On Thursday #IndieWeb Front End Study Hall will meet. Folks who write #HTML & #CSS learn, discuss, and experiment together with what makes "front end" *stuff* work. Persons of absolutely every skill level are welcome. https://events.indieweb.org/2025/09/front-end-study-hall-036-duXKDJFSwypW

Long time no post.

I wrote a new entry in my People series, A Ritual of Some Sort?

This is a bit of a spooky story about something I saw one night while on a drive.

#IndieWeb #SmolWeb #SmallWeb #blogging #spooky
https://vzqk50.com/blog/people/a-ritual/

The #indieweb really made me change positions in life with a new goal. It kinda awoke something inside that was dorment for a long time and this feeling remind me when I made my first blog on blogspot, back in the day when everyone was into blogs

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/