Greetings, folks,

I've been busy working on my backups, what reminded me it's a good opportunity to bring a little bit more attention to two amazing Google Photos/Drive alternatives for photo storing :blobcatcamera:

Meet buttons for @ente Photos and #Immich :blobcatreach:

(Some versions are with bezels and some are plain)

Feel free to grab!

https://backyardtinker.bearblog.dev/cataminated/

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#Button #ButtonBadges #Badge #IndieWeb #SmallWeb #Ente #EntePhotos #PixelArt

I wrote a blog post about how I optimized some PNGs on my website to reduce the filesize. I talk Custom Actions, optipng, and Image Magick commands.

https://futurehorizondesign.net.au/posts/2026-04-01-Optimizing-Portfolio-Images-for-Web.html

#indieweb #blog #blogging #smallweb #rss #webdev #xfce #linux #imagemagick #graphicdesign

سیاستمداران کانادایی همچنان وانمود می کنند که خسته نیستند. آیا این جدیدترین پلیس تورنتو کانادا را استخدام می کند؟? https://jungyulkim.com/free-press/fa/articles/سیاستمداران-قناری-به-عنوان-فساد-در-شهر-پایتخت-برتاریوس-قرار-می-گیرند.html #News #Art #Canada #NewYork #Toronto #Mafia #Crime #Indieweb #Headlines

Front End Study Hall 050 will be next week on Tuesday! As per usual we will dive deep on #HTML and #CSS! It’s consistently been a thoughtful group no matter who shows! Will you come take part? https://events.indieweb.org/2026/04/front-end-study-hall-050-ZXTogZiDHHXo #IndieWeb

New hVmark Release: v1.6.0

I added two new markers: code and centered text. And the latter accomplishes the task in the most deprecated way possible.

https://github.com/HisVirusness/hvmark

hVmark is my tiny, opinionated markup language: MIT-licensed, intentionally strict, and built to power HisVirusness.com.

#markup #webdev #indieweb #smallweb #esolang #markdown

at last, thank you all for your patience as i worked through this project! here's a full writeup on the process i went through with the #solarpoweredServer, and what eventually worked. you can build your own off-grid linux server for under $250 USD!

It is a wonderful illustration of how cheap it is getting to run solar panels!

https://donaberger.xyz/blog/9-how-i-built-a-solar-powered-linux-server/

#blog #indieweb #solar

Thanks to @capjamesg for the topic nudge about “museum memories”.

This created a list of more than 30 strong wonderful memories and experiences.

I picked one to start and get it out before the end of the month. It is Musee d’Orsay and the Three Mixed-media Arabs that drew me in so long ago - https://www.vanderwal.net/random/entrysel.php?blog=2141

#indieweb #indiewebcarnival

Indieweb Carnival March 2026 – Museum Memories



https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://michaelkupietz.com?p=32703

So apparently rsync is slop now. When I heard, I wanted to drop a quick note on my blog to give an alternative: tar. It doesn’t do everything that rsync does, in particular identifying and skipping up-to-date files, but tar + ssh can definitely accomodate the use case of “transmit all of these files over an SSH connection to another host”.

🔗 tar: a slop-free alternative to rsync

This is such a silly stance IMO. Purity culture anyone? Are people like Drew going to continue to reduce their list of acceptable software until they’re forced to not us any software because an LLM was used in the pipeline somewhere? Dumb.

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Early this morning, Anthropic published version 2.1.88 of Claude Code npm package—but it was quickly discovered that package included a source map file, which could be used to access the entirety of Claude Code's source—almost 2,000 TypeScript files and more than 512,000 lines of code.

🔗 Entire Claude Code CLI source code leaks thanks to exposed map file - Ars Technica

Oops!

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OkCupid and its owner Match Group reached a settlement with the Trump administration for not telling dating-app customers that nearly 3 million user photos were shared with a company making a facial recognition system. OkCupid also gave the facial recognition firm access to user location information and other details without customers' consent, the Federal Trade Commission said.

🔗 OkCupid gave 3 million dating-app photos to facial recognition firm, FTC says - Ars Technica

Grrr these damn people make me so mad.

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در حال حاضر کثیف تر از Gestapo، آیا پلیس تورنتو می تواند تصویر خود را با استخدام یک Mascot جدید احیا کند؟? https://jungyulkim.com/free-press/fa/articles/دموکراسی-canadian-در-معرض-خطر-در-حالی-که-حکومت-بر-توده-ها-بر-مردم.html #News #Art #Canada #NewYork #Toronto #Mob #Crime #Indieweb #Headlines

Mayyybe I should move my website source to @Codeberg, and spin up a Proxmox VM to have a dedicated worker?

I’d love to move off of Cloudflare too, but it’s nice to have free hosting that can handle spikes of traffic.

#indieWeb #smallWeb

I read @joel post about unpolished websites recently. While I agree with him, I do have some words of my own... :)

https://www.kylereddoch.me/blog/i-believe-in-human-websites-i-still-care-about-polish/

#IndieWeb #Web #Blogging #CybersecKyle

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