Indieweb

2024 is the year of the indie web and the blog. Just like 2023 was. And 2022. And 2021. In fact, how far can we stretch back? Oh you're blogging again? Cute. WELCOME BACK MOTHERFUCKERS.—…

Many yearn for the “good old days” of the web. We could have those good old days back — or something even better — and if anything, it would be easier now than it ever was.

A list of all my slash pages

A guide to common pages you can add to your website

Why did I make an intentionally blank page on this website? Make a /blank page. Intentionally. Bring to the internet your own little slice of nothin

Own your web persona… Break free of onerous platforms, fully control your content, and connect directly with your audience Use future-proof standard web protocols for a centralized profile with status updates and options for your audience to follow you without the middle-man.

introduction If you surf the modern "small web" to any extent you've encountered 88x31 buttons - a staple of late 90s and early 2000's websites under…

This is a set of three core commitments derived from the practical experiences of the Yesterweb staff after two years of community organization. They concentrate what we have learned and how we operate into a general template that can be applied to any community at a foundational level. We propose these commitments as the basis of unity for those individuals or groups who wish to move in the same direction, while allowing a diversity of focus, interests, and missions.

Personal knowledge wiki

A list is a feature on personal sites, often a page (not a post), for collections of specific kinds of posts or things that may not need separate posts, and distinct from a listicle.

How to pull interactions from social media platforms like Twitter back to your own site, using Webmentions, webmention.io and Bridgy.

This is a webmention-receiver server. It allows anyone to receive notifications when someone links to their website via webmentions, without needing to create an account. To use it, add this HTML to the head section of the pages you want to receive mentions for: link href="https://webmention.wesleyac.com/example.com/receiver" rel="webmention" Replacing example.com with the domain your website is on.

Neocities imposes limitations on what you can host and serve. For one, your files may only be HTML, images, markdown, javascript, or CSS. That means no PHP or Rails or databases or anything like that.

A community of like-minded website hobbyists and professionals helping to make the web fruitful and bountiful again

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IndieNews

Free standard components for building your website.

Collection of tutorials on webmentions including the basics — you can get up and running with only two lines of HTML! — using microformats to enrich your mentions; adding a webmention form; and parsing, displaying, and updating them with Eleventy, Netlify, and Bridgy.

This article will explain how the blog is organized at a technical level, and show how I implemented various IndieWeb features. Table of Contents: Motivation Structure and Deployment Static search index Running scripts via GitHub Actions Social media syndication and the “shortform” section Links to syndicated versions at the end of each post Warning for a too-long first paragraph Triggering this workflow automatically after deployment Blogroll (the “What I’m Reading” page) Chrome extension Webmentions and referencing external discussion threads Bridgy Hacker News backlinks Outgoing webmentions DOIs Dead link checker Motivation Earlier this year I migrated this blog off Wordpress to the Hugo static site generator.

Why you should use microformats and some examples of how they work.

My work on Indie Aisle: made for indie creators, based on indie web principles.

Remember the old 80x15 badges we used to put on our websites? I just updated our IndieWebCamp badge with the new logo! You can use this on your own site by copying the HTML below! Feel free to download the image and host it yourself too.

Well, sheesh. I opened a little can of worms when sharing Miriam's "Am I on the IndieWeb yet?" with a short post bemoaning my own trouble getting on the

How to use iOS Shortcuts for posting to blogs via micropub