Good morning from this part of the world.
Thank you to everyone who read my piece posted yesterday, especially those who boosted it. 
https://arnel.bearblog.dev/writing-for-humans/
If you have favorite bloggers, please let me know, I'm trying to build my list.
Here's a 4k+ word essay I wrote after feeling bad about killing a bunny in a video game:
I just finished the light mode of my website and I am now not sure which one I love more 
lovely to see my #TiddlyWiki digital garden included in https://smallweb.cc
Let’s Encrypt at risk from Trump cuts to OTF: “Let’s Encrypt received around $800,000 in funding from the OTF”
Dear @EUCommission, get your heads out of your arses and let’s find @letsencrypt €1M/year (a rounding error in EU finances) and have them move to the EU.
If Let’s Encrypt is fucked, the web is fucked, and the Small Web is fucked too. So how about we don’t let that happen, yeah?
(In the meanwhile, if the Let’s Encrypt folks want to make a point about how essential they are, it might be an idea to refuse certificates to republican politicians. See how they like their donation systems breaking in real time…)
CC @nlnet @NGIZero@mastodon.xyz
#USA #fascism #OpenTechFund #LetsEncrypt #SSL #TLS #encryption #EU #web #tech #SmallWeb #SmallTech https://mastodon.social/@publictorsten/114223873439053263
New on the blog: My first German language blog post.
Heute mein erster Blogpost auf Deutsch. Ich antworte auf @annette@bonn.social's Aufruf, zu überlegen, wie gutes Web aussehen kann. Ich bin zufällig über Annettes Blog gestolpert und fand es interessant, dass ich erst kürzlich darüber geschrieben habe, wie ich Social Media nutzen möchte. Jetzt also auch mal ein paar Gedanken dazu auf Deutsch.
#SoSollWeb #smallWeb #personalWeb #personalWebsite #blog #personalBlog
Are pingbacks dead outside of Wordpress?
Zettelkasten on the CLI
Let's take a look at my Zettelkasten notetaking workflow on the Linux Command Line. Trust me, it's simple.
https://readbeanicecream.surge.sh/2025/03/24/zettelkasten-on-the-cli/
#productivity #notetaking #linux #cli #commandline indieweb #blogging #smallweb #personalweb #tech #technology #zettelkasten
ReadBeanIceCream | Chatter
Command Lines | March 23, 2025 - 10:00 a.m.
The older I get, the more terminal I become.
https://readbeanicecream.surge.sh/chatter/#command-lines-march-23-2025
I finally finished re-designing my website to match the name 
Not a thing I really like to do, but I thought about it for more than a year while noticing a lot of aggressive bots in my server logs. Hopefully people are still reading blogs.
https://michaelnordmeyer.com/this-site-has-now-summary-only-feeds
How to make big silly theatre props out of cardboard! A 3-part summary of everything I have learned about cheap and environmentally sustainable prop-making, from participating in Club Wormhole - an alt comedy cabaret in Nottingham
https://improvlaurie.co.uk/blg-whprops1/
#craft #upcycling #recycling #arts #handmade #DIY #eco #comedy #theatre #props #costume #blog #handmadeweb #smallweb
For anyone who might find this helpful, I found a janky workaround to embed your latest fediverse post on your website since I couldn't find any "official" way of doing it.
https://caffeineandlasers.com/blogs/embeddingYourLatestMastodonPost.html
Tl;dr using JS grab the RSS feed to extract just the most recent post, then embed that
To my beloved readers, all four of you. (Actually I don't keep metrics so I don't know)
I have migrated my website to my own domain and a new provider.
https://caffeineandlasers.com/
Same site, same fun, slightly different URL
Ta!
Olala, mais HTML Review c'est mon site préféré je crois, chaque numéro est un plaisir visuel et interactif : https://thehtml.review/04/
I can't see a mass exodus from social media ever happening, but there's still new personal websites and blogs entering the #IndieWeb / #SmallWeb fold. Here a few I've found recently:
https://disassociated.com/read-bean-ice-cream-dessert-other-blogs/
Started a website (mainly a #blog) a few months ago using #Eleventy but with a starter template.
I've enjoyed it a lot, tech-wise, but had a new project idea and decided to fire up a super basic blog using Eleventy but from scratch. Just for fun.
And fun it is!
Even though I've enjoyed poking at the template I've been using to see how things work, something about piecing together this lowest-of-low-tech site from scratch is *way* more fun.
So this other project (to be revealed eventually) will probably double as my WebDev playground --- even though I want to keep it pretty minimalist in style and features.
Think I will play with this the rest of the night, as long as the power holds out, to drown out the absolute dumpster that is today's news.
just found a treasure trove of extremely obscure BBS history stashed away on IA
thank you hard-working book scanners for preserving this rarity.
if you're familiar with BBSing in the 90s, you'll remember just how fast the vast majority of boards disappeared in 1995. it went from multinode 24/7 bbses to disconnected phone numbers in just a few months
this book accounts for the very small number of BBSes that made the transition from telco-only to "telBBS" or telnettable/web-accessible boards
3/4 of the book is a carefully curated list of 500 boards with screenshots of their homepages and bbs login/title screens. most importantly, the URLs of these boards is preserved so we have a chance to look them up on WBM some day.
While I don’t read any comment on Hacker News, I’m really pleased by the quality of exchanges on lobste.rs, also in private messages.
It seems that the invite-only mechanism and strong moderation to keep stuff on topic is working well. Thank you lobsterians…
https://lobste.rs/s/otthd0/society_lost_focus
PS: yes, I can invite you if you ask nicely and send me an email address. I can also invite you on the smaller and cozier tilde.news (where I would like to see more discussions).
What fool would pay for Discord Nitro? 
199X.chat is my self-hosted Revolt instance. Each server can have up to 500 custom animated emojis that anyone can use anywhere. It also has 50 mb uploads. All for free. 
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