0 days since remembering that I have a personal website with a backlog of shit to write and develop, and feeling shitty about procrastinating.

#IndieWeb

The big 'manifesto' has finally been posted, covering #fediverse, #indieweb, and how and why I detached from #socialmedia. Lots of reading to be had, so split up into chapters:

1. Detaching from SocMed (https://heathenstorm.com/2025/04/23/detaching-from-socmed/)
2. A Populace of Plastic People (https://heathenstorm.com/2025/04/24/a-populace-of-plastic-people/)
3. Startin' up a POSSE (https://heathenstorm.com/2025/04/25/startin-up-a-posse/)
4. Into the Fediverse (https://heathenstorm.com/2025/04/26/into-the-fediverse/)

Fediverse versions already shared here.

đź’— Self Promo Sunday #7 đź’—

It's Self Promo Sunday, Y'all! 🙌 Share your Small Web site in the comments and/or let us know what you've been working on lately!

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

https://smallweb.thecozy.cat/blog/%f0%9f%92%97-self-promo-sunday-7-%f0%9f%92%97/

Given that the biggest obstacle to the adoption of microformats is the lack of programs that actually implement them, I have been toying with the idea of writing some useful programs that work with all the information we put onto our websites.

It's frustrating that we're at a point where the bottleneck of the Semantic Web ideal is not actually a low amount of structured information, but the lack of any program to do anything interesting whatsoever with it!

Who cares if we all use the HTML5 tag on our sites, if there is no browser that actually provides a "contact webmaster" button in the sidebar?

Who cares if we all mark up our cooking recipes as perfectly detailed machine readable h-recipe entries, if there is zero cooking apps or whatever actually capable of using any of the data we provide?

Who cares if we all use h-cards and h-feeds and whatnot if there is no feed reader that can actually notify us when our friends posted a new blog entry?

#microformats #microformats2 #HTML #webDev #indieWeb #semanticHTML #semanticWeb #HTML5

i'm thinking of also making an article about accessibility, geared towards the kind of people who make sites of neocities. i want to keep it simple but still explain the most impactful accessibility practices.

here are the things i want to talk about.
is there anything i'm missing or getting wrong?

  • use actual a, button, and input tags for interactive elements. it's also great to use headings and paragraphs properly but that's slightly less important. this alone hugely helps people who navigate with a keyboard or who use a screen reader.

  • add alt text to images. if your alt text is good, you should be able to replace the image with "Picture: (your alt text)" and have readers still get the same information without getting annoyed or confused.

  • use aria-labels for interactive elements whose actual content is just an icon or symbol. your labels should be the same thing as if you were to change that element to just have words in it.

  • add a lang attribute to your html tag to help people who speak a different language. many browsers can try to translate a page into the user's preferred language, but browsers can only do that if they know what language the page is in.

#neocities #indieweb #webdevelopment #accessibility

@teacherbuknoy I may be slightly biased but I think #WebMention adds a lot of value - especially when two blogging webmention users find each other.

Fiddling around in Wordpress today to make Ruby a website. And it is fiddly.

The themes, especially the free ones, are opionated in odd ways. Also it generates in an odd order so it may overwrite a style you chose. Luckily there's an "additional css" box to just hit it with a hammer and tell it, "when i said that font, i meant it"

How do people get around this otherwise? Is there a "raw" theme? #webdev #wordpress #indieweb

This is not only a wonderful read, but also a good overview of a great 90 minutes or so every other week or so in the #IndieWeb Study Hall.
https://xoxo.zone/@artlung/114395270623247194

Claiming My Identity on Bluesky



Tired of handing your identity to platforms? I was too. Here’s why owning your identity matters, and how a simple DNS record makes it possible. #OwnYourIdentity #IndieWeb #BlueSky #DNS #DID




https://islandinthenet.com/claiming-my-identity-on-bluesky/

Claiming My Identity on Bluesky

Tired of handing your identity to platforms? I was too. Here’s why owning your identity matters, and how a simple DNS record makes it possible.

#OwnYourIdentity #IndieWeb #BlueSky #DNS #DID

https://islandinthenet.com/claiming-my-identity-on-bluesky/

Wondering whether it'd be a good idea to use webhooks to write #webmention data into a database, instead of fetching it from the source for every build (with caching, ofc).

I'd only store the data I need, so it'd be ~90% less traffic overall, but it'd also add additional HTTP requests, because "WM source -> build webhook -> website build" would turn into "WM source -> database webhook -> database worker -> build webhook -> website build".

#webdev

Time for #introduction / #reintroduction 'cause I just moved to an new instance đź‘‹

I'm Tom, I live in Austria, and I work as a software engineer. I'm curious by nature, I love building things (mostly digitally, but I also enjoy DIY projects, gardening, bike/car maintenance etc.), and I enjoy cooking, movies, music, video games and weight lifting amongst other things.

I have a personal website that you can find at https://ttntm.me, where you can find a blog, bookmarks, a couple of pages about some of my interests and much more.

I'm also maintaining a web directory at https://bukmark.club that's focused on the #SmallWeb / #indieweb, listing websites that have curated collections of bookmarks/links to other websites.

In which I finally get around to sharing what that recent trip was actually about!
https://axxuy.xyz/blog/posts/2025/happybirthday/
#Blog #Blogging #Blogpost #IndieWeb #PersonalWebsite #PersonalBlog

https://thinkymeat.neocities.org/posts/demonopolising-web-with-art-and-wisdom/

I had some thoughts on web monopoly, and how we should be trying harder to post cool shit we find, make or think onto the #fediverse and our own #blog s

check it outtttt #indieweb

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!