Personal take: Could be a help for the #Svelte movement if there would be a simple theme directory for personal and project sites like https://html5up.net/ or https://www.11tythemes.com/.

I only found very few themes for #SvelteKit out there.

It surely is a time-consuming community effort, but maybe a fun one. And AI can speed up the process a bit. Opinions? 🤗 #indieweb

Happy #8bitday yesterday! It was the 256th day of the year.

See last year’s post for why the 256th day is 8-Bit Day: https://tantek.com/2024/256/t1/happy-8bitday-binary-byte

Since last year, the related Wikipedia article on “Programmer’s Day” (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programmer%27s_Day) was updated to finally acknowledge worldwide observation of the day.

This year, inspired by the old 5k (bytes) competition (https://the5k.org/about.php), I suggested to a few friends that it may be possible to build an entire website where each resource fits into at most 8-bits worth of bytes. 255 bytes maximum size HTML, and maximum size of any linked external stylesheet, image, or even script file.

Constraints are key to good, creative, and often innovative design.
https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2023/06/design-constraints-challenges-opportunities-practical-strategies/

I have some ideas for how to create meaningful HTML documents in ≤ 255 bytes. I also have some experience with creating interesting style sheets under similar constraints with the invention of TSS (Tweet Style Sheets or Text Style Sheets) at the 2010 Twitter Annotations Hackfest (#tanhf). TSS links and details on https://indieweb.org/TSS

Intuitively I think a home page ≤255 bytes may be the most challenging, like displaying and linking to a stream of posts, in addition to basic about info. Post permalinks could display short notes (like old 140 character posts), requiring pagination to view anything longer. Images would be another interesting challenge, since even a 32x32 black & white (1-bit) icon would already be 128 bytes. What can fit into a 255 byte PNG or JPEG?, nevermind SVG, which will be much harder than HTML due to its much longer tags and attributes.

The archived FAQ for the5k competition is a good start for answering various questions about how to build an "8-bit" website: https://web.archive.org/web/20050310075803/http://www.the5k.org:80/2001faq.asp
I would add to that proper use of progressive enhancement (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressive_enhancement), that is, all the content on a page is viewable, and all links, buttons, forms etc. work without loading any scripts.

Besides the5k.org, have there been any similar challenges or competitions for 1k bytes, or 512 bytes? Why did Stewart pick 5k bytes instead of something smaller?

@adrianorg Great. Have you implemented any of the #indieweb building blocks? Do you have any articles about using MkDocs which helped you implement it? https://indieweb.org/mkdocs

Alright -- I occasionally get bursts of traffic from some sort of crawler running in Microsoft's public cloud IP blocks. Its distinctive feature:

It appears to contain a bug that appends ampersand (&) to some URLs.

It looks like a lot of web servers _silently accept this_ so they probably didn't notice their bug. My server does not...but since it's just this one crawler I'm not inclined to "fix" it.

Anyone else seeing this?

#indieweb

I want to use Zola but Tera template language is hard.

#IndieWeb #Zola

I wish Haunt had the nice project directory structure as Zola.

#SSG #IndieWeb #Guile #Haunt #Zola #Scheme

Are You in the Mood for Some Quick Scifi Reads?

Looking for some random science fiction short stories to kill an afternoon? Then, look no further than these retro pulp magazine scifi short stories!

https://readbeanicecream.surge.sh/2025/09/14/are-you-in-the-mood-for-some-quick-scifi-reads/

#indieweb #personalweb #smallweb #books #bookstodon #sciencefiction #scifi #reading #read #fiction #pulp

Exciting things are happening at devils[dot]gay HQ.........

#IndieWeb #Neocities

A web gravity experiment by James and a gravity story of mine - https://www.vanderwal.net/random/entrysel.php?blog=2129

#indieweb

ActivityPub is notorious for being a little chatty, and FEP-044f (quote posts) is sort of an extreme example of that. Lots of back and forth between servers, approving quotes, fetching content, deleting approval stamps, etc. I’m not saying I have a better idea… except <blockquote>. 🤪

i see i don't get answers so a different question.
should i sign out of #indieweb carnival ? i mean - the one for next month. my site is that messed i doubt i will be able to make it and signing up for another static hosting just for one post is just… :/
#blog

sign out
don't sign out but also do nothing about it

@rockwood That's great Mike - thanks for sharing. I've added a link to your site and source code on the #IndieWeb Zola page. https://indieweb.org/Zola

Andam por aí uns canta-mañanas a inventar modas, então bora deixar claras algumas coisas sobre o 8 de Janeiro de 2023.
#indieweb #smallweb #blog

https://ilogi.co/posts/voz-ativa/aosesquecidos/

Would you like to receive snail mail containing ART?
Would you like to deliver snail mail containing ART?

here's a spontaneous little art exchange run by @metasyn

Please be kind đź’Ś https://smex.neocities.org/

#art #internet #indieWeb #exchange #snailMail #mail

The #IndieWeb Carnival is quickly becoming my favourite. This one by @fractalkitty was intriguing. Let’s rook ’n’ roll:

https://z1nz0l1n.com/rook-n-roll/

“A IA não sumirá”

Você piscou o olho e já saiu uma nova das @ideiasdechirico

Aqui traduzi para portuguĂŞs um texto do @gee refletindo sobre como lidar com a #inteligĂŞnciaartificial (#IA) enquanto um opositor das #bigtech.

Para quem quiser ler é só clicar no link abaixo, ou seguir no fio desta publicação, pois logo em seguida publicarei o texto integral.

• “A IA não sumirá”, de Grise Bouille (Ideias de Chirico).

:boostgif:

@blogues #blog #smallweb #indieweb

Otso: Local-first IndieWeb toolkit for archiving, syncing, harmonizing, and publishing your internet trails and streams. https://otso.run

(Decided to try hallucinating a new piece of #indieweb software into existence. Would you run Otso?)

Harvard Classics: Volumes One through Ten

I am updating the Clippings page to include links to the Harvard Classic's volumes one through ten. I have also added a Classics page to provide the list in it's entirety... (Well, I am working on the "entirety" part.)

https://readbeanicecream.surge.sh/2025/09/13/harvard-classics-volumes-one-through-ten/

#indieweb #smallweb #personalweb #books #bookstodon #read #reading #library #libraries #projectgutenberg #wikisource

@artlung I'm running Zola. It's my current favorite after having tried a few others (Jekyll, Hugo, 11ty). My site's source code is available (https://github.com/mrockwood/mikerockwood.com) if anyone wants to see a basic #IndieWeb implementation.