Digital gardens are note systems (usually published ones although some people talk about private digital gardens but to me that’s just notes) where instead of sequential publishing, ...

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…

It’s a site by Leo Babauta of Zen Habits. It’s about minimalism, and why it’s important today. It’s about stuff, and how it has come to overwhelm us. It’s about distractions and commitments and a neverending task list. It’s about the culture of more, of bigger, of consumption. It’s about how less is the answer.

Books, Design and Culture

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.

I settled on a Fujifilm X-Pro 3, which looks similar to the Leica M cameras. Then, I bought one lens (a Fuji 35mm F2 prime) to go with the camera. The entire kit has an appealing, rangefinder style aesthetic.

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.

What the **** does that mean?

On the architecture of blogging

Nicheless is a micro-blogging platform for raw, unfiltered thoughts. Like long form Twitter, minus the status games.

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.

A feed is also known as a “web feed” and the technical term (which you’ll see a lot) is “RSS feed.” A feed contains the latest content in a form that your newsreader app understands. (Your newsreader checks the feed automatically, every few hours.)

Unthinking Photography is an online resource that explores photography's increasingly automated, networked life.

Xe Iaso's personal website.

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

A blogging platform for the craft of clarity and focus. Exotext gets out of your way and lets you breath. A modern, minimalistic medium for your beautiful words.

Minifeed is a curated blog directory, reader, and search engine. The goal is to collect blogs written by real humans, make them discoverable and searchable.

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

Everyone Should Blog, And That Includes You

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.—…

I’m Adrian Schönig. This is my little corner of the web with information about my apps and sporadic blog posts.