities\">#<span>neocities</span></a> <a href=\"https://wetdry.world/tags/internet\">#<span>internet</span></a> <a href=\"https://wetdry.world/tags/indieweb\">#<span>indieweb</span></a> <a href=\"https://wetdry.world/tags/onlinesafety\">#<span>onlinesafety</span></a></p>",
"text": "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.\n\n(i would then explain how to do it.)do not publish real-life secrets\u2014the kind of stuff people really shouldn't know\u2014in. 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.\n\nthese methods are perfectly fine for fun little easter eggs, though.\n\n#neocities #internet #indieweb #onlinesafety"
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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.
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