I built something I've wanted to exist for years.
Wikipedia documents facts. HED documents what Wikipedia can't — what it actually felt like to live through something.
Leave a story. Find someone else's. Or just hit Random and see what comes up.
hedarchive.org
#HumanExperience #IndieWeb #Archive #Storytelling
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Riffing on an 88x31 web badge for my site over lunch...
#IndieWeb
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Riffing on an 88x31 web badge for my site over lunch...
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“I don’t think about you at all.” — Don Draper
If only it were that easy. Over the last year I’ve been reflecting on why negative, overly-personal complaints have affected me so much. I think it’s two things:
- I have never needed to grow thick skin. Over a 30+ year career, I’ve been lucky to get along with just about everyone I’ve worked with. I’ve also made a lot of friends in the Mac, iOS, and IndieWeb communities. Can’t really think of anyone being seriously upset with me before.
- I tend to fixate on things. So if I’m worried about something, I won’t be able to shake it for days or weeks. Negativity doesn’t get brushed off. It lingers for a long time and shapes my thinking on new situations I encounter.
Both of these get better with time. But neither is completely fixable without becoming a different person.
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Thank you to all the creators who have joined slowclap recently! If you’re one of them reply here with where you’re creating so I can boost / support! #indieweb #adfree #SupportIndependentMedia #selfhosted
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👀"I joined the IndieWeb, here's what I learned | Andros Fenollosa": en.andros.dev/blog/0b8e451...
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Found a website with a neat visitor counter, it shows a 3D globe and the visitors as emojis. I got freaked out because it showed my IRL name on my dot. Was it using an obscure Android or Samsung API? I was ready to do a full forensic study, hopped to my work machine to investigate, and immediately found that it wasn't my name, it was my ISP's location. There's a Mexico City borough with my name, I just don't live there.
Website in question: https://dustin.works/
#indieweb #smallweb
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Anybody using Pure Blog care to share their experience, likes, and/or dislikes about it?
https://pureblog.org/
#IndieWeb #SmolWeb #Blog #SelfHost
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The “blogging is dead” crowd is looking at the gold rush ending and mistaking it for a death. Some of us are just out here building something that lasts. 🌿 #SlowBlogging #IndieWeb
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the custom css people loved got a big upgrade: throw out the whole profile template and write your own full html page instead. sandboxed, so it's safe no matter what's in it.
cybersoda.blog
#indieweb #smallweb #geocities #neocities #webring #oldweb #nostalgia #buildinpublic
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I've been making my personal site since the last few weeks :)
It is still incomplete but I wanted to show it.
I'll keep adding new and cool stuffs to this every now and then
#webdev #indieweb
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I'm calling it. 2026 is the year of sustainable indie products.
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Pagecord blocks AI training bots by default (but not AI search engines) but you can now edit robots.txt yourself if you want (premium customers, that is).
Is this something you'll use? Keen to hear your use cases.
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Pagecord blocks AI training bots by default (but not AI search engines) but you can now edit robots.txt yourself if you want (premium customers, that is).
Is this something you'll use? Keen to hear your use cases.
https://blog.pagecord.com/blocking-robots-crawlers-and-opting-out-of-ai-training
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I love Bearblog but I keep finding deeply, deeply disturbing blogs through the Discover page.
Today I found this gem (not linking since I already reported it to Herman):
"Women must be made to submit, to fulfull their obligations to family and society, or rather the ones that don't are not real women; they're enemies to crush beneath our boots."
This is a person who also runs website in classic #indieweb styling, 88x31 buttons and all.
It's v weird seeing this shit in my online spaces!
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I've improved the support for rel=me in the Pagecord navigation and written up how Pagecord uses Microformats as well.
Gotta love the IndieWeb, don't let it die! #indieweb
https://blog.pagecord.com/supporting-the-indieweb-with-microformats-and-improved-identity-links
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📰 Hardcore IndieWeb offers a free, 100% independent website hosting service for $0.01 per day.
🔗 https://www.neatnik.net/hardcore-indieweb
#Tech #Dev
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I've improved the support for rel=me in the Pagecord navigation and written up how Pagecord uses Microformats as well.
Gotta love the IndieWeb, don't let it die! #indieweb
blog.pagecord.com/supporting-...
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