A "celebration of the handmade web", presented as scheduled daily programming across nine channels.
via https://waxy.org
indieweb
I miss when Websites where super personal. Neocities is awesome. I really recommend anyone to make your own Website!!!
Here is mine: https://peritia.space
Sth fun it is fully curlable for my #linux folk out there
On any page you can `curl`
Example: `curl https://peritia.space/links/`
If you have a website please send it to me :3
Would love to check it out
The annual celebration of HTML, HTML Day 2025 is coming up on August 2.
"On Saturday, August 2nd, 2025, we'll be gathering in places around the world to write and celebrate HTML."
via https://xoxo.zone/@waxy/114921694060600175
#TheWeb #internet #IndieWeb #HTMLDay #HTMLDay2025 #html #PersonalWebsites #PoeticWeb
Let's make "us" the person of the year again next year!
"Resources for keeping the web free, open, and poetic"
https://stefanbohacek.com/blog/resources-for-keeping-the-web-free-open-and-poetic/
#PersonOfTheYear #TimePersonOfTheYear #TimeMagazine #indieweb
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I'll probably be less active here today because I'm trying to finish a blog post where I pour all my hate for #Google's decade-long history of attacks to the #openWeb and #indieWeb and it's taking way longer than I expected.
EDIT: you can now read it here https://wok.oblomov.eu/tecnologia/google-killing-open-web/ and now I'm going to go over a full day of backlog here on Fedi 8-D
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What do you all think about August 1/31 being a #WorldIndieBlogDay?
Context:
How my independent website, Cybercultural, has fared during 2025 — a year when AI summaries whittled away search referral traffic and social media continued its war against hyperlinks. Also, I reflect on the state of the open web from a publishing pov, and the role of the fediverse within it. https://cybercultural.com/p/indie-web-report-2025/ #IndieWeb
I've written a summary of the year 2025 for powRSS.
It's a summary of the stats, milestones, costs, and history of this #indieweb project you have all helped me build.
Thank you!
When I first found the fediverse, I setup my site using #Indieweb principles, thoroughly enjoying the use of sematic html and attributes to describe the data. It made so much sense!
IndieKit was something I tried early on that may interest you - it uses the POSSE (Publish On Site, Syndicate Elsewhere) concept, with syndication available to microblogs using static site generators like 11ty, along with social media posts to mastodon and bluesky.
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It's been ages! But Scrolls is back once again. What's in it? A bunch of random stuff from bygone weeks. I hope you enjoy, and I hope to be back again soon with more good shtuff.
https://shellsharks.com/scrolls/scroll/2025-10-01
Thanks to those mentioned below. Their blogs, their writing, their thoughts, and what they share were not only featured in this week's edition, but they are part of what sustains myself and the IndieWeb in general in darker times. Thanks! 🧡
@laura @fyr @tinimalina @mttaggart @ismh86 @kedara_eu @WahPlus @luna @kalfeher @jwildeboer @decryption @adulau @aphyr @fedicat @StarWarsPlanets @fyr @bagder @stark4n6 @privacyguides @gaz @joel
In an effort to create and provide better articles on my blog, especially those related to cybersecurity and tech, I want to get your feedback on what type of articles y’all would like to see.
So, let me know below the types, series, etc. that I can write about.
Feel free to share to help spread across the #fediverse.
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You don’t fight for the open web because you are going to win, you fight for the open web because it is the open web.
Initial custom themes support has landed in @conjured.ink's stall software and it's very fast, and very easy to write custom themes for (assuming you know a little bit of HTML/CSS!)
Highlights:
VERY fast jinja-style templates w/ layouts & partials
KDL-based metadata ;)
No framework needed!
Easy packaging
Our shops are more than just ecommerce: they're going to be able to do newsletters/blogging, POSSE, and general custom websites, all with an EXTREMELY small footprint that will be cheap or free!
Like this whole thing? Please support us if can comfortably do so: https://mastodon.social/@conjured_ink/115347161647458655
#KDL #POSSE #IndieWeb #Rust #RustLang #StopPayPros #BoostsWelcome
Is anyone using https://fedify.dev? Has it been good for you in production? I have a tiny app idea that would be an excellent fit for activitypub, but I also don't want to spend too much time implementing the federation bits.
a few years ago i mentioned that i wrote a book about the exciting, awkward and embarrassing experiences of growing up with computers and video games in the 80s and 90s.
i wanted to remember what it felt like being the only dorky computer kid at school. or what it was like to hear my first modem handshake sound. or starting the first flamewar on the school's national FirstClass BBS in the macintosh lab over the lunch-hour
it was originally something i wrote only for my family and friends who were there at the time.
and then i met all of you folks when i started my first masto instance 4 years ago. i had no idea there were so many hardcore retrocomputing and gaming nerds out there; unix and mac and ms-dos folks alike.
