San Diego Homebrew Website Club is back on after a (checks notes) 5 year hiatus. Who can even remember why we paused? Oh right: *waves around at world on fire*.

Hope to see you in February.
https://events.indieweb.org/2026/02/homebrew-website-club-san-diego-MTTOvGvRwjHE #SanDiego #IndieWeb

Beyond aggregated and summarized stats, in 2025 I met a few amazing people (you know who you are), and started a few projects. Most of these projects started with an idea, or recognizing a problem, that inspired invention.

Sometimes the ideas came from observations, shared, questioned, distilled into insights, and sometimes new creations.

During one such conversation over coffee last year, James (https://jamesg.blog/) and I noticed that our Spotify “daylist” list names were often quite entertaining, despite their brevity.

We mused whether it was worth keeping track of the particularly fun or interesting names, even knowing they were automatically generated.

In September 2025, James created a page on his site, a simple HTML list of a few of his fun daylists names, and shared it:
* https://jamesg.blog/daylists

With a single real world #indieweb example, it was enough to stub a wiki page:
* https://indieweb.org/daylists

A little over two months later, during the weekend of 2025 IndieWeb Black Friday Create Day: Build Don’t Buy, I followed James’s example and built my own daylists page with a similar list of names of daylists, adding the datetimes when I had taken screenshots of my daylists.

* https://tantek.com/daylists

Realizing it was a page of items listed in reverse chronological order with datetime stamps, it made sense to mark it up as an h-feed so a social reader could theoretically subscribe to it. The list items had the minimum viable information for h-entry markup: content and a datetime. Minimal information meant only minimal markup was necessary: one nested HTML time element, and a couple of class names.

The list item of just the daylist name I started with:

<!-- a daylist item -->
<li>
  cyberpunk synthwave wednesday early morning
</li>
<!-- -->

The name’s coarse textual day and time of day was a handy bit of text to markup with the time element with a numerical date-time for parsers. That plus two h-entry class names:

<!-- minimal h-entry markup for a daylist item -->
<li class="h-entry">
  cyberpunk synthwave
  <time class="dt-published" datetime="2025-10-15 07:59">wednesday early morning</time>
</li>
<!-- -->

As linked on my daylists page, that plus a little h-feed wrapper is enough to make a web feed that a social reader like Monocle can parse and display:
* https://monocle.p3k.io/preview?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftantek.com%2Fdaylists

Minimal incremental markup added to an existing human readable HTML page.

No separate feed file needed. No XML, XSLT, or JavaScript either.

The HTML is the feed.

A feed that social readers, like Monocle, or Artemis (that James wrote) can directly follow.

Full circle.

And the year before that, James blogged about how publishing an h-feed is also a more efficient, and easier to maintain, method of supporting other formats:
* https://jamesg.blog/2024/06/06/publish-h-feed

This is post 6 of #100PostsOfIndieWeb. #100Posts #yearInReview #webFeed #microformats #microformats2 #hFeed #hEntry #socialReader #socialWeb

https://tantek.com/2026/005/t1/year-movies-in-theaters
→ 🔮


Glossary:

Artemis
  https://indieweb.org/Artemis
daylists
  https://indieweb.org/daylists
h-entry
  https://indieweb.org/h-entry
h-feed
  https://indieweb.org/h-feed
IndieWeb Black Friday Create Day
  https://indieweb.org/events/2025-black-friday-create-day
Monocle
  https://indieweb.org/Monocle
social reader
  https://indieweb.org/social_reader
time element
  https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Reference/Elements/time
#indieweb #100PostsOfIndieWeb #100Posts #yearInReview #webFeed #microformats #microformats2 #hFeed #hEntry #socialReader #socialWeb

Beyond aggregated and summarized stats, in 2025 I met a few amazing people (you know who you are), and started a few projects. Most of these projects started with an idea, or recognizing a problem, that inspired invention.

Sometimes the ideas came from observations, shared, questioned, distilled into insights, and sometimes new creations.

During one such conversation over coffee, James (https://jamesg.blog/) and I noticed that our Spotify “daylist” list names were often quite entertaining, despite their brevity.

We mused whether it was worth keeping track of the particularly fun or interesting names, even knowing they were automatically generated.

In September 2025, James created a page on his site, a simple HTML list of a few his fun daylists names, and shared it:
* https://jamesg.blog/daylists

With a single real world #indieweb example, it was enough to stub a wiki page:
* https://indieweb.org/daylists

A little over two months later, during the weekend of 2025 IndieWeb Black Friday Create Day: Build Don’t Buy, I followed James’s example and built my own daylists page with a similar list of names of daylists, adding the datetimes when I had taken screenshots of my daylists.

* https://tantek.com/daylists

Realizing it was a page of items listed in reverse chronological order with datetime stamps, it made sense to mark it up as an h-feed so a social reader could theoretically subscribe to it. The list items had the minimum viable information for h-entry markup: content and a datetime. Minimal information meant only minimal markup was necessary: one nested HTML time element, and a couple of class names.

