IndieWeb Carnival

Notes from the most recent IndieWebClub meetup in Bengaluru about why do people write, blog, or have personal websites.

This is a submission to the September theme of the IndieWeb Carnival. Children definitely have interests of their own. Charlie loves monster trucks, trains, and any kind of construction vehicle. Ju…

There are so many beautiful bird Pokémon in the game and for this month’s IndieWeb Carnival, I’m showcasing my favourites.

This is my submission for this month’s IndieWeb Carnival, hosted by Fractal Kitty with the theme of “second person birds” Aren’t they just so beautiful? Up there, high in the sky. All those gorgeous birds flying high overhead. Each one unique and colorful in their own way.

A poem made from little fragments.

I found the true, sun-rendered into grass. Your crest was …

<i>You feel that a certain sickness has been pervading your life. It's a dull ache that suffuses subtly through many unrelated things, a background radiation to your everyday…</i>

[@starbreaker](/users/starbreaker) hosted September's [IndieWeb Carnival:](https://indieweb.org/IndieWeb_Carnival) - [Power Underneath Despair - In your darkest hour, what saved you? What helped you find the strength to carry on?](https://starbreaker.org/blog/personal/power-underneath-despair/index.html) - [Last Call](https://starbreaker.org/blog/misc/power-underneath-despair-last-call/index.html) - His Own Entry: [The Power of Satan Compels Me](https://starbreaker.org/blog/personal/power-satan-compels-me/index.html) I feel like starbreaker fugging mastered using anger as a life-force and I'm jelly as hell. For the most part at least, as I also know that anger / hate / defiance isn't all sunshine and butterflies, despite being more likely to accomplish what you want. --- [@the-syreth-clan](/users/the-syreth-clan) also participated with their entry: - [A Love Letter for Martina Syreth](https://the-syreth-clan.neocities.org/syreth/library/loveletter_martina) The power another can have on us, our well-being, our will to live is, life-changing. A ride or die partner can mean so much. I didn't touch on relationship(s) particularly strongly in my own as I really wanted to encourage as much autonomy in a struggler's headspace / situation as possible. But powerful for sure. --- [@andreixyz](/users/andreixyz) as well: - [Power Underneath Despair](https://andrei.xyz/post/indieweb-carnival-power-underneath-despair/) Man, I'm very close to my parents, so I know anything negative is going to hit me like a train, but in relation to dogs. What a powerful force of good they can be! Dogs, they live on such a simpler, more straightforward plain of existence. Incredibly good at grounding us, at telling us reminding us: "Yo. Bich. Water, now! Food, now! Walk, now! Love, now!" Just their very being can get us back to moving (on), doing, living. --- And I think I'm the last from this forum to contribute: - [Salvations - ♫ Maybe you're the same as me ♫](https://foreverliketh.is/blog/salva

Let’s start from the basics: can you introduce yourself? Bonjour ! I’m a militant wayfarer, budding typographer, pathological reader, slow cyclist, …

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My forays into gardening and various other yard things. 🧑‍🌾

A reflection on my journey of rediscovering curiosity—how I lost it, found it again, and embraced it as my guiding affirmation. Written as my entry for February's IndieWeb Carnival.

A reflection on my lost hobby of collecting sand samples and how a writing prompt about take twos unexpectedly brought back memories of something I'd completely forgotten. Written as my entry for June's IndieWeb Carnival.

Let’s start from the basics: can you introduce yourself? Bonjour ! I’m a militant wayfarer, budding typographer, pathological reader, slow cyclist, …

For this month’s IndieWeb Carnival, people shared their thoughts on the meaning of their lives.

Arcane curation from the IndieWeb, Fediverse and Cybersecurity realms

Arcane curation from the IndieWeb, Fediverse and Cybersecurity realms

At the midpoint between hobbies lies tension and dreams of a better world. But also fun, exciting things.

It's been a joy hosting this month's IndieWeb blog carnival on the subject of Small Web Communities. There were 20 submissions, and together they make up a pretty nice snapshot of the evolution, purpose and culture of online communities. The common thread that shone through each piece was just how…

My history of foreign languages and whether we should learn them today. For the IndieWeb Carnival, October 2024.

This is my entry for October’s IndieWeb Carnival, hosted by ZinRicky. I was born and raised in Italy. I grew up speaking Italian. I still live in …

This is my first time participating in a IndieWeb Carnival. I had seen this name floating around before, but I have never participated. After reading both Manuel Moreale’s and Jan-Luka’s posts, I got interested, especially due to the topic: multilingualism in a global web. This month’s edition is hosted by ZinRicky.

