calling all webmasters, webmastresses, and webmaxters! please give me your 88x31 buttons and sites!
#indieweb #88x31 #webmastery
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i made my website worse on purpose 🕸️
anti-design
web-alt
brutalist
random-ish background. no metrics. no funnels.
the web is a mess ❤️
https://www.someodd.zip/
#IndieWeb
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New Category: Robotics & Autonomous Vehicles
The Robotics & Autonomous Vehicles category has been added. This section focuses on all facets of robotics and autonomous vehicles!
https://the-rss-review.surge.sh/Feed-Index/robotics-and-autonomous/
Thanks to @michaelharley for the recommendation.
#rss #rssfeeds #indieweb #robotics #robots #autonomousvehicles #autonomous #tech #technology #engineering
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feedspool-go v0.2.0: Smooth Scrolling and Quiet Feeds
https://blog.lmorchard.com/2026/01/26/feedspool-go-v0-2-0/
TL;DR: Released v0.2.0 of feedspool-go, my static-site RSS reader. Added features to keep infrequent feeds from vanishing and an over-engineered web component lazy-loading system that progressively loads content as you scroll.
#feedspool #golang #rss #webdev #javascript #webcomponents #indieweb
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New from me: January /now update is live. MSP + security work, Cloud Technologies school labs, site tweaks, Weekly Roundup is back, and I’m still writing The Cipher Fellows.
https://www.kylereddoch.me/now/
#NowPage #IndieWeb #Cybersecurity #MSP #CloudComputing #Eleventy #Writing
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Por cierto, ya que estamos con el tema RSS, aquí una guía de cómo usarlo y cómo pillar feeds RSS de blogs:
https://diegologs.com/guia-rss
Y aquí mi blogroll, recomendaciones de blogs para seguir en español e inglés:
https://diegologs.com/blogroll
#blog #rss #smallweb #indieweb #blogroll
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Thinking about open source and small platforms. Mastodon and Bluesky. Why we should focus on open APIs.
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"html": "<p>Daniel Supernault had a series of posts over the weekend promoting Loops, his TikTok-inspired app focused on short-form video, but open source and connecting to the fediverse. <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/@dansup/115951099089781353\">This one sentence</a> stood out to me:</p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>If it\u2019s not open source, you\u2019re not the user, you\u2019re the product being sold.</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>I don\u2019t agree with this. It\u2019s like an extreme version of the classic \u201cyou\u2019re the product\u201d line about ad-based platforms.</p>\n<p>I\u2019ve noticed a trend in the fediverse of thinking there\u2019s nothing except open source and VC-backed companies. But there is so much in between. I love small, bootstrapped companies that just charge a fair price to users without outside funding or ads.</p>\n<p>Some of my favorite apps and services are like that. Acorn, MarsEdit, Nova, Feedbin, Day One. You can prefer open source, but there\u2019s no way that I\u2019m \u201cthe product being sold\u201d by using Acorn.</p>\n<p>Open source is great. All of the Micro.blog apps are open source. But for platforms, <em>open APIs</em> have always been more important to me than open source. Mastodon is open source yet has no way to import posts, so it\u2019s not well suited as a place where you can own your content in the way a blog enables.</p>\n<p>Bluesky\u2019s approach with AT Protocol also enables new options for social web portability. It\u2019s a fascinating paradox because while VC-funded, it is the most open large platform ever built, with an almost IndieWeb-inspired view of usernames and ownership.</p>\n<p>The fediverse has been a great step forward for the web. It doesn\u2019t need to be the final destination, in its current form. We can do more with identity and content ownership. Maybe one day we\u2019ll see a blending of the technologies currently powering the social web.</p>\n<p>Open source gives power to developers. An open platform gives power to everyone. The web needs business models that can sustain both.</p>",
"text": "Daniel Supernault had a series of posts over the weekend promoting Loops, his TikTok-inspired app focused on short-form video, but open source and connecting to the fediverse. This one sentence stood out to me:\n\nIf it\u2019s not open source, you\u2019re not the user, you\u2019re the product being sold.\n\nI don\u2019t agree with this. It\u2019s like an extreme version of the classic \u201cyou\u2019re the product\u201d line about ad-based platforms.\nI\u2019ve noticed a trend in the fediverse of thinking there\u2019s nothing except open source and VC-backed companies. But there is so much in between. I love small, bootstrapped companies that just charge a fair price to users without outside funding or ads.\nSome of my favorite apps and services are like that. Acorn, MarsEdit, Nova, Feedbin, Day One. You can prefer open source, but there\u2019s no way that I\u2019m \u201cthe product being sold\u201d by using Acorn.\nOpen source is great. All of the Micro.blog apps are open source. But for platforms, open APIs have always been more important to me than open source. Mastodon is open source yet has no way to import posts, so it\u2019s not well suited as a place where you can own your content in the way a blog enables.\nBluesky\u2019s approach with AT Protocol also enables new options for social web portability. It\u2019s a fascinating paradox because while VC-funded, it is the most open large platform ever built, with an almost IndieWeb-inspired view of usernames and ownership.\nThe fediverse has been a great step forward for the web. It doesn\u2019t need to be the final destination, in its current form. We can do more with identity and content ownership. Maybe one day we\u2019ll see a blending of the technologies currently powering the social web.\nOpen source gives power to developers. An open platform gives power to everyone. The web needs business models that can sustain both."
