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Webmention is an open web standard (W3C Recommendation) for conversations and interactions across the web, a powerful building block used for a growing distributed network of peer-to-peer comments, likes, reposts, and other responses across the web.

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v buckenham | artist / curator / game designer / creative technologist / etc | based in London, UK

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Optimising for trust

TDD, BDD, DDD, Agile, SAFe, Scrum, Kanban, XP… there’s a lot of ways to skin a cat write code in a professional environment. I take pride in being a person who is a non-ideologue when it comes to my code. There are many good ways of working, and they are all context-dependent. You can’t apply the same things that worked when you were a two-person startup operating out of the proverbial garage and expect them to work once your hypothetical unicorn has reached a thousand-plus developers. Even within the same organisation, processes that work for one team can be catastrophic when applied to their neighbouring team.

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Saying the quiet part out loud

“Saying the quiet part out loud” is a phrase I’ve just made up, to describe a method of building alignment on practices within a team. It’s the habit of stating why you are doing things a certain way, even when you would assume it’s obvious.

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Things that made me think: Cycle time, learning theory, and build chain security

This series is a place to collect interesting things I’ve seen, read, or heard, along with some brief thoughts (often incomplete and/or inconclusive) that they provoked. Measuring Cyle Time with Dr. Cat Hicks - The Hanger DX Podcast, Ankit Jain Cycle time is a measure lots of people use, but has no clear audience - developers, managers, CTOs all care about it. This makes it dangerous. Metrics have to be designed and used with psychological safety in mind. If people don’t trust the intention behind the metrics use, they’ll game it.

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LLMs are a 400-year-long confidence trick

In 1623 the German Wilhelm Schickard produced the first known designs for a mechanical calculator. Twenty years later Blaise Pascal produced a machine of an improved design, aiming to help with the large amount of tedious arithmetic required in his role as a tax collector. The interest in mechanical calculation showed no sign of reducing in the subsequent centuries, as generations of people worldwide followed in Pascal and Wilhelm’s footsteps, subscribing to their view that offloading mental energy to a machine would be a relief.

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Cull your dependencies

Anyone writing code professionally in December 2021 will remember the “fun” of the Log4J vulnerability. For those that weren’t - this was a critical security error that allowed attackers to run any code they wanted on your servers. The root cause was a logging library, Log4J, that is used by most projects that are writting in Java. It’s usually used to write code something like: log.info("Process completed successfully"); which will then appear in your logs, allowing you to track your application’s behaviour. Pretty innocuous stuff.

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Welcome to the IndieWeb

After setting up an RSS feed reader and reading Hacker News for some time, I realized (again) how fantastic personal blogs are. So many interesting people and posts which never make it into my usual channels.

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kbbl

A Webmention implementation in Rust

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Own Your Web

Own Your Web is a newsletter by Matthias Ott about designing, building, creating, and publishing for and on the Web. Every other week, I send out an exclusive email full of actionable insights, best practices, hacks, links, books, tools, and other high-quality insights I found or explored. Whether you want to get started with your own personal website or level up as a designer, developer, or independent creator working with the ever-changing material of the Web, this little email is for you. ❤✊ Free. No spam ever. You can unsubscribe at any time. By signing up, you consent to my use of your email address to stay in touch with you, as provided in my Privacy Policy.

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Interesting Links I Found on March, 2020

##Tech#📓 A Type of Programming WIP Book about Haskell 🤪 Vim Doc’s Joke - UserGettingBored 🆅 iVim setup ##Knowledge#🗣 Using Parts of Speech to Improve Your Writing Style - William Strunk Jr. 🧠 Book Review: Don’t Make Me Think! - Desi →

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Interesting Links I Found on April, 2020

##Tech#🌏 IndieWeb Led me to IndieWebify this site. 👠 vime/README.md at master · vime-js/vime · GitHub 🛂 Password Strengh - xkcd #936 ##Blog#📰 Ask HackerNews: What is your blog 🧮 Analyzing HN Reader’s Personal Blogs Part 1 - Danny Salzman, by Danny Salzman 🌑 RIP John Conway - xkcd #2293 ##Knowledge#An interesting post by Yihui Xie, maintainer of TinyTex, and its follow-up that leads me to this naughty website: 🐒 Corrupt a file - Corrupt file online, deliver on time! →

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Remove Specific Files from Old Git Commit

Ever accidentally committed <code>node_modules</code>? Or want to remove files from a commit 15 before <code>HEAD</code>? I did. I'd like to share the solution for you.

