I’ve spent the last few months crafting my own home on the Web, and I wanted to make sure it presented me as a human, not defined solely by my work as a #DesignEngineer / #WebDev.
This has also been a great opportunity to finally use #Svelte & #SvelteKit in a project. I love how easy it was to learn and how intuitive it is, as someone who started with vanilla HTML and CSS
Anyone know of a fedi or at least free-ish alternative to SoundCloud? I like posting my stuff for archival and for whatever folks might enjoy listening to my brand of self indulgent improv, but I just have no desire to engage with that site anymore. What are the cool Indieweb kids using these days?
Mysteriously, Brid.gy is now backfeeding comments to my blog post. Maybe it just takes time or something. Huh. Yet, when I try to manually fetch webmentions, it says that it failed. We desperately need proper documentation for this lol.
Wanted: personal websites (with curated collections of bookmarks/links to other websites) or link directories that are titled anything starting with the letters "W", "X" or "Z".
Why? To complete the alphabet, of course!
(in terms of the bukmark.club's directory index)
Here's all the links to pages that inspired me this week and the people behind them.
Like I've been saying, there are some seriously awesome people out there on the webs doing very fun cool stuff. And I'm grateful they're sharing it with all of us. Thanks to you all!
Is there webComponent or equivalent to put Codepen-like embed in a Eleventy site but with everything local, not depending on third party tools?
And I mean, as a way to demo code snippet with code and result display side by side.
But Everything would be read only, no need to allow visitors to edit, fork etc…
And I'm talking about something static generated on build and with runtine JS.
It's a static site generator. Unlike many others, Publii is a graphical application, very easy to use. It manages content edition with 3 different methods:
Wysiwyg editor
Block editor (inspired by Medium IHMO)
Markdown editor
Adding images is simple, you can select one as featured for Organic data, put one in the header for the site or for each post.
It runs on Windows, Mac and Linux.
Spent the day trying to come up with a draft of the digital garden setup. It's been a tough one, because I'm not quite able to get to the point I’d like it to be.
But I'm resigned to making something to start with. Something I can improve when my skills and tools allow. So I'll keep plugging away at it.
Is there a Mastodon hashtag for people who like to tinker with their personal website and just chat about it / ask questions on here? Like, “hey I tweaked my CSS a bit, cool huh?” -kinda stuff.
Very late last night — in the last few minutes of January — I put my “2023 in review” post live. It’s probably too long and probably too personal, but hey, it’s the #indieweb.
Remember The Well? Pioneering on-line community, still around after almost 40 years.
This week and next, it will host an on-line discussion on the #Fediverse and #indieweb.
Glad to be part of it, together with @evan, @manton, @KevinMarks and @herestomwiththeweather. It's hosted by Jon Lebowsky, best known (to me at least) by doing the annual State of the World panel, also on the Well, with @bruces.
I'll post a link once the thread is public. With these panelists, it should be interesting!!
@artlung thanks again for the invite to the homebrew meetup last week. I’m hooked and I’ll be back!
Your post-event writeup talked about drafts and that reminded me that my question about it towards the end didn’t exactly come across. My super newb WP/blogging thing that I’m wondering is more like “semi-private but shareable drafts”. Have you ever published something with a link that you can send around for feedback but doesn’t go out to your RSS or site’s main public pages?
It’s a use case I run into all the time and the usual answer is to use gdoc’s “share to anyone with the link” feature until it’s ready for wider distribution, which works fine and it’s not a huge pain, I’m just curious. I’ve got some much thornier questions about how to integrate evergreen wiki-like info pages vs ephemeral/chronological blog-like writing, but I figure I’ll start light ;)
Today I built a silly webpage by hand in a couple of hours. (I’m not going to tell you what it was, except that it was frivolous af.)
I started out by looking for a template, but everything I found was way too involved, so I ended up writing the HTML and CSS from scratch, throwing it in a cloud-hosted directory, and nudging the DNS settings to point there.
This turned out to be a ridiculously nostalgic experience. I built a lot of weird little websites like this when I was about eleven years old, saving the HTML of sites that I liked so that I could access them when the phone line was being used by someone else, and changing pieces around to figure out how it all fit together.
It struck me that:
a) by this measure I’ve been doing web dev for almost a quarter-century now 😳
b) there is nothing stopping me from making websites this way. I can still write HTML and yeet it out there if I want to, no matter what it’s for. Pages load quickly. It’s not fancy. It works. Underneath it all, the web is still there.
If you feel so inclined, I can highly recommend seizing an afternoon, taking a silly webpage idea, and having a play.
2023 - I'm the happiest I've ever been on #SocialMedia. Discovering the #Fediverse and #Mastodon has been really a joyous moment as I was really hating ad avalanche and algorithm-controlled environments. Then I discovered the #Indieweb and began reclaiming my content, and I've been blogging more than ever.
That's when I realiesd that I had given these platforms SO MUCH OF FREE CONTENT.
That said, 2023 is also the year I've been the most overwhelmed by ..
Remember when #photography was about the #art of it, not clout-chasing or product-pushing? For example, in the late 2000s so many cool (not just meaning 'popular') photographers were on #Flickr. Then #Instagram came around in 2010 and #Facebook bought them out in 2012.
IMHO the mid-2000s was when #tech & online platforms started going downhill quick and tech #enshittification began to spread. I think the introduction of the #iPhone had a lot to do with it, not to mention the many tech acquisitions that have been happening ever since. Correct me if I'm wrong.
Anyway, the 'art' of photography feels lost now; pay-walled, plundered, copied, capitalized, and even censored. All of it beholden to whatever satisfies the venture capitalists, advertisers, and/or shareholders. Fuck all that. Let's take back the web. Let's take back tech. This is why the #Fediverse (including #pixelfed) and more broadly, concepts like #smalltech, #indieweb, #smallweb and #selfhosting etc gives me glimmers of hope.
Still haven't gotten past this drama. Honestly, I think I'm just hungry for classic #wuxia and there's so little of them these days.
Also, I'm reposting this because I'm testing Brid.gy. Somehow I've set it up incorrectly and I can't for the life of me figure out how. However, apparently if I publish a post via Brid.gy, the comments will appear beneath the blog post. Mysterious.