Thank you to the 56 current users of #Gemcities ! The comments I get are always positive and I love that people are taking back their own voice! #geminiprotocol #smallweb #slowpint #indieweb
gemini://calvusrex.gemcities.com/gemlog/2026-05-29-gemlog.gmi

Looking for 3–5 people to help dogfood Verja, a community platform I'm building for small discussion spaces.

This isn't a public launch. I need real people to use it for a week or two and tell me where the friction is.

Minimum asks:

• Register and verify email
• Reply to the welcome thread
• Start one thread
• Tell me what was confusing, awkward, or broken

I'm interested in friction, not praise. Honest feedback is the goal.

#Verja #Dogfooding #IndieWeb #SmallWeb #CommunitySoftware

I've been building something.

It's called Urban Wilderness. Real documentation for people trying to opt out of systems that weren't built for them. Self-hosted infrastructure, skill bartering, solar in a rented apartment.

There are also logs. And a story unfolding in public.

First post is up. Free, no account required.

urbild.org

#urbanwilderness #selfhosted #privacytech #indieweb

New Blogroll Post

“Weekly Notes 22/2026” by Thejesh GN

@thej: «This Saturday, we drove to Palakkad to meet Pradeep and Dhanya. It was a short morning walk and breakfast meet. We met at the fort, walked around, and chit-chatted while having breakfast at…»

#WeeklyNotes #WN-22 #blog #indieweb

https://thejeshgn.com/2026/05/29/weekly-notes-22-2026/?ref=blr.indiewebclub.org

🚨 NEW: "Interview with TheEbonyGrove"!

Give some love to Ebony after reading this blog post.

🌷 Read it on my official website: https://aiyoku.xyz/theebonygrove/

#VTuber #BlackBloggers #Blogging #IndieWeb #Vwriter #VCreator #VRoidTuber #VChill #BlackVTuber #VArtist #VTuberEN #PNGTuber #LGBTuber #BlackskyGamers

Happy to participate! This should be a reply to your initial post.

Here's how my implementation works for receiving webmentions, BTW:

  1. Verifying the link: I parse HTML with JustHTML looking for the incoming link. If the source is JSON I traverse it recursively. If it's plain text I grep for the link.

  2. Extracting content: I start with a default h-entry (source URL, last-modified, backlink as content), and populate it from microformats.

  3. Rendering: I use mf2dom to render HTML from microformats. There's no sanitization, but I have a list of domains I trust, otherwise incoming mentions are private (visible only to me). I could sanitize the HTML or trim it, but I haven't had the need yet.

A question for solo founders:

What is the dumbest excuse you have ever given yourself for not shooting your products?

We will start: "I'll do it next month."

Reply with yours. No judgment.

#founder #smallbusiness #ecommerce #indieweb #DTC

Write? Write on the web? Have a website you control? Or not? You might want to join James’ writing Zoom tomorrow. Introvert? Camera off is fine. It’s about the words. https://events.indieweb.org/2026/05/homebrew-website-club-writing-edition-sQrofuFyGGLC Notes from prior #Writing events stashed on the #IndieWeb wiki https://indieweb.org/Category:Writing

We just posted a new update on Patreon exploring moderation here on indieweb.social! ☁️ 💙

https://www.patreon.com/posts/moderation-new-159548240

#IndieWeb #Moderation #Mastodon

✨At last, my blog, Komorebi Sunrise, is kind of operational!✨

I've just posted my May games summary if you're interested👇

There are other things you can explore too but don't be too harsh, it's the first time I code a website😅

(Let's see if this works🤞)

https://komorebisunrise.neocities.org/posts/2026-05-29-Games-I-Played-in-May-2026

#IndieWeb #Blogging #SmallWeb

I'm wondering if I might find a bunch of people here who scratch-build their webmention implementations... would be great to send test messages around and find out what works and what needs work...

Please look me up at https://khleedril.org/blog/2026-05-29--webmentions-posse.html

I look forward to hearing from you.

#indieweb #webmention #webmentions #blog #blogs #blogging

New Blogroll Post

“It's become lonelier to program” by Abhinav Tushar

«Full post on the site»

#Personal #Programming #blog #indieweb

https://lepisma.xyz/journal/2026/05/29/lonelier-to-program/index.html?ref=blr.indiewebclub.org

i haven't told anyone yet, but i recently ported the original jottit code base (that I wrote with Aaron Swartz back in 2007) to a similar, but more modern stack (flask+jinja2+SQLAlchemy). it now runs on https://jottit.pub.

it still needs a bit of work, but seeing jottit alive again after all these years was actually quite moving.

there is also something nice about retro software :)

#indieweb

Remembering Craig Andersen (born May 29), a true pioneer who built the definitive sanctuary for the White Lion online in the early 2000s.

To keep his flame burning and protect his vital research from "link rot," I am honored to preserve the complete kimbawlion.com archive on our webserver:
👉 http://kimbawlion.kimba.biz

The jungle is a little quieter without him, but his legacy lives on for future generations of researchers and fans alike.

#Kimba #AnimeHistory #IndieWeb #RetroAnime #JungleEmperor

Sto cercando di incorporare i miei post su Mastodon nell'html del mio sito tramite Mastofeed: quasi perfetto, credo, ma sembra che il codice generato dal servizio imponga un qualcosa in CSS impossibile da scavalcare dal mio style.css. Pazienza.

#HTML #IndieWeb #Fediverso #Mastodon #Mastofeed

And now this blog is available via Gemini. Because why not?

#indieweb #hacking

(https://b-ark.ca/8GyCee)

I don't suppose anybody on here might have any advice for how to get LaTeX (or psuedo-LaTeX) syntax to work on an 11ty site? I wanna be able to put the LaTeX into my Markdown documents. My current issue is that all the existing methods online convert the md first and the LaTeX second, leading to things like:

`a_n + a_{n+1}` getting converted to `a<em>n + a</em>{n+1}` before the LaTeX converter can get around to it.

Boosts appreciated!

#askFedi #11ty #eleventy #Latex #help #indieweb

New Blogroll Post

“Weeknote #31 [W26.21] - Experiments with L-theanine, transitioning to product management, and more cats” by Anik

«I started taking L-theanine tablets last week.»

#blog #indieweb

https://blog.anikthink.com/blog/weeknote-31-w2621/?ref=blr.indiewebclub.org

Can you all share blogs that do all kinds of link dumps and or fiction roundups in general? Both, actually? I love reading all kinds of link dumps, so give me all your link dump blogs/newsletter with an RSS feed! but I am also looking for more things such as https://buttondown.com/sff #IndieWeb #Blog #Blogs #Blogging #IndieWeb