bookmarked The internet used to be fun
here’s a collection of articles that to some degree answer the question “Why have a personal website?” with “Because it’s fun, and the internet used to be fun."
(It still is, but it used to be, too)
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Wednesday, April 22nd, 2026
Monday, April 20th, 2026
liked Open Tabs - Ricardo Chávez
Every time I visit Ricardo’s garden his open tabs become my open tabs.
Thursday, April 16th, 2026
indie web directories
I’ve seen a few indie web directories popping up lately, so in an attempt to keep track of them all I’ve started on a directory of indie web directories.
Then I was introduced to Russel’s paradox, which asks if a directory should include itself?
The answer is no, you make another one.
bookmarked Endgame for the Open Web - Anil Dash
all the signs are pointing to the fact that we might be in endgame for “open” as we’ve known it on the Internet over the last few decades
See also:
Wednesday, March 18th, 2026
Yes, I'm going to Homebrew Website Club London tonight. …
Tuesday, March 17th, 2026
Added support for photos and videos
Three days after posting Changes to the Site and it’s already out of date.
I wrote that I was going to optimise my photos so they would be smaller and I could include them in my posts, since that’s all I was planning to do.
Then I realised I needed a video in my post. If you’ve read Museum memories you’ll know why. …
Museum memories
This is my entry for this month’s IndieWeb Carnival: Museum memories.
I have not been to many museums or galleries. I am not a cultured person.
My favourite museum is the city of Barcelona. …
Saturday, March 14th, 2026
Changes to the Site
I’ve made some recent changes to the site and have a few ideas for what comes next.
Changes:
- Notes: shorter posts that don’t need titles
- Bookmarks and likes: a way to share links without writing full posts
- Replies: posts that are part of a conversation with another site
- Webmentions: now appear below posts
Ideas:
- serving media through a CDN
- dynamic image resizing with imgproxy
- publishing from my phone using micropub
Wednesday, March 4th, 2026
liked IndieWeb.org Principles
bookmarked A Website to End All Websites
[…] the path back to feeling like you have some control is to un-spin yourself from the Five Apps of the Apocalypse and reclaim the Internet as a set of tools you use to build something you can own & be proud of
