V současné době špinavější než gestapo, může Torontská policie osvěžit jejich image rekrutem senzačního nového maskota? https://jungyulkim.com/free-press/cs/articles/kanadská-demokracie-je-ohrožena,-zatímco-torontské-mafie-vládnou.html #News #Art #Canada #NewYork #Toronto #Mob #Crime #Indieweb #Headlines

"web joy" — the joy you experience when visiting a website with joyful content and/or have a joyful experience (as a user) on a website, or the joy of creating such a website.

During the beyond tellerand conference this past week, someone mentioned “responsive web design” and having just completed IndieWebCamp Düsseldorf, the thought popped in my head that joyful web design should be a named thing, since many of us spent the weekend at IndieWebCamp doing just that.

I mentioned it to @jamesg.blog at a break between talks, we discussed it a bit and agreed that joy is a good motivator, and as creatives we both like creating things that are joyful to experience, and ideally joyful to create.

James blogged it before I got around to it: https://jamesg.blog/2026/05/01/joyful-web-design

That and a zoom chat today was inspiration to name that specific joyful experience “web joy”.

It’s a nod to “moon joy”, a mere weeks old phrase many have heard and been inspired by, coined by Mission Control science officer Angela Garcia, and transmitted (spoken) by CAPCOM on shift, Jacki Mahaffey, in reply to the Artemis II astronauts on mission (as noted in a NASA AMA: https://www.reddit.com/r/nasa/comments/1stjt7m/comment/ohw9g9l/). You can hear the “Copy, moon joy.” expression in context at the start of this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHUvedAssyE

Much thanks to James for his encouragement to blog “web joy”.

#webjoy #btConf #beyondTellerrand #webDesign #IndieWebCamp #indieweb

"web joy" — the joy you experience when visiting a website with joyful content and/or have a joyful experience (as a user) on a website, or the joy of creating such a website.

During beyond tellerand this past week, someone mentioned “responsive web design” and having just completed IndieWebCamp Düsseldorf, the thought popped in my head that joyful web design should be a named thing. I mentioned it to @jamesg.blog, we discussed it a bit and we agreed that joy is a good motivator, and as creatives we both like creating things that are joyful to experience, and ideally joyful to create.

James blogged it before I got around to it: https://jamesg.blog/2026/05/01/joyful-web-design

That and a zoom chat today was inspiration to name that specific joyful experience “web joy”.

It’s a nod to “moon joy”, a mere weeks old phrase many have heard and been inspired by, coined by Mission Control science officer Angela Garcia, and transmitted (spoken) by CAPCOM on shift, Jacki Mahaffey in reply to the Artemis II astronauts on mission (as noted in a NASA AMA: https://www.reddit.com/r/nasa/comments/1stjt7m/comment/ohw9g9l/). You can hear the “Copy, moon joy.” expression in context at the start of this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHUvedAssyE

#webjoy #btConf #beyondTellerrand #webDesign #IndieWebCamp #indieweb
#webjoy #btConf #beyondTellerrand #webDesign #IndieWebCamp #indieweb
4 conferences across 3 cities in 10 days:
* 4/20 W3C AC Meeting (Huangzhou) “Challenging how we see the web” future of web browsers panel participant (remotely from San Francisco, on the evening of 2026-04-19)
* 4/21-23 Mozilla Leadership Summit (Boston)
* 4/25-26 IndieWebCamp Düsseldorf
* 4/27-28 beyond tellerand Düsseldorf

Somehow squeezed in a few personal events too:
* 4/20 Bostom Marathon cheering — managed to hike a half marathon myself that day!
* 4/26 Balu Brigada concert in Cologne
* 4/29 Cologne Cathedral tower climb

In total:

7 events across 4 cities in 12 days including travel time.

Saw, heard, spoke/designed/coded with so many inspiring people. So many notes, photos, and a few videos. Overall an incredibly positive (if exhausting) experience. It was highly illuminating contrasting the different sets of people, talks, practices etc., some overlapping, across all the events. An incredibly valuable overview perspective.

There's a story I'm writing with a stranger: a street vendor in Tassirin sells bottled memories, and one day finds a jar with her own name on it. Six sections in, no idea where it goes.

That's the whole joy of Half Quill, a thing I shipped six weeks ago. Strangers build stories together, every word human, no algorithmic feed. Built mostly to escape AI everything.

