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Late is better than never right? Here's the latest edition of Scrolls! (With the usual #indieweb, #fediverse and #infosec / #cybersecurity weekly-happenin's)
https://shellsharks.com/scrolls/scroll/2025-04-28
Thanks to everyone below for their contributions to this weeks edition of Scrolls. Each of you published, shared, or linked to something I thought was cool and wanted to share out myself. Cheers! 🧡
@liaizon @technomancy @tinker @aral @vga256 @lianna @reillypascal @midtsveen @neauoire @albinanigans @lmorchard @catsalad @ben @sainthood @ohno @ayo @Octoomy @timbray @NiwlCraft @anant @usernameswift @panos @lordmatt @SheHacksPurple @noisydeadlines @Daojoan @FamiliarDraco @tinimalina @alexhaydock @0xbro @sarajw @thesmallweb @poppacalypse @straithe @mariobianchi @thelinuxcast @rachsmith
There will be an #IndieWeb Camp in Düsseldorf and were I in Germany this next weekend I would surely attend. Were I going to «beyond tellerand» I'd be looking forward to it: https://events.indieweb.org/2025/05/-indiewebcamp-düsseldorf-lbBv9MGOChq2
Cool to see the POSSE photo I snapped at Fediverse House used in this blog post:
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.
I’ve uploaded a copy of the photo to the IndieWeb wiki too. Public domain, CC0.
I added a little splashed-on paint stain in the bottom corner of my #website and it makes me disproportionately happy for such a tiny thing...
...I think it feels more "me" to stain ANYTHING I have that's clean and new. 🙃
#SmallWeb #ActuallyAutistic #ActuallyADHD #blogging #IndieWeb
❤️ Monday Memes #7 ❤️
I feel like we've all probably done this at least once.
Happy Monday! 🤪
@indieweb @smallweb @neocities ##indieweb ##lol ##Memes ##neocities ##nostalgia ##oldweb ##smallweb ##webdesign ##webdev ##webrevival #Nekoweb
https://smallweb.thecozy.cat/blog/%e2%9d%a4%ef%b8%8f-monday-memes-7-%e2%9d%a4%ef%b8%8f/
📝 Week Notes, No. 17.25 | So It Goes… https://notes.krueger.ink/week-notes-no-1725/
Content warning:Nazis and Linux and open source things.
Longer blog post coming but of course PewDiePie would love #Linux and otherwise. It isn't a secret that fascists, and their enablers, love the open web, open source, and even open technology, and places like the people focused web and the indieweb, as an example. this isn't new. Open source and open technology and the IndieWeb etc. Will always attract fascists. Why do they love these things? Simple, they believe they have a space free from community consequences to spew their hatred. You can combat this in a number of small and big ways. Some small ways are making them obviously uncomfortable, and or outright unwelcome, remember the guy that kicks out Nazis even though they say please and thank you?
First, some petty ways.
Make all of your Linux distro wallpaper LGBT+ inclusive.
But on a more serious note,
You can't outright stop them from using open source software. You can, though, make it very clear their bullshit won’t be tolerated here.
This means prioritizing your marginalized contributors over them. Implement their ideas over obvious Nazi ideas. Do things that tell them, hey, your bullshit isn't welcome. Force them to look for non woke software.
You won’t chase them from the internet. That's not possible, but you can force them to be around other Nazis exclusively and that's important because they need numbers. You don't need them. They need you as a recruiting ground. It really is that simple.
As for all who don't believe PewDiePie is a fascist or at least a fascist sympothiser, https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/PewDiePie
#PewDiePie #OpenSource #IndieWeb #Software #Tech #Technology
Hey #Fediverse, #Smolweb, #Smallweb, #Indieweb folks, what is the latest thinking on sharing videos on your personal website? Of course, just uploading videos to youtube is fine I guess but maybe peertube? What are our thoughts on uploading the video files directly to the site and hosting it there?
0 days since remembering that I have a personal website with a backlog of shit to write and develop, and feeling shitty about procrastinating.
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.
💗 Self Promo Sunday #7 💗
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/
also: redesigned my personal website
https://smallcypress.neocities.org/
It was a very nice day today, so as a treat you get a second blog post. https://axxuy.xyz/blog/posts/2025/saturdayafternoon/
#Blog #Blogging #Blogpost #IndieWeb #PersonalWebsite #PersonalBlog
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, andinputtags 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
alttext 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
langattribute to yourhtmltag 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.
@teacherbuknoy I may be slightly biased but I think #WebMention adds a lot of value - especially when two blogging webmention users find each other.
I wrote a blog post about #soup 🍲 https://axxuy.xyz/blog/posts/2025/soup/
#Blog #Blogging #Blogpost #IndieWeb #PersonalWebsite #PersonalBlog
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