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.

Welcome to Trivium, my new blog that aims to merge the best parts of a tumblelog and a “classic” blog full of editorial, essayish content (which is not that classic at all, but this will be the topic of a later post).

This is a fork of the excelent vore.website (source) RSS feed reader. You can find the source code for Mire on Codeberg. Any contributions are welcome!

Most websites today are built like commercial products by professionals and marketers, optimised to draw the largest audience, generate engagement and 'convert'. But there is also a smaller, less-visible web designed by regular people to simply to share their interests and hobbies with the world. A web that is unpolished, often quirky but often also fun, creative and interesting.

a manually curated collection of neat indie websites :)

The home of a developer community specialist.

Random thoughts & ideas.

The Smallweb Subway is an experimental project that seeks to connect communities online using webrings. The map above shows a subway style network of webrings! Each line represents a themed webring…

At work today someone asked today about how we recapture the magic of the early days of blogging. I have some ideas. First, I don’t think that magic is gone! Sure, a lot of people moved to so…

This is an open directory of personal sites and blogs, maintained entirely on GitHub. This project was created by Den Delimarsky in an effort to bring attention to little 🌱 digital gardens and ✨ personal corners of the internet that people maintain outside the "Big Tech" walled gardens.

Adding information to indieweb.txt about how the site author wants to be referenced on other sites.

While I haven’t had much time over the last year or so to spend actually writing code for DiSo, I’ve been really interested in the new direction Tantek has been taking things with his DiSo 2.0 concepts. Many of the early efforts in DiSo were focused just on how to move social data around the web (data formats, protocols, authentication mechanisms, etc). Tantek is taking a slightly different approach to this by first emphasizing the importance of data ownership. It’s not enough to simply pull in a copy of your content from social networks into your local repository. In order to truly own your data, the original should be on your site, and then copies pushed out to whatever social networks, with links pointing back to the original where appropriate. It may sound like a purely academic distinction, but it’s the difference between sharecropping and homesteading.

On the architecture of blogging

If you enjoyed the old web of the 90s and 00s; if you love tinkering with your personal website; or if you just like quirky, fun things on the internet, you will love this.

An essay on the decline & revival of the personal website.

Treat yourself to an awesome web address, a devastatingly gorgeous profile page, a stellar email address, and tons more

Guided by wondering “what would I say to my younger self starting a website?”, I started taking notes. Here they are:

Wholesome blogs minus the yucky bits of the modern web

A newly revived philosophy for publishing personal knowledge on the web

In the best tradition of blogging about blogging, today’s post is all about getting started with or getting back into blogging. Recently I have had lots of conversations with folk who would like to blog more, but don’t. Or who feel they *should* be blogging more often, but they haven’t actually managed to do so.

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.—…

Curated list of personal Mataroa blogs on any topic, by  mataroa.blog

Links — connections between ideas — are the magic system of the Internet. They power the open web, enriching online writing. Generative AI is the parasitic dark magic counterpart to the link. What makes the Internet the Internet is the ability to hyperlink. Without it, you’re in a walled garden, and those have an admission fee: your self, proxied by the record of your entire online life.*

Hyperlinks deserve more recognition in light of all the ways their value has been sidelined and denied. From deliberate corporate link suppression to link-shy site cultures on social media to the dysfunctional state of deteriorating search engines, the web has changed a lot over the years since the days of early link-based web logs, and a familiarity with the importance of links can no longer be taken for granted. It needs to be expressly advocated. To that end, I present a link compilation in praise of links.

For drafts of the Indie Microblogging book

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