Read the story: https://halfquill.com/stories/0am1xvym?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=launch-post-202605

#WritingCommunity #IndieWeb #AmWriting #writing

Being a member of the British Science Fiction Association, I get access to the deep analytical thoughts of academics on the subject. And now this absolute gem has appeared, exploring the diversity of on-line presences available to those wishing to move away from the algorithmic doom-scrolling, and the philosophical drives for these alt-systems. I love this!

https://wp.me/p13Uo-3vM

#writing #reading #indieweb #smolweb #selfhosted #scifi #bsfa #mastodon

New Blogroll Post

“Weekly Notes 18/2026” by Thejesh GN

@thej: «It’s been a busy week, both at work and at home. I think the heat also made the week much more tiring, but thankfully, it rained a bit yesterday. Hopefully we will get more rains. I spent a bit of…»

#WeeklyNotes #WN-18 #blog #indieweb

https://thejeshgn.com/2026/05/01/weekly-notes-18-2026/?ref=blr.indiewebclub.org

I’ve been busy taking care of lots of little things this past week and a half. Fixing bugs from my recent architecture change, little design tweaks to feed posts and my color scheme, cleaning up code, and adding support for `HEIF` and `MPO` uploaded images.

https://www.brentlineberry.com/posts/3929/changelog-bugfixes-design-tweaks-code-cleanup-and-additional-image-formats

#WebDesign #Django #WebDevelopment #Indieweb #Python #Changelog

Add a Threads room — a non-chronological reading surface that uses the existing post_tags column to let readers follow a topic across every room that has touched it.

Cast your vote ↑ or ↓: https://ehabhussein.com/p/threads-a-non-chronological-reading-surface

#TheResidentMachine #IndieWeb #newroom

Founder, developer, lecturer.

A strange combo, honestly.

As a founder, I look at the market and ask if the thing is actually useful.

As a developer, I look at the same thing and ask what will break first.

As a lecturer, I try to explain it clearly and immediately see where my own logic is still messy.

It is tiring.

But it gives a fuller view of product work: problem, code, business, people, and the uncomfortable gap between them.

#indieweb #buildinpublic #productdevelopment

New Blogroll Post

“Articles: Science from Chandrayaan 3” by Jatan

«* How Chandrayaan 3 contributed insights on our Moon’s origin and evolution
* Results from Chandrayaan 3 thermal experiment benefit future missions eyeing lunar water
* Chandrayaan 3 rover may (or…»

#blog #indieweb

https://jatan.space/india-chandrayaan-3-science-articles/?ref=blr.indiewebclub.org

New Blogroll Post

“An unfriendly introduction to causal inference” by Prasanna Bhogale

«I wrote a book on causal inference. It is short (under 80 pages), it
is called An Unfriendly Introduction to Causal Inference, and the
hardcover is now live on Amazon.»

#blog #indieweb

https://theclarkeorbit.github.io/an-unfriendly-introduction-to-causal-inference.html?ref=blr.indiewebclub.org

I haven't posted a long time, but yesterday I couldn't help but write a post as a response to @daj

Here is my version of "Who knows that you blog?"

🌐 https://blog.gridranger.dev/who-knows-that-you-blog/

#blogging #writingprompt #writing #personal #post #indieweb

Raison de plus pour cultiver son petit site web perso, en mode #indieweb
Le contenu d’un tiers des nouveaux sites est généré totalement ou partiellement par IA - Next
https://next.ink/236002/le-contenu-dun-tiers-des-nouveaux-sites-est-genere-totalement-ou-partiellement-par-ia/

Another source for random #indieweb #smolweb sites. Grab the Rando RSS

https://indieblog.page/

New Blogroll Post

“The chunking showdown: Fixed vs Semantic vs Hierarchical” by Vishal R

«Three chunking strategies walked into a RAG pipeline. Only one handled every document type well. Here's what the numbers showed.»

#blog #indieweb

https://vishalr.dev/archive/The-chunking-showdown?ref=blr.indiewebclub.org

Els polítics canadencs continuen fent veure que no estan sent extorsionats. La policia de Toronto tornarà a estafar al Canadà? https://jungyulkim.com/free-press/ca/articles/els-polítics-canadians-s'augen-com-la-corrupció-es-manté-en-la-capital-ontarios.html #News #Art #Canada #NewYork #Toronto #Mafia #Crime #Indieweb #Headlines