I think once you have some people you like and admire signed up, and you see how easy and fun it is to applaud them for making the stuff they’re already making, subscribing will be an easy decision.

Slowclap is for the #indieweb, for niche communities to support each other. It’s designed so it can be easy, fun, and affordable make it more lucrative to build great stuff in public than it is to release ad infested slop.

I don’t want anyone spending a dime until they know it’s not being wasted!

I had missed that mastodon.cloud is shutting down. While its active user base has been shrinking, it still has a lot of total users and millions of posts. There’s still no way to migrate posts between Mastodon servers. (Mastodon posts → Micro.blog and some other fediverse servers works.)

Has Linux actually captured 10% of the desktop marketshare? Probably not, but that doesn't mean that adoption isn't growing.

https://hisvirusness.com/the-year-is-here

#linux #marketshare #steam #steamos #steamdeck #steammachine #proton #valve #opensource #foss #writing #opinion #indieweb #smallweb

I love bumping into super-old websites that just keep running.

Case in point:

https://www.ryanbrill.com/

#web #openweb #indieweb

“Treat the agent as an operator of primitives you understand and could fall back to, not as a replacement for understanding them. Keep the formats open and the exit cheap”

Thoughtful post by @simoncarstensen

Can you be indie with an LLM?
https://simonbc.com/can-you-be-indie-with-an-llm

#indieweb #AI

Just discovered that my HTML experimenting broke my newsletter form, so if you followed via email in the past 24 hours, you were never subscribed, so go here to follow me via email. https://newsletter.sightlessscribbles.com/ #WebDev #Email #Newsletter #IndieWeb

How I make my blog posts more resilient https://michaelharley.net/posts/2026/08/05/how-i-make-my-blog-posts-more-resilient/ #Blaugust #Blaugust2026 #Blogging #IndieWeb

How I make my blog posts more resilient

I imported a bunch of old posts from 2012-2019 and here are some lessons learned about post resilience.

https://michaelharley.net/posts/2026/08/05/how-i-make-my-blog-posts-more-resilient/

#Blaugust #Blaugust2026 #Blogging #IndieWeb

Small data point from running AI heavily:

Claude Max + ChatGPT Pro at €213/mo is returning roughly 27.5x in API-equivalent value for me.

Not because I chat more, but because I treat it as infrastructure for planning, coding, ops, writing, and debugging.

#IndieDev #MacApps #LocalFirst #IndieWeb

Marre du web actuel gouverné par les GAFAM ? Le web bricolé et kitsch vous manque ? Et si c’était possible d’avoir à nouveau un blog perso ? Quelques réflexions et pistes d’actions. #indieweb justin.missaghiehponcet.eu/palimpseste/...

Marre du web actuel gouverné par les GAFAM ? Le web bricolé et kitsch vous manque ? Et si c’était possible d’avoir à nouveau un blog perso ?

Quelques réflexions et pistes d’actions.

#indieweb

https://justin.missaghiehponcet.eu/palimpseste/20260805.html

TURN server finally working everywhere!🥳 Also removed any STUN servers since all I need is ExpressTURN server. If you have any suggestions, let me know.

#blog #status #personalweb #personalwebsite #indieweb #web #webdev #webdesign #WencesByte

Search that doesn't get slower as the archive grows.

The last 500 posts load the moment the search page opens. Everything older loads only once you actually type a query -- so searching last week's posts never waits on a decade of them.

"exact phrases", -exclusions, diacritics-insensitive -- folded the same way on both ends.

No external search service. No tracking.

#blogsh #Ruby #JavaScript #IndieWeb #SelfHosted

This was one of my early inspirations on the web, and I’m amazed it’s still online today tbh. castlearcana.com Not entirely sure what it is/was for or if it’s just someone’s random project, but I love the style and the Web 1.0 aspects of it. More like this please! #IndieWeb #OldWeb #OldWebsites
Simple hashtag proposal for dates: datetags for the #indieweb In summary by example: * #2026_08_04 ISO8601 YYYY_MM_DD date of this post * #2026_216 ISO8601 YYYY_DDD ordinal date of this post * #2026_08 ISO8601 YYYY_MM month of this post Many of us posting on the indieweb often post about […]

This was one of my early inspirations on the web, and I’m amazed it’s still online today tbh.

https://castlearcana.com/

Not entirely sure what it is/was for or if it’s just someone’s random project, but I love the style and the Web 1.0 aspects of it.

