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.

IndieNews

An exclusive membership for web pages presenting themselves in no more than 250kb.

See what’s growing in the /now Garden

Developers, it’s time for you to choose a side: will you help rid the web of privacy-invading tracking or be complicit in it? What can I do? Remove third-party scripts from Google, Facebook, etc.

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

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.

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.

A collection of links for websites and services that I find useful.

Ruben's list of blog, news, and video subscriptions with feeds you can subscribe to as well!

Visions for more intimate social spaces on the internet — creative and cozy environments, with real friends, doing things that make us feel good — mapping vibes & setting intentions for our role in the small-scale socialverse

The personal site of designer Naz Hamid.

Mac Open Web - A collection of open and indie Mac, iOS, and web apps that help promote the open web.

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.

A vision for the "small web", small software, and small architectures.

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How to use iOS Shortcuts for posting to blogs via micropub

Personal website manifestos. I’ve been meaning to write some kind of Important Thinkpiece™ on the glory days of the early internet, but every time I sit down to do it, I find another, better piece that someone else has already written. So for now, here’s a collection of articles that to some degree answer the question “Why have a personal website?” with “Because it’s fun, and the internet used to be fun.”

The modern web is literally Satan and will probably eat your first-born child if we don't do anything about it, and quick! (had to increase the hyperbolism from the other websites; interestingly, the NoJS Club, which until now has arguably been the most radical of *.clubs, does not have much hyperbole, which really is a shame

A friendly ring of cool websites.

Thinking about how we can make computing better.

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