I really like personal homepages and have quite a list of them bookmarked. I'll post one every week unless I fall behind this schedule. 😉 So here's Cool Personal Homepages #CPH Vol. 39: "ratfactor" https://ratfactor.com/

PS: @ratfactor is on the fediverse!

#SmallWeb #indieweb #homepage #blog #art

ReadBeanIceCream Chatter

Sometimes, I have a lot to say. Sometimes, I don't. From now on, when I do not have much to say, but still want to say or share something, I will just add to the Chatter.

https://readbeanicecream.surge.sh/2025/03/15/readbeanicecream-chatter/

#indieweb #smallweb #personalwebsite #personalsites #socialmedia #blog #blogs #blogging #bloggers #microblog #microblogging

ReadBeanIceCream Slash Pages

I recently asked for some tips on improving my site. In doing so, I learned about slash pages.

https://readbeanicecream.surge.sh/2025/03/08/readbeanicecream-slash-pages/

Thanks to @shellsharks for the recommendation!

#indieweb #smallweb #blogging #blogs #bloggers #personalwebsite

#Business #Findings
The future of the internet · Smaller communities, with a focus on curated experiences https://ilo.im/162kss

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#Survey #Internet #Disruption #Web #SmallWeb #IndieWeb #Community #Curation #Website #Blog

Multimedia Walls with Asciidoctor

Ever wanted to create a photo wall, video wall, or audio wall for your site? Well, if you can make a list, you can build a wall... with Asciidoctor.

https://readbeanicecream.surge.sh/2025/03/02/multimedia-walls-with-asciidoctor/

#technology #tech #asciidoctor #blog #blogs #blogging #personalweb #smallweb #indieweb #opensource

I wrote this five years ago:

“Democracy or capitalism? Pick one.

If, like me, you grew up in the 80s, you probably unthinkingly accepted the neoliberal maxim that democracy and capitalism go hand-in-hand. This is one of the greatest lies ever told. Democracy and capitalism are polar opposites.

You cannot have a functional democracy and billionaires and trillion-dollar corporate interests and Silicon Valley’s Big Tech misinformation and exploitation machinery. What we’re seeing is the clash of capitalism and democracy and capitalism is winning.

Are we past a tipping point? I don’t know. Perhaps. But we can’t think like that.

Personally, I’m going to keep working to effect change where I feel I can be effective: in creating alternative technological infrastructure to support individual freedoms and democracy.

We’ve already laid the infrastructure of techno-fascism. We’ve already created (and are creating) the panopticons. All the fascists need to do is move in and take the controls. And they will do so democratically, before destroying democracy, just as Hitler did.

And if you think the 1930s and 40s were something, remember that the most advanced tools to amplify the destructive ideologies of the time were less powerful than the computers you have in your pockets today. Today we have machine learning and are on the brink of unlocking quantum computing.

We must ensure the 2030s are not like the 1930s. Because our advanced centralised systems of data capture, classification, and prediction plus a hundred years of exponential increase in processing power (note: I do not use the word “progress”) mean the 2030s will be exponentially worse.

Whoever you are, wherever you are, we have a common enemy: the nationalist international. The problems of our time transcend national borders. The solutions must also. The systems we build must be both local and global at once. The network we must build is one of solidarity.

We created the present. We will create the future. Let’s work together to ensure that that future is the one we want to live in ourselves.”

– In 2020 and beyond, the battle to save personhood and democracy requires a radical overhaul of mainstream technology

https://ar.al/2020/01/01/in-2020-and-beyond-the-battle-to-save-personhood-and-democracy-requires-a-radical-overhaul-of-mainstream-technology/

And that’s why I’m working on building the Small Web.

https://ar.al/2020/08/07/what-is-the-small-web/

With ZERO funding from the EU and multiple rejections from NLNet/ngi (because they still don’t get it).

https://ar.al/2022/10/20/nlnet-grant-application-for-domain-rejected/

(That’s from 2022. We were also rejected in 2024 for my work on Kitten, Domain, and Place as outlined in my talk, linked below, but I was too tired to write about it again.)

https://ar.al/2024/06/24/small-web-computer-science-colloquium-at-university-of-groningen/

So for fuck’s sake, if you agree with my vision for a technological (and thus societal) future different from the hellscape we currently inhabit, and want to help us explore one possible path towards it, please fund our damn work. (Because, clearly, the EU is adamant about not doing so.)

https://small-tech.org/fund-us/

Other ways to help:

- If you know of folks that are ethically compatible who offer no strings funding, please try to secure some for us (my time is 100% spent on coding at the moment).

- If you know of conferences that pay their speakers, ask them to have me speak on the Small Web. It can be as technical or non-technical as you like and I won’t do it for free but I’m happy to accept, within reason, what they can afford (in addition to travel and accommodation being covered) and any fees received go to Small Technology Foundation, our not-for-profit.

