Search results for: indieweb
- The quest for simple, hight quality music and video playback in 2023 - updates for 2025
The year 2023 reminded me of my mortality quite a bit, so I took a good, deep look at my home setups in case someone else ever needs to be able to understand it, use it, maintain it. I decided to start with something that we use day to day - music and video playing.
- Old Web, New Web, Indie Web
If you have to decide on the order of creative freedom vs data ownership, what order do you choose?
- Excavating my former homepages
Someone, a long time ago came up with the thought that whatever is put on the internet, it'll be there forever. Well, it's wrong. The old versions of my own website, including their design, were long gone, so I decided to put the Indiana Jones hat on, and started digging.
- Refactoring my static generator
Some years ago I decided to walk away from dynamic website in pursuit of something that feels a bit more, like the small web, and what's more fault tolerant for the future. Unfortunately my solution overgrew its promise so it was time for some reaping.
- GPS tracking without a server
My pipeline of tracking where I've been using and Android phone, Backitude, python, and cron
- Lessons of running a (semi) static, Indieweb-friendly site for 2 years
It's not possible to run fully static sites with dynamic features, such as webmention handling - you can get close to it, but you do need to embrace external services.
- LinkedIn is ignoring user settings
Logged out users are prevented from reaching LinkedIn profiles set to complete public visibility
- Content, bloat, privacy, archives
I spent a lot of time trying centralising my online activities, including adding bookmarks and imports from social networks. Lately my site looked bloated and unmaintainable. I started questioning what data is my data, what data should or could I own - it was time to rethink some ideas.
- Bookmarks, favs, likes - backfilling years of gaps
What do you do when you have years of hoarded internet on your computer and you want to put them into one place, to make it searchable? You put them on your website, while retroactively like, favorite, and bookmark them at their source.
- Replacing Baïkal with Radicale
I was becoming unhappy with Baïkal, my contact and calendar sync server: a growing number of clients was unable to use it, so I started to look for alternatives. This time I wanted something plain text based.
- Going static
The "why"s for writing one's own static generator, which I want to replace my WordPress with.
- Extending Press This in WordPress to support indieweb reply, like and repost
I've been able to reply/like/repost with my site for a long while, but is wasn't elegant, fast or slick at all; it was time to fix it.
- How I misunderstood an aspect of Indieweb
If the indieweb sites were not syndicating to Twitter, would it be possible to collect the posts based on hashtags with - for example - Google?
- Trimming the fat: THA Big Bad Cleanup of my WordPress
THA Big Bad Cleanup of my WordPress: from importing tweets & statuses to posting in Markdown.
- Indieweb - decentralize the web while centralizing ourselves
Pull your content together from the shards: decentralize the social networks and centralize ourselves!
- The internet that took over the Internet
If you look deep enough, beneath mountains of attention hoarding, illusion photography, trending trends, you'll find the old Internet, the one with content, knowledge, individuality, but you need to look hard. Can it be saved?
- kthxbye #2
One year ago I stopped posting to social networks, or at least minimized it as much as possible. Nearly a year passed so it's time for a summary, and while I mostly resisted posting, it doesn't feel like success.
- Internet, please forget threaded comments
Nested comments are bad for you, for the article, for the discussion and for readability.
- enough
I'm tired of all the social networks. I want to go back to RSS, forums and real communication instead of reading through tonnes of meaningless shit. And by the time you reach the point of being tired - not angry, upset, flooded, but tired - it usually means you really are about to opt out.
- 10 November, 2018
I very much like the idea of a uniform algorithm for this - similarly to https://indieweb.org/post-type-discovery. During that session the list on https://spdx.org/licenses/ came up as a source for licence indication - unfortunately neither rel="licence" …
- 22 June, 2017
Richard: Blogroll, as name is mostly dead - nowadays you probably want to call it
following. If you think about it, it's the same thing, the difference is thatfollowingis more common within silos1.I'm thinking of displaying all my publicly followed ent…
- 13 March, 2016
Chris, I've disabled Pingbacks on my WordPress due to an extensive and annoying amount of spam.
However, I did send a webmention at 2016-03-10 16:01:01, which I've checked now. The response was:
error: no_link_found error_text: The source URI does not con…- 27 February, 2016
Peter, https://www.subtome.com AFAIK just redirects you to a RSS/Atom reader and such buttons exist for ages.
There's a little more to that. subtome could include h-feed parsers as options as well.
RSS is dying and I prefer #IndieWeb h-feed because it'…