I… finished two websites while I was gone!
Here's one of them: The 2.0 of my personal site. #WebDev #IndieWeb #SmallWeb #11ty
Same URL as before: hikatamika.com
New blog post (after ages).
About learning a new keyboard layout.
This is a page on a bigger site (https://twcclassics.com/), and I always love when people make their own website as a sort of shrine to something they find interesting. It's cool to see what people care about and it also fits with my IndieWeb interests to have it be on your own website.
My spiritual guides wants me to implement #indieweb features on my site, so I'm researching
@adrianorg Rel Me its great! more of the #IndieWeb building blocks can be checked using the wonderful https://indiewebify.me tool.
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
I missed an anniversary
https://chavanniclass.wordpress.com/2025/09/15/10-years-of-blogging/
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
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?
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.........
A web gravity experiment by James and a gravity story of mine - https://www.vanderwal.net/random/entrysel.php?blog=2129
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>. 🤪