The appeal of living in a small town is being surrounded by the right number of people whom you can care about. On the other hand, living in a big city might make you feel lonely in huge crowds.
Being a blogger in smallweb (or IndieWeb) is akin to living in a small town with one big exception: there’s no square in the middle of town, no town hall to gather around. In this sense maybe the proper…
This is the home of the Tiny Awards, which, since 2023, has celebrated the best of the small, poetic, creative, handmade web. The Tiny Awards exist because we thought it was important to shine a spotlight on the sorts of […]
standard.site: spannende technik-spielerei die das potenzial hat, dem offenen web gut zu tun.
If you are part of indieweb, you probably noticed people talking about standard.site. It's a recent addition to AT Protocol to publish long form content. You might think of it as POSSE on steroids.
I spent hours today figuring out how to integrate my blog with standard.site. It was not as hard as I thought thanks to David Bushell and Mat Marquis.
The first thing you need to do is sign in and…
Fediverse federation, email subscriptions, Mastodon comments. No database, no cookies, no trackers. What I built on this blog, and what I left out on purpose.
My compendium of links to stuff that I found interesting on the web. This week the focus is about "Being on the Internet".
Vou colocar algumas especificações aqui que podem vir a ser uteis para alguém, mas também irá me servir como material de consulta, e quem sabe um possível devlog a medida que o projeto for evoluindo.
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This blog is now on the fediverse. No algorithm, no intermediary, no one else's platform. Here's why that matters and how to follow along.
Après ActivityPub installé ici j'expérimente l' extension ATmosphere 1.0.0 qui permet de diffuser en direction de Bluesky et de recevoir les interactions sur les posts dans WordPress
I had a short domain doing nothing, so I built a permashortlink system for my blog posts based on Base36. Did it using Next.js middleware and saw one YYMMDD mistake I definitely should have caught earlier.
The internet you grew up on isn’t dying. A commercial veneer glued on top of it is. YESSSSSS. The Boring Internet by Terry Godier
I found this thing called smolweb and it spoke to me.
Like yeah, websites are quite heavy these days. Older hardware (from like 2010s) has really difficult time loading it, and the big chunks of Javascript do not help either.
And not to forget web browsers such as Netsurf that do not have the resources to recreate the whole HTML/CSS/JS standard.
So, as you can see, this site is now much more…
Herein I contemplate how to present the root of my internet existence.
petit point de situation sur ma façon "d'habiter le site" et d'être présent sur le Fédiverse avec présentation des plugins pour WordPress
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J'enrichis et modifie l'index des sites que je recense et partage dans les curiosités numériques, proposez le vôtre !
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If you're like me, you loathe and despise the toxic mental ordure that YouTube often plasters up and down the right side of each video page, such as POLITICAL DEMAGOGUERY in MIXED CAPS to PIQUE your OUTRAGE enough to KEEP YOU WATCHING YOUTUBE instead of doing something PRODUCTIVE! [insert thumbnail of someone looking amazed here.]
At a certain point, I started to notice that there was more…
For the April IndieWeb Movie Club, my selection is Arrival (2016).
It is a unique approach to the science fiction story of aliens visiting Earth. Even if you don’t usually like the genre, I hope you’ll give it a chance because there’s some thought-provoking questions and deeper emotion in it. I’ve found it quite moving on multiple viewings.
A couple years ago I remembered that it was based on…
Non, je ne partage pas mes contenus vers Facebook. Et d'abord parce que je n'y ai pas de compte. Mais j'utilise des protocoles qui permettent à ce site d'être découvert en gardant son indépendance.
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I want word processors to be boring again.
I published a short post titled A Positive Technologist Identity, wherein I offered my thoughts on a longer post by Wojtek Powiertowski titled The tool, the craft, and the joy. In the main, I appreciated his take on defining oneself as a "technologist" in a positive way, that is, in terms of what one is for rather than what one is against. That emphasis, I noted, was wholly consistent with my…
Maddy Miller wrote a good essay titled I wish reply articles worked better. As a fellow fan of site-to-site conversations (and not at all a fan of social media), I too wish that reply articles work better and agree with her sentiments entirely. As a partial solution, she implemented Webmentions on her site (may this cross the internet sea as a Webmention). This site has "full" Webmention support…
Chaque dimanche je vous donne à voir un peu de la vie du site, des liens vers les articles de la semaine, des échos de l’atelier et pour la mémoire un article puisé parmi les 1141déjà en ligne. ✍ Notes en marge Elle avait le goût étrange des périodes de transition cette semaine : sortie officielle […]
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My ~~dislike~~ strong opposition to engaging with “AI” generated things, be that texts, images, code or anything else is well-documented. But avoiding the mindless slop is still getting harder, as it seems that more and more developers, writers – and of course SEO-scum trying to make quick buck – can’t avoid the siren song of ‘removing friction’, all negative consequences be damned.1 Technical…
I read a good blog post by Lisa Charlotte Muth titled I’m bringing everything back to my website. In the post, she described how she pulled everything she has published online in various places since 2006 and published it on her own website. She created a term for this based on the IndieWeb concept of POSSE ("Publish on your own site, syndicate everywhere"), "ROOTS" ("Return Old Online Things to…
J’ai commencé à publier sur Internet dès les années 90. Puis les réseaux sociaux sont apparus avec leurs dérives. J’ai découvert avec bonheur Mastodon. Et maintenant grâce à de nouveaux outils mais surtout une autre démarche, ma façon de publier sur Internet évolue encore. Au temps de Prépaclasse Parmi mes lectrices et mes lecteurs, il […]
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Les choses s’alignent : le site indépendant, s’est relié d’abord au Fédiverse. Avec les webmentions ensuite, il facilite les liens entre sites ou réseaux. Avec l’Indieweb maintenant, il s’agit de s’inscrire plus résolument dans une démarche qui met l’accent sur les sites web personnels et la communication décentralisée. Un peu de technique ? Oui, pour pouvoir faire […]
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Le site vient de rejoindre il y a peu le Fédiverse (fédération d’univers, de réseaux, de serveurs indépendants capables de communiquer entre eux). Dans l’idée d’approfondir notre indépendance vis à vis des géants du Web, je me suis intéressé aux webmentions. Et quand je dis « webmentionnons-nous les uns les autres », c’est une façon de nous […]
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Hoje retorno ao blog com a honrosa missão de apresentar as possibilidades do RSS para pessoas queridas e a todos os estranhos que porventura entrem em contato com esse post. Quanto mais desconhecidos melhor, bem-vindos! Há algumas semanas, redescobri os feeds RSS e mudei radicalmente meus hábitos de consumo de informação na web. Esse processo […]
Olá, queridos leitores, boas-vindas ao meu blog renascido das cinzas! Foram muitos anos de abandono de atualizações e quase duas décadas de afastamento do meu espírito de blogueira raiz, mas felizmente estamos de volta. Desde o início de 2026, tenho experienciado profundas transformações no meu relacionamento com as redes sociais e com o consumo de […]
I read an interesting post by Wojtek Powiertowski in partial response to Khürt Williams's excellent essay against defining the indie web by its enemies, which had inspired me to write a short post here and a long-form essay on NLJ. I agree that we should advocate for good tech in terms of what makes it good instead of in terms of bad tech (to put it roughly). Here, Mr. Powiertowski tackles AI,…