Thoughts on Why

Recently, @david wrote:

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I love the idea of having a personal site online. But then I wonder, “Why? What would make it important enough to prioritize over other ways to use my time?”

Thoughts?

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So, I thought I would share mine.

https://readbeanicecream.surge.sh/2025/07/04/thoughts-on-why/

#indieweb #smallweb #personalsites

I love the idea of having a personal site online. But then I wonder, “Why? What would make it important enough to prioritize over other ways to use my time?”

Thoughts?

#indieweb #SmallWeb

You can find Stone Capital Growth™ content across the Fediverse and Bluesky under the same name:

👉 @tom-stone.com

Thanks to Bridgy Fed + NewsMast for making it seamless.

#fediverse #bluesky #indieweb #stonecapitalgrowth #markets #socialmedia

From IRC to the Fediverse — still chatting outside the mainstream. 📡
Independent. Decentralized. Community-powered.
Let’s build wealth and knowledge the open-source way. 💻📈
🔗 https://tom-stone.com/stonecapitalgrowth/

#Fediverse #Mastodon #FinanceCommunity #IndieWeb #DecentralizedSocial #ThrowbackVibes #StoneCapitalGrowth #markets

Here's yet another update for #11tyCMS ! https://thinkymeat.neocities.org/posts/11tycms-image-uploads-and-design-enhancements/

This time talking about image uploads and design enhancements/ideas. Also? Pls provide feedback on my design woes, I'd really appreciate it.

Enjoyyy! #11ty #indieweb #blog #blogs

My First Hugo Site

I’m in the process of finding and migrating to alternatives to all the pieces parts of my Adobe subscription. One of those is Adobe Portfolio, which was still hosting one of my websites. Today I managed to recreated it (crudely) using Hugo, and host it using Amazon CloudFront. It seems to be working!

#IndieWeb #Hugo

https://monkeywalk.com/

Styling Emojis for Dark Mode

TIL you can use CSS to apply filters so that emojis look good (well, better anyway) in dark mode.

#IndieWeb #CSS

I've recently changed the style and behaviour for external links on my website. I use them a lot and while the icons I used previously to indicate external links are very clear, they make the text look cluttered to me (see first pic).

Inspired by https://thomasrigby.com I opted for a subtler visual difference: dotted underline for inline links and a double underline for external links. To me it looks calmer.

Also, everything now opens in the same tab, so it's up to you to open links in a new tab, if you prefer.

What do you think? Do you have any preference or do you not really care to know if a link is external or internal?

#css #indieweb #webdesign #webdev

Do you like internet #ads? No?

What about #ads from the 90s and 2000s in #GIF format? Yes? The you're in luck, because this site has +800 of them for your personal enjoyment!

https://sen.fish/ads/

#RetroWeb #RetroComputing #SmallWeb #IndieWeb #90sInternet #90sWeb

IndieWeb Movie Club July 2025 - Triplets of Bellville

#Article

@tomjennings I don't know, I would prefer to just return to using it like I used to do. NeoCities is a good peek into this, as well as a few other places I cannot think of the names of.

We don't have to participate in the bs parts of it, we don't have to use META, as we have Mastodon/Fediverse, and I have seen movements towards independence from Bandcamp, and I am digging the vibe that folks are bringing now. #IndieWeb

Hey I just created some of my #slashpages on my website. Check them out.
I added #now , #blogroll and #postroll

https://alavi.me/slashes

#indieweb #smallweb

Some users are reporting issues with accessing indieweb.social.

This may be related to the server update was released today. We're looking into a fix.

If you're having issues, please report them here or to @Thor as our UK team are settling down for bed now 🛏️ 💤

#MastoAdmin #IndieWeb

This site https://www.rssrssrssrss.com is new to me ~ a site to combine feeds into a new unique #feed. It was shared by Zachary Kai https://zacharykai.net in the #IndieWeb Chat

i thought kids who grew up natively with all the #tech around us would be "used to it" and just accept it as part of life.

so, I was surprised to see this written by a 15-year-old.
they are sensing the brainrot

"The Beauty of Old Tech" by Jakov Koprivnjak

https://sheepdev.xyz/blog/the-beauty-of-old-tech
#indieweb

What music blogs and newsletters are you reading at the moment? Or perhaps *you* have a newsletter that shares news from your music community?

Share it with us and we'll repost as many as we can! 📰🐦‍⬛

#Music #Musodon #Musicians #Newsletters #IndieWeb #MusicCommunity

Big thanks to @mastohost for upgrading indieweb.social to v4.3.9 🎉

You can see the changelog here: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/releases/tag/v4.3.9

#Upgrade #IndieWeb #MastoAdmin

I have finally got my website building pandoc script working the way I want. No need to add 20 features for a site with zero content so I need to deploy and start writing blogs! I have settled on nginx on my Raspberry Pi 3 using sish to proxy from my home network through pico.sh/tuns to the internet.

Now, I just learned about BastilleBSD and am quite interested so, I am asking the Fediverse, which setup should I use?

#AskFedi #selfhosting #indieweb

Debian with Docker Containers
FreeBSD with Bastille managed Jails