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About The Web Analytics I Use

I implemented a good, privacy-respecting web analytics for this website since May the 20th. It is called GoatCounter. I try to explain and reason about it.

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Migrating My Blog to Hugo

I originally planned to make my own Markdown parser and use gist as my blog CMS. After researched a bit between static site generator, I choose Hugo.

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Interesting Links I Found on May, 2020

##Tech#📠 Building a Memex - Andrew Louis Awesome project! I think the name is hilarious because it sounds like Indonesian slang word for vagina. 🌳 stagit - codemadness I like Luke Smith’s git site and emailed him asking how it’s made. He said it is stagit, and he mentioned list of other awesome suckless tools. ##Blog#🎭 A More Privacy Friendly Blog - Vincent Bernat 🗣 Metaphors in man pages - Julia Evans Linguistic fascinates me. This post points out the often used metaphors in programming area. Nicely written too. →

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Interesting Links I Found on July 2020

##Articles#Who Loses Big in the Great Streaming Wars? The User by Alan Sepinwall via Rolling Stone. Mirror archive.is I Tried to Live Without the Tech Giants. It Was Impossible. by Kashmir Hill via NYTimes. How a journalist try to ditch any services backed by Amazon, Google, Facebook and Apple for experiment. Nice short read. Mirror archive.is Tambora Mountain via Wikipedia. Not that I am proud of it, but my country had done many worldwide disaster. Natural or cultural disaster. This one mountain erupted on 1815, and the aftermath is called “Year Without a Summer” →

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Refactoring My Site

I am currently refactoring my site. The main goal is to reduce page size, remove tracker, reduce JavaScript usage, and leverage as much Indieweb features as I can.

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Some Apple Scripts for Safari

macOS provides way to change default key bindings for any applications, and changed some of Safari's key bindings with it too. I discovered other way to "change" or add key bindings with Apple Script and FastScripts. It is awesome that I'd like to share it.

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Kalender dan Yearly Planner 2021

(This post is in Indonesian) Sudah lama saya tidak mendesain. Sembari belajar lagi, saya coba bikin kalender sekaligus <em>yearly planner</em> tahun 2021. PDF bisa diunduh di artikel ini.

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Inclusive Content Sharing

In this quick post, I talk about how complicated this world is, more with the internet. The main premise is about thinking twice before sharing a link or image. But in the end, you cannot (or it is hard to) please everyone.

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Interesting Links I Found on June, 2020

The June’s issue is late, sorry. I’ve been busy at work. ##Website#Increment.com Well designed site that contains good articles, updated per 3 month issues. They offer a printed edition that looks good too. I haven’t buy their printed edition yet, because the shipping to my country tagged twice the price of the books. Beginner’s Guide to Abstraction - Jesse Duffield A complementary read to Bret Victor’s Up and Down the Ladder of Abstraction (you can read it here). →

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On Free Trial, Refund, and Horrible Customer Support

This is more of a rant than a proper blog post. You may call this is a "Buyer’s Remorse". I say, this is a biased review for <strong>Pinboard</strong> and <strong>Feed Wrangler</strong>.<br>I am forced to use those services because of their inactive customer support and unreliable refund policy.

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Org-mode with Org-roam

Let's stop worrying and start loving <s>Emacs</s> <strong>Org-mode</strong>! The main reason I use <s>Emacs</s> Org-mode is for <strong>Org-roam</strong>, a framework that enable notes linking based on Roam Research, that's based on <i>slip-box</i> note taking method.

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Non Null Type Inference After Null Checking in Flutter

It is silly that Flutter cannot dictate from the null check not a moment ago, and infer that a variable is in fact non-nullable. There is only one possible control flow from that point on! Bang operator is risky because there's possibility of neglecting the operator in future refactoring. So I use this approach.

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Molly White

as someone with an anxiety disorder who gets bad brain fog during very anxious periods, choosing software engineering and then writing as careers was certainly a series of decisions

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Molly White

The White House says Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick properly divested from Cantor Fitzgerald by transferring leadership to his sons. Anyway GOP officials called Lutnick about a Cantor-funded PAC planning to spend $1.75M on Ken Paxton and the PAC reversed course, but that’s probably just how independent companies behave when the former owner gets a phone call.

