Today I updated my privacy policy, my `/uses` page, my "days since" counter and added an entry to my skate diary

#nowpage #indieweb

2025 year in review: https://andrewmelder.com/2025/12/20/year-in-review.html

The year was marked by personal loss, health reassessments, efforts towards intentional living, and the joyful adoption of a dog, all intertwined with reflections on grief and growth.
#Blog #Blogging #Indieweb #Reflection

@hober a few of us in #indieweb have been discussing this the last week or so and earlier I tried the Goodreads export in CSV has many columns.

We updated the list on the IndieWeb wiki for Goodreads with the full list of data in a CSV. https://indieweb.org/Goodreads

I hope this helps a little. I hadn't tried the export in a while and was surprised by how much was in it. There are data gaps for many books, but most had data decently populated.

I made a new version of my website and I included #webmentions let's try if it works.
I did a test article here:
https://kissmaelis.com/en/blog/testing-webmentions/

I've been very reluctant to set defaults for syndication, making options be selected each time instead. This is a bit problematic because I like to reduce friction. The issue is that I don't want them to be global. I want them to be a bit more granular. For example, a hallmark of a note for me is that is doesn't have an explicit title. Maybe I want all notes to go to all services that support them unless I say otherwise.... I am worried about a mistake I made years ago involving importing old posts... so the code needs to check the published date and not post anything old automatically. Responses to URLs on a syndication site should automatically go out to that site...but not necessarily to other sites. I had a discussion about this with my Indieweb associates at IndieWebCamp San Diego and I'm still not sure what I'll end up doing.

Books in #GoodReads personal data export are represented by title only. No author information, no ISBN, no publisher, no publication date, no edition info, no URLs. Ugh. #indieweb

How Gemini Gives Me Hope for a Better Internet

"There was something magical about viewing bits and pieces of this person and their life through text on a screen and images that didn't load directly on the page. Who else knew this capsule existed? How many more people know Gemini exists? A small web floating on the internet with a vibrant set of people just wanting a peaceful existance."

https://bearblog.stevedylan.dev/how-gemini-gives-me-hope-for-a-future-internet/

#blogs #gemini #indieweb

Laurens Hof at Connected Places wraps up the Threads / fediverse experiment:

My take is that Meta and Threads have played the game well. They immediately capitalised on the moment in 2023 when decentralisation and Twitter-alternatives got large-scale attention, and knew how to say the right buzzwords to ride the wave.

Threads with even partial ActivityPub support in maintenance mode is still better than a completely closed platform. But it is disappointing that Meta didn’t take this further.

Hi folks! I've been lurking for a bit, but here's an #introduction. I'm a graduate student in #musicology, mostly working on early music. Periodization is difficult (and so early music is an acceptably vague term), but my interests primarily concern music in Europe between the late-ish middle ages and 1750. I studied Classical Liberal Arts in my undergraduate education, so I also enjoy connecting musicological research with other disciplines, especially classics, philosophy, theology, and history. Besides my academic work, I'm a harpsichord technician and a web developer.

Here is a nice list of things I can be curmudgeonly about:
- Musicology
- Early music (#Medieval, #Renassance, #Baroque)
- Historiography
- Medievalism (is interesting both in relation to medieval history and as its phenomenon)
- Philosophy
- #Harpsichords
- Keyboard #temperaments (the squiggle on the WTC cover page is just a scribble)
- #Latin
- Sustainable #agriculture
- Web development
- #IndieWeb

"Num futuro estado policial, o famoso apresentador de TV Jason Taverner acorda numa espelunca e ninguém mais o reconhece, como se nunca tivesse existido. Além da fuga constante para não ser preso e enviado para um campo de concentração, tenta entender o que aconteceu com sua realidade."

[Fluam, Minhas Lágrimas, Disse o Policial - sol2070](https://sol2070.in/2025/12/fluam-minhas-lagrimas-philip-k-dick/)

#PhilipKDick #PKD #SciFi #SciFiBooks #livros #FiccaoCientifica #IndieWeb #SmallWeb #SurfandoWeb

New on the blog: The one where I talk about taking things slowly.
I was inspired by exchanging e-mails with a fellow blogger. And also by (probably) having already lived half of my life.
😱

#blog #personalBlog #personalWeb #personalWebsite #indieWeb #smallWeb

#veille

« Internet est mort. Voici comment le ressusciter »

https://treshautdebit.substack.com/p/coder-son-site-web-dernier-geste

Cet hommage au #indieWeb fait bien écho à ce que nous mettons en place dans nos ateliers dédiés à la création d'un site web. Si cette approche du web vous parle, n'hésitez pas à nous contacter à contact@translucide.net

@floresophize Parabéns, rainha da #indieweb! 🥳

Mid-morning watch 🎄
Dogs fed, backups done, lights steady.
One more week safely boxed up before the festivities really begin.

Whether you’re on duty, travelling, or quietly logging off for a bit —
keep warm, take it steady, and don’t forget to breathe.

We’ll mind the light.

#LighthouseLore #HauntedLighthouse #Fediverse #FestiveWatch #IndieWeb #SelfHosting

Any recommendations for a self-hostable headless CMS?

I consider switching to a CMS instead of writing in local for my Astro blog. Reason is being able to write wherever I want. I tried Payload, but it‘s way heavy for my needs. Keystatic seems to be fine too and Git-based. But are there other options? I use MDX a lot too so I should be able to create custom components.

#astro #headlesscms #cms #blog #IndieWeb #markdown

It kinda seems like webmention could be used to say “here is a patch for your git repo that I think you should apply” in a fully distributed way #webmention #webdev #git

Could all of you spam my website on Linkedin? I want to make people that wear suits and ties uncomfortable. https://sightlessscribbles.com/the-colonization-of-confidence/ #Blog #Blogging #IndieWeb #LinkedIn

😔 Why do I feel bad about posting I'm on the market for a job? Its a mix of shame and guilt which I don't know the source of?

Is putting yourself out there in a two-liner, upselling yourself this cringy? Am I alone in this? It feels betrayal of some unspoken rule of social media.

#askfedi #jobs #ux #foss #opensource #noai #indieweb #design #linux #tumblr #remotework #programming #mentalhealth #adhd #depression

✨ Blogroll energy is back. 🔗 Mark your friends, colleagues, and people you've actually met 💜. #WordPress #IndieWeb #Fediverse #XFN
https://courtneyr.dev/2025/12/11/the-web-remembers-who-we-are-building-xfn-for-wordpress-in-2025/