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Make websites look like this again.

#indieweb
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My #commit messages at the outset:
-m "Adding first post. Switching to PaperMod theme."

An hour later, in folder `quickstart3`...:
-m "please god will you work now,,,"

#hugo #ssg #IndieWeb #smallWeb

3/x
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Told y'all we were cooking.

Say hello to Conjured Ink ( https://conjured.ink ): an #IndieWeb-based, #decentralized ecosystem of shops networked together to resist the kind of nonsense Itch and Steam have been dealing with.

We're a collective designing and building the software needed for folks who aren't techies to basically self host without feeling like they're self-hosting. Because you shouldn't need to be a sysadmin to free yourself from this yoke.

Join us!

#ConjuredInk
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If you were to make your first website, would you prefer to:

#PersonalWebsite #indieweb #poll

Write a bit of code
Use a drag-and-drop interface
Something else?
Not interested in having a website
I already have a website
Something else entirely
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Apparently nobody uses RSS any more? I still do on my #indieweb site-- https://cidney.org/feed.xml . It's a mixture of work and personal stuff, but do gamedev blogs and things.
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Here’s an early submission for @immarisabel’s #IndieWeb carnival this month on ‘colours’ ~ https://vhbelvadi.com/threads-paints-hex-codes
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I need a section on my website to link to cool blog posts on other people's websites

I also still need to wrap my head around stuff like webmentions. Like, independent websites have been federating for ages, and I want mine to as well (without me stubbornly implementing full-blown ActivityPub)

#IndieWeb #PersonalSites
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Tenho dividido a Internet em duas:

- Internet pequena: mídias sociais e plataformas comerciais cujo negócio é servir ao capitalismo de vigilância e influência de vieses e desejos. Essa não é aberta a tudo. Nela links são restritos e o conteúdo é homogeneizado com morangos do amor;

- Internet grande: redes sociais como Fediverso e fóruns, revistas e jornais, blogs, podcasts, malas diretas, IRC e uma vastidão de regiões

#Internet #IndieWeb #SociaMedia #RedesSocias
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#indieweb meta
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If you’re using this on your own website, please send me a link to your page and I’ll link to it.

There seems to be some confusion that this requires JavaScript. It does not. It uses the default behavior of the browser so if you have a full page of links it’ll jump to the part of the page with the link.

#indieweb #opensource #html
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Preview of my new profile page. Coming soon along with my new website/blog.

#ProfilePage #IndieWeb
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Blaugust is here!

https://axxuy.xyz/blog/posts/2025/blaugust/

#Blog #Blogging #Blogpost #IndieWeb #PersonalWebsite #PersonalBlog #Blaugust #Blaugust2025
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What my AI fiction writing experiment taught me about my creative process

In my last post, I wrote about my experiment using AI to write fiction.

The whole exercise was born out of curiosity and frustration. The story, Forever, at last, was just one of many that I could not finish, but it refused to leave me, literally haunting me when I try to sleep.

What I discovered

This experiment has made me realise a few things about my creative writing process:

Reading a story generated by AI, even it I had written the story beats and dialogue, was unsatisfying to read.

I enjoy writing a large part of my fiction, like 90%. Taking that away from me would make writing fiction a truly passion-less and boring exercise.

I am far too territorial with my writing to use AI copy wholesale.

I have a Hemmingway-ish style of writing, thin on description, minimalist and economical. And there’s nothing wrong with that. (I ended up cutting away a lot of the content AI generated.)

Most of the enjoyment I have when writing fiction comes from writing the dialogue. In fact, I think I am more of a scriptwriter by nature than a prose writer.

Understanding my process

I have come to the conclusion based on my experiment with fiction is that I need to write the dialogue (which I enjoy), detailed storybeats with a light description of the scene (which I don’t enjoy) before even using AI.

I will then dialogue with AI to find ways to improve my description which I am weak at.

I seem to love chatting with the AI on how I can improve the existing descriptions or the descriptions it generated. The act of learning is very enjoyable to me.