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Molly White

i like to think if anyone ever hacks my Google account they'll get totally derailed trying to decipher my hundreds of spreadsheets that all look something like this

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“the whole world, unfortunately, has become somewhat of a casino” says the man who ran multiple casinos, whose company plans to launch a prediction market, and who nominated a CFTC chair who celebrates prediction markets as part of a “golden age” for finance

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Molly White

A recent CoinDesk survey found 73% disapprove of government officials having crypto business ties, yet 55% weren’t aware of Trump’s involvement, and only 17% knew he co-founded World Liberty Financial. This underscores why my work at Citation Needed is so necessary. https://www.citationneeded.news/signup/

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Molly White

beyond all the crypto stuff, it seems like a red flag that the Fed Chair nominee clearly went through a DAO phase (Friends With Benefits was big in 2021–2022-ish? and landed a $100M valuation from a16z ll)

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Molly White

i have never clicked "interested" on a Google News push notification except for on this and one other hummingbird migration–related article, and i'm hoping to train the algorithm to only push notify me with hummingbird content

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Michael's pondering thoughts

I came across this hilarious YouTube short from a British TV show. I think the British have some great TV, and this one had me rolling on th...

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Michael's pondering thoughts

Jim Mitchell adds notes to his site via a webmention. His note post tells all about it here and I am testing to see if it works and if my s...

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Molly White

I have purchased the PACER documents so everyone can read the impact statements submitted by victims of Do Kwon and the 2022 Terra/Luna meltdown. Collapses like these ruin lives.

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One of us

Writings on infosec, technology and life

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An Introduction to the IndieWeb

There’s a better way to own and control your online identityThis post was originally published on Chris Aldrich

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Memoiren eines Prüflings | Text « ovl

Da mir Wissen während meiner Abschlussprüfung keine Sicherheit geben konnte (Grund: vermeintlich fehlend), musste ich es mit schreiben versuchen. Freundlicherweise hat mir niemand mein Notizbuch weggenommen. Blöderweise hatte ich kein Wissen in ihm notiert.

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Incremental progress

Lately I’ve been seeing a lot of criticism about the IndieWeb movement based on the notion that everything that comes out of it is biased towards people with technology privilege; that it’s all well and good for people who know how to run a website to build their own thing, but that the vast majority of the Internet is made up of people who’d have nowhere to begin. And that it follows that the IndieWeb movement is inherently flawed.

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Migrating to 11ty

It's been a while coming, but I've finally managed to get around to migrating to 11ty and Cloudflare Pages. I go over the ups and downs of the migration proc...

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Hexanoodle

A CH32V203 microcontroller board targetted at driving six LED noodles.

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Defining the indieweb for 2026

My thoughts on updating the definition of “indieweb” in response to the problems of 2026, and when we’re no longer trying to recreate social media on websites.

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How I moderate technical panels

I'll share my experiences and tips on moderating technical panels - from research to post-event feedback - to help you host successful and engaging tech discussions.

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Embracing AI because I'm Lazy

I'm not a fan of AI, but I've found it's a useful crutch for lazy writers like me. Read my story of embracing ChatGPT and how it helped me get started on projects.

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Being an Videographer and Interviewer at PyCon 2023

I recently attended PyCon and created a video series featuring interviews with attendees, speakers, and maintainers. I struggled with time management, editing, and technical issues, including low storage space on my devices. Despite these challenges, I enjoyed attending the event and creating content, but acknowledge that producing high-quality videos requires more support and planning.

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Introducing the TIRE Method

Discover a flexible framework for making decisions that lets you weigh 'time', 'intuition', 'resources' and 'energy' to guide your choices.

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Shut up and Dribble

I'm fighting the attitude of being told what I should be doing. I'm not here to say I'm right or wrong. I just wish the conversation was more collaborative

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Introducing Super Conductor

Join me for exclusive coworking sessions, bi-weekly invites to help you stay focused and get things done - a unique perk for Conduit's Super Conductor members.

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7 Rules for Authentic Networking

Networking feels 'gross' when it's transactional. Learn how to build genuine connections with these 7 rules, focusing on friendship, authenticity, and giving back rather than just asking for favors.

