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"web joy" — the joy you experience when visiting a website with joyful content and/or have a joyful experience (as a user) on a website, or the joy of creating such a website.

During the beyond tellerand conference this past week, someone mentioned “responsive web design” and having just completed IndieWebCamp Düsseldorf, the thought popped in my head that joyful web design should be a named thing, since many of us spent the weekend at IndieWebCamp doing just that.

I mentioned it to @jamesg.blog at a break between talks, we discussed it a bit and agreed that joy is a good motivator, and as creatives we both like creating things that are joyful to experience, and ideally joyful to create.

James blogged it before I got around to it: https://jamesg.blog/2026/05/01/joyful-web-design

That and a zoom chat today was inspiration to name that specific joyful experience “web joy”.

It’s a nod to “moon joy”, a mere weeks old phrase many have heard and been inspired by, coined by Mission Control science officer Angela Garcia, and transmitted (spoken) by CAPCOM on shift, Jacki Mahaffey, in reply to the Artemis II astronauts on mission (as noted in a NASA AMA: https://www.reddit.com/r/nasa/comments/1stjt7m/comment/ohw9g9l/). You can hear the “Copy, moon joy.” expression in context at the start of this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHUvedAssyE

Much thanks to James for his encouragement to blog “web joy”.

#webjoy #btConf #beyondTellerrand #webDesign #IndieWebCamp #indieweb

#BurgeonLab #WeekNotes 025 is out (not as late as last week)!
2026: Week 17/52 (Apr 20 – Apr 26)

➡️ https://burgeonlab.com/weeknotes/2026/w17/

Some site updates, adding a #webmention digest section, streamlined link roundup creation and a sneak peek at my remote #indiewebcamp participation!

This is post 35 of #100DaysToOffload
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#blogging #blogs #smallweb #indieweb #weeknote #personalBlog #weeklynote #linkdump #blog #indieweb #frontenddevelopment #frontend

It's the final stretch of Day 2 (Create Day) of the 2-day #indiewebcamp. It's been inspiring to see such a creative and skilled bunch of individuals all passionate about websites. I'm honoured and grateful to be part of it! There will be a demo/show-and-tell session soon where everyone will share what they worked on today. Can't wait! 👍

Event page: https://events.indieweb.org/2026/04/-indiewebcamp-d%c3%bcsseldorf-ewHCZehNA3gg

#indiewebcampdus #indieweb #webdev #personalsite #PersonalSites #personalBlog #blogger #SmallWeb #createday #IWC #smolweb

Tea & Donuts With IWC Düsseldorf 2026
https://aprilscable.neocities.org/posts/IWCD%C3%BCsseldorf2026

Thanks to all! It was so nice to e-meet everyone!
@jamesg.blog the notes gem!
@eclecticpassions who finally made it to the camp @Bearina who has great zines.
@tantek.com who makes it all happen!
@bjoern
Jo from Dead Garden. Daniel who made feeds list.
@jkphl

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#indieweb #indiewebcamp #düsseldorf #virtual #websites #IWC2026 #Weekend

The Indie Web Is Not Defined by Its Enemies

https://islandinthenet.com/the-indie-web-is-not-defined-by-its-enemies/

The Indie Web Is Not Defined by Its Enemies

https://islandinthenet.com/the-indie-web-is-not-defined-by-its-enemies/

The Indie Web Is Not Defined by Its Enemies

https://islandinthenet.com/the-indie-web-is-not-defined-by-its-enemies/

The Indie Web Is Not Defined by Its Enemies

https://islandinthenet.com/the-indie-web-is-not-defined-by-its-enemies/

The Indie Web Is Not Defined by Its Enemies

https://islandinthenet.com/the-indie-web-is-not-defined-by-its-enemies/

Great #indieweb sessions at #btconf #Berlin!

Yesterday, Sacha Judd (@sachajudd.com) reminded us to “teach someone …. something about building for the web”, and to “take back control of your feeds, your attention, and … go exploring again”. She encouraged us to “build healthy online neighborhoods”. That’s a great metaphor and very complementary to rebuilding your own home(page) on the web with perhaps a digital garden as well!

Today, Ana Rodrigues (@anarodrigu.es @ohhelloana.blog) connected the dots from Sacha’s reminders to encouraging everyone to join burgeoning healthy online neighborhoods like:
* 32-Bit Cafe (@32bit.cafe and see their Discord & Discourse)
* IndieWeb Community (@indieweb.org and see @chat.indieweb.org for Discord, IRC, Slack)

Both are filled with online neighbors helping and teaching each other how to make what people want to express on and for their personal sites!

Know of other healthy online neighborhoods? Let me know and I’ll add them to the IndieWeb communities page!

Want to connect your online home with online neighbors?
* Join the IndieWeb #webring: https://indieweb.org/IndieWeb_Webring

Prefer events? Join a virtual Frontend Study Hall, Homebrew Website Club meetup, or the next #IndieWebCamp!


