back when i first joined mastodon, one of the many surprising things i learned was that gopher had made a return to the public sphere after decades of obscurity.

i grew up with gopher and archie and veronica and many other www-alt protocols before getting hooked on the world wide web. they taught me how to hunt for things, in a time when web search didn't exist yet.

i've spent every day of the past week adding a new feature to kiki that i'm incredibly proud of, after hearing from several folks - namely @tomjennings and @scott, who (like me) are hungry for an information-dense and cruft-free internet

this works by turning your kiki pages into gopherspace pages through some formatting magic and textmunging. so now, you can host your kiki instance on both the www and in gopherspace, simultaneously.

it will be released in an upcoming version of kiki, available soon here: https://tomo-dashi.itch.io/kiki

#kiki #worldWideWeb #GopherProtocol #gopherspace #indieWeb #smolWeb

only FOUR DAYS left in our spring tea party coding event!

help create a template, theme, or layout for new and seasoned website owners to create their own websites easily!

submissions close may 11!~

https://32bit.cafe/spring25/

#webdev #smallweb #indieweb #codejam #web #webdesign #handmadeweb #coding #codingisart #html #css #internet #neocities #nekoweb #website #personalwebsite #openinternet #foss #opensource

#introduction

here goes nothing; CD-Love is my cozy small allowlist-instance to try and explore some aspects of myself

certainly not new to fedi, please spare yourself tutorials on the network.

about me: i'm a... FTM guy i guess. living in the netherlands but don't come from here. for years have been holding on to a simple binary expression due to dysphoria and societal pressures. lately have done musing on things and decided my gender needs a DLC, and that i've been repressing the aspect of my life where i wanted to be an "effeminate man", or other words that are pretty much slurs that i don't want to and won't quote here. sounds harsh but little me didn't know better due to the environment i was raised in.

thus i stopped at the words bigender and androgyne. and at some point, when my body allows me to, i want to crossdress amplifying both my masculine traits and a feminine frame.

for now, that part of me remains solely online, hence also the feminine name and typically masculine pronouns and terms used.

i also do want to set an example that crossdressing is not just a fetish, it shouldn't be seen as only that and that it can be a part of someone's gender identity

outside of the musing, i sometimes draw or play on my 3DS or steam deck, although most of the time i lack the right energy to do so due to being in recovery. feel free to ask me for my pretendo friendcode! maybe we can play smash bros or mario kart.

i'm autistic, and got C-PTSD and probably some PTSD going on. that might explain some of my behaviors.

one day i should get back to making websites. i used to be somewhat active in indie web circles, but withdrew over time for mostly personal reasons.

feel free to ask me about anything regarding my interests or identity, and if you feel like following please read my bio!

#queer #lgbtq #transgender #bigender #androgyne #crossdressing #transmasc #transman #pokemon #nintendo #nintendo3ds #art #videogames #gaming #netherlands #indieweb #webmaster
Last Friday I published my second Cybersecurity Friday post with three more key steps for cybersecurity. In summary:

1. Different email address for each account, AKA email masking. Use or create a different email alias for each service you sign-up for.
2. Different password for each account. This is a well known security technique against credential stuffing attacks.
3. Use a password manager to autofill. Always using a password manager to autofill your login username (or email) and password can be a very effective method of reducing the chances of being phished.

Full post with details: https://tantek.com/2025/122/b1/more-steps-indieweb-cybersecurity

#CyberSecurity Friday #cyber #security

Previously: https://tantek.com/2025/055/t1/three-steps-indieweb-cybersecurity
#CyberSecurity #cyber #security

In a bit there'll be an #IndieWeb Zoom: "Homebrew Website Club Europe/London" It's a good place to talk story about personal websites, identity online, blogging, POSSE. Might be your cup of tea, whether you're in the UK or not. https://events.indieweb.org/2025/05/homebrew-website-club-europe-london-gVJ28mnFGAUh #SmallWeb

Some fun indie/cozy-web directories:

For those whose websites:
- have a /now/ page: https://nownownow.com/

- have a /uses/ page: https://uses.tech/

- use Obsidian to publish: https://obsidian-gallery.craftengineer.com/

Are there any other directories folks have seen?

#Cozyweb #Obsidian #IndieWeb #Now #Uses

@DotheWoo I have been trying to use this for the last year it's a very strange #UX I think this alien feeling comes from it being built for the #indieweb which is a subculture of the #openweb reboot.

I keep it installed on my #WP as i feel it must be useful, but haven't found a use for it yet, the is something that I can't get my head around in its #UX

@alex

Because I always love to read these kind of posts from others, I’ve added a bookmarks page to my website. Here are the links I’ve found worth sharing these past few weeks:

https://kedara.eu/bookmarks/2025-04_05

#bookmarks on #Yoga #Indieweb #MentalHealth #philosophy #Books #Inclusivity #BrandonSanderson #StormlightArchives #WindAndTruth

@MrClicko

Wer ein YouTube-Video in seiner Webseite einbettet, kann nicht garantieren, dass jeder Besucher seiner Webseite, immer dasselbe Video zu sehen bekommt!

Hier könnte sich der Einsatz einer Peertube Instanz lohnen.

#PeerTube #youtube #indieweb #datenhoheit

Anyone familiar with a lightweight text-wget type tool to pull text-only from http articles? I like to save clippings offline of various web articles for future reference/research (journalism, essays, etc) but my current solution is to: (i) toggle reader view + strip out images (ii) print - save as PDF. Anyone else got a more lightweight way to pull plaintext from web pages? I *imagine* there's some simple tools out there using e.g. python web scraping + parsing? #web #journalism #webtech #indieweb

https://thinkymeat.neocities.org/posts/protests-building-solidarity-community-and-hope/

Blogged about the 2 protests I attended against the #SupremeCourt ruling.

Its about the importance of #protest and the sorts of environments we cultivate at demonstrations. Its about the importance of protest being not just an opportunity for spreading a message: but an opportunity for community, building connections and mutual support.

#indieweb #blog #LGBTQIA #trans

Hey hypothetical question for users of Publii:

I noticed that there is a custom HTML block option. Is it possible to make an "old school" styled web page with divs and all that though that and still use the blog functionality?

Like this is years in the future, and I want practice HTML on neocoties first but I would love to make an 2000s style website for my brand in the future.

If I can ever get that off the ground...

#Publii #oldweb #website #indieweb

Here are my #WeekNotes from April 29 to May 5, 2025. Quite a lot of bingewatching and gaming this time around.

This is day 60 of #100DaysToOffload

https://joelchrono.xyz/blog/2025-w18

#Blogging #IndieWeb #Blog #Writing

New on the blog: The one where I invite you to let go of your social media posts.

https://theresmiling.eu/blog/2025/05/all-the-posts

#personalBlog #blog #personalWebsite #smallWeb #indieWeb