Posts tagged: indieweb Archive

The Internet I Grew Up With Doesn’t Exist Anymore - cleberg.net

2026-07-05T17:27:54Z

I align a lot with this post. From growing up in a rural house where internet access was harder to get. It was slow and only had one line, if you were on the internet, no one in the house could recieve a phone call. Idk if what is now the smol webl, the indieweb, is seeing a resurgence, if I’m just noticing it more. It does feel like along there has been a very small number of users willing to get their own domain, their own server, and host their own shit. A few of these are starting to really break out occasionally, see things like wordle hitting mass adoptioun before being swooped up by a giant.

I too miss the internet of old, heck I really dont even mind the middle era of fb, twitter, instagram dominance, but what we have now is dominated by political undertones on it all with everyone shouting “Fake News” at each other. These sites are the easiest place to stay in touch with those you have met online, yet they are riddled with so much toxicity its impossible to have a great experience on them. I’m about a year and a half of not having a single one on my phone, and at this point I barely log into them once a week. RSS is the way forward, as long as its not killed by paywalled substack and medium.

Revisiting the closed canon

2026-05-31T16:15:38Z

Revisiting the closed canon

A post I wrote in 2023, the closing of the canon, predicted that LLM answers would replace search results, dramatically lowering traffic to individual sites, thereby removing the incentives to eve...

Derek Kedziora · derekkedziora.com

This is what makes rss so interesting to me. Its boring old tech that fell out of mainstream popularity years ago, yet many sites still support it. Not all, especially ones that come with a good dickover.

At the same time, it’s sad to see the human internet dying, even more quickly than before. Not only do we have rampant bots and sites seo maxxing to get to the top. We have ai search overview that answers mose simple questions pretty good, chat that does good, and agents at our fingertips. The need for tutorials is pretty much dead.

What we need now is human experiences shared and documented more than ever. I’ve been writing a whole lot less simply because this transition has been hard. Most of my pre 2024 posts were how to, notes for future me. Things so simple agents just spat out better versions in seconds these days with barely a question.

Fragmentions - linking to any text

2025-02-15T21:39:33Z

Fragmentions - linking to any text

kevinmarks.com

I can’t believe I’ve never see this Tim Berners-Lee quote, but I can’t unsee it and will be required to reference it from now on.

eventually every URL ends up as a porn site

I had a friend let his blog domain expire, within a short period it was scooped up and was hosting porn. I don’t know why, but my best guess is that they were holding it ransom with the most embarrassing content to have your personal site replaced with.

fragmention

2025-02-15T09:32:43Z

This post is still WIP. …..

https://indieweb.org/fragmention##Challenges

I’ve been digging through David Bushell’s blog over the past day, he has some really good ideas about blogging and webdev. One really interesting post I came accross is url-fragment-text-directives. I’ve long had id’s linked on my headings, though sometimes broken, or now showing the link, I’ve done my best to include them. Fragmentions extend this to allow any text to be linkable like this.

fragmentioner ui: https://github.com/kartikprabhu/fragmentioner/tree/master?tab=readme-ov-file fragmentioner js: https://github.com/chapmanu/fragmentions

Examples #

https://resilientwebdesign.com/#This%20is%20a%20web%20book

pesos

2025-01-25T17:20:55Z

Pesos is the act of Publish Elsewhere Syncicate to Own Site. It is an indieweb concept that I recently started applying to my own site.

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Note

See <https://indieweb.org/PESOS> for more information, they have a ton of

information about the indieweb

In short it is the concept of pulling data from other sites that you use and republishing it to your own site. This gives a single source of information for you, and protection against sites and apis changing or rug pulling. Other people might have a lot more use cases for this, but I already begin a lot of my data right on my site.

GitHub stars #

I am using the github api to get a list of my stars and then create posts in the github repo for my blog. This allows me to keep track of things I star on GitHub in my own way, and share them out with my rss feeds.

IndieWebify.Me - a guide to getting you on the IndieWeb

2023-12-20T21:04:21Z

IndieWebify.Me - a guide to getting you on the IndieWeb

indiewebify.me

This is a sick guided site to validate indieweb tags on your site. It makes it much easier than trying to do it yourself.