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THROW OFF YOUR SUBSTACK CHAINS! DON'T CONFINE YOUR CREATIONS TO THE INBOX! ESCAPE THE ALGORITHMIC PRISON!

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Links to interesting articles, resources and tools from Week 06, 2026.

As generative AI and LLMs seem to take over the world, and as someone who has significant ethical concerns about these technologies, I've been feeling quite despondent lately.

Although normally spoken about as a cohesive whole, different aspects of the indie web ethos can wind up in tension with each other, which raises the question of which one ultimately takes priority. On the one hand, we have the general interest in onboarding, i.e. helping more people onto the indie web; on the other hand, the issue of onboarding can place some strain on other commonly touted ideals. At the end of the day, which form of independence matters most? And what does the answer entail for our understanding of who the indie web is “for”?

new york state of mind

From the blog of Jared Christensen

Continuous improvement in a complicated world. By Brian Kerr

Web related links worth saving

Thoughts, feelings, and code from Tom - based in Christchurch NZ.

From the blog of Jared Christensen

It's almost spring!

The latest entries posted on ihatemornings

Continuous improvement in a complicated world. By Brian Kerr

Large language models and their associated bots are bad for the indie web in at least three ways: 1) their logistical consequences are bad for bandwidth, 2) their social consequences are bad for guides, and 3) their citational consequences are bad for surfability.

It's been almost 3 years since my last website redesign. Read about its evolution, new things in the redesign, and my quest to make my website more personal.

A small reflection and set of plans for making a ripple in a big lake

I had the pleasure of having my colleague DaShaun Carter join me for Spring Office Hours this week. He covers the concept of Office Hours in his post on Off-Stage Advocacy. We revisited the challenge of keeping software patched and up to date, a topic that we’ve covered many times before. But this time something clicked for me. I realised why some teams were finding it difficult to implement the patterns. It wasn’t a technical challenge at all. They were struggling to relate what we were showing them and their daily responsibilities. This felt like something I could help with and spent some time pulling together my own flavour of the demo. It’s not quite there yet, but I’m surprisingly excited to be talking about software upgrades and patching.

My little weekend experiment to bring micro updates to my personal site

A post by Stuart Langridge (sil)

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This was my longest length of time between Weeknotes but come on… you didn’t even notice, right? The holidays and new year were nice and I certainly enjoyed two weeks off from work. There was plenty of time with family and friends, nice downtime to read and watch movies, and I started thinking through how we’re going to redesign our front room (finally). I started my break by faceplanting on the sidewalk in front of my house at the very end of a run (seriously, I was in my last 10 or 20 steps), which resulted in a gusher above my eyebrow (I see why pro wrestlers blade there - it’s impressive!

Jennifer Szalai concludes her recent NYTimes column, Hannah Arendt is not your icon (gift link), with this paragraph: For Arendt, loneliness was dangerous; it was precisely under conditions of isolation that one’s imagination could untether itself from reality and “develop its own lines of ‘thought.’” She offers not a guide but a goad — to partake in an activity that can enact our freedom and also help to sustain it. “What I propose, therefore, is very simple,” she once wrote. “It is nothing more than to think what we are doing.”

Given so many big things to be angry about, let’s indulge in some petty beefs instead. I offer four.

Robert Wolgemuth, the husband of the founder for Revive Our Hearts Nancy DeMoss Wolgemuth, died on Saturday after a brief but intense battle with complications from pneumonia. By the middle of the week, it became clear that he was not going to recover and transitioned into comfort care. It brought back memories from this past […]

I got sick of other platforms, so I built something myself

I’ve been meaning to update my personal site for a long time. I’ve been reading, with interest, about the swing of the pendulum back towards the “indie web”, microblogging, federation through the ATProto and doubtless other things I don’t yet fully understand. I came across the article One Website to Destroy All Websites, and it inspired me to dig this old site up and dust it off a bit. I am not a big one for “new years resolutions”, but I felt that this year I wanted to make a change and start contributing in my own little way to the indie web. This is the web that I grew up with and brought me so much joy over the years. It’s disgusting to me what Facebook and Instagram, TikTok and co have done to the internet, and how they have lulled many into a false sense of being part of some “creator economy” but really just lining the coffers of these increasingly adversarial billion dollar businesses.

Illich poses convivial tools as directly opposed to this industrialized, radically-monopolized

I wasn't planning on it, but I redesigned my website for 2026. So let's talk about why I did it, what motivated me, my inspiration, and my approach to creating it.

elle's hypertext stuff

As generative AI and LLMs seem to take over the world, and as someone who has significant ethical concerns about these technologies, I've been feeling quite despondent lately.

Links to the best stuff I've read or watched during the month of January, 2026

I ran across Derek Sivers' Tech Independence article when it first came out (before he included the script) and had a lot of fun walking through the steps to...

Those who have been following along may know that I started this blog as a way to escape social media and bring back an old form of online connections throug...

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Python, open source, and the internet

What I've been up to since December.

Component libraries and journey maps.

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