Substack's Subpar Subculture | 馃敆 https://brennan.day/substacks-subpar-subculture/
Last year I came across a 2000s style internet forum that was style maintained, it seemed like its modertators were intentionally trying to maintain the old school asthethic with cheeky emojis and flashing colors. but I can't find it anymore.
if anyone knows what I'm talking about please let me know.
Reactive Resume is a fully open-source resume builder you can self-host.
No tracking, no accounts, full data ownership, and clean PDF exports. A solid escape from cloud-locked resume platforms that keep your CV hostage.
馃憠 https://github.com/amruthpillai/reactive-resume
馃憠 More tools like this: https://digital-escape-tools-phi.vercel.app/
Jatan Mehta on exploring where to host his fediverse presence, from Mastodon to Ghost to Micro.blog. Whenever I read something like this, it reaffirms our decision to take a quieter approach to the social web. Less counting, less noise.
Logan Land blogging about IndiePub, in the same spirit as IndieWeb and POSSE but expanding to self-published books and other things too:
Now we鈥檙e facing something new, with the rise of AI-generated content, these platforms are becoming saturated with noise. Human authenticity is at a premium.
If I have any fans out there, could I ask a favor? Can you check out my website and leave me a nice review. It should be fairly painless, but I mainly want to see if it is working properly. Tell me if you have any trouble or if it feels intuitive and straightforward. #IndieWeb #Blog #RSS https://www.davidtoddmccarty.com/
IndieAuth is now live on Jottit. Every site gets an authorization endpoint, so you can use your Jottit URL to sign in anywhere that supports it. Still early, still testing, expect bugs :) #indieweb
Building open infrastructure for the web is important work. It's also work that nobody quite knows how to pay for. I wrote about my own experience figuring this out with Jottit. https://simonbc.com/blog/2026-02-05-how-do-you-fund-the-open-web/ #indieweb
The page on my personal website that *I* visit most often is probably my list of recipes. I use it as my kitchen notebook. I really do prepare these on a regular basis and will often tweak them over time.
I reference the list before shopping to help me come up with a meal plan. I open a recipe on my phone during cooking. There are draft pages for recipes I'm not happy with yet. And while it's quite personal, and I imagine not very useful to other people, I like having it on my website. It keeps me using the space.
Had another fun night where I'm wide awake at 3 am, so I decided to finally start integrating Webmentions into my blog.
Thanks to Brid.gy and Webmention.io, the number of Mastodon favorites on my last blog post (https://kat5.dev/blog/2026/boredom) now appear at the bottom.
My next task is going to be showing the Mastodon avatars and Webmention sources instead of the counter.
I realize I'm sort of reinventing the wheel here, when plenty of static site generators can do this already, but it's neat to build my own solution from scratch.
Definir qu茅 es una red social no es nada f谩cil porque interseca con otras plataformas como mensajer铆a instant谩nea, v铆deos, o #superapps.
Luego tambi茅n hay redes sociales alternativas que se rigen por unas l贸gicas totalmente distintas a la de los gigantes que conocemos y que no son el problema.
IndieWebify.Me? Yes please
Another find from #powRSS:
Bracket is a fully open-source, self-hosted tournament system built with FastAPI and Vite.
Supports single-elimination, round-robin, and Swiss formats, with drag-and-drop scheduling, public dashboards, and full data ownership. A great escape from proprietary, cloud-only tournament platforms.
馃憠 https://github.com/evroon/bracket
馃憠 More tools like this: https://digital-escape-tools-phi.vercel.app/
LittleLink is an open-source Linktree alternative you can fully self-host.
No trackers, blazing fast, and easy to deploy. Perfect for escaping centralized link-in-bio platforms while keeping full control of your links.
馃憠 https://github.com/sethcottle/littlelink
馃憠 More tools like this: https://digital-escape-tools-phi.vercel.app/
My updated site retro-digital / old internet aesthetics.
馃 讗讬谞讟专讗拽爪讬讜转 / interactive elements
馃攲 讗谞讬诪爪讬讜转 / animations
馃摗 讛讻诇 拽讜专讛 讘注诪讜讚 讗讞讚 / everything happens on one page
馃憠 http://nestechsoftware.neocities.org
#neocities #geocities #indieweb #讗讬谞讟专谞讟_注爪诪讗讬 #retroWeb #90sInternet #webArt #experimentalWeb #Fediverse #PersonalWeb #OldWeb
#RetroInternet
#CyberNostalgia #CreativeCoding #HTMLArt
#HandmadeWeb
#AltWeb #UndergroundWeb #InternetCulture
#PixelArt #RetroAesthetic #Y2K #90sAesthetic #oldternet #3Dart
At today's #IndieWeb Homebrew Website Club: Pacific online meeting, we discussed how to track books and reading habits.
Some people, like Nick, tracks books manually: https://social.lol/@nsmsn/115824912511030742
And others like @joel uses #Bookwyrm + a manual blog page https://joelchrono.xyz/bookshelf
I'm also considering using Bookwyrm and restart my book tracking.
IndieWeb Event notes can be found: https://events.indieweb.org/2026/02/homebrew-website-club-pacific-MyM39P5egEsp
#HomebrewWebsiteClub #books #reading #books #read #booksofmastodon #bookstodon