IndieWebifying my website: part 1, the why & how – AltPlatform
Richard MacManus begins to document the process of making his website part of the indie web.
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The IndieWeb Movement Will Help People Control Their Own Web Presence?
A pretty good summary of some key indie web ideas.
Micropub is a W3C Recommendation • Aaron Parecki
I was just talking about micropub …and now it’s officially a W3C spec. Great work!
If you’re building a blogging platform, you can allow your users choose from a wide variety of posting clients by implementing the Micropub spec.
If you’re building a posting client and want it to work with many different server backends instead of hard-coding it to Twitter or other proprietary APIs, implement the Micropub spec and you’ll quickly have people eager to start using the app!
Amber Wilson: IndieWebCamp
Amber’s report from Indie Web Camp Nuremberg last week. I was blown away by how much she got done in one day.
ongoing by Tim Bray · Still Blogging in 2017
This really resonates with me. Tim Bray duly notes that people are writing on Medium, and being shunted towards native apps, and that content is getting centralised at Facebook and other hubs, and then he declares:
But I don’t care.
Same.
Anyhow, I’m not going away.
Same.
@Mentions from Twitter to My Website
Chris gives a step-by-step walkthrough of enabling webmentions on a Wordpress site.
A bit more on container queries. — Ethan Marcotte
Ethan wrote about container queries on his website. Paul wrote his counter-argument on his website. Now Ethan responds. It’s fun to watch two gentlemen engage in civilised discourse.
Blogs, man. They’re gonna big, I tells ya.
This Week in the IndieWeb Podcast by Marty McGuire
What an excellent idea! A weekly round-up in audio form of indie web and homebrew website news. Nice and short.
GarrettDimon.com
It strikes me that Garrett’s site has become a valuable record of the human condition with its mix of two personal stories—one relating to his business and the other relating to his health—both of them communicated clearly through great writing.
Have a read back through the archive and I think you’ll share my admiration.
It’s more than just the words
I can relate to what Rachel describes here—I really like using my own website as a playground to try out new technologies. That’s half the fun of the indie web.
I had already decided to bring my content back home in 2017, but I’d also like to think about this idea of using my own site to better demonstrate and play with the new technologies I write about.
Day 14: Posting to my Website from Alexa #100DaysOfIndieWeb • Aaron Parecki
Aaron documents how he posts to his website through his Amazon Echo. No interface left behind.
Indie Microblogging: owning your short-form writing by Manton Reece — Kickstarter
Here’s an interesting Kickstarter project: a book about owning your notes (and syndicating them to Twitter) to complement the forthcoming micro.blog service.
Thread. — Ethan Marcotte
Ethan redesigned. It’s lovely.
And now that the new site’s live, I realize I’d like to keep working on it. I’m not just feeling excited to see where it goes from here: as modest as it is, I’ve made something I’m proud of.
kottke.org memberships
I have so much admiration for Jason Kottke’s dedication (or sheer bloodymindedness)—he’s been diligently writing and sharing weird and wonderful stuff on his own website for so long. I’m more than happy to support him in that.
Fix the internet by writing good stuff and being nice to people · Woman. Legend.Blog
Whereas before content used to be spread out on numerous domains in numerous ways, content now mostly makes its home on the three domains that are most hostile to thoughtful human discussion: Twitter, Medium, and Facebook.
So what? you may ask..
Think about how many times you’ve tweeted. Or written or commented on a Facebook post. Or started a Medium draft. These are all our words, locked in proprietary platforms that controls not only how our message is displayed, but how we write it, and even more worrying, how we think about it.
Redesigning Waxy, 2016 edition – Waxy.org
Andy is sticking with the indie web.
Here, I control my words. Nobody can shut this site down, run annoying ads on it, or sell it to a phone company. Nobody can tell me what I can or can’t say, and I have complete control over the way it’s displayed. Nobody except me can change the URL structure, breaking 14 years of links to content on the web.
I second that emotion.
From WordPress to Apple News, Instant Articles, and AMP - The Media Temple Blog
Chris runs through the process and pitfalls of POSSEing a site (like CSS Tricks) to Apple’s News app, Facebook’s Instant Articles, and Google’s AMP.
Hey, whatever you want. As long as…
- It’s not very much work
- The content’s canonical home is my website.
I just want people to read and like CSS-Tricks.
Offline content with service workers · MadebyMike
This is a really great step-by-step walkthrough of adding a service worker to a website. Mike mentions the gotchas he encountered along the way, and describes how he incrementally levelled up the functionality.
If you’ve been going through a similar process, please write it down and share it like this!
My Decade of Blogging
Heartfelt congratulations to Remy on ten years of blogging.
More importantly, every single URL on my blog that’s ever been published still works, and even better than that (for me) is my archive showing off the decade of writing I’ve been producing over all this time 💪