so i mentioned it casually. i was surprised by the interest in the book.
so i spent the better part of the past 3 years rewriting the book for *you* fellow mastodon dorkus malorkuses. the book is a celebration of all of the best (and worst) parts of a kid growing up in the digital age.
we're all busy old tired stressed folks now. so every memory and cringetacular story is short enough to read on a 5 minute bus/metro/toilet ride. they're weaved together into an arc that starts at my family's first Tandy TRS-80 and ends at my school's Mac LC II and building my first Pentium 133.
it's finally published, and i'm super proud of what it became thanks to everyone here nerding out for years.
enjoy the book. i wrote it just for you. ❤️
paperback edition: https://mybook.to/EDuUf
DRM-free ebook (EPUB format) and chapter samples here:
https://tomotama.itch.io/mages-modems
#books #indiePublisher #bookstodon #author #macintosh #vintageApple #vintageComputing #msdos #dosGaming #yeg #canada #alberta #bbs #smolWeb #indieWeb
![The rear cover of the book, showing a Carmen Sandiego-style letter from the ACME Detective agency. The letter has a picture of a spazzing out kid wearing a Just Do It sweater.
The letter reads:
ACME Detective Agency
Dear Detective #0294,
As discussed, I have enclosed a hardcopy of VGA256's journals discussed at the departmental briefing. The journal entries are chronological, and document the suspect's computing and gaming activities from the early 1980s to late 1990s - his childhood and adolescent years.
Each vignette is an introspection into the suspect's self-described obsessions, including but not limited to:
* IBM PC, Amiga, Apple ][, Macintosh, Tandy
* MS-DOS, MacOS, Windows 3.1 & 95, UNIX
* NES, GameBoy, Sega Genesis, TI-85
* Modems, BBSes, CompuServe, Prodigy, ISPs
* Warez, FTP, Usenet, IRC, Shell Accounts
* Origin Systems, LucasArts, and Sierra On-Line
... and so on. The stories are a treasure trove of immoral and illicit activities that made him the dysfunctional adult he is now. I hope these will be of value in building your dossier on this delinquent.
I expect a report on my desk by Friday.
Deputy Chief Conover
Brat & Punk Division](/proxy/post_attachment/201680/4c3f9d6273.png "The rear cover of the book, showing a Carmen Sandiego-style letter from the ACME Detective agency. The letter has a picture of a spazzing out kid wearing a Just Do It sweater.
The letter reads:
ACME Detective Agency
Dear Detective #0294,
As discussed, I have enclosed a hardcopy of VGA256's journals discussed at the departmental briefing. The journal entries are chronological, and document the suspect's computing and gaming activities from the early 1980s to late 1990s - his childhood and adolescent years.
Each vignette is an introspection into the suspect's self-described obsessions, including but not limited to:
* IBM PC, Amiga, Apple ][, Macintosh, Tandy
* MS-DOS, MacOS, Windows 3.1 & 95, UNIX
* NES, GameBoy, Sega Genesis, TI-85
* Modems, BBSes, CompuServe, Prodigy, ISPs
* Warez, FTP, Usenet, IRC, Shell Accounts
* Origin Systems, LucasArts, and Sierra On-Line
... and so on. The stories are a treasure trove of immoral and illicit activities that made him the dysfunctional adult he is now. I hope these will be of value in building your dossier on this delinquent.
I expect a report on my desk by Friday.
Deputy Chief Conover
Brat & Punk Division")
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"But really, how can those other options even compare when Fedi has stuff like [https://bots.stefanbohacek.com/]?!"
https://shellsharks.com/scrolls/scroll/2026-01-13
Fair point, @shellsharks!
via https://malici.ous.computer/@shellsharks/statuses/01KEX1CN85MHJJ5P0VR4SA7QFD
just putting a quick feeler out...are you a product person who's interested in helping out with some open source stuff? Specifically, foss designed to help artists/creatives/etc? I'm not doing a full call for folks rn but I'm wondering if I've got moots or other folks this might reach who are like 👀
Boosts Welcome™️
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I'm so tired. People, I am not interested in reading *blogs* generated with claude, gemini or chatgpt. No, not even ones proofread by AI. Do it yourself. I do not wish to even accidentally click on "one-shotted" dummy projects. Don't show me your AI-generated analysis of anything. Above all, I do not wish to see images/artwork someone prompt created.
I value real content, with all its good and bad quirks, from actual human beings.
Somebody please normalize auto-tagging of AI generated content across all formats - text, images and code so I can blanket ban them from my personal computer.
This is a plead for help I never thought I'll have to make.
#noai #enshittification #writing #bookstodon #reading #books #quotes #quote #cybersec #mentalhealth #adhd #art #cooking #blog #indieweb