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On Getting Your First Job in Tech (Part 1)

I'm not looking for someone who's going to be a passive friend in need of a job. I want to know that you're someone who can contribute to the community and show some effort in building relationships.

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Render Engine Update June 2023 Patch

I recently had the chance to dive into our render engine update for June 2023 and I'm excited to share what changed. From simplifying design to refreshing how pages are accessed, there's a lot to explore.

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Ian Wold

Ian Wold is a Software Engineer, Architect, and Team Leader in Minneapolis.

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~hedy's home: hedy's canonical web presence including contact information and a blog.

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Changelog

The following changelog reflects system, functional, and stylistic updates. You can find content updates as part of the Updates page or as new blog posts. You can subscribe to my changelog via the following feeds: ATOM Feed of Changelog RSS Feed of Changelog 2025-12-30 Added Top 4 page. 2025-09-28 Removed Privacy Policy note about Webmentions. I stopped using and including a webmention pingback URL in September, 2023. 2025-08-05 Add tag list to RSS feed. 2025-03-16 Added “gatherer of books” to my About page. 2024-12-17 Rename role=menu and role=menuitem to role=list and role=listitem respectively. This is based on my read of Be Careful Using ‘Menu’ — Adrian Roselli. 2024-12-06 Epigraphs presented in “random order”; each time I export my epigraphs, I write them in a random order. In this way I hope to create more opportunities for serendipity. Remove backlinks of Epigraphs to where I’ve referenced them. 2024-12-03 Add additional microformat properties to document elements. 2024-11-08 Removed rel="tag" from body A-tags. Added link[rel=tag] to header. 2024-11-03 Create XSL for /index.xml; thus providing a “pretty” render for the RSS feed. This includes a how to do RSS. Promote RSS Feed to Site Navigation. Remove direct links to ATOM and JSON feed; those still exist and are declared in the HTML head element. 2024-03-11 Remove most colors from the site. Minimal colors is just fine. 2024-02-07 Removing Schema.org elements. I can restore them if I want, but it cuts down each page by at least 5 Kilobytes. 2024-02-01 Adding progressive Javascript enhancement for sidenotes. 2024-01-26 Adding ASCII-based bargraph to stats page. 2024-01-13 Add Reply to Post link to page. Move copyright section to bottom of page. 2024-01-10 Simplifying the DL-tag options. This reflects that I most often want a somewhat tabular view of a definition list. 2024-01-03 Added the In the Shadows of Mont Brun; marking several posts as part of the series. 2023-12-31 Released many prior works under Creati

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What is the IndieWeb | Chris Aldrich
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Htmx Django and Django Table2

How I use Htmx for showing in a Django project a django-table2 filled with data from a MonthArchiveView

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Issn for a Blog

How to add ISSN metadata to a web page is a good idea. Why not register your blog in the ISSN ? I am looking to do it

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CSS Theming in 2024

Updating the blog's theming to use new CSS techniques, avoiding flash-of-unstyled-content, and handling OS-level dark/light preferences.

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Migration to Jekyll

My experience transitioning from Octopress 2.0 to Jekyll 3

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Platform Engineering is Archaeology with Deadlines

I joined a company in 2019 to build a bank. COVID killed that project. I got moved to a food delivery app with 1.3 million lines of code, 750k still in Objective-C, and a Swift migration that had stalled for two years.

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2020 - What A Year

We are officially halfway through 2020 and boy has it been a wild ride.

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Choosing A Font

As part of the redesign, I wanted to choose new fonts. For prose, I wanted something legible with high readability. For code, I wanted a compact width.

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The Days You Show Up Anyway

I used to think success was about crushing it on your best days. Turns out, the days that really matter are the ones where you barely want to get out of bed.

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The Friction That Made Us Talk

Engineers want to solve their own problems, and AI made acting on that motivation cheap. Alignment used to happen before any code. Now it happens after the tools have shipped.

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Upgrading to an M4 Max

Apple announced their new MacBooks with M4 processors. I picked up a new MacBook Pro 14" with an M4 Max processor to replace my 2021 MacBook Pro with an M1 Pro.

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Explore vs Execute: Finding Your Mode

I've been thinking about how we switch between exploration and execution modes, both in startups and personal projects. Turns out, knowing which mode you're in changes everything.

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Why Your "Quick Fix" Takes Two Weeks

Every developer knows that sinking feeling when a "quick" project becomes a multi-week saga. Turns out, there's a reason for that—and it's not just bad estimates.

