If you liked A Conversation With a Voicemail I'll Never Delete, my feed URL is https://sightlessscribbles.com/feed.xml #RSS #IndieWeb

New blog post: “Build Bridges”.

https://blog.kizu.dev/build-bridges/

This is a very quick shout-out to the Bridgy Fed project by @snarfed.org.

If you know people who are only present on one of the networks and are not bridging their accounts — nudge them to do so!

#IndieWeb #BlueSky #Fediverse

Would you financially support a new effort (of mine) to build and maintain a database of metadata and descriptive statistics about the #Fediverse and other #SocialWeb, #Indieweb, #smallweb, and #p2p networks?
I would serve high-level interfaces to a database of metadata resulting from ongoing automated crawls.
Key goals would include • comprehension of the current state of networks, and • navigation of the breadth of networks based on topic, identity, and technical necessity for ad-hoc needs.

Hi fedifriends, I still don't understand webmentions but I'd love to learn how you use them.

How do they differ from manually e-mailing people when you cite them?

I assume you manually check who links to you, otherwise if you write a post that gets shared to Hacker News or similar you'd have tons of backlinks, no? Surely not all mentions are worth adding to your site?

Is the benefit that a post can be replied to from the fediverse?

Thanks in advance!

#fediverse #indieweb #blogs

#Business #Experiences
My website is approaching Google Zero · ”Should I just opt out of Google Search altogether?” https://ilo.im/168q88

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#Google #SearchEngine #ZeroClick #Content #Website #IndieWeb #SmallWeb #Development #WebDev #Frontend

Last winter, I read an article about how creatively snowfall decorations were used on static websites, and that this tradition has almost completely disappeared since the rise of Web 2.0.

I decided that when I'll build my own static blog, it will definitely be full of snowflakes in winter. The snowfall starts today! ❄️

🌐 https://blog.gridranger.dev

If you’ve also got snowfall on your site or any favourite site of yours, drop a link to that page to the comments!

Spread the word and let’s bring snow to as many blogs and websites as possible! 🌨️☃️

#staticsite #blog #blogging #indieweb #retroeffect #snowfall #winter

Kleiner Transparenzhinweis, weil’s sonst keiner sagt:

Meine Seiten tracken niemanden. Keine Logs, keine IP-Sammelei, keine Reichweitenmessung.

Ich betreibe https://www.nimmermehr.rip und https://chat.dorfzwockel.de

ohne Werbung, ohne Sponsoren, ohne Monetarisierung.

Ich weiß nicht, wer liest – und es ist mir völlig egal.

Ich zahle jeden Monat ca. 200 € dafür, dass Inhalte frei bleiben und niemand ausspioniert wird.

Empfehlen? Teilen? Lassen?

Macht, was ihr wollt. Ich verdiene in jedem Fall nichts dran.

#Transparenz #Ethik #IndieWeb #Datenschutz #Privatsphäre #Infologie #Partisanenepistemologie #nimmermehrRip #Dorfzwockel #Netzkultur #OhneLogsOhneBullshit

A love letter to a piece of tech “that just works”:

https://dominikhofer.me/re-i-love-calculator

#Technology #Minimalism #Indieweb

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)

#Bookmark #IndieWeb #Mention

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/

#fediverse #indieweb

Announcing Validate Everything

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:

screenshot of the current footer on my article permalinks

Contrasted with how it looked before:

screenshot of the previous footer on my article permalinks

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.

screenshot of the previous footer on my article permalinks

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!

#gamedev #gamedesign #blog #indiedev #indieweb