I do not judge anyone who wants to generate first drafts and rewrite them – some people are satisfied with just rewriting, but I realize I want a lot more ownership, and that I need to vividly visualise the scene and create the dialogue. That is the only way I can use AI without sacrificing my enjoyment of writing fiction.

However, I don’t mind asking AI for help in improving my sparse descriptions of settings.

Understanding what parts of the writing process I like or don’t like

What I love:

  • Imagining and visualising the scenes vividly in my head, and then writing the storybeats
  • Writing dialogue (I’m especially territorial about this!)
  • Creating character arcs (This is my second most territorial thing)
  • Creating the entire plot
  • Learning how to improve my fiction prose writing

What I don’t enjoy:

  • Writing detailed outlines
  • Writing descriptions of characters, settings and action scenes (only because I take too long thinking how to do them. I have a feeling once I master this, I’d enjoy it too.)
  • Creating story bibles
  • Proofreading
  • General admin work related to creating the ebook and uploading it to websites
  • Marketing the damn book

To me, writing fiction is all about the craft – writing sentences that convey emotion, story flow, character arcs …

I have very little interest in marketing the book or even distributing it for others to read. I have a very interesting approach to my creations. Once I create a novel or piece a fiction, I tend to forget about them and move on to the next. I don’t check up on them, read the reviews, or see how they perform. To me, the piece of art is done, and it’s time to create another.

So, it’s no wonder that I find the latter half of the process incredibly tedious and unfun.

Outsourcing what you don’t enjoy

Here’s what I tell authors: Identify your pain points — the parts of the process that are most annoying and aggravating. Then let AI handle the majority of the work in those areas. – SJ Pajonas, “The Joy Factor: How to Use AI Without Losing What You Love About Writing”

“AI-positive” indie writer SJ Pajonas wrote in her Substack recently that we need to find the parts of our writing process that we loved, and the parts where we didn’t. The parts that we don’t, we can outsource to AI.

It was an intriguing idea. So, I’ll be exploring this idea in the next post.

#AI #BeingAWriter #ChatGPT #Fiction #indieweb #Internet
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New month, new blog post: The one where I throw out another of my strong opinions. This time about the use of "AI" output.

https://theresmiling.eu/blog/2025/08/i-feel-offended-by-ai

#blog #personalBlog #personalWebsite #personalWeb #smallWeb #indieWeb
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What a sweet discovery this was!
Good Internet is back in Switzerland, just in time for the 1st of August and a well-deserved dessert. 🇨🇭

This issue #1 truly is a thing of beauty. So much so that I already have subscribed and am very much looking forward to future issues 😊 and if you love the Internet I'd warmly recommend you to do the same.

Thank you for the good moments @xandra and all its authors!

#goodinternet #goodinternetmagazine #indieweb #goodinternetontour

https://indieweb.social/@skk/114947915925193860
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Looking for a Movie Club in August and / or you want an excuse to watch (or rewatch) Local Hero?

I have the pleasure to host the August 2025 IndieWeb Movie Club. The introduction is here - https://www.vanderwal.net/random/entrysel.php?blog=2128

More background about the IndieWeb Movie Club is at - https://indieweb.org/IndieWeb_Movie_Club#2025

#indieweb #indiewebmovieclub
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@NfNitLoop Come join us on the IndieWeb chat too... https://indieweb.org/discuss (Slack, Discord, IRC, browser chat -- all bridged) #indieweb
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I did some googlin' for #smallweb chats (IRC/Discord/whatever) and didn't find any, so I made one. Come hang out and say hi if that's your kind of thing!

#smolweb #indieweb

https://discord.gg/GAqQDp5ZkH
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Random #webdev #indieweb question! Does anyone know rrslly good resourced to learn #HTML + #CSS but without using JavaScript (or at least avoiding as much as possible).

Resources in the sense of wanting to become a beast with these two techs only, and impress everyone in awe because of the perfection and number of the CSS HTML crimes I will commit with it!!!

Yeah a bit exaggerated, but in essence I want to be really good at this to see how much you can push the limits here. Thanks a lot!
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Made a single HTML file URL shortener. No database needed.

Let me know what you think!

https://mat.tl/s/

#indieweb #opensource #html
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