I wish I could double-boost this blog post, it is absolutely spot-on. The #indieweb is a nation of positive thinkers, and is great for that.

[Ignore the naïve bit about blocking AI bot IP addresses; that's a losing game.]

https://islandinthenet.com/the-indie-web-is-not-defined-by-its-enemies/

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. 😉 So here's Cool Personal Homepages #CPHP Vol. 61: "All-Purpose Mat" https://allpurposem.at/

#SmallWeb #indieweb #homepage #blog #screenshot #programming

🔗 https://stephvee.ca/blog/updates/my-rss-feed-is-now-excerpt-only/

After thinking more about the worsening data theft /scraping problem, I've decided to strip my RSS feed of full-text content. :welp: I did not make this decision lightly, and am frankly incredibly annoyed about it. We shouldn't have to worry about this sort of stuff...

#indieweb #rss #data #fuckai

Kagi Small Web now has categories! Browse and discover amazing blogs, personal sites, and hidden gems in the topics you care about most:

https://kagi.com/smallweb

#Kagi #SmallWeb #Blogs #Indieweb

@michaelharley “official” ends up being “most folks agree on what the slash ought to be” —for “/about” it is obvious—for books: book reads, personal library, book wish lists, book likes: the intent varies! https://indieweb.org/personal_library #indieweb

Exploring WebMention sources



Today, I took some time out of processing the loss of my dad to do some nerdy tech stuff with OpenMentions and WebMention sources.

I was interested in which sites sent the most mentions to the openmentions.com endpoints.

This is not especially important, but it could indicate who the most active and interested people are. For a writer, knowing you have people who are pleased to hear from you is pretty important, so I figure this might be an important tool for Author Buzz UK further down the line.

For OpenMentions this is a step towards a sort of thing Technorati used to be (for blogs). For now, I am avoiding the question of mentions to topic-specific sites outside of the OpenMentions blog. That’s a bigger question for another time.

As OpenMentions uses WordPress, step one was just getting an SQL query that gives back an ordered list of mention comments per domain name.

The first hurdle to overcome was to get just the domain names when that data is not stored. Fortunately, source URL is stored and with some substring magic, I was able to get the domains from it. My pride would love me to say I figured it all out on my own.

I did not.

I looked up the answer and found it on StackOverflow.

Next, I had to filter out a few things. Mostly things that mask origin by way of helping, or were a thing that Elon Musk owns, and I didn’t want any data for.

That took a bit of trial and error as I figured out what data I wanted to filter.

Sorry brid.gy, you were not good for this dataset, but you were a great proxy for filtering Bluesky content. So I am grateful for that.

My first version pulled from the comments table only, but the source of the mention did not always get recorded. So I “left joined” the comment meta and looked up the domain there.

The result was a gloriously hacky SQL command.

You can see the SQL here: https://gist.github.com/lordmatt/31f4f0b508b2dcf353c36ab23f907eea

The top 10 domain mentions sources from OpenMentions

  • lordmatt.co.uk
  • node.lordmatt.co.uk
  • openmentions.tumblr.com
  • replying.isbrill.com
  • matrixdreams.com
  • muse.authorbuzz.co.uk
  • tory-government.ispants.com
  • elons-twitter.ispants.com
  • doctorwho.isbrill.com
  • openmentions.com

No big surprises here. The biggest users are all things that I am involved with and could push the idea to most readily.

What’s next?

The next thing to do will be to use this data to generate some pages of interesting domain data. I’m not entirely sure what data I want to show or how I want to store it. That’s all yet to come.

What would you do with a list of websites with authors who like to respond to your stuff?



#IndieWeb #MySQL #Webmention #WordPress

I really take for granted how small the footprint for the site actually is.

#webdev #512kbclub #indieweb #smallweb

@pfefferle Lots of love to you and respect for your time. Only reply if it is no bother at all. (I'm playing with #WebMentions).

I'm investigating who sends WebMentions. I created an SQL to do that. I assume no native method exists. I want to check that I'm not going to run up against something that was deprecated, and I didn't notice.

I'm worried that I should join the meta table twice to get protocol in the row, but I'm hoping comment type has me covered.

Gist: https://gist.github.com/lordmatt/31f4f0b508b2dcf353c36ab23f907eea

What are you favourite examples of creative HTTP 404 pages? (And feel free to show off your own)

#web #IndieWeb

Recently, I mentioned @brennan 's blog.

What made me a regular reader was not his philosophical musings but his devotion to the #indieweb.

I found this post, particularly useful, especially the list of blog search engines:

https://brennan.day/resources-for-the-personal-web-a-follow-up-guide/

Searching personal blogs returns a bit of the excitement of the early web -- when we "websurfed" instead of "doomscrolled." New things turn up and old things are reinvigorated with new thoughts and personal connections.

#blogs #Internet

"The #indieweb is stronger when it is defined by what it does: people owning their publishing, people controlling their data, people connecting through open standards and handcrafted links. That identity does not require a villain. It stands on its own."

https://thenewleafjournal.com/the-positive-case-for-good-tech/

I have never really played chess. Tomorrow I hope to start a journey of 100 days of chess. I plan to study, play, and analyze for 30-40min a day.

I will keep a journal to track my thoughts, milestones, and games.

Hopefully I'll grow some skills and confidence.

I'm open to suggestions for resources, good books, exercises, or good stories as I start this adventure.

My last 100days was running, and the one before that I learned to code in p5.

I will start my journal here tomorrow: https://banjomagpi.com/keynotes/100-days-of-chess/

#learning #indieweb #100days #blogging

Are there any Funkwhale song makers or artists here? I want to listen to your songs on your Funkwhale.

#Funkwhale #music #artists #independent #opensource #federated #selfhosting #musicians #producers #indieweb #audiostreaming #community #decentralisation #creators

There's a new feature on #BurgeonLab right before CNY! It's the Guestbook page I've been longing to have since I started my blog. 🥳

➡️ https://burgeonlab.com/guestbook/

Thanks @zacharykai.net and Zak https://html-chunder.neocities.org/ for being the first to sign it.

It'll make me a happy camper if you decide to sign it too! 😇

#webdev #smallweb #indieweb #personalblog #personalsite #webdevelopment #blogs #blog

a thrown together #blog #post about making a bit of progress on my silly little command line project that is likely to be of little interest to anyone but me.

https://tlohde.com/blog/2026/02/progressing-with-a-project/

and yes, there is a typo in the first sentence.

#duckdb #typer #madewith11ty #indieweb

On Writing

In August 2025, I decided to read for at least two hours per day. Surprisingly enough, I have maintained that habit. Now, I intend to do the same with writing.

https://readbeanicecream.surge.sh/2026/02/14/on-writing/

#reading #writing #blogging #blog #indieweb #smallweb

There’s been a lot of bird talk on #IndieWeb the past few days. So I was really excited today when I was able to get these pics on a walk with Azure earlier!

Look at that Roadrunner 👀🕵🪶