Easy Online Profiles with Asciidoctor
Want an online presence, but you don't want to build a website, or blog, or self-host? With really basic terminal dabbling and asciidoctor you can quickly make a minimal, simple profile where you own your data.
https://readbeanicecream.surge.sh/2026/03/13/easy-online-profiles-with-asciidoctor/
#indieweb #smallweb #socialmedia #asciidoctor #plaintext #asciidoc
📝 New Post: I'll Name This Post Later
What I've been up to this month. Reading, watching, listening, collecting, and exploring interesting links across the web.
🔥 https://flamedfury.com/posts/ill-name-this-post-later/
#Indieweb #Smallweb #Personalweb #Blogging #Lifeonweb #Bookmarks #Linkdump
I could have written a memo, but instead I built a bookmarklet for adding products to the wishlist on my website.
My current hobbies are
- Finishing two songs
- Adding a million GIFs to my personal website
- making little lucky knots like my aunties taught me years ago
- wontons
- occasional game of Deadlock
Life is ok for now
RE: https://mastodon.social/@jimniels/116197448348633013
This is a nice use of #WebOrigami to liberate photos from #Instagram and create a personal #smallweb site!
I was so disappointed when IG deprecated their Basic Display API last year because we can't have nice things, but (for now) they still let users export their own data
Origami is great for this sort of fetch-and-transform task
Online conversations can spiral because strong emotions travel far.
A short reflection on why Driftya treats mood differently and keeps it private.
https://driftya.com/content/why-mood-matters-in-online-conversations
I couldn’t help myself. I’ve made some more funky web buttons to adorn websites with!
They’re such fun to put together, and the size constraint presents a lovely challenge. If anyone has any requests, I’d be open to hearing them.
#88x31 #IndieWeb #SmallWeb
RE: https://fedi.vale.rocks/objects/9f7c48e2-ee46-4095-9b8b-7dac8021099d
Edit: You people are amazing! There are so many sites linked below that it will take me quite a while to get through all of them. And I will get through all of them and reply to everyone.
No one can rightully say the (small) web is dead. It is not and you all and many many more are proof of that.
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Ok, people, give me your blogs.
Your personal hobby blogs. Your e-zines. Your websites. Heck, even your wikis. (I am interested in those but have not yet wrapped my head around them.)
I am most interested in the hobby sites, made my non-professional web devs. The ones you code away at in your spare time. Preferably static, but share anyway if it's not. And if you're a pro and have a personal hobby site, share away too! The more the merrier.
Even if I already know your site, share anyway because there might be people who do not have come across it yet.
3, 2, 1, go!
To start, here's mine: https://theresmiling.eu
#personalWebsite #personalBlog #blog #blogging #personalWeb #smallWeb #indieWeb
I've finally got my #OmgLol page at https://lucascantor.com looking exactly how I want it, with custom CSS to match my blog 
...which I've also migrated from AWS to #BunnyNet 
...while migrating from Google to #Proton too!
Wrote a short reflection on why engagement is so hard when you are new to a platform.
https://driftya.com/content/why-is-it-so-hard-to-get-engagement-when-you-re-new-to-a-social-platform
I wrote a blog post about my process involved in redesigning the PlugBrain app's logo. I talk about open-source, app blockers, accessible formats, and general Linux tips.
https://futurehorizondesign.net.au/posts/2026-02-26-A-Logo-Redesign-For-An-Open-Source-Project.html
#inkscape #FOSS #linux #illustration #graphicdesign #vector #GPL #indieweb #blog #blogging #smallweb #rss #logo
There's a new feature on #BurgeonLab right before CNY! It's the Guestbook page I've been longing to have since I started my blog. 🥳
➡️ https://burgeonlab.com/guestbook/
Thanks @zacharykai.net and Zak https://html-chunder.neocities.org/ for being the first to sign it.
It'll make me a happy camper if you decide to sign it too! 😇
#webdev #smallweb #indieweb #personalblog #personalsite #webdevelopment #blogs #blog
New blog post
Building your first smolweb page
A simple news article that takes ten seconds to load and eats 50 MB of data. You've seen that. We all have. Mountains of JavaScript, giant CSS frameworks, third-party trackers, custom fonts pulled from remote servers... all of that to display a few paragraphs of text.
The smolweb pushes back against that...
https://adele.pages.casa/md/blog/building-your-first-smolweb-page.md
My Faves site has a new look, too! It should be totally mobile-friendly now~ 🎉
Today's #ScreenshotSaturday! We've started a new series on our brand new #blog called #ShiritaiYokaiShokai, where we introduce different yōkai that appear in #Hamayumishi. This time is the fearful Otoroshi! Or is that Osoroshi? Whatever it is, it's terrifying!
https://blog.nicegear.games/posts/2026-02-14-Shiritai-Yokai-Shokai-The-Confusing-Otoroshi.html
#Blogging #IndieGame #IndieDev #GameDev #IndieWeb #SmallWeb #yokai
I'd like to make my pixel art site more mobile-responsive. A lot (if not all) the doll/art pages end up with content off to the right, so the viewer has to scroll side-to-side to see everything.
Right now, my art, blurbs, and base credits are in HTML tables. Is there any way to make it so that if it's being viewed in a narrow browser window, the table cells will stack?
I'm also open to suggestions of other ways to display my art that don't involve tables. I'm just a very old-school coder, so HTML and a bit of CSS is all I know. 😅 I'm just not sure what's possible right now!
#smallweb #indieweb #neocities #codinghelp #websitehelp #advicewanted #suggestionswelcome
Radical honesty anti-#spam system: just ask.
I wonder how long this solution is going to work.
I missed this but it's brilliant :
« We Need To Rewild The Internet - The internet has become an extractive and fragile monoculture. But we can revitalize it using lessons learned by ecologists. » by @mariafarrell & @robin Berjon
« Our online spaces are not ecosystems, though tech firms love that word. They’re plantations; highly concentrated and controlled environments … that madden the creatures trapped within. »
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I wrote this article as a primer for folks on how the "social networks"* keep us locked in. If you like it, consider sharing it with a friend who is new to the world of #privacy, the #fediverse, or getting off of billionaire/US tech.
*Also, why "legacy algorithmic media" may be a better term for the Facebooks and Xitters of the world.
https://technically-good.ca/feeding-the-fire-psychology-engagement-and-algorithmic-media/
Feedback welcome, boosts of course ok, have a great weekend, and let's fix this mess! 💜
Hey, you, reader:
Ever been browsing someone's blog, website, repo -- even their social web profile -- and thought to yourself "Wow, that's really neat. I love what they did here!"
Consider telling them! Someone on here made a post a while back encouraging people to do just that, and I've tried to make a conscious habit of contacting the authors of neat little indie and smolweb sites.
Email, guestbook, comment; whatever it might be, consider reaching out somehow to share your appreciation. You might be surprised at how much it makes their day.
You might also be surprised to discover how much making their day makes yours, too.
If you sent a message into the world that travels quietly from person to person,
would you rather watch it as it grows,
or let it return to you only when it’s finished or after a set date?
A option I have been thinking of that could be fun to implement.
#Business #Comparisons
IndieWeb and Small Web · How they differ and what they have in common https://ilo.im/16am57
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#Publishing #POSSE #OpenWeb #SmallWeb #IndieWeb #Content #Blogs #Websites #Personality #Authenticity
