This is the nudge if you are looking for a sign to start a blog.

In this edition of Miscellanea, I wrote about choosing a domain & hosting for your future blog, and how the indieweb practices can help with discovery.

Plus, in the recommendations section: music by Areni Agbabian, a list of history books, a search engine for public domain images and an essay from Noemamag.

https://miscellanea.danielprindii.com/archive/start-blogging

#indieweb #rss #blogs #newsletters #books

@fasnix The examples at the end are telling, some people do still run Gopher (or, in my case, I adopted it this year), the bigger thing is seemingly Gemini, but Gemini and Gopher together are now both, alongside Finger and other protocols, associated with the whole #smolweb movement. And then there's #indieweb. Although I've been using the Internet since 2004, only now I've installed a RSS reader to point to the sites on bearblog.dev, bubbles.town etc., various blogs posted on Hacker News and Lobsters... Admittedly, I only just became a tech nerd. :) But I've seen on Bearblog and Bubbles plenty of warm-blooded personal pages, like on NeoCities. Will absolutely all of these remain niche? I don't know. Gemini is the one semi-"dark" web that is definitely the friendliest towards "normies".

A survey for users and creators of independent web:

Do you have a preference between a guestbook and a comment section for different pages of website?

#web #indieweb

Guestbook
Comment section
Both

Hi, Iโ€™m yarmuts. First of all a person, then an internet enthusiast.

I like GNU/Linux, code, the old internet, making websites by hand, space, plants, ugly drawings and old things that still work. I write words, Iโ€™m learning to write code, and I have opinions about most of it.

So I made myself a den: a website, written by hand, where I pin up what I find, what I think and what makes me mad. Take a look.

https://yarmuts.website/

#introduction #indieweb

I donโ€™t think Iโ€™ve shared, but these and bunch of other things (included my posts to Mastadon) all get posted in my stream. #indieweb

https://jacobrcampbell.com/stream/

๐Ÿ‘‹ Welcome our newest writer, Buretto to the moon! Their avatar emoji is ๐Ÿ„๐Ÿพโ€โ™‚๏ธ.

View profile: https://moon-zine.net/profile/Buretto to the moon
#writingcommunity #indieweb #avatar

Tech news without the noise: https://hax0r.zip

One page with the front pages of Hacker News, Lobsters and Slashdot, plus Linux and BSD news, self-hosting, language weeklies, new repos, small personal blogs and a good handful of Lemmy communities. It refreshes through the day.

No JavaScript, no trackers, no ads. If you'd rather read it in your feed reader, there's an Atom feed.

#Tech #SmallWeb #SelfHosted #Linux #BSD #OpenSource #IndieWeb #RSS #Fediverse

Added a little badge to the footer of my #blog :)

#IndieWeb

New homepage is up. Design's still a work in progress, but I don't have time for perfect. Close enough, and a cigar!

<https://piewpiew.se/>

#IndieWeb #PersonalWebsite #Hugo #StaticSite #SmallWeb #RetroComputing #BBS #microblog

You still have two weeks to submit your website to the second issue of the Internet Phone Book, a publication for "exploring the vast poetic web, featuring essays, musings and a directory with the personal websites".

https://internetphonebook.net/

https://tally.so/r/3EEZzL

#InternetPhoneBook #SmallWeb #IndieWeb #PersonalWebsite

#Webmention for #Craft CMS 1.6.0 is out! ๐ŸŽ‰

Ready for @craftcms 5.12 and its MCP server: the Webmention Switch is now a real boolean, bulk resaves no longer re-send webmentions, and multi-domain sites get their mentions on the right entry.

github.com/matthiasott/webmention/releases/tag/v1.6.0

If you're tired of algorithms deciding who sees your blog: I just launched Webnetz ๐Ÿš€

A lightweight, tracking-free recommendation widget designed to connect independent websites and share reach.

๐ŸŒ Free & privacy-first
๐Ÿ›ก๏ธ Manually curated
โšก Under 5 kB

Check it out: https://webnetz.t-w.us?lang=en

#IndieWeb #WebDev #Blogging #OpenWeb #SelfHosted

made a little site that collects the weird, wonderful corners of the web. one click and you're somewhere strange. no ads, no accounts.

https://culdesac.site

#indieweb #smallweb #weirdweb

Fresh from the homelab: The small things I love

Eight small things I built and love: bimb.ooo for pastes and tiny sites, tuno.place notes, pupu.page for writing, tedy.science sums, phlog.space for wrecked photos, and three ravens that carry email: RavenMail forms, theraven.my and the new theraven.social. All free, no ads.

https://pablomurad.com/the-small-things-i-love/

#projects #smallweb #indieweb #PersonalWeb

pmurad.music has been around for a while, and youโ€™re all invited to come listen to some music in a quiet little village where the rain falls softly. Find a cozy spot and stay as long as you like. ๐ŸŒง๏ธ๐ŸŽง

https://pmurad.music/

#Music #Rain #SmallWeb #IndieWeb

i got tired of referencing a bunch of different sites and pinned discord messages for k-pop music show info, so i compiled the bits i cared about into a chart on my website so i can look at that instead lol. thereโ€™s broadcast info for each of the seven weekly music shows with links for livestreaming, social media, and voting.

maybe someone else will find this useful too? :blobShrug:

itโ€™s a bit clunky (moreso on mobile) but iโ€™m over messing with it for now lol

https://frenziedstars.neocities.org/blog/kpop-music-show-guide

#KPop #IndieWeb

๐Ÿ‘‹ Welcome our newest writer, Paulm5759! Their avatar emoji is ๐Ÿคž๐Ÿฟ.

View profile: https://moon-zine.net/profile/Paulm5759
#writingcommunity #indieweb #avatar