The Web is multilingual, even if I'm not, so it's on me to adapt.

Meine Geschichte mit Fremdsprachen und ob wir sie heute lernen sollten. Für den Indieweb Karneval, Oktober 2024.

Mi historia sobre el aprendizaje de idiomas extranjeros y si merece la pena aprenderlos hoy. Para el Carnaval de Indieweb, octubre de 2024.

Il mio contributo all’IndieWeb Carnival di Ottobre

A response to the IndieWeb Carnival for the month of December 2025.

V.H. Belvadi’s personal website and blog

directory of archived glitch pages

My contribution to the IndieWeb Carnival November 2024

/Feeds by Kristof Zerbe

My first IndieWeb Carnival entry—the theme is love letters, and I couldn't pick just one thing. A letter to the infrastructure that holds my corner of the internet together, to the strangers who maintain the open-source tools I depend on every day, and to the IndieWeb friends I've met over the past few months. And finally, to curiosity: the embarrassing willingness to fall in love with a static-site generator or a transit system or a protocol nobody's heard of, which I've come to believe is what kept me alive.

Indieweb Carnival November 2024: Reflecting on Impact thank you so much to foreverliketh.is for asking and encouraging my hosting the indieweb carnival th...

James is hosting the IndieWeb Carnival for March 2026, and the topic is Museum memories. My earliest memory of being in love with a museum was when I visited the Centre Pompidou, in Paris, with my d…

Writing about the core values the guide me

A bunch of scrappy notes from 2025-06-18 to 2025-06-27

A bunch of scrappy notes from 2025-06-27 to 2025-07-04

A list of IndieWeb Carnival editions, themes, and hosts celebrating the independent web writing community.

The indie web means the return of gifs, funky cursors, and personal websites

For the IndieWeb Carnival for February Zachary has posted the theme of intersecting interests and the obvious two things for me would be science fiction and ...

Violet green swallow standing on a grey surface looking like a small penguin with feet small and stance. You read this post and wonder what is "second per...

Learning more about the IndieWeb led me to setting up IRC, joining webrings, getting my first webmentions, and connecting with amiable fellow bloggers.

Zinzy Waleson Geene is a product designer from Amsterdam

When I signed up to host this IndieWeb Carnival it was …

An invitation to revisit the past, revise an old blog post, or give yourself a second chance.

I'm thrilled to be hosting the May 2025 IndieWeb Blog Carnival on a topic really close to my heart: Small Web Communities Everyone is welcome to participate. To enter, write a post on your blog and email me the link to chris@uncountable.uk. Write in any language you choose. Submissions are…

the starbreaker.org /now page, archived as a web zine in January 2025

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.

Contemplating the word

My entry in the February 2026 IndieWeb Carnival all about Intersecting Interests.

Weird Web October - Transparency When we decide you want to learn something new it can feel incredibly daunting. Regardless of starting point or motivation, we are embarking on a journey into the unknown. Questions are everywhere; What should I learn? Where do I start? How should I learn? How do I measure progress? What if I give up? Back in 2019, I gave a talk at the London Gophers meet-up. The talk was titled: Beyond the Tour. I can remember feeling like a fraud for giving the talk. I was well in to a career working with technology and here I was, using up a precious speaking slot, talking as if I was a complete beginner. I hadn’t achieved anything groundbreaking with Go. I had no new framework or product to promote. This was a talk about learning, an approach to learning that embraced the fact that I had other interests outside the world of Go. At the heart of my journey to learn Go, a series of intersecting interests.

A response to the IndieWeb Carnival for the month of March 2025. The theme of this short post is self-expression. In it I talk about staying in my zone and signaling that to others.

A response to the October IndieWeb Carnival, the author talks about French Immersion and their personal and professional life.

The February 2026 IndieWeb Carnival on Intersecting Interests has come to a close. Here's my roundup and reflections on hosting, plus what I loved about each submission.

Webmentions and POSSEing are cool. You just don’t need to re-create social media with them.

Today, I would like to invite you to join me on a calming adventure through winding streets, quiet little towns and magical forests. Make yourself a drink, get comfortable and relax. Take a sip. Take your time. I’d like to take you to a place at the back of my mind.

Zinzy Waleson Geene is a product designer from Amsterdam

Zinzy Waleson Geene is a product designer from Amsterdam

Violet green swallow standing on a grey surface looking like a small penguin with feet small and stance. You read this post and wonder what is "second per...

