THURSDAY! Join us to explore HTML and CSS and all the related tech that makes #FrontEnd web-making an adventure. Meeting on Zoom, camera-optional. https://events.indieweb.org/2026/10/front-end-study-hall-059-qptWheHCg0Pt #IndieWeb

Hey #Romance writers! โœ๏ธ

Be the first to write for Issue #3! Join our indie web zine and write a story inspired by 5 emojis.

Write here: https://moon-zine.net/write/genre/romance
#writingcommunity #Romance #indieweb

The essence of philosophy is that one should so live that their happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.
-- Epictetus
For more quotes, see https://lzon.ca/quotes.
#IndieWeb #PersonalWeb #Blog #Quotes

i missed the old internet, so i built a 1996 chat room.
not servers. not channels. a room. you walk in, strangers are mid-conversation about a tape deck, somebody says "a/s/l" unironically.
no account, no app, no algorithm. just pick a screen name and go. Late Night is best after eleven.
https://lolchat.rip

#SmallWeb #RetroComputing #90sNostalgia #IndieWeb

Look at the living tapestry our writers and readers are weaving underneath the moon ๐ŸŒ‘โœจ

๐Ÿง๐Ÿพ ๐Ÿ’๐Ÿพโ€โ™‚๏ธ ๐ŸŒœ ๐Ÿ’จ ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ฐ ๐Ÿฆน๐Ÿฟโ€โ™€๏ธ ๐Ÿฅž ๐Ÿง‘๐Ÿฟโ€๐Ÿš’

Explore the contributor avatar mosaic or claim your emblem to join:
๐Ÿ‘‰ https://moon-zine.net/mosaic/users

#writingcommunity #indieweb #tapestry

This week I read:

A blog about things I read this week, week is a loosely defined term and may include the last several days beyond this week itself.

There's some chip tune, art and book reccomendations.

https://rye.wentcloud.com/tidbits/reflection-on-source/

#TWIR #ThisWeekIread #Blog #indieweb #webdev

1. Imported a Toot from years ago and it worked.

2. Fixed a hidden RSS glitch of XML. Everything should be working now.

3. Donโ€™t hammer me now, Hurt!

#blog #design #indieweb

O ecossistema que ninguรฉm viu

visรฃo de como os produtos ExpoStacker se conectam

https://expostacker.com.br

#buildinpublic #indieweb

How the "now playing" banner on my website works ๐ŸŽง
โ–ถ Apple Music, played through Longplay on Mac, iPad & iPhone
โ†ณ scrobbled to Last.fm by Longplay itself; NepTunes (Mac menu bar) and QuietScrob (iPhone, in the background) catch everything else
โ†ณ a Python collector in Docker on a Mac mini polls user.getRecentTracks every 30 s and writes a static JSON
โ†ณ cover art is copied locally; artist origin, genres and a Wikipedia link come from Wikidata via SPARQL (MusicBrainz ID), iTunes Search as a cover fallback, all cached 30 days
โ†ณ nginx serves it behind a Cloudflare Tunnel: no open port at home
โ†ณ vanilla JS fetches the JSON every 30 s and pauses when the tab is hidden
Zero third-party requests from visitors (strict CSP), zero framework, zero build step. Bonus: the same Last.fm history gives my photos a soundtrack.
Live: https://patrickostertag.ch
Behind the scenes (in French): https://patrickostertag.ch/coulisses.html
#LastFM #AppleMusic #SelfHosting #Docker #Python #JavaScript #Wikidata #Wikipedia #IndieWeb #Scrobbling #Macmini @longplay

In the latest Connected Places fediverse news, this improvement in Mastodon 4.7 stood out to me:

Mastodon 4.7.0 can now recognise a remote account that changes its handle by using its underlying ActivityPub identifier. This does not mean Mastodonโ€™s own users can change their handles yet, but it means that Mastodon can better work with software where that is already possible.

Quite a big deal. In practice, might rarely pay off because an id URL is probably going to be tied to the domain name, but still a welcome step forward.

What are some cool web-dev groups that are on the fediverse?

Boosts and recs welcomed.

#indieweb #foss
#webdev

remember chat rooms?

not servers. not channels. a room. you walk in, strangers are mid-conversation about a tape deck, somebody says "a/s/l" unironically.
built one. https://lolchat.rip

no account, no app, no algorithm. pick a name and go.

#RetroComputing #90sNostalgia #IndieWeb #OldWeb

It turns out that I left my WebMentions off after my debugging session the other day.

I was so confused when they stopped showing up in the comments section. I thought a change had broken something. But no, it was me. I am a silly billy.

Um bug real que virou fix

debugging real do ecossistema โ€” bug encontrado, fix, verificado

https://expostacker.com.br

#buildinpublic #indieweb

Now that @pixelfed has officially become the worse form of slop.

What would you do if Mastodon or any other Fediverse project, that you actively use, follows Pixelfed and becomes #SlopWare?

This time it was an easy choce for me, I never used Pixelfed, partially because @dansup is a horrible person with horrible intentions and a horrible work ethic.

Anyways, I just hope that the majority of you don't tell me that you will act like sheep and keep using that piece of software.

Please boost to get more answers.

#Software #Decentralization #Decentralisation #IndieWeb #SmallWeb #AI #Slop #Claude #ChatGPT #Gemini #LLMs

I would stop using it, I would delete my account
I don't care, if it works I would keep using it

Decided to try out a new font stack on the website, just to see how the pants fit. As much as I love JetBrains Mono as a general preference (if client has it installed, of course), it can feel a bit... too clean.

#webdev #fonts #css #indieweb #smallweb