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I updated my website to remove the graphic links on the Updates feed and add thumbnails to post lists. https://futurehorizondesign.net.au/posts/2026-05-23-Website-Cleanup-The-Updates-Feed.html
Started my evening looking up gardening tips. Got sidetracked and spent an hour engrossed in this article by Olia Lialina from 2020 concerning personal webpages and the ongoing history the World Wide Web: https://interfacecritique.net/book/olia-lialina-from-my-to-me/
#olialialina #indieweb #geocities #oldweb #worldwideweb #internethistory
site updates:
- removed unused CSS classes from the top navigation menu.
- added `:active` and `:focus` states to links.
- all links are now underlined. increases visual highlighting, while preserving the site's minimal design.
- also working on a print stylesheet, but this is challenging for edge cases like my mastodon server guide. `break-after: avoid` isn't working for headings.
I like this quote from The Boring Internet (about how a lot of it's still around, just overshadowed by the glitzy, extractive, corporate net, and we can still build on top of that foundation)
The boring internet isn't protected by innocence. It's protected by awkwardness.
also:
Every property that made these protocols feel old and uncool to you in 2014 is part of what's keeping them alive in 2026.
New Blogroll Post
“week-ish note - may 21 - delhi” by Simar
https://laguna-dream.github.io/writing/delhi.html?ref=blr.indiewebclub.org
New Blogroll Post
“"we are seeing each other"” by Simar
https://laguna-dream.github.io/writing/seeingsomeone.html?ref=blr.indiewebclub.org
Atmosphère ! Atmosphère ! Est-ce que j’expérimente ?
https://vincentbreton.fr/atmosphere-atmosphere-est-ce-que-jexperimente/
If you liked A Map of My Scars, Read by Your Fingertips, my feed URL is https://sightlessscribbles.com/feed.xml #RSS #IndieWeb
New by me: Improving My RSS Feed and Making It More Human Readable
https://www.kylereddoch.me/blog/improving-my-rss-feed-and-making-it-more-human-readable/
New Blogroll Post
“Weekly Notes 21/2026” by Thejesh GN
@thej: «I was in Chennai for the first half of the week. I couldn’t get a confirmed 1st or 2nd class train ticket. So I had to fly from Kochi. It’s such a waste of time and money. Chennai is hot, hotter than…»
#WeeklyNotes #WN-21 #blog #indieweb
https://thejeshgn.com/2026/05/22/weekly-notes-21-2026/?ref=blr.indiewebclub.org
two years ago i finally lost my mind dealing with wordpress and markdown for clients.
it forced me to write an entire website construction kit in php from scratch (kiki). it forced me to learn how to write a customizable markup language (bug). all so i would never have to touch wordpress and markdown ever again.
two years later, there are now dozens of kiki instances run by sysop-admins around the world. it's incredibly gratifying to see the web made less shitty by just elbow grease and diy learning. the instance admins are a blend of writers and coders who painstakingly find bugs, dig into the source, and inspectorgadget workarounds. improving it and patching it is a lifelong commitment, even if it doesn't pay the bills.
in the coming week is a feature that 0.01% of users will take advantage of, but i'm so happy to add it, to keep the dream of an indie web alive: kiki will now generate RSS 2.0 compliant podcast feeds. i thought regular old web RSS was bad. but RSS for podcasts is about 10x worse 😅
the attached screenshot is a new site i'm building with kiki 1.2.0, which autogenerated a podcast feed using metadata in each post.
this morning i'm updating a client's wordpress site, and for all my moaning about how bad RSS is, i can't believe how much worse wordpress is. 😆
Alguma Técnica de Comunicação ou Amadorismo?
Podcasts e audiovisuais produzidos pela esquerda, inclusive no contexto da universidade e cursos de comunicação, parecem organizar a publicação dos conteúdos curtos (de agitação) tudo em torno do Instagram.
Daí chamam para assistir na íntegra no YouTube.
Mas qual o drama de usar os "shorts" do próprio YouTube também pro trabalho de agitação?
Do ponto de vista tático, não faz sentido aproveitar a facilidade de acesso e ubiquidade (abre fácil em TVs, PCs, etc) do YouTube pra fazer essa agitação antes da propaganda?
Os caras não usam o que tá pronto e gente sonha que venham ajudar a construir as mídias livres e federadas.
A esquerda midiática não se ajuda! ![]()
Back for a celebratory one-off weekend Homebrew Website Cub London in-person, July 25th from 10am https://events.indieweb.org/2026/07/-hwc-london-celebrating-10-years-in-person-event--2a76zv5YisHX #indieweb
I really need to stop breaking my tooling I built to build my website so thoroughly that I can't publish anything for weeks. 😫 You'd think as a professional software developer I'd know better (I don't) 🙄 #indieweb
Content warning:Article: A Selfhosted Static Site Editor
Inspired by the way that Nekoweb's editor 'Nekode' works, I came up with a low-effort way to let my eldest get started with HTML and CSS editing, right from her browser, with the results selfhosted directly from the household NAS.
Read more: https://danq.me/2026/05/22/selfhosted-static-site-editor/
#article #caddy #css #geocities #hosting #html #indieweb #nas #smolweb #textEditors #webDesign #webDevelopment
It seems the weird POSSE mechanism on my website now works for the three content types: articles, photos and book reviews. All will be posted as normal content to this account, and a cronjob periodically checks for interactions, and adds them to the content on my website. Had to rewrite a significant portion because of some edge cases.
在 #IndieWeb Ring 上闲逛看到的,真好啊
Mastodon definitely seems like the most popular social network for Pagecord customers. I should probably make more of an effort to connect with people here.
Trouble is, I’m trying to reduce social media presence and prioritise (micro)blogging on my own site!
Either way feel free to AMA on here and I’ll definitely answer. And if you have any ideas or feedback for Pagecord, I’d love to hear it! For support, be sure to use email because you’ll reach me quicker.