#personal-websites — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #personal-websites, aggregated by home.social.
-
I finally hit publish on a post I've been kicking around.
The Human/Personal/Indie Web
I didn't really want to wind up with a {collection of links + mine & others' general vibes about the human/personal/indie web} or to try to be a resource.
Alas, I landed at no greater message than: here’s a collection of meandering vibes and links and an enthusiastic "here here" from my small corner.
https://steverudolfi.com/posts/the-human-personal-indie-web/
#theWebWeWant #humanWeb #personalWebsites #indieWeb #simpleTech #enshittification
-
The second issue of https://internetphonebook.net is open for submissions!
"Have a personal website? Submit it to the next issue of the Internet Phone Book."
-
-
My article is out in the latest issue of Good Internet Magazine! It’s about using the web browser as a web design tool and how anyone can do it, no matter their level of knowledge.
https://goodinternetmagazine.com/web-design-without-design-software/
#indieweb #smallweb #personalwebsites #webdesign #html #css -
I had the privilege of penning an article for the latest issue of Good Internet Magazine!
It is all about the process of making and experiencing art and how friction and inefficiency needn’t be dirty procurances to avoid and evade.
https://goodinternetmagazine.com/rebelling-against-efficiency/
If you enjoy this article, you might consider picking up the physical print copy of the magazine, which you can buy on the site. A proper palpable paper printing of passionate prose for your pleasant perusal.
-
In more great customer service news, a few months ago I switched from Neocities to Nekoweb for hosting my #blog, and Nekoweb just announced a bunch of great additions to the service, including WebDav, password protected pages, and dynamic blogs with SSI.
It's a great spot for #IndieWeb blogs!
Nekoweb: nekoweb.org
Here's the update news:
https://www.patreon.com/posts/recent-updates-149345784?post_id=149345784&utm_id=cda1b855-c6fa-419c-98b0-25cab395d0d6 -
The old internet is still alive if you know where to look, just overshadowed. What did you miss the most about the old internet?
https://warmsignull.github.io/posts/the-hidden-internet/
#Internet
#OldInternet #Web1 #IndieWeb #Neocities #PersonalWebsites #DigitalHistory #RetroComputing #SmallWeb #HandmadeWeb -
CW: neocities
You know what?
One of the reason why I want my own website is not only so I can have a place to show off my art or ocs, but its also to have a space one day for my drawings, and eventually fanart of ships I like in a place where nobody can talk shit about any of it existing.
I am the runner of my own website where nobody can talk shit about my ocs or my weird little ships or raise hell about the art of my fursona fucking my favorite canon character.
That is why I am proud of it existing, and why I love working on it.
-
You might've heard of its spiritual successor, https://neocities.org? Recently I put together a beginner-friendly tutorial showing you how to create your own gallery page and host it on Neocities for free.
https://stefanbohacek.com/blog/making-a-free-image-gallery-with-neocities-org/
I'll be turning this into a series, so stay tuned for more!
-
★ I haven’t met or worked with Eva Decker (that I know of), but I sure do admire her supafresh, clever, creative personal site. Visit, bookmark, enjoy.
https://evadecker.com/ #DesignerWebsites #PersonalWebsites #indieweb #webrings
-
"I came to this conclusion sometime during quarantine when I realized that certain websites give me a sense of shelter and rest more than others."
-
CW: neocities, I finally got the contact email
Ok I have finally got the news from neocities
Whats false:
Neocities isn't banning NSFW art, its there to stay on neocities, and neocities is committed to not being like the other websites in getting rid of it or imposing the same censorship rules other sites are doing.
Irl porn like whats on pornhub was never allowed on the site, which is fair bc tons of places don't host that stuff either.
Whats true:
They are making new terms for NSFW art, but what those terms will be haven't been announced yet, but one of these news rules are sites having it mandatory that sites have somewhere where you consent to seeing NSFW content. This means if your site was already doing this ( like mine ), then you're already ahead of the game basically, and are safe regarding that new rule.
In conclusion:
They aren't banning NSFW art/writing like some people have been thinking, but they are making new rules, what those will be is unknown, but from what they're saying is they're not going to be doing what other websites are doing according the staff.
