Resources for the Personal Web: A Follow-Up Guide | 🔗 https://brennan.day/resources-for-the-personal-web-a-follow-up-guide/
Every few years I get an email that reminds me why I selfhost.
Polite tone. Friendly branding.
Hidden constraints. Locked exits.
Owning your infrastructure isn’t about saving money.
It’s about not needing permission to leave.
Liquid Manufacturer Buyer's Guide: How to Choose a Trusted Partner for Your Formulation Needs
https://ingredientsage.com/post/liquid-manufacturer
#IndieWeb #OpenWeb #DigitalIndependence #Blogging #spotify
Calling all cinephiles! We’re starting a new monthly #indieweb series all about movies and the first one is kicking off this Sunday at 10am Pacific.
Everyone is welcome, you don’t need to have watched the latest picks and don’t even need an RSVP. Come hang out!
https://events.indieweb.org/2026/01/january-movie-club-DvPcQUkN8eBo
Left is current webpage for my extension, right is just draft I made today. Worth changing the look? 🤞✨
#design #web #indieweb #firefox #chrome #enshittification #privacy #noai #askfedi #art
My freshly updated personal website that is going to be my new home. I’m abandoning all my corporate platforms and rewinding my digital self. Please check it out and if you follow my writing, sign up for free updates. No paywall.
New #blog post! Talking about some recent New Year's Happy Hour streams and the games we played in them, plus a few other game recs that we enjoyed over the winter holidays.
https://renkotsuban.com/posts/2026-01-09-The-Weekly-Measure-2026-W02.html
2026 will be the year I reclaim my online life and go indie! I just had a lot of fun migrating my small site to my own server.
I wrote a few words about it. https://markuseliasson.se/article/going-indie
I went back to it, and I went HARDER.
So you could go a little less hard. 💙
The FFXIV-Arcwolf Eorzean Date Converter app is up and running! Check out the Aught Revision that explains it all here:
Then go try out the app here!
Share it with your friends!
If you really liked the app and wanted to, like, support it and stuff, that'd be great too! Cuz of the whole "trying to get a job thing." This time the links are on the app. 😸
#FFXIV #FFXIVLore #EorzeanCalendar #AughtRevision #LivedChronology #Aetherophysics #Horology #Ludonarrative #WebDev #FFXIVRP #WritingCommunity #Substack #IndieWeb
Inspired by something I've seen on the #IndieWeb wiki, I've added an "I can help with…" section to my #SourceTube profile.
See the Forgejo documentation for how to customize your own profile page: https://forgejo.org/docs/latest/user/profile/
Just launched a small project: Quiet Portal - a curated directory of content beyond the big platforms, with a simple tool to follow them without learning RSS. Built it because I wanted an alternative to algorithmic feeds. quietportal.com #indieweb #smallweb #rss #blogging #personalweb
A small update to the RetroStrange TV interface: Assisted by our friends at @TIBtv we now have the "now playing" info updating live on the page! Hooray! #Indieweb #Streaming
@kiko I added some of your links to https://indieweb.org/Hexo today. Feel free to embellish if you wish! Nice to meet you! #IndieWeb
Yikes, apparently its almost spot on 12 years since I launched my #webmention endpoint, but unlike @snarfed.org@bsky.brid.gy’s Bridgy mine has at all been as well maintained.
*checks latest release*
Last release was 6 years ago, so, um, half its time alive has gone since I last pushed an update.
I've been migrating my social media posts over to the new site. A ton of work (and learning curve) but I'm pretty happy with the result.
Since deleting IG, I'm posting very selectively on more open platforms (like Mastodon) and it's nice to keep a self-hosted archive as part of my own blog/site. I even have the full archive of my IG in there now (exported before I deleted it).