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Theming Via CSS Properties

Where I talk about adding a new feature to my blog where you can switch between a Night and Day theme.

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Speak For Yourself

Your screenshot is not an argument. Tell me what you think.

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Major /uses Page Overhaul

I've been tinkering away on my /uses page and it's time for a grand reveal. I've made significant changes since it was first posted.

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Learn Your Tools

If you don't know how your tools work, you're guessing. Learn the seams.

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Finishing up the Prusa XL

I originally pre-ordered the Prusa XL 5 head semi-assembled and received it in the beginning of the year. Looking at the expected build time, I started building it and quickly lost energy to finish it. It sat on the table for six months until I got a not-so-gentle push to finish it from my wife.

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Under Major Construction

This site is currently under major construction. I'm modernizing and touching up everything in the toolchain, while maintaining all legacy links and features.

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What I Hand Off

Trust but verify. The amount of verification depends on the stakes and how well I know the domain.

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Website self-sustenance checkup

I did inventory on my dependencies for writing, building and publishing on this site. I want to make sure I can survive any dependency disappearing with minimal immediate emergency work.

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Autonomy Online: A Case For The IndieWeb — Smashing Magazine

Nowadays whether you’re consuming or sharing content on the web, it is likely to be via a big website. Twitter, Youtube, or a Facebook-owned service are popular examples. Whilst this gives us the advantage of being able to participate in a larger conversation at almost no monetary cost, there is also the downside of potentially losing all our content if a company closes, as has happened in the past. There is an alternative to corporate bubbles online — it’s called the IndieWeb. Build your own personal websites, control your online presence, and learn on your own terms.

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Building an IndieWeb Reader

Over the last several months, I've been slowly putting the pieces in place to be able to build a solid indieweb reader. Today, I feel like I finally have enough in place to consider this functional enough that I am now using it every day!

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Jo's Blog

Hello there! This is my personal website and it is allergic to SEO.

Cool Things People Do With Their Blogs

Small and independent blogs are always full of surprises. The more blogs I stumble upon, the more …

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HTMX and Elixir

What I learned from building several HTMX apps on Elixir Phoenix

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An Attempt

Figuring out what I really think about writing

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Newsletter - June Bugs

Newsletter - We talk about having COVID and some web shares around the web, including China's Internet being wiped, Inbox Ten, in praise of amateurism, and exploring Jhanas.

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[Quote] Toothpaste Expiration Dates (NLJ Link)

This is the 59th entry in Nicholas A. Ferrell’s long-running Justin and Justina dialogue series. Inspired by a true story (N.A. Ferrell, who is me writing in the third person, bought things at Lot…

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Jasper is blogging: A Fence

It's not an actively-held opinion or anything, but I've always felt like still life photography is a bit of a cop-out. Your subject just sits there, patiently, you point your camera, take your picture, and that's it.

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Webmentions for your Static Site

A small dive into one of my new favourite web technologies: webmentions. This post talks through how I use them to make my static website feel more alive and social.

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Sunny ferry

I have an extra day off today after the extra long weekend.

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Not XP1

Years ago a good friend gave me a bag of spent 35mm film cartridges to bulk roll with and it always makes me chuckle when I fill one back up again.

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Dartmouth ferry ride

This week I had an extra day off after the extra-long Easter weekend and with the sun shining, I decided to take the ferry over to Dartmouth with a camera.

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Canoe trip packing

When there's a pile of outdoor gear piled on the floor only one thing can be upcoming, a canoe trip into the backcountry.

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Adding support for Webmentions — Max Glenister

I’ve added Webmention support to the posts on this blog. Webmentions are a method for websites to know that they’ve been linked to (or mentioned) from elsew...

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Why I migrated my blog from WordPress to Hugo

Before you start your blog, you have to perform a set of essential choices – topics you want to write about, domain name, and the way you’ll publish your content. I choose the self-hosted …

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Migrating Firewall And Splitting Networks

This will be an almost technical post that probably nobody will find useful — oh, pishposh.1 Maybe by getting practice I’ll get better with this kind of content. The Premise Our company had an obsolete Sophos XG firewall that had to be replaced with a new XGS model. In addition, the network had to be split from a single one, e.g., 192.168.0.0/24, into two: 192.168.99.0/24 and 172.16.99.0/24. Then all the machines’ IPs had to be changed accordingly. My duty was to plan the migration and configure both firewalls.

