What do centuries-old stones, a self-winding watch and child's sock have in common?

Such time capsules often hide in our cupboards: lost treasures, family heirlooms, old diaries or dry pressed flowers. It is not their monetary value that matters, but the stories they tell.

After reading similar posts from @AlexWolfe, @daj and @hryggrbyr, I started to think of my own list.

🌐 https://blog.gridranger.dev/my-oldest-things

#blog #post #indieweb #familyhistory #reading #bloggingchallenge #boardgames

New post! A reminder to myself that my site doesn't have to be like everyone else's. #bearblog #blogging #smallweb #indieweb

https://chronosaur.us/comparison-is-the-thief-of-joy/

I've written a little script for the @powRSS account to find posts from the Random section on the site.

The idea is to bring visibility to older blogs which may not have published recently.

This in turn means you can now follow powRSS in your #RSS reader for the occasional low frequency dip into #indieweb discovery.

https://enocc.com/2026/01/23/powrss-mastodon-account.html

2026 Weeks 3 & 4

https://blog.lmorchard.com/2026/01/23/w04/

TL;DR: We lost Catsby, which sucks completely. 3D printing experiments with glow-in-the-dark filament and blacklight LEDs. Discovered Pangolin for homelab tunnel magic. Pondering SID chip replacements for the C64. Brief flirtations with Animal Crossing and Persona 5. Links about woodworking, AI slop, silicon ice age nightmares, and other assorted topics.

#weeknotes #cats #3dprinting #homelab #gaming #indieweb #retrocomputing

Digital Self-Reliance: Audio Edition

As we continue to move into 2026, I want to talk about my continued journey towards digital self-reliance. This time, I am focusing on my audio needs.

https://readbeanicecream.surge.sh/2026/01/23/digital-self-reliance-audio-edition/

#tech #technology #music #streaming #audiobooks #podcasts #indieweb #digitalselfreliance

I just added some changes to my website...

See if you can find them all!

#CybersecKyle #IndieWeb #Blogging #ScavengerHunt #FindTheChanges

Good analysis from Laurens Hofs on ICE getting a verified badge on Bluesky and the resulting fallout. It underscores some confusion in the fediverse about what Bluesky is:

When fediverse users say they don’t want to be bridged to Bluesky, they’re applying an ActivityPub mental model to ATProto infrastructure. In one sense this is a bit of a category error, the bridge connects to networking infrastructure, not the application.

He doesn’t let Bluesky off the hook either, though. Good points on how ICE presence alone (without any posts) is a fear tactic.

Great slides by Arjun on the importance of writing as a student of design (and tech!). arjunmakesthings.github.io/presentation...

I've been following his blog on his time at the interactive-telecommunications-programme at NYU: arjunmakesthings.github.io/itp-blog/ #indieweb #blogging

Someone just donated to goingdark.social for the first time.

I'm not gonna lie. running this instance takes work. Infrastructure doesn't maintain itself, storage costs money, and keeping things running smoothly isn't always easy.

This made my whole week. Thank you @lor, seriously. 🙌

https://ko-fi.com/home/coffeeshop?txid=465d2b80-08f0-4883-99d3-96e4e7ff825f&mode=public&img=ogsomeoneboughtme

#FediAdmin #SmallWeb #IndieWeb #mastoadmin

Success! I got my website configured to post to the Fediverse. I was previously doing POSSE (Post on your Own Site Sindicate Elsewhere) via RSS and Azure Logic Apps, that was just posting links to posts on my website and I had to run a separate Mastodon server. Now, the post itself is a Note in the Fediverse and my website itself is a node on the Fediverse. That means I should be able to get rid of my Mastodon instance. Since it was a single-user instance, this solution works just as well if not better. It's a bit hacky for now but I got it working by stitching together Azure Functions APIs in Azure Static Web Apps and cron jobs using GitHub Actions.


Here's what a recent post looks like in the Mastodon timeline.

Where can I get a hit counter gif from the 90s web era? I don't need an accurate hit counter just one that emulates the look

#askfedi #indieweb #programming #retro


 und Blogs liest eh niemand – mkln.org

DrĂŒben bei Michael ist ein langer guter Text erschienen, zum Thema 'eigene Website' und 'bloggen':

Wer einen Blogbeitrag veröffentlicht, will gelesen werden. Die Motivation dazu erfolgt ohne Eile und ohne Druck, getragen vom Willen zur Veröffentlichung. Social Media folgt einer anderen Logik. Dort dominiert die Lust auf Reaktion. Sie zwingt die User, die Regeln der Plattform-Ökonomie zu verinnerlichen. Sie spĂŒren, dass etwas nicht stimmt, interagieren aber eifrig weiter und akzeptieren, dass ihre Inhalte zu Wegwerfprodukten werden und die Entwicklung eines Gedankens irrelevant ist. Das ist das exakte Gegenteil des Bloggens.
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)Immerhin ist der Blogbeitrag das Epitom des Internets: ein unter einer stabilen URL frei abrufbarer, unabhÀngig ausgelieferter, einer Person zurechenbarer Inhalt. (
)
WĂ€hrend BlogbeitrĂ€ge fĂŒr die Ewigkeit geschrieben werden, sind Mitteilungen in sozialen Medien – der inhĂ€renten Logik der Plattformen folgend – Wegwerfprodukte. Wenn ich mir das vor Augen fĂŒhre, ist das Posten auf Social Media nicht nur in ĂŒbertragenem Sinne, sondern auch faktisch verschwendete, vergeudete Zeit. Die Inhalte dort sind ein Strohfeuer, BlogbeitrĂ€ge hingegen glĂŒhende Kohlen.
Beides hat seine Existenzberechtigung, ja, in gewisser Weise gibt es sogar eine AbhĂ€ngigkeit beider zueinander. Aber eines ist deswegen nicht „veraltet“ oder in sonst einer Form passĂ©. Das eine ermöglicht Dinge, die das andere verunmöglicht. (
)

mkln.org

Da schwingt sehr viel mit, was auch als Motivation und Philosophie beim Indieweb zugrunde liegt.

#Blog #daskleinegallischedorf #indieweb #ownyourcontent #Socialmedia #Web

https://webrocker.de/?p=29650

https://gmgall.net/blogroll/ foi quebrado com minha saĂ­da do GitHub Pages, mas jĂĄ deve estar normal agora.

#SmallWeb #IndieWeb #blog