Last step, was setting up an automated import for Mastodon.
a few years ago i mentioned that i wrote a book about the exciting, awkward and embarrassing experiences of growing up with computers and video games in the 80s and 90s.
i wanted to remember what it felt like being the only dorky computer kid at school. or what it was like to hear my first modem handshake sound. or starting the first flamewar on the school's national FirstClass BBS in the macintosh lab over the lunch-hour
it was originally something i wrote only for my family and friends who were there at the time.
and then i met all of you folks when i started my first masto instance 4 years ago. i had no idea there were so many hardcore retrocomputing and gaming nerds out there; unix and mac and ms-dos folks alike.
so i mentioned it casually. i was surprised by the interest in the book.
so i spent the better part of the past 3 years rewriting the book for *you* fellow mastodon dorkus malorkuses. the book is a celebration of all of the best (and worst) parts of a kid growing up in the digital age.
we're all busy old tired stressed folks now. so every memory and cringetacular story is short enough to read on a 5 minute bus/metro/toilet ride. they're weaved together into an arc that starts at my family's first Tandy TRS-80 and ends at my school's Mac LC II and building my first Pentium 133.
it's finally published, and i'm super proud of what it became thanks to everyone here nerding out for years.
enjoy the book. i wrote it just for you. ❤️
paperback edition: https://mybook.to/EDuUf
DRM-free ebook (EPUB format) and chapter samples here:
https://tomotama.itch.io/mages-modems
#books #indiePublisher #bookstodon #author #macintosh #vintageApple #vintageComputing #msdos #dosGaming #yeg #canada #alberta #bbs #smolWeb #indieWeb
So I've set up my blog, and I'm feeling quite upbeat about the whole thing.
I've missed the simplicity of old-school blogging.
Wikipedia “Edited” 2025 year in review, summarizing from Wikimedia XTools queries, and Wikipedia itself, curated manually for my personal site:
* 7 articles created (new personal best), with several firsts for me. In creation order:
* "Take California" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Take_California) — first music related
* "West Coast Health Alliance" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Coast_Health_Alliance) — first health related
* "Northeast Public Health Collaborative" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northeast_Public_Health_Collaborative)
* "RaptureTok" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RaptureTok) — first hashtag article
* "Governors Public Health Alliance" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Governors_Public_Health_Alliance)
* "Stephanie D'Agostini" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephanie_D%27Agostini) — first comedian
* "Mic Drop Comedy" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mic_Drop_Comedy) — first comedy club
* 2 Category: articles created — first ever for me. In creation order:
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:2025_establishments_in_Hawaii
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:2025_establishments_in_Maryland
* 28 redirects created: https://xtools.wmcloud.org/pages/en.wikipedia.org/Tantek/all/onlyredirects
and
* 1 image uploaded to Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:2025-12-11-stefdag.jpg?photo
In total:
* 272 edits (not counting User: page edits) across Wikipedia and Wikimedia commons
* 229 main Wikipedia articles edits
* 39 Talk: page edits
* 2 Category: page edits (above-mentioned articles created)
* 2 Wikipedia Commons edits
* 329 edits and contributions counting User: page edits: https://xtools.wmcloud.org/globalcontribs/Tantek/all///2025-12-31T01:36:35Z?limit=330
This is my first time posting a Wikipedia “Edited” year in review, despite having edited Wikipedia for 20+ years (https://tantek.com/2025/300/t20/wikipedia-editing-anniversary).
While this #indieweb version of a year in review was fun to make and look back on, since all the data is public, there’s an opportunity here for a service (perhaps another XTool) or open source project to create such a summary for any Wikipedia editor.
Beyond a nicer presentation than plain text lists and numbers, such a summary could include visuals like a graphs of some of these stats over time, like Wikipedia pages created or edits of various kinds each year.
Until then, I encourage everyone editing Wikipedia to make their own “Edited” (I made that up, feel free to pick a better term) year in review and post it on your personal site! Feel free to re-use any of the design or separation of numbers that I chose, or make up your own.
This is post 7 of #100PostsOfIndieWeb. #100Posts #yearInReview #Wikipedia #WikipediaEdited #Wikimedia #WikimediaCommons #XTools
← https://tantek.com/2026/006/t1/2025-people-projects-insights-creations
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I had an argument with a book https://britthub.co.uk/i-had-an-argument-with-a-book/
Back in October Zachary Kai resurrected the IndieWeb Book Club, choosing The Creative Act by Rick Rubin. I warned Zachary at the time that I’m a slow reader and it may take me a while to respond. With that sorted I started reading. I didn’t exactly get on with the book. It wasn’t written for […]