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Nullboard on a Raspberry Pi

A few months ago, I stumbled upon Nullboard, a minimalist Kanban board. I’ve always had a soft spot for time and task-management softwares, as well for minimalism. I was immediately intrigued by its simplicity and its intelligence: the data is stored in the browser, so the entire software is just a simple HTML page. The other day, I decided to self-host it on my brand new Raspberry Pi 5. I wanted some simple rules:

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MacOS Black and White Wallpapers

I don’t always use Brave browser, but the other day I stumbled upon a cool image by one of their sponsors. Notice: In order to zoom and un-dither the images, JavaScript must be enabled. Simple yet sexy The alternate version of this image does not exist. Scroll on!

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Closer to Dad

Since the days are getting shorter, I can finally enjoy our new home a bit more. In the past three months, I’ve been working on several projects that were completely new to me: a fence with three wooden gates, stone walls, a car shelter… even a wooden door. I had to become an amateur electrician, carpenter, woodworker, and plumber. Most of all, I’m happy because I’m proud of what I’ve done.

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Go Visit Dordogne 🇫🇷

Two weeks ago, I was ranting about vacations. Today is my last day away from work, and I totally enjoyed the latter days; as always, I just needed to step away from the routine. For one time, I’ll just stop whining and will go straight to the point: you should visit Dordogne. France has a lot of charming provinces, but this one has it all: Dozens of castles to visit or just admire while moving from and to… Lots of tiny, wonderful medieval villages with stone houses, ramparts, and so on Many sport activities to enjoy: MTB, kayak, canoe, trekking, … Delightful BnB locations in ancient, renovated places Notice: In order to zoom and un-dither the images, JavaScript must be enabled.

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Re: Using greyscale

I just read James’s post on using greyscale on mobile and definitely want to try. Other than that it could help me use it less, maybe it could also be useful for increasing battery life — or maybe the opposite, if the color processing is done after… Bah, too much thinking. Let’s just do it and see.

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Note from March 17, 2026

GoToSocial is great, but until the capability of deleting old statuses goes online, I live in constant tension 😶 Today the disk space on my VPS ran out, and I almost didn’t know what I could clean up. Fingers crossed for the next releases.

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Life Through Two Lenses

When I was eight, our teacher hung a yellowish piece of paper on the blackboard and said, “Copy this.” I was sitting at the end of the classroom and suddenly felt confused. I could only see a large, blank sheet. After a while, I remember raising my hand and asking shyly, “Mrs. Teacher, I can’t see anything there.” She must have been used to that because she immediately replied, “Try getting closer.” I took a couple of steps toward the center of the room, and Huey, Dewey, and Louie appeared on the yellow paper. That’s how I discovered I am myopic.

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My Weeknotes for the third Week of July

I've been thinking about blogging more regularly, even if it's just quick "Today I Learned" posts whenever I discover a new approach to something. In our latest podcast episode, we discussed sentinel values in Python, and my Auto sentinel approach didn't go over well. We even received an email from a listener suggesting improvements, which got me thinking—this deserves a blog post. The takeaway? Avoid sentinel values unless you can't use None because it already has special meaning (like representing null in a database). I also wrote about handling editable installs with uv, since running uv pip install -e ../some-dependency followed by uv run pytest can cause issues when uv run internally calls uv sync. While I don't have a perfect solution yet, my current workaround might help others facing the same problem.

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Note from April 10, 2026

Lately, I’ve been working a lot outside. We’ve built a pergola, covered a concrete cylinder used as a well with stones and old bricks… and I’ve listened to a lot of music. Metal music. Specifically, post-metal music. The latest Neurosis album made me (re?)discover a playlist that contains some gems. I hardly appreciate some of them, but definitely have others on loop. Jesu is one of my favorite discoveries, and Boris were quite a surprise too!

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DIY Bearblog Appreciation Button

The other day I stumbled upon Naty’s beautiful blog and found lots of suggestions about implementing indieweb features on websites generated by Hugo — such as this very blog. Among the articles, a guide attracted my attention in particular: inserting a like button on the blog like Bearblog’s one? Is this sci-fi?! I immediately went to iine’s GitHub repository and loved the idea, but quickly found that the “quick and dirty” self-hosted option is based on Supabase or needs a PostgreSQL database installed.

