πŸ“ January 2026 Recap

Thought it'd be fun to start doing these monthly recaps! Here's the post for January:

https://sainthood.xyz/blog/posts/january-2026-recap

#indieWeb #SmallWeb #PersonalWeb #PersonalWebsite #blog #blogging #monthlyRecap #bloggingRecap #bulletjournal #bulletjournaling

Digital Self-Reliance: News & Information

The freedom to share information world wide is what made the internet great. So, why do we allow tech bros, social media, and AI to limit or even control what news and information see. It's time to we rely less on these predatory platforms and curate our own news and information experience with RSS.

https://readbeanicecream.surge.sh/2026/01/31/digital-self-reliance-news--information/

#tech #technology #rss #indieweb #blogs #blogging #personalsites #news #socialmedia #DigitalSelfReliance #OnlineFreedom #freeweb

Question for folks into #SSG and #webdev, what's a reliable+stable option these days?

I will be updating a website with weekly content updates by someone not tech-savvy at all. They are only comfortable with Word, unfortunately.

I was thinking a static site generator with automatic deployment when pushed to a repo? But I can't settle on a CMS that is super easy to use. Are there options that are really simple to use i.e. - add new pages, edit existing page contents, add PDFs and images??

What would you suggest?

#askfedi #question #web #indieweb #programming

I'm hare for Saturdays! Notice the tracks in the snow.πŸ‡

#polymerclayartist #MastoArt #IndieWeb

Spending some time pondering site navigation for my new website. Must reflect: indie web values, high accessibility for all kinds of browsers & readers, simplicity and elegance. And not be a pig to code and maintain.

#indieweb #browser #accessibility

πŸ”— https://stephvee.ca/blog/rewinds/rewind-jan-2026/

My latest rewind is up, where I summarize the blog posts I wrote this month, recommend some entertainment titles worth checking out (including The Pitt and The Studio, among others), and share a few interesting links.

#blog #blogging #indieweb #smolweb #thepitt #thestudio

It is always a joy when I see something like this in my web server access logs. People still use Yahoo, and here someone used it to reach my first ever open source project.

#opensource #programming #web #webdev #indieweb

Like most people probably reading this, #IndieWeb is a topic I'm interested in. Portability and identity ownership matter way more than just self-hosting.

Also, I have thoughts on why #Mastodon isn't quite there yet compared to the "gold standard" of email.

Read more: [https://michaelharley.net/posts/2026/01/31/re-self-hosting-versus-lots-of-small-indieweb-providers/]

#SelfHosting #OpenWeb

I really like personal homepages and have quite a list of them bookmarked. I'll post one every week unless I fall behind this schedule. πŸ˜‰ So here's Cool Personal Homepages #CPHP Vol. 59: "fastestcode.org" https://fastestcode.org/

#SmallWeb #indieweb #homepage #blog #screenshot #programming #unix #linux

πŸ”– Bookmarked: Experiences with social medias https://zhongvie.bearblog.dev/2026-01-13/

Zhongvie reflects on writing and publishing on a personal site, focusing on keeping things simple and resisting the pressure to optimise or perform for platforms.

πŸ”₯ Read more: https://flamedfury.com/bookmarks/experiences-with-social-medias/

#Indieweb #Personalweb #Blogging #Culture

πŸ”– Bookmarked: Self-hosting versus lots of small indieweb providers https://www.thisdaysportion.com/posts/self-host-or-indie/

This Day’s Portion questions whether β€œIndie” automatically means self-hosting, arguing that intent, control, and how you relate to the web matter more than the specific technical setup.

πŸ”₯ Read more: https://flamedfury.com/bookmarks/self-hosting-versus-lots-of-small-indieweb-providers/

#Indieweb #Personalweb #Technology

just stumbled upon an incredible piece of MUD/MOO history from the mid-90s web that disappeared in the 2000s and is now all but forgotten. it is a testament to the interactive and creative possibilities real people imagined in the 90s, before greed and pessimism spread through the world wide web.

MOOSE Crossing: A MUD for Kids was a mud/moo designed by Amy Bruckman at MIT as her doctoral dissertation project in 1996

"MOOSE Crossing is a MUD designed to get kids 9-13 excited about reading,
writing, and computer programming. It includes a new programming language
(MOOSE) and client interface (MacMOOSE) designed to make it easier for kids to
learn to program.

Kids have made things like pigs you can hug, light bulbs that tell light
bulb jokes, and pots of gold at the end of the rainbow that ask you a
riddle! They're doing creative writing and computer programming in their
spare time for fun, and meeting other kids from around the world."

(from a rec.games.tiny.mud announcement https://groups.google.com/u/1/g/rec.games.mud.tiny/c/MhnTf0G3C_0/m/BKWIngCp440J)

while a moo wasn't anything new at all in 96, what i find incredible is that her team also built a custom graphical mud programming WYSIWYG client, for Mac and Windows. the clients - MacMOOSE.sea.hqx and WinMoose.exe appear to be lost to time, but i found this screenshot buried in the wbm. you can see how an object is broken down into verbs and properties.

i have about a million questions about how the client-server system worked because this is adorable and user friendly. but for now, i'm excited to just think out loud about what the world wide web could be made into today, if developers got more interested in user-driven interactivity

this is the original site for MOOSE Crossing:
https://web.archive.org/web/19981202051515/http://www.cc.gatech.edu/fac/Amy.Bruckman/moose-crossing/

Amy's dissertation in html:
https://ic.media.mit.edu/Publications/Thesis/asbPHD/HTML/

#mud #moo #retroComputing #macintosh #vintageApple #worldWideWeb #indieWeb #smallWeb #history #digipres

2026 Week 5

https://blog.lmorchard.com/2026/01/30/w05/

TL;DR: Miss Biscuits is 90% fluff, 3D printed ghosts instead of guns, snarfed down three Adrian Tchaikovsky books at hyperfocus speed, shipped feedspool-go v0.2.0 with over-engineered lazy loading, learned about GitHub Actions cross-repo triggers, got obsessed with a TR/ST song on repeat, and caught up on Classic Doctor Who featuring cyborg Loch Ness monsters.

#weeknotes #miscellanea #3dprinting #feedspool #reading #books #rss #indieweb #golang