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I've been starting to publish more background on my work as #developer and #musician on my newly designed personal web site. Here is an article on my #Senode sequencer, giving some insights why I developed it and how I use it today.

https://www.sebastian-arnold.net/projects/senode

#SmallWeb #IndieWeb #PersonalWeb #Blog #Portfolio
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Look me up in the Internet Phone Book.

internetphonebook.net?call=426&iss...

(Photo thanks to mastodon.art/@chrisjonesi...)

#IndieWeb #SmolWeb
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Do any of you #SmolWeb or #IndieWeb folks have a copy of the Internet Phone Book handy? I think I'm in there, but I don't know my dial-a-site number. Help!

Should be under "Fern River Club".
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“But with the revival of personal #blogs well underway, I think it’s time to bring niche blogs back into the fold. I’m talking about well written, quality, topic focused resources. This is material fast vanishing from the #web, leaving ever diminishing options to source useful and accurate information. What are the alternatives? The misinformation morass that is social media? Being served AI generated summaries in response to search engine queries? A web choke full of #AI #slop?”

https://disassociated.com/personal-blogs-back-niche-blogs-next/

#SmallWeb #SmolWeb #blog #IndieWeb
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Finally switched to self-hosting! Wish me luck 🍀 https://ggirelli.info/blog/2025/11/21/self-host #indieweb #smallweb #selfhost #blog #personalwebsite
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Do you have any bookstore stories to share?

https://chavanniclass.wordpress.com/2025/11/22/browse-love-letters-to-bookshops-world/

#writing #reading #books #blog #blogging #IndieWeb
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A poll - can you draw a horse?

https://rye.wentcloud.com/en/polls/38f8b40ae0d30a11c13d8a1c0a4964bee98dcd20ae89ae534ff20e8e12dd729a/

#poll #indieweb
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@oblomov @palemoon @Vivaldi A fabulous essay, very much on point: there are two webs, a document web and an app web with very different browser requirements and emphasis on user-agency in the first place, and corporate agency in the second.

But I don't like the idea that every document dictates which browser will work; that just puts the user back under control of the server, and I wouldn't want reams of minor browsers on my machine for security reasons.

#indieweb #4opens
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My guess would be that “web of apps” developers will gladly throw themselves at new features as soon as it's “all green” on https://caniuse.com (which I don't expect will monitor “web of documents” browsers: even now it doesn't feature minority browsers like @palemoon or @Vivaldi), while I expect “web of documents” developer to be more cautious in their approach: there's a reason why a gardening metaphor is often used for the #indieWeb

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The #WorldWideWeb was born with the intent to achieve an interconnected web of *documents*: and this is not only what it was in the beginning, but also what most of the open, independent web still is, even when it's more dynamically generated (wikis, blogs).

What we've seen under the moniker of “Web 2.0” in the last 20+ years, but especially in the last decade, has been the development of a different _interpretation_ of the Web.

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#openWeb #indieWeb #WWW
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Content warning:web dev advice seeking, personal site, indie web

So I’m working on a personal site for myself and I’ve rewritten it a couple of times because I can’t decide how I want to build the site.

I’m building it mostly because I am inspired by the 90s/00s personal website area of the internet (like Geocities). And also its modern equivalent Neocities. These sites are primarily written in plain HTML/CSS/JS and I love seeing all the cool designs that people come up with. I originally wanted the site to be written this way. with all the JavaScript frameworks out there today, it feels kinda nice to just do vanilla js.

however, I think my plans may actually be too complex for this setup. Two main sections that are throwing me off. one. I want to make a library of my songs coded with the Strudel library. this requires using their web component which has some quirks about it. also, I want to edit the songs as JavaScript files and then render them on the page by turning the file content into a string and rendering it.

second I want to have a music collection page. I want to have a folder of artists and have a jpg of the album cover along with a markdown file that has my description. then I want to load this dynamically for each album so I don’t have to rewrite a page for each album.

So I tried doing this with Elixir and Phoenix because I wanted to learn elixir. But then I decided I’d rather use JavaScript bc I am comfortable with it. so I rewrote it in Svelte bc I really like that framework. and I managed to get the markdown processing and the strudel song loading working smoothly. I’m actually very happy with where it is at.

but then I saw more examples of great neocities sites and I’m back to wanting to try using plain html css js again. I tried for hours to work with it and even tried bringing in some web components and I kinda sorta have strudel part working. but honestly the svelte setup is much easier. Mainly because not loading the songs or the album pages dynamically would make me have to write WAY more code and like, I have the modern web dev skills, so why not use them right?

Am I overthinking this? The site will still have the indie web vibe I’m going for either way, so maybe it doesn’t matter so much what I use to write it? #WebDev #indieweb
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If a thief doesn’t want your cheap tech, is it really worthless? I think not.

https://HisVirusness.com/cheap-does-not-mean-bad

#opinion #post #ewaste #smallweb #indieweb #foss #cheaptech #android #linux
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Exploring the indie web and finding the COOLEST personal websites! by LuvstarKei IRL
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjKi64rX8w8

#retrocomputing #indieweb #youtube #websites
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A task that I'm thinking about: A way to keep my web content and Gemini content in sync without having to write them separately.

Note: If you came across this post by searching the Gemni hashtag, and you're looking for Google's Gemini AI topics, GTFO. The Gemini I'm referring to is a smallnet protocol similar to Gopher, not some GenAI monstrosity.

#Indieweb #Gemini #smolnet #smallnet
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Cornerstone v1.0.7! Social icons in author bios now render as beautiful circular buttons. Supports Mastodon, Bluesky, Twitter/X, LinkedIn, Instagram, GitHub & 17+ platforms. Auto-detects from URL. Dark mode built in. #WordPress #IndieWeb

https://github.com/khurtwilliams/cornerstone/releases/tag/v1.0.7
Manton Reece www.manton.org

A thoughtful post today from Laurens Hof in the Fediverse Report about Mastodon’s new CEO and the project’s sustainability. It’ll be interesting to look back a year from now on whether there are visible changes. Hope in the meantime that Eugen Rochko gets some rest and a vacation or two.
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What do you do when you want to read books but nothing seems interesting enough?

https://chavanniclass.wordpress.com/2025/11/21/substitutes/

#reading #books #fiction #blog #blogging #IndieWeb
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Having minimally built https://xmit.co https://onclebob.com I'm thinking about the rest of the static web authoring experience, particularly around #11ty, and realize I know very little of its ecosystem. Are there project bootstrap(per)s? Abstractions for templates and/or themes? Web admins/editors, maybe with something akin to https://stackedit.io/ and a live iframe preview? The more I find the less I build. A goal for myself: have something my family finds pleasant to use to build (at least) microsites. Still a long way to go on many fronts. #indieweb
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I think this will be popular. Will make it free for everyone, not locked down in a premium feature.

Surely some of you want to try Pagecord? Stop faffing about with that static site that you never post to. Pagecord will make you blog more!

https://headey.net/31528ea4 #indieweb #buildinpublic #blogging
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Ok ok, I give in. I've relented. The forces of capitalism are too strong for my weak mind. And I could really do with the business.

If you're considering Pagecord Premium and you'd like a Black Friday offer to seal the deal, here you go https://blog.pagecord.com/black-friday-special-offer-for-pagecord-premium

#blogging #blackfriday #indieweb