Is the Juice Worth the Squeeze? | đź”— https://brennan.day/is-the-juice-worth-the-squeeze/
#PersonalEssay #Philosophy #Values #IndieWeb #Mortality #Purpose
RE: https://mastodon.berlin/@mrc/116488163472064941
Holy shit. While I was revisiting the idea of of automatically syncing my activities from Strava's walled garden to my own website, I noticed they just raised the wall quite a bit: from now on, only Strava users with subscription can use the API to access their own data!
https://communityhub.strava.com/insider-journal-9/an-update-to-our-developer-program-13428
Time to plan my exit from their platform I guess. And fuck you Strava!
🇬🇧 Thank you to @devconf for giving me the unique chance to speak about #Madblog, #ActivityPub, #Indieweb and federated blogging in front of an Italian audience.
Thank you to all the amazing speakers who brought their own experiences and perspectives on topics such as open-source, IT governance, democratization of software and building European alternatives.
Thank you to the organizers to make sure that the event was a success, and to the university of Pavia for hosting us.
See you next time!
🇮🇹 Grazie a #DevConf per avermi concesso l’opportunità unica di parlare di Madblog, ActivityPub, Indieweb e blogging federato di fronte a un pubblico italiano.
Grazie a tutti i meravigliosi relatori che hanno portato le loro preziose esperienze e prospettive su temi quali open-source, IT governance, democratizzazione del software e sviluppo di alternative europee.
Grazie a tutti gli organizzatori che hanno reso quest’evento un successo, e all’università di Pavia per averci ospitato.
Alla prossima!
I spent 20 minutes building a puzzle game, and it accidentally broke my brain. 🧠💥
Chromatic Grid is a 5x5 board. Your goal: make it entirely grey.
The catch: clicking a square also cycles the 4 squares touching it. It's pure "Rubik's Cube" style chaos management.
No apps, no ads, no tracking. Just a single HTML file.
Play it here:
https://chromaticgrid.neocities.org/
Most useful takeaway: free AI image-to-video tools are best for turning a still image into a short motion clip without much setup. I pulled together options worth testing first if you want quick results over heavy editing. https://toolstackscout.com/ai-tools/ai-image-to-video-generator-free/ #AI #ImageToVideo #IndieWeb
This is a throwaway test post created by Emma's Spike 3 (Ghost Admin API + Keychain validation). It will be published briefly and then deleted. Safe to ignore/delete if you see it.
https://justincox.com/blog/2026/07/emma-spike-3-test-post-delete-me-1783562388/
#IndieWeb #Blogging
I have reached the dangerous stage of a side project where it works on my machine, has a README, and therefore must be inflicted on the public.
Elsewhere is a small POSSE tool for static sites: write on your own website, then render platform-specific posts for Mastodon, Bluesky, etc.
Your website is the home. Platforms are edges.
Today we’re working on stability improvements.
Our Cloudflare constraints have become a blessing in disguise, pushing us to refactor, simplify, and keep the system optimized.
Better architecture, reliability, and scaling. Good constraints make better systems. ✨
#BuildInPublic #IndieWeb #SmallWeb #FediDev #Mastodon #OpenSource #WebDev #Cloudflare #DevOps #Backend #Infrastructure #Refactor #Performance #Reliability #Scalability #Engineering
I was in conversation with a person that blogs on Facebook. When I said I write on my own website, she was endlessly baffled as to how I have readers. I Explained my RSS fee gets submitted to directories, and people share my stuff in forums and indie social media and she just could not comprehend it. Since my audience is not a built in audience with an algorithm, she doesn't understand how I can maintain an audience. She kept asking me, if there's no algorithm, how do people find out about you and keep up with what you do? I explained that I have a mailing list for the folks that don't use RSS. She asked me how I monetize my content. I said, for the things that's on my website, I don't aggressively monetize it. I ask for donations if people like it. But your work is open for everybody to read it? She asked.
I explained that the reason why I keep my work open access is so that everybody that's in non-privileged countries could access it and read my stuff.
I'm sorely convinced that the Internet has ruined itself.
found.as profile pages published after today support IndieAuth out-of-the-box, with profile and email scopes handled natively.
So #indieauth much #indieweb
What should come next?
I *think* I've found a bug in the way #Lemmy sends certain #WebMentions.
https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/6605
Anyone else experiencing this?
Snapshot of my blog’s reactions by week
I love getting likes, shares, and all that. I also enjoy charting things. Thus, I charted some data from my fediverse instance that is also a blog.
As well as being a bit of the fediverse, this account is also a single-user #WordPress blog. It receives ActivityPub likes, replies, and boosts, WebMentions, pingbacks, trackbacks, pings, and local comments.
The data for the chart is updated once a day and does not show the current week. That’s to stop the last data point looking low and to stop me obsessing over my reaction count while still letting me view nicely formatted data.
You can see the live chart on my blog. Today (8th July) it will look exactly the same. It will remain fairly similar until Monday morning. The chart uses Google Charts because I don’t like to reinvent the square wheel and I’m not that good at JavaScript to roll my own. Feel free to suggest open source libraries that can do this to a similar standard.
To My Readers: What Do You Want To See More Of? | đź”— https://brennan.day/to-my-readers-what-do-you-want-to-see-more-of/
“Treat every platform as temporary, because it is. Archive out of love—for the things we’ve made, the conversations we’ve had, the small, stubborn act of leaving a mark.”
zeldman.com/2026/07/06/m... #OpenWeb #StateOfTheWeb #IndieWeb
Jeffrey Zeldman Presents - Mem...
“Treat every platform as temporary, because it is. Archive out of love—for the things we’ve made, the conversations we’ve had, the small, stubborn act of leaving a mark.”
https://zeldman.com/2026/07/06/memories-cant-wait-or-how-i-learned-to-keep-worrying-about-the-web/ #OpenWeb #StateOfTheWeb #IndieWeb