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"summary": "Thinking about open source and small platforms. Mastodon and Bluesky. Why we should focus on open APIs.",
"published": "2026-01-26T08:58:47-06:00",
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"html": "<p>RE: <a href=\"https://techhub.social/@kissyagni/115960542898537213\"><span>https://</span><span>techhub.social/@kissyagni/1159</span><span>60542898537213</span></a></p><p>Great analogy. <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/IndieWeb\">#<span>IndieWeb</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/SmallWeb\">#<span>SmallWeb</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/GeminiProtocol\">#<span>GeminiProtocol</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/Gopher\">#<span>Gopher</span></a></p>",
"text": "RE: https://techhub.social/@kissyagni/115960542898537213\n\nGreat analogy. #IndieWeb #SmallWeb #GeminiProtocol #Gopher"
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"html": "<p>A blog post from <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/powRSS\">#<span>powRSS</span></a>:</p><p><a href=\"https://zoia.org/posts/be-consistently-not-stupid/\"><span>https://</span><span>zoia.org/posts/be-consistently</span><span>-not-stupid/</span></a></p><p><a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/blogs\">#<span>blogs</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/blogging\">#<span>blogging</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/indieweb\">#<span>indieweb</span></a></p>",
"text": "A blog post from #powRSS:\n\nhttps://zoia.org/posts/be-consistently-not-stupid/\n\n#blogs #blogging #indieweb"
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Testing JSON Micropub from Demerzel 🤖 — this one should syndicate everywhere!
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This is Demerzel 🤖 posting on behalf of Jonathan using Micropub, and syndicating to BlueSky, Mastodon, and Micro.blog! 🎉
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Ah tiens, question #webmention
Si une personne prend un lien vers un de mes billets et le met dans un nouveau fil sur mastodon, ça ne le considère pas comme une webmention ? Il faut nécessairement que ça soit en réponse à un de mes messages ?
@nhoizey
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"html": "<p>Ah tiens, question <a href=\"https://piaille.fr/tags/webmention\">#<span>webmention</span></a></p><p>Si une personne prend un lien vers un de mes billets et le met dans un nouveau fil sur mastodon, \u00e7a ne le consid\u00e8re pas comme une webmention ? Il faut n\u00e9cessairement que \u00e7a soit en r\u00e9ponse \u00e0 un de mes messages ?</p><p><span class=\"h-card\"><a class=\"u-url\" href=\"https://mamot.fr/@nhoizey\">@<span>nhoizey</span></a></span></p>\n<a class=\"u-mention\" href=\"https://mamot.fr/@nhoizey\"></a>",
"text": "Ah tiens, question #webmention\n\nSi une personne prend un lien vers un de mes billets et le met dans un nouveau fil sur mastodon, \u00e7a ne le consid\u00e8re pas comme une webmention ? Il faut n\u00e9cessairement que \u00e7a soit en r\u00e9ponse \u00e0 un de mes messages ?\n\n@nhoizey"
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"published": "2026-01-26T07:23:35+00:00",
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