- Help share this far and wide.

Once Domain is released and we have the first Small Web host running on small-web.org – hopefully the first of many that will be run by other folks in the future – and we start taking commercial sign-ups for Small Web places, we should eventually have the money problem solved (because apparently that’s a problem you have to solve to gain the privilege of working for the common good in our world because our system is unabashedly shortsighted).

So, yeah, anyway, g’morning! How’s your day going so far? :)

(You made it this far? You deserve a hug. And don’t worry, I’m just venting. Things will get better. It’s just frustrating swimming upstream all the time.)

💕

#SmallWeb #SmallTech #humanRights #democracy #anarchy #BigWeb #BigTech #capitalism #neoliberalism #technoFascism #technology #fascism #society #freedom #personhood

Possibly the Easiest Blog Flow You Could Ever Have

Ever wanted to blog, but thought, "I don't want build a website or be a web master. I just want to write." Well, good news. With Asciidoctor and Surge. You can worry less about the "technical stuff" and focus on publishing your writing.

https://readbeanicecream.surge.sh/2025/02/19/possibly-the-easiest-blog-flow-you-could-ever-have/

#technology #tech #opensource #blog #blogging #indieweb #smallweb #asciidoctor #surge #news #blogs #socialmedia #rss #rssfeeds

“Ask for forgiveness, not permission” – The Real Cost of Moving Too Fast

https://www.locked.de/ask-for-forgiveness-not-permission-the-real-cost-of-moving-too-fast/

#technology #tech #it #business #work #workculture #techdebt #blog #indieweb #smallweb

#Development #Proposals
A ‘.well-known/avatar‘ URL would be cool · Let’s use avatars on our blogs and websites! https://ilo.im/1628jw

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#Business #Avatar #Community #SocialWeb #SmallWeb #IndieWeb #Blog #Website #WebDev #Backend

Yet another way to find blogs and feeds, and even lists of blog posts to try! It's very fast too and I just love browsing directories like this! https://minifeed.net/about #Blog #RSS #Blogging #IndieWeb #SmallWeb

#Design #Approaches
Guiding principles for my website · Towards a more personal, thoughtful digital presence https://ilo.im/1620ka

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#OpenWeb #SmallWeb #IndieWeb #Principles #Blog #Website #Content #Authenticity #Kindness #Respectfulness

this will likely be a recurring reminder as the weeks go by, but i'm so excited about this project. i have to share! (this is the first time i've been nervous to announce something on this side of the web!)

i'm combining my 10 years of journalism experience with my love for the #indieweb by launching GOOD INTERNET, a regular periodical magazine in both print and digital formats. and this is a non-profit, completely independent endeavor!

https://goodinternetmagazine.com/

ultimately, Good Internet will cover a lot of different aspects of the small web: unplugging from the corporate web, fighting #enshittification, migrating from data-harvesting corpo social media, creating your own personal website, using code and website-building as an art form, federation, and creating websites for fun. it will be approachable for beginners and enjoyable for seasoned indie web travelers!

the #smallweb can be hard to keep up with if you aren't "plugged in," especially if you want to find other hobby website owners, folks coding for fun, weird web projects, or artists taking back their digital ownership. it's overdue that this side of the web has an analog publication!

having a central publication about the decentralized parts of the personal web makes me even more excited to share this hobby with those who might not even know about it--all within beautiful, high-res, high-quality pages.

the idea here is to have a physical celebration of this hobby in addition to being informative, helpful, and accessible.

consider signing up for email notifications when we launch the first issue in may 2025:

https://goodinternetmagazine.com

(if you're interested in #writing an article or op-ed about this side of the web/personal websites, coding an interactive article, or want to know what that even means, send an email to hello@goodinternetmagazine.com! taking pitches for may 2025!)

#internet #socialmedia #personalwebsites #blogging #blog #print #magazine #writer #technology #tech #coding #programming #html #webdev #webdesign #web #smalltech #css #html #dev #web

A decentralised system doesn’t have a flagship instance. Just sayin’.

We’re not an alternative as long as we adopt their success criteria. Let’s do better.