The list item of just the daylist name I started with:

<!-- a daylist item -->
<li>
  cyberpunk synthwave wednesday early morning
</li>
<!-- -->

The name’s coarse textual day and time of day was a handy bit of text to markup with the time element with a numerical date-time for parsers. That plus two h-entry class names:

<!-- minimal h-entry markup for a daylist item -->
<li class="h-entry">
  cyberpunk synthwave
  <time class="dt-published" datetime="2025-10-15 07:59">wednesday early morning</time>
</li>
<!-- -->

As linked on my daylists page, that plus a little h-feed wrapper is enough to make a web feed that a social reader like Monocle can parse and display:
* https://monocle.p3k.io/preview?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftantek.com%2Fdaylists

Minimal incremental markup added to an existing human readable HTML page.

No separate feed file needed. No XML, XSLT, or JavaScript either.

The HTML is the feed.

A feed that social readers, like Monocle, or Artemis (that James wrote) can directly follow.

Full circle.

And the year before that, James blogged about how publishing an h-feed is also a more efficient, and easier to maintain, method of supporting other formats:
* https://jamesg.blog/2024/06/06/publish-h-feed

This is post 6 of #100PostsOfIndieWeb. #100Posts #yearInReview #webFeed #microformats #microformats2 #hFeed #hEntry #socialReader #socialWeb

https://tantek.com/2026/005/t1/year-movies-in-theaters
→ 🔮


Glossary:

Artemis
  https://indieweb.org/Artemis
daylists
  https://indieweb.org/daylists
h-entry
  https://indieweb.org/h-entry
h-feed
  https://indieweb.org/h-feed
IndieWeb Black Friday Create Day
  https://indieweb.org/events/2025-black-friday-create-day
Monocle
  https://indieweb.org/Monocle
social reader
  https://indieweb.org/social_reader
time element
  https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Reference/Elements/time

I just sponsored https://getindiekit.com. Go sponsor your open source dependencies!

💖 I'm sponsoring #Indiekit because I like what @paulrobertlloyd has created for #smallweb users. Indiekit is an app that allows personal sites to get #Micropub features and #IndieWeb connectivity with a nice UI.

https://github.com/sponsors/getindiekit?sp=eclecticpassions

Yay, I finally got my own domain! Small steps towards the Small Web.

If you happen to want to check it out, it's at https://kaamkiya.dev :)

I'm open to suggestions, and hope to eventually add a photo gallery for my (mediocre) photography.

Oh also, I'm aware that the mobile styling isn't very good, and I'm open to suggestions on how to fix it.

Thanks!

#SmallWeb #IndieWeb #OpenSource #FLOSS #FOSS

Finalmente atualizei meu blog com a lista dos filmes e séries de 2025 que mais recomendo!
#cinema #filme #indieweb #blog
https://ilogi.co/posts/imagens--letras--sons/filmesseries2025/

📸 Update on photos.inlinestyle.it!

We’ve increased the maximum upload size, so you can now upload larger files — including all your New Year’s Eve videos 🎆🎥

Go ahead and back them up → https://photos.inlinestyle.it

#Photos #Immich #FOSS #IndieWeb #DeGoogle #BuyEU

@panzone91 @molly0xfff Try the #Indieweb Carnival for inspiration: https://indieweb.org/IndieWeb_Carnival ! The past topics are great prompts, and should give you plenty of ideas.

Found a discussion on the #indieweb #wiki about using a DB vs files to store the CMS content. I'm leaning towards using a DB. It is easier when building feeds, tag searching, etc.

https://indieweb.org/database-antipattern

I am a blind writer. Typically, I write Romance. I write it not as a guilty pleasure, but as a survival manual. In a world that tells disabled people we are burdens, Romance is the only genre that insists we are worthy of worship. It is a political act to write a story where safety is the ultimate kink. https://sightlessscribbles.com/welcome-note/ #Romance #RomanceLandia #RomanceReaders #Blog #Blogging #IndieWeb

Are there any ethical data centers?

Are there any hosting providers using renewable energy and investing in the same, offering reasonable cost and service to regular (or #Indieweb) type folks? We don't all need blazing fast SSDs and CPUs for small-fry web projects.

I've been a happy DigitalOcean customer for years and years, but I wouldn't mind migrating to a provider dedicated to (more) sustainable tech if such a thing exists.

everyone who wants an #indieweb should give me and winter £1,000 imo

Added https://zacharykai.net/top4 to the Top Four directory.

🎶 Musical Artists
1. Coldplay
2. John Mayer
3. The 1975
4. Mat Kearney

What is your Top 4?

#top4 #topfour #indieweb #smallweb

Love it when I start writing a brief post to blab out here, and it starts becoming a list of ideas, and I quickly realize a blog post needs to happen 🔥

#writing #blogs #blogging #SmallWeb #IndieWeb

Aloe Barbadensis Extract, derived from the aloe vera plant, is celebrated for its soothing and moisturizing properties. Found in skincare, it aids in hydration and sunburn relief and has anti-inflammatory benefits. It's a natural remedy for healthy skin and promotes healing! 🌿✨
#IndieWeb #OpenWeb #DigitalIndependence #Blogging #spotify

"Diderot spent twenty years on his infrastructure. We handed ours to advertising companies and - like Pilate - washed our hands of it."

https://www.joanwestenberg.com/the-case-for-blogging-in-the-ruins/

#Indieweb #Blogging #Blog

I had to delete the Guestbook page on my personal website... 😢

Seems like having a <form> on a page leads to too much spam traffic for a small shared hosting like mine....

Not the energy to investigate solutions right now

#webdev #posse #indieweb