You probably never knew you needed the Little Fermat Theorem, but if you were decent at maths at school and would like to tickle your little brain cells, you will be pleasantly engaged by this blog post: Baby Steps for Adults to the Little Fermat Theorem. Enjoy!

https://khleedril.org/blog/2026-02-14--fermats-little.html

#maths #indieweb #learningMaterials

RE: https://indieweb.social/@tchambers/116083701515275398

We're so excited to be helping indieweb.social grow!

Thank you to everyone here who helps keep this place clean, respectful, and just generally the best place on the Social Web ☁️ 💙

Thanks always to @tchambers for your trust and @Thor for your help.

#BestServer #IndieWeb

After 4 months of working on Jottit I've decided to start over. I was using it for my own site and kept blogging, but Jottit was built around pages and wiki-style editing. Blogging was an afterthought. And the tech I was most excited about (git-backed, everything as files) was stuff 99% of people would never care about. I was building for myself, not for them. #indieweb #jottit

Right now I like the #indieweb #webmentions / #microformats more than #activitypub / #jsonld, because the author chooses which replies appear below their post. I think it would be better if there was an expectation to regularly validate the webmentions (we have HTTP caching for that), and also for #xhtml instead of html. I’m not familiar with the LD markup languages, but maybe there exists something more interoperable than microformats (with proper URIs for properties).

> I think we should almost always take a CLI-first approach to our application development, Then, if the users really need a simpler, more graphical way to interact with your software, create a TUI, and only if the TUI couldn't satisfy the needs of your users, because of the nature of the application or the nature of your users, create a GUI.

#blog #indieweb #linux #software #tui #cli #tools

https://alavi.me/blog/cli-and-tui-over-gui/

Right now I like the #indieweb #webmentions / #microformats more than #activitypub / #jsonld, because the author chooses which replies appear below their post. I think it would be better if there was an expectation to regularly validate the webmentions (we have HTTP caching for that), and also for #xhtml. Activitypub forgot that we are humans talking, so we need a markup language. When we get microformats-in-html-in-jsonld, see whether the json developers will claim it is human readable.

After some experiences in my past years and seeing ythe trends in tech, software and politics, I can firmly say that "We need apocalypse-proof" software.

I explained it further here, and also introduced some software tools that might be ueful in dire situations

#blog #indieweb #software #softwareengineerig

https://alavi.me/blog/we-need-apocalypse-proof-software/

RE: https://mathstodon.xyz/@joshg/116084372264193124

👏 please welcome our newest #kiki homepage maker

it looks fantastic :D

#smallWeb #indieweb

Wow! I've got 23 new blogs I am subscribed to now. I've put them all in my feed reader (FreshRSS) under a "MastoBlogs" category.

I'll follow them for a while and if I like what you folks are saying I'll keep them around... if it's not my cup of tea (not everything is) I can always unsubscribe.

This is the Indie Web we all need to keep building (and, bringing back, to some degree.)

#IndieWeb #web #RSS

Built and am still improving a public web tool to explore music as a graph instead of a list.

Artists, bands, albums, instruments, collaborations — all navigable as an interactive node network on top of MusicBrainz data.

Music isn’t linear. It’s a web. So this lets you wander it.

https://overtone.kernelpanic.lol

Check it out and let me know what you think, all feedback is welcome :)

#music #musicdiscovery #DataVisualization #graphs #MusicBrainz #IndieWeb #OpenData

I’m curious… If you have a personal website or blog, do you share it with your “in-person” close friends and family? Why or why not?