#decentralisation #fediverse #SmallWeb

I really like personal homepages and have quite a list of them bookmarked. I'll post one every week unless I fall behind this schedule. 😉 So here's Cool Personal Homepages #CPH Vol. 34: "gniibe, GNU bee, and Degrees of Freedom" https://www.gniibe.org/

#SmallWeb #indieweb #smolweb #PersonalSites #homepage #blog

So, I finally finished my blog, its now up and running. I plan on like writing game reviews maybe use it as another place to share my photos you know? #smallweb #blog #coding #webcoding #gaming#photographywww.ghastlymirror.xyz

The Ghastly Mirror 👻

“The web wasn’t built by solo tech geniuses, or finance firms, or luminaries with grand promises. It was time, and energy, compounded by millions of people. Collective action will be what brings us to the next era of the web.” — Jay Hoffmann

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#Business #Community #Web #FreeWeb #IndieWeb #SmallWeb #Website #Blog #Content #Evolution #Quotes

I really like personal homepages and have quite a list of them bookmarked. I'll post one every week unless I fall behind this schedule. 😉 So here's Cool Personal Homepages #CPH Vol. 32: "Rubenerd" https://rubenerd.com/

PS: @rubenerd is on Mastodon!

PPS: happy anniversary!

#SmallWeb #indieweb #smolweb #PersonalSites #homepage #blog

Winter is coming, here´s an holiday gaming recommendation from yours truly#Gaming #Blog #IndieGames #IndieGaming #Puzzles #Folkore#Indieweb #SmallWeb #PuzzleGames #Indiewww.ghastlymirror.xyz/blog/roki/

Röki Game Review, An Adventure...

It's official, I've just deployed my brand new personal website.

Mandatory blog post about it has been post!

Let me know what you think!

https://mauromotion.com/

#webDev #indieWeb #blog #blogging #astro #smallWeb #RSS

New Kitten release

• Improves macOS post-install instructions

• Node runtime upgraded to 22.11.0

• New well-known /💕/ok route for testing new deployments (return 200 success, guaranteed to work even if your app doesn’t)

• Interpolated numbers/bare content fix in kitten.html parser.

• Now with many more tests :)

https://kitten.small-web.org

#Kitten #SmallWeb #SmallTech #web #dev

Doncs feia temps que estava donant-li voltes a un blog personal, del tipus smallweb, amb PHP tirant d'arxius xml (si m'agrada com són de clars els fitxers xml) i d'una sentada juntament amb el meu fill (@pswsm@mastodont.cat) que em va tirar un cable es va completar a falta de donar-li una mica de carinyo a la part del disseny (que si es smallweb, però si més no que quedi maca) i la presentaré oficialment! #smallweb #blog #php #xml

Anway im starting to upload my blogposts on to my site heres one where anout a cool #tamagotchi fangame I found#gaming #blog #smallweb #indieweb #virtualpet #fangame #videogames www.ghastlymirror.xyz/blog/eternic...

Eternichi, A Tamagotchi That L...

Introducing Streamiverse… a simple Mastodon-compatible streaming API of curated posts from the fediverse.

https://streamiverse.small-web.org

Consume the public API curated/hosted by Small Technology Foundation (for non-commercial and educational use) or host your own.

Mastodon had a public streaming API but it was locked down this year. This gives you back that useful feature (for demos, teaching, etc.) plus you know exactly what you’re getting.

#streamiverse #mastodon #fediverse #API #SmallWeb #Kitten

Spent all aftertnoon with my astro rebuild, for some reason get get the opengraph thing to work, it only shows the title and description for my blog post lol #coding #webcoding #blog #astro #smallweb #indieweb

So, I finally finished my blog, its now up and running. I plan on like writting game reviews maybe use it as another place to share my photos you know?#Smallweb #Blog #Coding #WebCoding #Gaming #Photographywww.ghastlymirror.xyz

The Ghastly Mirror 👻

I just updated the Small Technology Foundation funding page to use Ethereum instead of Nano as the cryptocurrency option since Ethereum is now proof-of-stake instead of the planet-destroying proof-of-work (hello, Bitcoin and co.) and because Nano is apparently a pain to obtain (had a few folks complain).

So if you want to donate anonymously, this should make it easier to do so.

Your donations do help. So thank you! :)

https://small-tech.org/fund-us/

💕

#SmallTechnologyFoundation #SmallTech #SmallWeb

I really like personal homepages and have quite a list of them bookmarked. I'll post one every week unless I fall behind this schedule. 😉 So here's Cool Personal Homepages #CPH Vol. 30: "the museum of alexandra" https://xandra.cc/

PS: @xandra is on Mastodon!

#SmallWeb #indieweb #smolweb #PersonalSites #homepage #blog

I really like personal homepages and have quite a list of them bookmarked. I'll post one every week unless I fall behind this schedule. 😉 So here's Cool Personal Homepages #CPH Vol. 29: "Lewis.org" https://www.lewis.org/

#SmallWeb #indieweb #smolweb #PersonalSites #homepage #blog

Ooh, looks like Woodpecker CI is getting support for running rootless images. Which means I should be able to set up CI for Kitten* on @Codeberg soon :)

https://github.com/woodpecker-ci/woodpecker/pull/4151

* https://kitten.small-web.org

#kitten #SmallWeb #continuousIntegration #codeberg #woodpecker