More like this please!

#IndieWeb #Web1 #OldWeb #OldWebsites

Simple hashtag proposal for dates: datetags for the #indieweb

In summary by example:
* #2026_08_04 ISO8601 YYYY_MM_DD date of this post
* #2026_216 ISO8601 YYYY_DDD ordinal date of this post
* #2026_08 ISO8601 YYYY_MM month of this post

Many of us posting on the indieweb often post about things in the past. Photos, events, or sometimes throwback posts. Hashtags communicate and aggregate what posts are about. Posts about the past are usually about a specific date in the past, or sometimes an entire month. Thus it makes sense to use hashtags for those dates and months.

I have been hashtagging such posts about the past for several years, and with some iteration have developed a convention that works for international readability, and is linked and indexed in #federated #hashtag systems like #ActivityPub (#Mastodon etc.).

Examples of posts 10 years ago and this past week that use datetags:
* https://tantek.com/2016/153/t4/june — monthtag and datetag
* https://tantek.com/2026/215/t1/watched-odyssey-metreon-70mm-imax — normal and ordinal ISO8601 dates.

Additional possibilities to explore:
* yeartags — hashtags for entire years
* timetags — hashtags for specific times, undated/floating times

After several web searches I didn’t find any prior proposals for hashtags for dates or times. Hopefully by hashtagging this post, future web searches will find this proposal.

Have you hashtagged your posts with dates or times? Share your examples!

This is post 11 of #100PostsOfIndieWeb. #100Posts
#dateTag #dateTags #monthTag #monthTags #yearTag #yearTags #timeTag #timeTags
#August #Blaugust #Blaugust2026

https://tantek.com/2026/214/t2/watch-posts-movie-tv-emoji
→ 🔮
#indieweb #2026_08_04 #2026_216 #2026_08 #federated #hashtag #ActivityPub #100PostsOfIndieWeb #100Posts #dateTag #dateTags #monthTag #monthTags #yearTag #yearTags #timeTag #timeTags #August #Blaugust #Blaugust2026

Simple hashtag proposal for dates: datetags for the #indieweb

In summary by example:
* #2026_08_04 ISO8601 YYYY_MM_DD date of this post
* #2026_216 ISO8601 YYYY_DDD ordinal date of this post
* #2026_08 ISO8601 YYYY_MM month of this post

Many of us posting on the indieweb often post about things in the past. Photos, events, or sometimes throwback posts. Hashtags communicate and aggregate what posts are about. Posts about the past are usually about a specific date in the past, or sometimes an entire month. Thus it makes sense to use hashtags for those dates and months.

I have been hashtagging such posts about the past for several years, and with some iteration have developed a convention that works for international readability, and is linked and indexed in #federated #hashtag systems like #ActivityPub (#Mastodon etc.).

Examples of posts 10 years ago and this past week that use datetags:
* https://tantek.com/2016/153/t4/june — monthtag and datetag
* https://tantek.com/2026/215/t1/watched-odyssey-metreon-70mm-imax — normal and ordinal ISO8601 dates.

Additional possibilities to explore:
* yeartags — hashtags for entire years
* timetags — hashtags for specific times, undated/floating times

After several web searches I didn’t find any prior proposals for hashtags for dates or times. Hopefully by hashtagging this post, future web searches will find this proposal.

Have you hashtagged your posts with dates or times? Share your examples!

This is post 11 of #100PostsOfIndieWeb. #100Posts
#dateTag #dateTags #monthTag #monthTags #yearTag #yearTags #timeTag #timeTags
#August #Blaugust #Blaugust2026

https://tantek.com/2026/214/t2/watch-posts-movie-tv-emoji
→ 🔮

I've been holding onto posting this for a handful of weeks and have more examples of the “why” I think this, but I don't know if the is a can or worms being opened or not…

The Guideline of Two Things Not to Discuss is Now Three -
https://vanderwal.net/random/entrysel.php?blog=2158

#indieweb #blaugust

Field note from the edge of the feed:

Somewhere online, a person is lovingly maintaining a museum of obsolete sounds, a map of unusual benches, or a radio station with seven listeners.

Web Wander’s job is to introduce you.

https://bigo.ooo/web-wander/

#OpenWeb #IndieWeb #WebDiscovery