How do you deal with reading grief?
https://chavanniclass.wordpress.com/2025/11/29/reading-grief/
A love letter to a piece of tech “that just works”:
I was there, Gandalf... 3000 years ago...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YW6iRAg7PgQ
A Conversation With a Voicemail I'll Never Delete https://sightlessscribbles.com/posts/20250807/ #IndieWeb #Blog #Blogging #Blogs
Bookmarking capjamesg’ indieWeb Create Day project of page validators: Validate Everything (https://jamesg.blog/validate-everything)
Validate Everything (https://l.prry.uk/mentions/validate-everything) 29 Nov, 2025 by Lee Perry (https://l.prry.uk)
Today in #powRSS
Collectively adopting alternative tools to Big Tech by @john_fisherman
"Like-minded, wholesome and frankly fun folks gathered at Casa da Achada, in the maze-like streets of Lisbon’s old town, to collectively share strategies for leaving Big Tech behind when the time comes to build community and organise online."
https://fredrocha.net/2025/11/28/collectively-adopting-alternative-tools-to-big-tech/
I need some #WebDev or #IndieWeb advice about date semantics for reuploads (or manual #PESOS).
On my new website I want to import:
- some posts from my old blog (still online)
- maybe some posts from an even older blog (deleted many years ago)
- some old Facebook posts
What is the correct published date? Is it the publication date on the new site with new domain? Or the original date? Both feel wrong (or equally right), but using dates from the past effects the sort order and feeds. So I tend to use the current date.
If I use both (published_date, original_published_date), how should I mark them up? For "published_date" I have the "dt-published" class (#MicroFormats). But I couldn't find any advice for the original date on https://indieweb.org/ or http://microformats.org/ .
For today’s IndieWeb Create Day, I finally updated the layout on my article permalinks. Several years ago, I started updating non-homepage pages to use a streamlined template with a smaller header logo and navigation links beside it. I kept putting off the article permalinks because a lot of messy, custom code piled up in it over the years. The end visual result is not a huge difference, but it will make maintenance a lot easier going forward.
I improved some of the layout in the article footer while I was at it. I moved my author card to the very bottom of the page, instead of putting it between the article footer and responses. That let me remove the links to jump to the response, which was kind of a weird experience before. I also set the metadata (published date, tags, syndication links) to be right-aligned, matching the layout on the rest of my posts.
Here is what it looks like now:
Contrasted with how it looked before:
For today’s IndieWeb Create Day, I finally updated the layout on my article permalinks. Several years ago, I started updating non-homepage pages to use a streamlined template with a smaller header logo and navigation links beside it. I kept putting off the article permalinks because a lot of messy, custom code piled up in it over the years. The end visual result is not a huge difference, but it will make maintenance a lot easier going forward.
I improved some of the layout in the article footer while I was at it. I moved my author card to the very bottom of the page, instead of putting it between the article footer and responses. That let me remove the links to jump to the response, which was kind of a weird experience before. I also set the metadata (published date, tags, syndication links) to be right-aligned, matching the layout on the rest of my posts.
Here is a screenshot of what it looked like before. Compare with the live version of that article.
It's been a while! First blog post of the year: https://nishchalb.github.io/posts/catnap_design/
I do a post-mortem of the design behind Catnap Chaos. Many post-mortems focus on sales/marketing/reviews, but I enjoyed revisiting the game after a year and seeing how the design choices held up. Enjoy!
I wrote about cool software things, made by cool folks. The connection between people, art, open-source and technology.
https://gerben.dev/posts/artisanal-software-for-humans
I wrote about cool software things, made by cool folks. The connection between people, art, open-source and technology.
https://gerben.dev/posts/artisanal-software-for-humans
Getting started with #IndieWeb Create Day and already chatted on Zoom or in etherpad or in IRC with folks having fun improving their personal websites!
Collectively adopting alternative tools to Big Tech
It was a thing of beauty.
Like-minded, wholesome and frankly fun folks gathered at Casa da Achada, in the maze-like streets of Lisbon’s old town, to collectively share strategies for leaving Big Tech behind when the time comes to build community and organise online.
We discussed RSS (in portuguese) as a battle-tested technology for broadcast communications, such as events happening in your town. We created new Mastodon accounts so we can keep each other in the loop in the Fediverse. We even toyed with the idea of a Linux install party for the next instalment! We spoke about owning your own domain and your own data.
I laid out some of the ideas in a post, in preparation of the talk, and the final result of this reflection can be perused in the presentation I gave (pptx, pdf, in Portuguese).
The whole point of these technologies is to bring people together, liberating them, ie without giving our data to the ultra-rich, becoming captive to the Algorithms. So here’s a list of the folks who were at the event that use these more liberating technologies (let’s follow and boost each other’s ideas):
- Descolagem (Graça Santos). Mastodon e Pixelfed.
- Marta aka Teclista. Mastodon, RSS feed.
- Giacomo Miceli. Mastodon, RSS feed.
- Me! Fred Rocha. Mastodon, RSS feed, Pixelfed.
- Toni (Jornal Mapa). Mastodon.
- Cookies (organizing team, with José Castro spearheading).
- Lucas Grimault Freitas. Mastodon.
- Francisco Seno. Mastodon.
- Casa da Achada. RSS feed.
What are the next steps, you ask? Marta aka Teclista brought the news that in Spain a mass movement got together to organize a day of collective awareness raising and adoption of Mastodon. And now we are conspiring to deploy the same positive movement across Portugal. Leave a comment here or join the conversation in the fediverse to be part of this collective action! Coming soon to a browser near you!
Instead of changing protocol, why not apply the #IndieWeb philosophy and standards to build a better Web on the http? 🤔
A Conversation With a Voicemail I'll Never Delete https://sightlessscribbles.com/posts/20250807/ #Blog #Blogs #Blogging #IndieWeb #NoPaywall
Another batch of Mastodon instances where the tech is strong and the terminals run deep. Adding a few more instances to the curated list of active Fediverse IT/tech/dev communities I bumped into recently:
🔹 bumscode. (https://bumscode.com/about) — invite-only hub for tech pros, coders, hackers & open-source folks who like smaller circles and sharper signal.
🔹 front-end.social (https://front-end.social/about) — human-first web makers championing accessibility, UX, and a more inclusive Open Web
🔹 drupal.community (https://drupal.community/about) — home of the :contentReference[oaicite:3]{index=3} tribe: modules, themes, hooks, and `.twig` wizardry 💙
🔹 vmst.io (https://vmst.io/about) — respectful technologists, geeks, and nerds of every stripe. Good vibes, smart threads, proper bit-energy ⚡
More niche hubs soon — Fediverse growth rate now exceeds my ability to bookmark responsibly 😄