Managing overwhelm in phone use.

This started off as a comment reply to a post from @ljpuk on potentially giving up on the smartphone; but got a bit long so I made it into a post instead.

https://andrewmelder.com/2026/04/13/managing-overwhelm-in-phone-use.html

#Blog #Blogging #IndieWeb #Smartphones #MentalHealth #DigitalMinimalism

Updated the styles on my website: https://travisbriggs.com

The dark background was way too dark, it looked dead. Framed the content in a column so it wasn't so spaced out and overwhelming. Changed a few of the colors. Updated the avatar.

#DigitalGarden #blog #blogging #indieweb

Sometimes in my blog posts I need to embed a video, but Markdown doesn’t have any syntax for it.

It turns out that animated AVIFs are technically images, they are lightweight, and I can use them in Markdown.

https://ergaster.org/til/animated-avif-lightweight/

#web #indieWeb #smallWeb

I just finished a big updated to my /uses page.
Check it out and let me know what you think!

https://lzon.ca/uses

#indieweb #personalweb #blog #uses

Kanādas politiķi turpina izlikties, ka netiek izspiesti. Vai šī jaunākā Toronto Policijas Rekruit palīdzēs apkrāpt Kanāda? https://jungyulkim.com/free-press/lv/articles/kanādiešu-politiķi-klīst-kā-korupcija-notiek-tur-ontarios-galvaspilsētu.html #News #Art #Canada #NewYork #Toronto #Mafia #Crime #Indieweb #Headlines

What are the coolest uses of the #Mastodon #API you know of?
#Fediverse #IndieWeb #innovation

Indieweb Social states its "a home for those who build, study, promote - or are just fascinated by - #openweb, #indieweb, #federated & #humanetech practices & tech"

I'll add to that. It's also a place for 80s style nerds like @Tchambers
#PledgeDrive 13/ to sit in the back of the class and giggle until you stare at them

Donate: patreon.com/c/indiewebsocial

#PledgeDrive
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A couple of weeks ago, we launched https://astra-index.com

It’s a multi-format narrative put together by @distantmedium.bsky.social, with collaboration from @mysterycryptid, https://bsky.app/profile/nickelbank.bsky.social, https://bsky.app/profile/dilogical.bsky.social, and https://bsky.app/profile/nitrosparxx.bsky.social

I built the website for it, and I’m very proud to say it’s an entirely person-coded site, with its fair share of flaws, rough edges, and bugs. It’s very special project to me… 1/2

#SmallWeb #indieweb #webdev #multimediaart #javascript

A belső privát #Pixelfed migráció is megtörtént a NAS-omról ugyanerre a szerverre, amin ez a #Mastodon #instance is működik, amit csak ketten használunk a saját privát emlékgyűjteményünkként.
(Nem mondom, hogy nagy munka volt kigyomlálni belőle a federációs hajlamot, de sajnos a Pixelfedben ez nem egy gombnyomás, szóval sokáig nagyon paranoid módon ellenőrizgettem, hogy valahol nincs-e mégis federációs adatszivárágs belőle.)

Amint támogatva lesz a natív mobilos alkalmazásban is a több felhasználós működés, vélhetően abból is lesz publikus saját verzióm is, hogy a publikumnak szánt emlékeim elérhetőek, de mégis általam kontrollálhatóak legyenek.

Sosem hátrány, ha az ember talál alkalmas vasat és hozzá megfelelő, legalábbis két-három felhasználó számára elég sávszéllel rendelkező szolgáltatót, hogy a saját kis homelabját üzemeltesse.

Jelenleg már fenn van a #JellyFin, #Nextcloud, #Pixelfed, ez és egy #privát Mastodon szerver, #Immich, #API végpont, #Pangolin és még sok-sok szolgáltatás, amihez nem hátrány, ha nem egy csóró falusi nettel üzemelteti az ember.

Gondoltam fizikai szerver hostingon is. De, azt már tényleg akkor, amikor fizetés emelés lesz. Sok pénzen meg egy a #geek hobbimra, nem kell még ennél is több egyelőre.

Sok ember nem érti, hogy ez miért szép és miért jó. De ebben sincs baj. Én például nem értem mi a jó a fociban, de pont azért, mert nem értek a focihoz. Ők nem értenek ehhez. Nem vagyunk egyformák. :)

#Fediverse #SelfHosting #HomeLab #NAS #OpenSource #Privacy #Decentralization #IndieWeb #ServerLife #LinuxServer #DataOwnership #DigitalSovereignty #HomelabSetup #TechLife #GeekLife #SysAdmin #APIs #CloudAlternative #PersonalServer #PrivacyFirst #NoTracking #SelfHostedApps #DecentralizedWeb #OwnYourData #Networking #ActivityPub

@eclecticpassions love your blog's design ✨
Also love the idea to be able to post #webmentions directly!

If you liked Learning to Read Again, my feed URL is https://sightlessscribbles.com/feed.xml #RSS #IndieWeb

Kanados politikai ir toliau apsimeta, kad jų neprievartauja. Gal šie naujausi Toronto policijos rekrutai padės nugvelbti Kanadą? https://jungyulkim.com/free-press/lt/articles/kanado-politikai-shrug-kaip-korupcija-užima-ontarios-sostinėje.html #News #Art #Canada #NewYork #Toronto #Mafia #Crime #Indieweb #Headlines

I need to avoid averaging 202W if I want to avoid Echofeed double posting my training activities using my micropost echo title rule. I'll worry more if I start averaging 202bpm!

#Indieweb #Echofeed

https://prry.uk/2026-04-11-2103

woooo time for a kiki update. this one is a bugfix release that corrects two super annoying problems with RSS feed generation.

while we all love RSS, it has to be one of the most finicky protocols to actually write code for 😅. every client seems to have its own quirks. so here's my attempt at keeping the protocol alive and happy:

- RSS feeds now show the correct pubdate time because it now takes timezone into consideration, and then converts your timezone to GMT.

- under very weird and unknown conditions, incorrect rss URLs were being generated. While I couldn't reproduce the exact cause (I suspect it was due to robots scraping kiki instances and the PHP server not generating browser variables for them), I was able to eliminate the bug with a small change to how URLs are generated.

thank you to kiki oper @kickingk for catching both of these bugs.

and if you're new to kiki, this is your invitation to join the kiki club!

there is a free shareware version here for those who want to get their toes wet with building their own little blog, and a paid registered version for folks who want to dive straight in :D
https://tomotama.itch.io/kiki/

#kiki #patch #shareware #php #smolweb #indieWeb #rss

Okay #IndieWeb friends. Status report I've done away with this webpage: https://librarymonster.io/tools in favor of sharing bookmarks via raindrop.io! https://librarymonster.raindrop.page

Planning to embed the collections individually so you don't have to leave my site eventually, but for now it'll suffice 👍 🥂

Also hoping raindrop.io will expand the collection views you can share to match the ones I see while inside my account (moodboard view is so cool!)

At any rate, I'm happy & excited abt this!