If you liked The Gospel of the Public Library, my feed URL is https://sightlessscribbles.com/feed.xml #RSS #IndieWeb

blog post: death's inheritance and the future of tomo

today, tomo appears to be the only fork of the RSLight nntp server that is still alive. so what now?

i'll be honest: once Thom/Retro Guy died, i was very tempted to trash the project and move on. I have a half dozen other neglected development projects and books and a podcast to devote my research time to.

and then I thought about Thom and the thousands of hours of his life that he put into his final project before he passed away. his dedication was infectious. and in 2026, we need decentralized forum software more than ever.

that being said, I sure as hell don't want to be responsible for taking over someone else's open source project. that's almost as bad as adopting their kid. hard pass.
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rest of the post here:
https://tomodori.net

rss here:
https://tomodori.net/rss.xml

screenshot: the tomo interface for the user's private mailbox

#tomo #smallWeb #nntp #usenet #indieWeb

#indieweb confession time: how often do you find yourself working on the tech stack of your site instead of writing or publishing?

Don’t feel bad, we all do it. The designer equivalent is when your portfolio site is nicer than the actual work. Been there too 😬

I’m rebuilding Jottit, a tool for simple web publishing I originally built with Aaron Swartz in 2007. Here’s how it got started: https://simonbc.com/notes/2026-01-29-how-jottit-got-started/ #indieweb

Daily Grateful: Christine's Homestyle Bakery

Today I’m grateful for Christine’s Homestyle Bakery.

https://lzon.ca/posts/series/grateful/christine-bakery/

#indieweb #smallweb #rss #blogging #personalweb

A Gathering of Links 4 https://britthub.co.uk/a-gathering-of-links-4/

I have been holding on to some of these links for a while. December was a busy month and I needed most of January to be introverted. Let’s see what’s still relevant. Reading The Harvest Will Come by Joan Westenberg. This is from over a month ago, whoops. I read this essay just after writing […]

#Bookmarks
#IndieWeb #inspiration #reading #tools

New entry in my personal blog!

I've been doing a bit of light tinkering.

#personalblog #indieweb #SmallWeb

https://antonyfb.com/blog/site-updates-jan26.html

Not the #game I was planning on completing, but I dug out an old #godot project and decided to try and balance it finally. It's a bit closer... I also worked out interacting with the pages javascript so I could post highscores. So I did that too.

It's an #idle / #clicker game where you whittle wood in order to retire.

https://ritual.sh/games/whittler/

#indiegamedev #webdev #indieweb

First #blog of 2026 on #BurgeonLab

➡️ https://burgeonlab.com/blog/hugo-on-android-with-termux/

Been only publishing weeknotes lately; but the wait is over, new tech guide is out!
👩🏻‍💻It's about how I am using #termux on #android with #hugo.

This is #6 of #100DaysToOffload. (See my progress on: https://burgeonlab.com/tags/100daystooffload/)

#blogging #blogs #newpost #blogpost #smolweb #guides #techblog #techguides #webdev #cli #terminalemulator #indieweb

Hot take: the only legitimate use of a "chat" button on a website is when clicking the buttons opens a web IRC client.

#ChatBots #IndieWeb #IRC

Our community feed is growing. Find writers, artists, and other nut jobs to follow on the Indie Web. Submit your own.

#IndieWeb #Art #Writing
https://www.davidtoddmccarty.com/community-feed/

@jonmsterling Prepare to be blown away, your point (2) is already practices by a community of people who even designed standards and protocols around this idea. Then a feed reader is also a place where they write replies, repost, like, bookmark, ...

For details see https://indieweb.org/reader and the whole #indieweb movement (which is as old as Facebook, btw).

Update: DuckDuckGo updated to include Neocities results in search again

https://bsky.app/profile/duck-duck-go.bsky.social/post/3mdjakvbvik2l

#IndieWeb

In the process of "rebranding" my web development guide.

Renamed it to "clean web dev guide", instead of just "web dev guide".

Thinking the penguin also has to go, but with what?

Maybe soap, but I like using animals. Maybe I should just keep the penguin? But I don't want any associations with Linux.

#buildinpublic #devlog #webdev #webapp #indiedev #indieweb #smallweb #cleanwebdev