In anticipation of WWW Day on 1 August, some work colleagues and I were sharing pictures of the first (or early) websites we worked on. I was pleased to be able to pull out a screenshot of how my blog looked back in 1999!

Because I'm such a digital preservationist, many of those ancient indieweb, blogging, nostalgia, css

The ever-excellent Kev Quirk in 2020 came up with this challenge: write a blog post on each of 100 consecutive days. He called it #100DaysToOffload, in nominal reference to the "100 days of code" challenge. I was reflecting upon this as I reach this, my 36th consecutive day of blogging and my #100daystooffload, published on gemini, indieweb, blogging, statistics, wordpress

This post is part of my attempt at Bloganuary 2024. Today's prompt is:
In what ways do you communicate online?
What a curious question! For me, it's perhaps best divided into public and private communication, for which I use very different media:
Public
I've written before about how this site

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Tracy Durnell's post about blogrolls really spoke to me. Like her, I used to think of a blogroll as a list of people you know personally (who happen to blog), but the number of bloggers among my immediate in-person circle of friends has shrunk from several dozen to just a handful, and I dropped my

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Just in time for Robin Sloan to give up on Spring '83, earlier this month I finally got aroud to launching STS-6 (named for the first mission of the Space Shuttle Challenger in Spring 1983), my experimental Spring '83 server. It's been a busy year; I had other things to do. But you might have web development, spring83, web, gemini, indieweb, published on gemini, programming, technology

Mastodon's Eternal September begins
In the light of the so-called "Twitter migration", I've spent a lot of the last week helping people new to Mastodon/the Fediverse in general to understand it. Or at least, to understand how it's different from Twitter.

If you're among those jumping ship, by twitter, mastodon, indieweb, technology, fediverse

I've been spending a while running on reduced brain capacity lately so, to ease myself back into thinking like a programmer, I upgraded my preferred feed reader FreshRSS to version 1.20.0 - which was released a couple of weeks ago - and tried out what I believe is its killer new feature: HTML +

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Via Jeremy Keith I today discovered Jim Nielsen's suggestion for a website's /.well-known/links to be a place where it can host a JSON-formatted list of all of its outgoing links.

That's a really useful thing to have in this new age of the web, where Refererer: headers are no-longer commonly standards, web development, indieweb, web, open source, wordpress

As you might know if you were paying close attention in Summer 2019, I run a "URL shortener" for my personal use. You may be familiar with public URL shorteners like TinyURL and Bit.ly: my personal URL shortener is basically the same thing, except that only I am able to make short-links with it.

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I use the Post Kinds plugin to streamline the management of the different types of posts I make on my blog, based on the IndieWeb post types list: articles, like this one, are "conventional" blog posts, but I also publish notes (which are analogous to "tweets"), reposts ("shares" of things I've

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