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Utopia, by John Lennon

Imagine there’s no countries It isn’t hard to do Nothing to kill or die for And no religion too Imagine all the people Living life in peace Bullshit. Alas. I remember our teachers from elementary school. They tried their best to educate us about the importance of peace. In those years, the war in Kosovo was the latest one and 9/11 was on the horizon. I recall many events organized by my school, for example in the medieval church of my village, with readings and songs against conflicts performed by us children. The message from our teachers and parents has always been very clear: peace is not only good, it is essential.

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Iced Lemon Tea

Spring has sprung1 here in Northern Italy. Finally. I had planned to enjoy the cold months playing some video games, writing more… but none of that happened. Well, that’s not completely true: there has been a short story – the first one in more than a year! – and I figured out how to play Windows games on my Mac… but nothing serious. Back to work, I bought a four-meter-long tree pruner, and we used it a lot. In the last two or three years, we cut a lot of wood. Too much. The trees had loads of dead branches, and we had to chop a huge quantity of twigs and whole trees.

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Music Roundup - April 2026

Finally I have realistic #ListenBrainz statistics since I managed to sync the scrobbles from iOS! This month my most played albums were: 1. First Came the Shadow - First Came The Shadow I found this album thanks to the Apple “related albums” to Sagor Som Leder Mot Slutet, and I was pleasantly surprised! It is delicate and strong; it has it all. I quickly listened to the whole discography, but it needs more attention.

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IndieWeb Deep-diving

While browsing the web I often came across the term “indieweb”. I still don’t fully understand it, but I surely love its philosophy as well as the small web, Web 1.0, etc. That’s why I first created this blog on Bearblog. The Tech More recently I learned about microformats2 and how they could transform static websites like mine into precious gold mines. They can provide simple commenting systems with Fediverse integration, show the likes of a webpage, or just the mentions. About the latter, webmentions by Aaron are the ones that struck my attention first.

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Note from April 21, 2026

Today the nostalgia mode is activated — the radio started it. I’m so easily influenced by music! It’s strange to say, but I come from an era when playlists were made on cassettes, recorded from the radio or other CDs and cassettes. I made a dozen myself for my friends, and Adam’s Song playing this morning reminded me that it was a constant in those years. Enema of the State by Blink-182 was one of my favorite CDs in middle school. I still remember when a friend of mine lent it to me.

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Note from March 14, 2026

Ok, this is my very first post note written entirely from my phone. I’ll make another, longer, one to explain the whole setup — which I don’t know if saying I’m proud of. It has a huge vantage, which for me is the most important: it is entirely self-hosted. Only devices and machines at my place. I’m experimenting with POSSE and so you can read this both in my blog and my fediverse account.

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My Personal Indy

This is my very first entry for the IndieWeb Carnival, this month hosted by Pablo and the topic is Adventure. I’m astonished I never found time before. Shame on me! I was quite an amoeba until a few years ago. That’s it. If I were on my own, making my own choices day by day, I’d probably never step out of my comfort zone. Maybe I’m a coward, but honestly I think I was grown in laziness and routine. Dangerous life at its finest.

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Note from April 12, 2026

Quite upset because the only way I could find to scrobble listens from iOS to ListenBrainz was to buy a third-party app (Marvis Pro - €10) and then scrobbling to… Last.fm! Then, using a Python tool, I synced the listens to the ListenBrainz account. It runs on crontab on my Raspberry. Darn it, Apple. Why make things so complicated?

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Note from April 24, 2026

Today we picked some elderflowers! We will try to make a jam and a flavored gin. Updates will follow!

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Note from March 15, 2026

I just discovered Cosmicomics by Italo Calvino, a collection of stories set in… space?! By Calvino?! I have to read it! But I’m already tired if I think about the effort to look for it in local thrift markets.

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A Wooden Cold Frame

One of the aspects I prefer about living in the new home is the freedom of creating anything: stone walls, woodsheds, green areas, vegetable gardens… You name it. I’m slowly transitioning into a curious man who likes to give shape to things. My girlfriend is the brain and I am the arms: she sees ideas on Pinterest and Instagram1, shares them with me, and says, “You could do it.” Yeah, like if I have a great experience.

