I know I have been on a little hiatus, but I am still keeping my #blog over at:
https://readbeanicecream.surge.sh/
Feel free to check it out! I'll pick back up on writing after the holidays.
#books #reading #bookstodon #scifi #sciencefiction #scifiart #sciencefictionart #retro #retrofuturism #pulpfiction #pulp #bookart #bookcovers #coverart
#Business #Analyses
Ad blockers helped kill the open web · “We failed to innovate monetization.” https://ilo.im/1698ic
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#Publishing #Advertising #Monetization #SearchEngine #Content #Privacy #OpenWeb #SmallWeb #IndieWeb #AdBlockers
I assume it's 90% bots but my broken-ass website and blog has had 500K views so far!
#indieweb
https://honora.neocities.org/
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. 55: "Spike.nagatha.fr" https://spike.nagatha.fr/
#SmallWeb #indieweb #homepage #blog #screenshot #retrocomputing #gopher
Ever heard of Gemini? It's a lightweight internet protocol between Gopher and the Web - no JavaScript, no cookies, no tracking, just text and links over TLS.
Think of it as the web before it got complicated. Pages are written in "gemtext", a minimal markup format. The entire protocol spec fits on a few pages.
To explore Geminispace you need a client:
- Lagrange (GUI, cross-platform): https://gmi.skyjake.fi/lagrange/
- Amfora (terminal): https://github.com/makeworld-the-web-great-again/amfora
Start exploring at gemini://warmedal.se/~antenna/ - an aggregator of active capsules (what we call Gemini sites).
I write about FreeBSD and self-hosting at gemini://gemini.hofstede.it/
This next post isn’t about gaming. It is my personal story of what it feels like to realize that you have to leave your homeland. It was a hard to write, but every share helps.
🌐 https://blog.gridranger.dev/road-96-my-journey/
#indieweb #blog #blogpost #road96 #lifestory #humanrights #leavinghome
The lighthouse is in its slippers.
The servers are wearing cardigans.
The kettle has been promoted to senior management.
The sea is politely murmuring,
the dogs are auditing the biscuit supply,
and the light goes round and round
like it’s got nowhere else to be (because it doesn’t).
Nothing urgent. Nothing loud.
Just a small, stubborn glow
doing its best against the weekend.
We’ll keep the light on 💡
#LighthouseLore #DangerouslyTwee #CalmTech #Fediverse #IndieWeb #SelfHosting
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/
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
Weekly Notes 51/2025 – Thejesh GN
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/
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
« 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