Various ways to include comments on your static site

"Static site generators like Eleventy, Jekyll or Hugo have become a popular choice for a blogging platform or a CMS. When using something like WordPress or Medium, you get a comment section out of the box. It isn't as straightforward in a static environment. In this article, I'll summarize different options to provide your audience with a way to leave a comment."

https://darekkay.com/blog/static-site-comments/

#indieweb #metablogging #webdev

Finally getting around to giving a hard glare at that Disqus widget at the bottom of all my blog posts. Subsequently, I've fallen down a rabbit hole of Webmentions info and newer self-hosted comment systems for static blogs that I've been meaning to check out for a long time. #webdev #indieweb #metablogging

A Quick Guide to Everything I Know about Webmentions

"Webmentions are great! They're a way that personal websites can interact with each other — you can notify another site when you link to them, and receive notifications when someone links to you. I find them to allow for some of the nicer parts of social interaction on the web, but with much more agency and much less inflammatory or harmful material than something like Facebook or Instagram. However, then can also be a bit intimidating, especially for non-developers."

https://reillyspitzfaden.com/wiki/tutorials/webmention-tutorial/

#indieweb #webdev #webmentions

aaronpk/webmention.io: Easily enable webmentions on any web site

"Easily enable webmentions on any web site"

https://github.com/aaronpk/webmention.io#api

#indieweb #metablogging #webmentions

Introducing my new personal website, completely free, entirely independent, selling nothing, just a presentation of stories about life. You want less enshittification? We have to support independent artists, as well as each other. This is it. Click the link below and sign up. Costs you nothing but means the world to me.

Click. Join. Share.

#Writing #Creativity #MakeSomething #Art #Internet #IndieWeb

https://www.davidtoddmccarty.com

The rewilding of our digital presence and a return to a simpler approach to an interconnected community. My attempt at leaving the enshittification behind. Read. Join. Engage. Participate. Share.

#Enshittification #IndieWeb #Blog #Writing #Art #Creativity #MakeSomething
https://www.davidtoddmccarty.com/reclaiming-my-identity-in-the-online-world/

Finally wrote a proper #gophermap instead of just using the automatic one generated by #gophernicus.

#gopher #smallinternet #indieweb #selfhosted

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.

#SelfHosting #IndieWeb #DigitalIndependence

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!

#movies #cinema

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.

#writing #indieweb

HTTPS://www.DavidToddMcCarty.com/?test-it%E2%80%94

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

#Blogging #IndieWeb

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

#indieweb #blog #coding

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:

https://open.substack.com/pub/murderofarcwolves/p/popping-ffxivs-time-v2-bubble-the-aught?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web

Then go try out the app here!

https://yk3gjk.csb.app/

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.

https://source.tube/jgarber

See the Forgejo documentation for how to customize your own profile page: https://forgejo.org/docs/latest/user/profile/