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Webmentions: Exchange data between websites

One of the goals of the IndieWeb is to be independent from centralized platforms without losing contact to friends. Besides of the POSSE principle the IndieWeb communityuses Microformats2 to create structured data with HTML and Webmentions to communicate with other websites.

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Shellsharks Syndication Strategy

How I approach syndication for content from shellsharks.com.

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Comment to a WordPress blog post via the Fediverse - @rolle / Web designer, web developer

I have finally implemented a very simple Fediverse-commenting to my WordPress blog here at rolle.design in favor of Webmention. I have practically taken the Carl Schwan’s code and modified it a bit. Mastodon’s API is quite simple, but I wanted to get it done in ten minutes. There are other fancier ways available, which even […]

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Bridgy Fed

Bridgy Fed is a bridge between decentralized social networks like the fediverse, Bluesky, and web sites and blogs.

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Getting started with Webmentions in Gatsby

Let's learn how to implement Webmentions friendly markup, and get them onto your website made with Gatsby. Bonus: You'll also learn how to trigger new builds on Netlify whenever a mentoin happens.

Articles now with comments

I've added a comment section to the articles, powered by GitHub Discussions.

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Webmentions

How this site sends and receives Webmentions.

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Practical ARIA examples

Infrequently published reports from the world of front-end development with a focus on accessibility, web performance, CSS and 11ty.

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AksDev

Akseli's various rambles and posts about gaming, gamedev, FOSS, programming and other things.

One sanitized and sandboxed Fediverse profile to rule them all

After musing over having my social web presence on my own domain thanks to the book Indie Microblogging, I’ve decided to try having such a profile on the Fediverse for a year. But Mastodon and the most of the Fediverse platforms are too noisy by default, having borrowed likes,

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Hello, World Wide IndieWeb!

It’s a new year, so it’s time for a new design! Only this time, the update is more than just a CSS revamp. This year, I join the “IndieWeb”. If you don’t know w

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Webmentions

How I've added Webmentions to my site over the years, and my general thoughts on the protocol.

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Building an IndieWeb house (III): a smorgasbord of other tips

I don’t really like blog post titles that just promise tips, but this post is truly a mishmash of other stuff I’ve learnt, so I couldn’t think of anything better. I at least refrained from calling it ‘Clare’s top tips’, which was the title I put on the slides for this section when I was giving the talk these posts are based on…

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Webmention + Next.js | Learn With Jason Season 3

Did you know that Webmentions let you pull tweets, other blogs, and other activity from around the web into your site? In this episode, Monica Powell teaches us how to add it to a Next.js site!

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Webmentions

This website accepts Webmentions! You can send a Webmention directly or via BlueSky, your interactions are welcome. Public mentions of my site in your posts, and your comments, likes, and replies (on BlueSky) will be reflected back on my site below the article.

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Photography-ing Again!

For the past few months, I have been picking back up my long-dormant interest in photography. It feels good to be back at it!

Own Your Web – Issue 14: Webmentions

Hi All! 🤗 Imagine, just for a second, a future in which we all have our own websites and that those sites are at the center of everything we do and create...

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Pelican, Pingback and Webmentions

Linkback protocols are an old breed. They were born in a time where MySpace, Wikipedia & WordPress had just been launched, and Friendster was more popular than this new website called Facebook. Diagram source: PPRuNe article on linkbacks The latest linkback protocol, Webmention, is relatively recent though, as it became a …

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What is the IndieWeb?

I decide to throw my hat into the ring and define what exactly the IndieWeb movement is, the core principles, and why it matters for the future of the Internet.

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Pushl

Pushl: A tool for generating WebMention, Pingback, and WebSub notifications from arbitrary websites regardless of their underlying publishing system.

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On Tinkering

Infrequently published reports from the world of front-end development with a focus on accessibility, web performance, CSS and 11ty.

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Getting Started With Webmention and NextJS

An overview of setting up Webmention on a NextJS site to collect comments from across the decentralized social web (i.e., Twitter, GitHub, Pinterest, Reddit) in a centralized place.

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Fetch Webmentions Automatically with GitHub Actions

An overview of how in addition to using Brid.gy and Webmentions.io I'm adding GitHub Actions and soon Webmentions.app (or its closely related CLI tool) to automate updating my website with the latest Webmentions and sending outgoing Webmentions to other websites.

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