Glossary and links:

btconf (Beyond Tellerrand conference) Berlin 2025
  https://beyondtellerrand.com/events/berlin-2025
communities (IndieWeb)
  https://indieweb.org/communities
digital gardens
    https://indieweb.org/digital_garden
home (page) on the web
  https://indieweb.org/homepage
Homebrew Website Club (HWC) online and in-person:
  https://events.indieweb.org/tag/hwc
Front End Study Hall (FrESH)
  https://indieweb.org/fresh
IndieWebCamps - in-person and hybrid!
  https://events.indieweb.org/tag/indiewebcamp


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IndieWebCamp Berlin was great! Participants facilitated inspiring sessions, and everyone made something on or for their personal site on our Create Day #Hackathon.

Session notes are up from day 1, recordings to follow:
* https://indieweb.org/2025/Berlin/Schedule

Demos notes also up, recording to follow:
* https://indieweb.org/2025/Berlin/Demos

Want to keep up with #IndieWebCamp #Berlin participants? Volunteer Daniel has updated the IndieWebCamp Berlin feed:
* https://indieweb.org/2025/Berlin#Feeds_Lists_Starter_Packs_Oh_My

Questions about sessions or demos? Ask in #IndieWeb chat!
* https://chat.indieweb.org/


This is post 15 of #100PostsOfIndieWeb. #100Posts

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It is happpening. The #indiewebcamp kicks off the #btconf Berlin week. For many years the #IWC is an important part of the whole experience. Happy building to @tantek.com, @jkphl and the 25 people at the event!

🎃 Night before IndieWebCamp Berlin! Participants are (hopefully, mostly) all tucked into their beds, dreaming of what wonderful things they can brainstorm for their personal sites Saturday, and #HackTheirPlanet on Sunday.

Want to keep up with #IndieWebCamp #Berlin participants?

Follow their feeds and a Bluesky starter pack (happy to include more for any other formats, protocols, or platforms)
* https://indieweb.org/2025/Berlin#Feeds_Lists_Starter_Packs_Oh_My

We’ll add more as folks sign-in at the camp!

This is post 14 of #100PostsOfIndieWeb. #100Posts #IndieWeb #Blogtober #IndieWebMovieClub #HackThePlanet 📟

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October is almost over! For all us procrastinators, still time to write a post or two to participate in #October blogging challenges like:

#Blogtober
#IndieWebMovieClub on #Hackers
#Inktober
#Mathober
#WeirdWebOctober

+ coding challenges:
#Hacktoberfest — https://blog.holopin.io/posts/hacktoberfest-2025

Many more at:
* https://indieweb.org/October
* https://indieweb.org/blog_carnival

🎃 And tomorrow is #Halloween so consider a holiday theme for your site as well! See #IndieWeb examples for inspiration:
* https://indieweb.org/Halloween

Last but not least, perhaps we’ll see some of you at #IndieWebCamp Berlin this weekend!
* https://indieweb.org/2025/Berlin

This is post 13 of #100PostsOfIndieWeb. #100Posts

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Very happy to let you know that the #IndieWebCamp is back in Düsseldorf. Yes, late announcement, but @jkphl and @tantek.com are busy people. Grab your seat before they are gone and thanks to Sipgate for hosting the #IWC in their “Hafenquelle”.

https://beyondtellerrand.com/events/dusseldorf-2025/side-events/indiewebcamp

Day 1 of #IndieWebCamp #Berlin 2024¹ was very well attended!
* 20 participants, more than 3x the previous one in 2022, and second highest (2019 had 22).
* 18 introduced themselves² and their personal sites or aspirations for one

Collectively we proposed and facilitated 11 breakout sessions³ on many timely topics covering #syndication, #inclusion, #longevity, #federation / #fediverse, how to best use #Mastodon with your personal site, #privacy and #security concerns of being online, #writing, how can we design better user interfaces for text authoring, and personalized reading #algorithms for staying connected with friends.

Session titles (and hashtags)
* How to #POSSE
* How to make the web queerer / stranger. #queer
* Online presence after our #death
* Threat modeling #threatmodeling
* Non-technical collaboration on the internet. #collab
* Locations and #places check-in
* Writing with images. #imagewriting
* Text authoring UX. #textUX
* #SSR, organizing CSS/JS
* Website design without being a designer. #designfordummies
* Timeline algorithms. #timelines

Etherpad notes from sessions have been archived to the wiki, with session recordings to follow!

Day 2 also had 20 in-person participants, the highest IndieWebCamp Berlin day 2 attendance ever! Most everyone from day 1 came back to hack, and three new people showed up. We also had several remote participants.


References
 
¹ https://indieweb.org/2024
² https://indieweb.org/2024/Berlin/Intros
³ https://indieweb.org/2024/Berlin/Schedule#Saturday


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