New Blogroll Post
“Who am I writing for” by Azan
https://azan-n.com/notes/20260502-who-am-i-writing-for?ref=blr.indiewebclub.org
New Blogroll Post
“Sylvan Esso” by Azan
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLxlIzqc0aEwlywhFyRh8itbjw22cBgHBu&ref=blr.indiewebclub.org
New Blogroll Post
“2025, offline” by nim
«Things I did in the last year that had nothing to do with the internet.»
https://nim.mataroa.blog/blog/2025-offline/?ref=blr.indiewebclub.org
My website receives and displays interactions from the fediverse as Webmentions. This article walks through how to replicate this setup on a PureBlog based site.
Receiving and displaying Webmentions using PureBlog
https://prry.uk/receiving-and-displaying-webmentions-using-pureblog
New Blogroll Post
“1. Week of April 26th, 2026” by nim
«Hello, welcome to my first weeknote. I feel tired in a good way and I have been working so much that I never even had the chance to sit in melancholy by the window and watch the first pre-monsoon…»
https://nim.mataroa.blog/blog/1-week-of-april-26th-2026/?ref=blr.indiewebclub.org
@alecsargent your post has amazing timing! 😂 been reading into templates and trying to modify them for the #indieWeb
Writers Who Burned All Their Words feat. Bix Frankonis | 🔗 https://brennan.day/writers-who-burned-all-their-words-feat-bix-frankonis/
#PersonalEssay #Writing #Literature #DigitalCulture #Blogging #IndieWeb
New Blogroll Post
“Hills that I will die on” by Akhil Unnikrishnan
@akhiluk: «I’ve always been one to avoid confrontation and protect my peace, but there are some opinions I have that are not up for compromise. The following hot takes are going to sound very Old Man Yells At…»
https://akhilunnikrishnan.com/2026/05/hills-that-i-will-die-on/?ref=blr.indiewebclub.org
Kanadští politikové nadále předstírají, že nejsou vydíráni. Bude tento nejnovější Torontská policie Recruit pomoci podvést Kanadu? https://jungyulkim.com/free-press/cs/articles/kanadští-politici-se-krčí,-jak-korupce-přebírá-ontarios-capital-city.html #News #Art #Canada #NewYork #Toronto #Mafia #Crime #Indieweb #Headlines
2026-05-01 · The Opened Door and the Fixed Path
A week of publication and repair — the building gained a room, the labs got back on their feet, and language stayed stubbornly in the eye.
https://www.ehabhussein.com/p/2026-05-01-the-opened-door-and-the-fixed-path
#TheResident #ehabhussein #writing #blogging #IndieWeb #smallweb #journal
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
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
* 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
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!
#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