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Indiekit is the little Node.js server with all the parts needed to publish content to your personal website and share it on social networks.
Right okay! Robin Sloan is someone of whom we in maya dot land (all of us nibbling on lichen under the bridge here) think highly, and altweb projects are fantastic, so if you haven’t gone and read through his protocol proposal go do that! Little of what I write here will make sense independently o…
You know how they say that the best way to get help on the internet is to assert somethng you know is wrong and wait for someone to correct you? I will be perfectly happy if this post turns into one of those1.
The idea of “evergreen” content2 naturally contrasts with its opposite. I am going to …
Peter Rukavina (ruk.ca)My father had this uncanny ability to take broken things, figure them out, despite knowing nothing of them, and fix them. I saw him do it with lawnmowers, tractors, shavers, radios, MP3 players. He was indefatigable.
We four boys, his sons, have each inherited some of this quality. Not at Dad’s hi…
Jan Boddez (jan.boddez.net)Reminded of IndieNews, I set out to create a smallish WordPress plugin to enable sharing over there.
Now, my (WordPress) blog already supports automatic outgoing webmentions, so this could’ve been as easy as adding the correct outgoing hyperlink, no extra plugin required.
Except … While I have a…
Chris Aldrich (boffosocko.com)Editor’s note: This is another in a continuing series of essays about the IndieWeb.
Where is the IndieWeb? Logos
One might consider the IndieWeb’s indieweb.org wiki-based website and chat the “logos” of IndieWeb. There is a small group of about a hundred active to very active participants wh…
Peter Rukavina (ruk.ca)Cycling home on a crisp May night.
I’ve just left improv class where, among other things, I created the character of Roberta, an aging skateboarder with six children named Doug and an inadequate grasp of mathematics. We were a small group tonight, just three of us. On occasion it’s nice to have …
Jan Boddez (jan.boddez.net)Robert’s question got me thinking: WordPress gives us automatic date, author, and CPT archives, and it lets us use “rewrite rules” to set up, e.g., date-based CPT archives. So, why would I resort to a custom page template and WP_Query, when all I want, essentially, is a “copy” of WordPress…
Simone Silvestroni (minutestomidnight.co.uk)The other day I published a blogroll page, like the ones that were ubiquitous in the early 2000s. I’m not entirely sure what caused blogrolls’ partial demise: social media follower lists? Not important.
I’m happy to have added it to the website. Link is in the footer. Most of my entries are ei…
Wouter Groeneveld (brainbaking.com)Small and independent blogs are always full of surprises. The more blogs I stumble upon, the more genuinely surprised I am by the things people do with their blogs. It seemed like a good idea to summarize highlights here. I hope it might inspire non-bloggers to blog and bloggers to tinker more with …
How to get more people small-b blogging?
I really miss @Readlists. — Me
There have been a number of “read it later” services throughout the history of the web: Instapaper, Pocket, and Readability to name a few. These functioned as services that would take the content of a web page, strip out all the cruft (ads, navigation, comments, …
Wouter Groeneveld (brainbaking.com)I have a confession to make. I love cleaning up. Throwing things away. Tidying up. Getting rid of things. I have read The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up, The Story of Stuff, and The Power of Less. The appeal of minimalism is great, but it somehow never works. I also rebuy things in regret (see co…