Writings on infosec, technology and life

For this month’s IndieWeb Carnival, I want to know your thoughts on the meaning of life. Why? I’m about to turn 42, the answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe, and everything.

Welcome to the February 2026 IndieWeb Carnival! This month's theme is Intersecting Interests. Write about the unexpected places where your passions, hobbies, and curiosities overlap.

Instructions, theme explanation and entries of IndieWeb Carnival for October 2024. This month’s entries will deal with the predominance of English despite the richness of human languages, the relations between online and offline-speak and so much more!

Zach asked me a couple questions on my experience in October 2024 with IndieWeb Carnival. Here are my replies.

The challenges of maintaining a multilingual blog and why I'm giving up (for now)

I noticed that I love tinkering with my website — creating new pages and improving the site overall. However my initial plan was to start a website in order to write more and learn English, so lets write this article about my desire to write more. Ideas to write more often So how do you […]

V.H. Belvadi’s personal website and blog

My thoughts on this month's topic and whether it is even worth thinking about

Complementary and Contrary Passions

It seems like fate that James chose Museum Memories as topic of this month’s Indieweb Carnival, because just recently, by chance, I visited one of the...

Multilingualism is very important on the global web

This month's IndieWeb Carnival focuses on self-expression. Everyone and anyone is welcome to participate! I love reading posts in different…

What's your current adventure

Here’s my entry for this month’s IndieWeb carnival. The topic proposed by Zachary Kai is intersecting interests. When I saw the topic, I immediately thought of my reading interests. Since my retirement, I suspect that I spend more time reading than I spend doing anything else, though I suppose if one bundles washing the clothes, washing the dishes, and paying the bills together under the heading of household management, I might spend more time there. But household management isn’t all that interesting. So when I think about intersecting interests, I think about the reading. And it’s not just the interests as reflected in my mind. It’s also the interests reflected in the books and essays that I’m reading.

Training for my half-marathon, I was doing a long run. My training plan called for a 20 km run that day, but I decided to push myself a bit. I mean, why not just do the entire 21K if I’m so close. Around km 18, I was in the middle of 2 ponds, slowly progressing. This old lady waved at me and said something. I took my headphones out. “Do you like bird-watching?” “Not really!” “I just wanted to show you these rare birds, this one over here is a Blue Heron. And that one over there, is another rare one”. “Oh wow, I did not know that!” “Yes, they only show up for like 2–3 weeks in this area, I’m sorry for stopping you, but I just wanted to share this”

A fellow carnivalist and host of this month’s IndieWeb Carnival asked me a few questions about hosting the carnival.

This month’s IndieWeb Carnival is all about adventures and oh boy do I love a good one.

It’s my turn to host IndieWeb Carnival again and this year I’m inviting you to write a love letter to someone or something you appreciate and want to share with the world. Be unapologetically excited about what you’re passionate about and let it show.

A love letter to being outside. An IndieWeb Carnival submission for May 2026.

My submission for the December 2025 IndieWeb Carnival

An online diary of a lady's misadventures in two worlds

An online diary of a lady's misadventures in two worlds

An online diary of a lady's misadventures in two worlds

An online diary of a lady's misadventures in two worlds

An online diary of a lady's misadventures in two worlds

An online diary of a lady's misadventures in two worlds

An online diary of a lady's misadventures in two worlds

An online diary of a lady's misadventures in two worlds

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.

I have contributed to other people's creative projects before. Back then, I would join art collabs within walled gardens (especially Instagram and Discord) a...

A response to the October IndieWeb Carnival, the author talks about French Immersion and their personal and professional life.

A response to the IndieWeb Carnival for the month of March 2025. The theme of this short post is self-expression. In it I talk about staying in my zone and signaling that to others.

A response to the IndieWeb Carnival for the month of November 2025. The theme of this short post is Cycles and Fluctuations.

A response to the IndieWeb Carnival for the month of December 2025.

Blog post about blogging and blogs in which I blog about blogging and the top 5 blogging platforms are not featured here and neither are the 10 greatest AI writing prompts for blogs that guarantee backlinks

What is the meaning of life? Maybe the meaning of life is to stop obsessing over the meaning of life.

Every Friday afternoon, a bus full of adventures parks in our neighbourhood for half an hour and creates a third place for the people in the area to gather and to discover something new. I love it.

V.H. Belvadi’s personal website and blog

Some stuff I have learned in 2024

The Swift Blog Carnival topic for April is open; it is about Tiny Languages. Read what a blog carnival is, why you should care, and how to participate!