#indieweb #personalwebsite #blog

কানাডার রাজনীতিবিদরা ক্রমাগত মনে করে যাচ্ছে যে, তাদেরকে বাধ্য করা হচ্ছে না। এই নতুন টরোন্টো পুলিশ কি কানাডাকে ধ্বংস করতে সাহায্য করবে? https://jungyulkim.com/free-press/bn/articles/তফাতীয়-রাজনীতিবিদদের-দুর্নীতি-যখন-রাজধানী-শহর-দখল-করে-নেয়,-তখন-তারা-তটরেখার-রাজনীতির-সমালোচনা-করে.html #News #Art #Canada #NewYork #Toronto #Mafia #Crime #Indieweb #Headlines

#IndieWeb Homebrew Website Club / Pacific will be on Wednesday 6pm PST: https://events.indieweb.org/2026/02/homebrew-website-club-pacific-Bj9jWBNYSpTG

What do we do? Talk websites and how to keep our websites our own.

Switched from ZNC to Soju as my IRC bouncer recently. Followed a little curiosity about it. Here's a little note that came from it: https://susam.net/soju-user-delete-hash.html

#blog #post #technology #irc #indieweb

Had a friend beg me to get on Substack, again. I tried to say I will not do so for a whole, heh, host of reasons. So to all, here is my RSS feed. Share it with someone that likes blogs about living an anxious life as a blind person. Fiction and creative Nonfiction. I have a podcast with blog post narrations for those that cannot, or choose not to, read. https://sightlessscribbles.com/feed.xml #RSS #IndieWeb

Moving servers is probably as good as a time as any to finally make an #Introduction post.

Hello! I'm Michael, I'm from NW Indiana (#RegionRat), still in Indiana, and I'm an audio engineer. I'm primarily in corporate audio, but I freelance around with bands and venues in Indy. I have an #IndieWeb website up in my bio that I blog at from time to time. Big physical media nerd with #Vinyl & Blu-Rays and love pretty much anything #Music or #Film related.

Moved here from mastodon.social in 2026.

বর্তমানে গেসটাপোর চেয়ে নোংরা, টরন্টোর পুলিশ কি তাদের ছবি নতুন মাসকটের নিয়োগের মাধ্যমে সতেজ করতে পারে? https://jungyulkim.com/free-press/bn/articles/টরন্টোর-জনতার-শাসনের-সময়-সম্ভাব্য-গণতন্ত্র-ঝুঁকিতে.html #News #Art #Canada #NewYork #Toronto #Mob #Crime #Indieweb #Headlines

FediForum position paper

i've been doing web programming for over 30 years and this is a wild one.

big thanks to @kickingk for doing all of the research to figure out this problem. i absolutely would have not figured it out myself.

kiki had a problem where it was generating correct rss feeds for everyone in north america, and everyone outside of north america had non-compliant rss feeds. the exact same code on every machine, but *only* the machines in geographical europe barfed out broken rss output. rss feeds were 100% valid in north america, and borked elsewhere. what the hell?

the rss errors in europe:
pubDate must be an RFC-822 date-time: Sun, 10 Aug 2025 08:00:00 BST

valid rss date in north america:
Mon, 16 Feb 2026 11:00:00 MST

do you see it? i don't see it either.

that looks like a perfectly cromulent rss pubdate to me. it satisfies every single date formatting requirement that i could find, and uses PHP's own datetime() function to generate it.

as it turns out, the rss 2.0 spec relies upon an RFC specification from the 1977 ARPANET: "RFC822: Standard for ARPA Internet Text Messages"

yes. i just had to write a patch for a 50 year old RFC ..... "feature".

if you're a kiki instance sysop, you can update your instance by downloading v1.1.7. and if you're wondering what kiki is - you can find out here:
https://tomotama.itch.io/kiki

danny van kooten does a great job of explaining what the underlying problem with RSS/RFC822 is here:
https://www.dannyvankooten.com/blog/2023/rfc822-and-cet/

#kiki #webdev #rss #programming #smallWeb #indieWeb

I find that people who oppose the use of LLMs in writing often take an elitist stance. For many non-native English speakers, LLMs are empowering—they help express ideas without embarrassment or the need for assistance. We did not choose English as a global language; it was imposed on many of us. So don’t tell me I can’t use LLMs to edit my writing—before you do, try writing in another language, like Hindi. I challenge you!

#llm #chatgpt #writing #blogging #indieweb