When was the last time you sat down with some blank paper and a box of crayons?
https://chavanniclass.wordpress.com/2025/11/09/to-go-into-another-room-and-make-pictures/
#art #drawing #color #education #children #blog #blogging #IndieWeb
I wish there were more simple site generators out there that you could install on your server with an installer or by simply unzipping it to a folder instead of having to go through the whole Github and/or Netlify maze. Such a pain in the butt. It's one of the things I miss about the old web.
Throughout the growth of the Internet and technology, we are unknowingly misled and misinformed for corporate profit.
We should be well-informed for the growth of our humanity.
#DistortedKnowledge #DigitalAutonomy #Decentralization #TextCulture #FediTech #DigitalNostalgia #indieWEB
Back to Usenet. Learn from them. Retrospective.
Plain text, threaded conversations.
Ideas shared freely, no flashy UI — just thoughtful messages.
Author references propagated over network.
Small, readable, decentralized — lessons in simplicity and clarity.
Echoes today in IndieWeb: own your content, control your identity.
#Usenet #TextCulture #RetroInternet #ASCII #Hackers #FediTech #DigitalNostalgia #IndieWeb
🔖 Bookmarked: My first months in cyberspace https://www.gyford.com/phil/writing/2025/10/15/1995-internet/
Phil Gyford remembers the excitement and optimism of being online in 1995.
🔥 Read more: https://flamedfury.com/bookmarks/my-first-months-in-cyberspace/
🔖 Bookmarked: The psychological cost of having an RSS feed https://refp.se/articles/the-weight-of-an-rss-feed
Filip explores the anxiety that comes with writing a blog knowing it has an RSS feed.
🔥 Read more: https://flamedfury.com/bookmarks/the-psychological-cost-of-having-an-rss-feed/
Would my website and I be more relatable if you knew my first name?
We have the beginnings of a welcome wizard 👀 … This is shaping up SO well!
It’s not yet functional, but the “stepping system” works #11tyCMS #11ty #indieweb
New blog post: “Embedding Bandcamp Tracks”
https://blog.kizu.dev/embedding-bandcamp-tracks/
A long time ago, back in LiveJournal, sometimes people embedded various music players in their posts. It was fun! I already had a “Current music” field added to most of my blog’s posts, but now I also added a way to enrich this field by adding an optional Bandcamp track reference, and spent my evening updating existing posts in the blog to have it.
I was just checking out the @bonfire installation guide (which is brilliantly written btw) and suddenly I realised there was something familiar about the layout... and guess what... Bonfire is built with #ElixirLang 🥰 hex docs ftw! https://bonfirenetworks.org/start/
#IndieDev #IndieWeb #Fediverse #Activitypub
I appreciate that part of the #indieWeb is “running away” from the corporate controlled web in #GeminiSpace, and there are some very interesting idea being developed around there. There's something to be said about not wanting to share your environment with the poison that a large part of the web has become, but at the same time, there's also something to be said about throwing away the baby with the bathwater. The problem with the web isn't technical, it's social. The tech itself is fine.
#Chrome's deprecation of #XSLT is just the next step in the decade-long efforts by #Google to kill an open, independent web (reminder that I've collected some of that history here <https://wok.oblomov.eu/tecnologia/google-killing-open-web/>). The #WebKit developers at #Apple or the prone #Mozilla developers agreeing on this choice detracts nothing from the argument.
🧡Do you browse fedi and want to get something on your frontend fixed? Perhaps a website redesign, upkeep, maintained? Adding new features?
Are you willing to give me a chance? I promise I'm not a hallucinating AI model and for whatever you decide to pay me will not go towards datacenter maintenance but towards a great user experience for the users of your service/website or page?
My DM's are always open. I'm fully open to working in whatever timezone remotely. You will love my attention to accessibility and user-first UX.
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[ #hiring #gethired #indieweb #accessibility #fedihire #remote #freelance ]
ps: wanna support as a passive audience? boost me instead 😌
What's going on, Internet?
Looking for some examples of media logs on personal websites? Think a fire hose of all the shows, movies, music watched/listened to in a long ass list with pagination or something. Hit me up.
Ok #Neocities question: my blog apparently has 91k views??? Surely not?! That HAS to be a bug
. Its literally just a blog with rambling about stuff. It was 70k about a couple weeks ago. Where has that extra 20k come from? #indieweb #blog #blogging
I really like personal homepages and have quite a list of them bookmarked. I'll post one every week unless I fall behind this schedule. 😉 So here's Cool Personal Homepages #CPHP Vol. 51: "XTeddy" https://xteddy.org/
#SmallWeb #indieweb #homepage #blog
#screenshot #retrocomputing