Today's Write Now interview features Ariel Vanece, author of DAY SHIFT, NIGHT SHIFT.
https://justincox.com/blog/2026/10/write-now-with-ariel-vanece/
#IndieWeb #Blogging #Interview
Content warning:Repost: .well-known/slashpages
Matthias Pfefferle proposes an OPML-based .well-known/slashpages in a similar vein to my own .well-known/feeds. I love it, and I've implemented it right here on DanQ.me!
Read more: https://danq.me/2026/10/28/well-known-slashpages/
I ♥ RSS: a directory of people who love RSS
🔸 Put the badge on your homepage and submit your URL
🔸 The link back is verified and your RSS 2.0 feed is found
🔸 You're listed — and added to one OPML file any reader can subscribe to in a single action
112 members so far, re-checked every six days. No accounts, no analytics, no cookies.
I made a few changes to how I connect to the social silo feedback on my posts. Check it out if that's your jam.
https://michaelharley.net/posts/2026/10/28/webmention-tweak-removing-interactions-from-social-sites/
Streaming a laid-back Wednesday morning ramble. Take a listen at https://carlvsreality.com/stream/archive/?episode=2026-10-28-1107 #IndieWeb #LiveStream
Tell me what company you keep, and I'll tell you what you are.
-- Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote II
For more quotes, see https://lzon.ca/quotes.
#IndieWeb #PersonalWeb #Blog #Quotes
I've updated my article on platform power and the digital economy: "Big-Tech Ecosystem, Social-Mass-Media vs. the People & Regulators."
Exploring architectural autonomy, the mechanics of tracking, and user choice in a closed ecosystem.
Read the full piece here: @spaceedge.com
https://spaceedge.com/#big-tech-ecosystem
@readbeanicecream Please explain, how does this work? a community bulletin board of indie RSS feeds sounds great but how do I see beyond your 31 favourites - eg can outsiders view the history section? Looking this up because of the wonderful new website & RSS feed from @kentlew
Look at the living tapestry our writers and readers are weaving underneath the moon 🌑✨
👨🏻❤️💋👨🏽 👩🏼 💌 🇨🇿 🤞🏿 🦹🏿♀️ 🇦🇿 🦕
Explore the contributor avatar mosaic or claim your emblem to join:
👉 https://moon-zine.net/mosaic/users
Here is the emoji trophy case for #MSTurley:
🇬🇼 👨🏻🚀 🤹🏻♀️ 🤽🏼♀️ 🍶 👩⚕️ 🤏🏾 🦔 👩🏿🤝👩🏽 ⏪
Come check out their stories:
👉 https://moon-zine.net/profile/M.S.Turley
RE: https://mastodon.online/@digital_garden/117515234635821403
The next big thing I want to do with my digital garden is start really documenting and posting about all the side projects that I've done over the years.
Now it's a little awkard because there is about a 50/50 split between things I worked on tirelessly from scratch and things I....you know....vibe coded.
And about an 80/20 split between things that went nowhere and things that are "real" or "finished" or that "do something".
Anyways, the whole thing was kicked off by a bit of tech in my CMS to let me automatically create stubs for things I mention in a node but don't exist, plus some filtering so that those empty nodes don't get posts like these.
Phineas Gage was a 19th century American man who survived an iron rod piercing his skull.
Want to know more? Click here for details:
https://lzon.ca/trivia/000007/
Meet bimbooo! 🐘
It started as a tiny pastebin, but I got a little carried away, hehe.
Now you can share snippets, write Markdown pages, or even build your own little HTML website with a personal subdomain.
It's free, a bit weird, and very much a labor of love. No big ambitions, just another small corner of the internet.
Come say hello: https://bimb.ooo
#SmallWeb #IndieWeb #WebDev #FreeWeb
Pulled from the notebook: Twenty-nine years of things nobody asked for
The first program I ever wrote had one button. You clicked it and the whole window changed color. That was the entire feature list. I made it in Delphi, from a book I bought at Avalon, the old bookstore in my town, after a long fight with my mom. It was a very didactic book. That was 1997, and I have been writing…
https://pablomurad.com/twenty-nine-years-of-things-nobody-asked-for/
#projects #retro #indieweb #smallweb
A shout-out to the developers behind https://columnly.social! especially @dansup ❤️
It’s great to see people building and contributing to the Fediverse. Every independent project adds to the diversity of our social web and reminds us that the internet can be shaped by communities, creativity, and collaboration; not just big corporations.
Thank you to everyone who puts their time and skills into building a more open social web. Your work matters!
#Mastodon #Fediverse #OpenSource #IndieWeb #FOSS
I've read posts where, by the time I finished, I realized how much I enjoyed getting into the weeds with someone about whatever the hell they felt like writing about.
Was I aware of this one before?
https://bubbles.town
🍜 Bubbles Makes the Web Interesting Again https://widdershins.verja.net/bubbles-makes-the-web-interesting-again/
There comes forever something between us and what we deem our happiness.
-- Lord Byron, Sardanapalus I
For more quotes, see https://lzon.ca/quotes.
#IndieWeb #PersonalWeb #Blog #Quotes
more elaboration:
Sometimes when I look at the #IndieWeb I see some kind of emulation of the corporate web (strong identity: exposing first name last name, selfie profile pic, linking to everything posted under that identity online).
I don't see strong identity as a feature that's needed by the non-corporate web because I am (and possibly no one else) is in the business of collecting and selling data.
Even if others acknowledge that isn't the goal, it seems like a vestige of 'advertiser-platform culture' where it was.
So I look at all the tools mentioned here: https://brennan.day/the-indieweb-now-has-genai-and-claude-built-in-what-do-we-do/
And I think: none of this is necessary. I will add some IndieWeb slash pages to my site, but that's just about it.