I've been messing around with Jekyll hosting this past month and I finally have something to show for it.

Essentially, I wanted a way to host Jekyll (and hopefully other static web frameworks) on something other than the Microsoft owned GitHub.

It turns out that by linking together some open source software it's relatively easy to put together something workable. Also, HTML has come a long way since I started doing this. So much stuff just works out of the box now, so I don't even need a complicated back end.

https://blog.ryan-chartier.net/projects/2025/07/22/static-web-demo.html

#indieweb #jekyll #subversion

🐔 A Self-hosted, BSD-native Gemini Protocol Server Stack – The BSD Cafe Journal

https://journal.bsd.cafe/2025/07/22/a-self-hosted-bsd-native-gemini-protocol-server-stack/

#openbsd #gemini #selfhosting #indieweb

#IndieWeb is a community of people who want to build their home in the web separate from large corporations.

In the IndieWeb wiki, there are 11 principles the community has come up with and I wrote about them and how they relate to my approach to the personal web.

https://hamatti.org/posts/indieweb-principles-and-i/

#blogging

#lesserknownfanconventions
#lessorknownfanconventions

#indieweb

And it's quite good too, went to the last one and thoroughly enjoyed myself.

July Meetup: Unlocking the Power of Federated Networks with WordPress



Do you know what the ā€œFediverseā€ is? Are you in it? Using theĀ ActivityPubĀ plugin (GitHub), any WordPress site (or user) can be federated and act as a client or server in relation to otherĀ ActivityPubĀ users and platforms, likeĀ mstdn.caĀ (a Mastodon instance) and edmontonian.social (a Misskey instance) because they all implement the ActivityPub standard for a decentralized social web.


Tomorrow at our July meetup, come learn aboutĀ ActivityPub, Federated networks, and WordPress with […]




https://wpyeg.org/2025/07/22/july-meetup-unlocking-the-power-of-federated-networks-with-wordpress/

An IndieWeb meme, quoted from Tantek in the #indieweb-meta chat.

Just a friendly reminder that we don’t have to rank different levels of independence and there’s no One Way to Be Indieā„¢. There are always tradeoffs with the web, but hopefully we are moving towards more individual control of the things we create. I think the IndieWeb community does a good job embodying that in the principles.

An IndieWeb meme, quoted from Tantek in the #indieweb-meta chat.

Just a friendly reminder that we don’t have to rank different levels of independence and there’s no One Way to Be Indieā„¢. There are always tradeoffs with the web, but hopefully we are moving towards more individual control of the things we create. I think the IndieWeb community does a good job embodying that in the principles.



An IndieWeb meme, quoted from Tantek in the #indieweb-meta chat.


Just a friendly reminder that we don’t have to rank different levels of independence and there’s no One Way to Be Indieā„¢. There are always tradeoffs with the web, but hopefully we are moving towards more individual control of the things we create. I think the IndieWeb community does a good job embodying that in the principles.



I think that the #openweb and #privacy are orthogonal. If #InformationWantsToBeFree then why are you using #cryptography?

They are both good things, but you can't be doing them both at the same time.

#cypherpunk #indieweb #opensource

https://www.pixouls.xyz/

Updated my personal website including a robots.txt page (with help from https://robotstxt.com/ai), two more 88x31 buttons (https://88x31.nl/history.html) for @grumpy and @sejo, and replaced my pronouns with the link to https://pronouns.cc

Plans:
- Create a favorites page (will take place of the previous pixel's podcasts page)
- Create a uses page (will take place of the previous tool's page)
- Fix grace lee boggs quote
- Update projects page

#personalWebsite #indieWeb #HTML #tinyWeb #handcraftedWebsite

idk what should go in the wasted background space to the sides of my webbed site. the only solid color i don't hate is black but i generally don't like having large areas of black or white because i feel it makes images look less vibrant.

help plox

#indieweb #css

Hello, just created my account! I'm ADHD and have like a million interests. I'm hoping to find news and content regarding my various hobbies on mastodon, hopefully replacing my bad youtube and reddit habits. I may post about my own various projects as well!

Also, the world as we know it is basically ending, so this may be a useful place to see discussion and news about that as well

My interests are as follows:
#baduk #infosec #linux #opensource #indieweb #indiegames #rust #gardening #nature

David's article really resonated with me because I've been thinking for a long while now to create a newsletter (or three) to surface barely heard voices.

On Substack, for example, the voices I hear are overwhelmingly from the United States, and it is incredibly hard to find voices from Asia and South-East Asia. It's a source of huge frustration for me because the most common narratives about my part of the world is from the United States, and a lot of times these narratives are distorted, skewed to American values and is not what is really happening in my region. Yet, when I try to speak up on Substack, I never get seen as the algorithm is prioritising US voices and Substacks. Worse, they are also boosting only popular ones, which means the most popular narrative is the loudest.

I have occasionally shared links to South-East Asian Substacks and blogs, and each time I do, I get messages of gratitude. However, I still wondered if my tiny act of rebellion would do anything to move the needle in terms of being heard in an English-speaking Internet overwhelmed by Western voices and narratives.

David's post reminded me that yes, I should put in some effort to help surface more unknown corners of the Internet. Maybe we won't get rid of the algorithmic complacency sweeping society now, but at least we'll do some tiny thing to help create a messy but human algorithm instead.

https://www.raptitude.com/2025/06/how-to-surf-the-web-in-2025-and-why-you-should/

#Internet #SocialMedia #Algorithms #IndieWeb #Tech #Blogging #blogs

Hahah I realise that's my pic in that graphic! First, thank you @hyde for reaching out to me, and putting up with my forgetfulness. In this post I talk about #digitalgardens and #socialmedia and tea!

But I want to say that I really love his initiative. I read a post today about how urgent it is for human beings to stop relying on algorithms for content recommendations, and that we should go back to human curators, and @hyde is doing this. It's really time consuming, by the way, so I really applaud all the work he's putting in.

https://lazybea.rs/ovr-029/

#Tech #Indieweb

Who do I know going to #HOPE in NYC next month? I'm afraid I won't make it this time, but as a now-annual event I really want to try and make it to the next one.

There are themed villages akin to the European events I've been to in the past and there's a fediverse village at HOPE this year -- plus @evan -- will be speaking

I hope to see lots of great photos. Please tag me in any you take so I don't miss them :)

#2600 #indieweb

Haven't seen a good project on a .net domain name for a while.

.net domain name owners, please show me your indieweb projects.

(Nothing to do with Microsoft's .NET, but if you're hosting something you made with .NET on a .net domain name, you'll get 5 bonus internet points*)

* Current exchange rate is 78 internet points = 1 clout

#indieweb #dns