I personally am going going to be on haitus still ( mostly due to this + the CC event which will put it on haitus anyway )
#neocities #neocitiesdrama #personalwebsites #webhostingdrama #webhosting
-
"..that old web, the small web, the indie web, whatever you want to call it, it still exists, it will still exist! People haven't stopped making websites, people haven't stopped blogging earnestly (i.e. not just for ad views), they (we) are still out there! Posting away on our little web sites, not really caring that we don't get a lot of traffic.."
Great piece by @roytang: https://roytang.net/2025/06/web-explorer
#SmallWeb #IndieWeb #blogs #blogging #RSS #PersonalWebsites #OldWeb #SmolWeb #internet #future
-
Update but my website has its own custom domain name now!
I present yall https://feralsworld.rodeo/
My neocities maybe on haitus atm, but the beauty of the custom domain is anything actually happens to neocities, I can just point my domain name to another provider!
-
The Small God of the Internet
It was a small announcement on an innocuous page about “spring cleaning”. The herald, some guy with the kind of name that promised he was all yours. Four sentences you only find because you were already looking for a shortcuts through life. A paragraph, tidy as a folded handkerchief, explained that a certain popular reader of feeds was retiring in four months’ time. Somewhere in the draughty back alleys of the web, a small god cleared his throat. Once he had roared every morning in a thousand offices. Now, when people clicked for their daily liturgy, the sound he made was… domesticated.
He is called ArrEsEs by those who enjoy syllables. He wears a round orange halo with three neat ripples in it. Strictly speaking, this is an icon1, but gods are not strict about these things. He presides over the River of Posts, which is less picturesque than it sounds and runs through everyone’s house at once. His priests are librarians and tinkerers and persons who believe in putting things in order so they can be pleasantly disordered later. The temple benches are arranged in feeds. The chief sacrament is “Mark All As Read,” which is the kind of absolution that leaves you lighter and vaguely suspicious you’ve got away with something.
Guide for Constructing the Letter S from Mira Calligraphiae Monumenta or The Model Book of Calligraphy (15611596) by Georg Bocskay and Joris Hoefnagel. Original from The Getty. Digitally enhanced by rawpixel.There was a time the great city-temples kept a candle lit for him right on their threshold. The Fox of Fire invited him in and called it Live Bookmarks.2 The moldable church, once a suit, then a car, then a journey, in typical style stamped “RSS” beside the address like a house number. The Explorer adopted the little orange beacon with the enthusiasm of someone who has been told there will be cake. The Singers built him a pew and handed out hymnals. You could walk into almost any shrine and find his votive lamp glowing: “The river comes this way.” Later, accountants, the men behind the man who was yours, discovered that candles are unmonetizable and, one by one, the lamps were tidied into drawers that say “More…”.
ArrEsEs has lineage. Long before he knocked on doors with a bundle of headlines, there was Old Mother Press, the iron-fingered goddess of moveable type, patron of ink that bites and paper that complains. Her creed was simple: get the word out. She marched letters into columns and columns into broadsides until villages woke up arguing the same argument.3* ArrEsEs is her great-grandchild—quick-footed, soft-spoken—who learned to carry the broadsheet to each door at once and wait politely on the mat. He still bears her family look: text in tidy rows, dates that mind their place, headlines that know how to stand up straight.**
Four months after the Announcement, the big temple shut its doors with a soft click. The congregation wandered off in small, stubborn knots and started chapels in back rooms with unhelpful names like OGRP4. ArrEsEs took to traveling again, coat collar up, suitcase full of headlines, knocking on back doors at respectable intervals. “No hurry,” he would say, leaving the bundle on the step. “When you’re ready.” The larger gods of the Square ring bells until you come out in your slippers; this one waits with the patience of bread.
Like all small gods, he thrives on little rites. He smiles when you put his name plainly on your door: a link that says feed without a blush. He approves of bogrolls blogrolls, because they are how villages point at one another and remember they are villages. He warms to OPML, which is a pilgrim’s list people swap like seed packets. He’s indulgent about the details—/rss.xml, /atom.xml, /feed, he will answer to all of them—but he purrs (quietly; dignified creature) for a cleanly formed offering and a sensible update cadence5.
His miracles are modest and cannot be tallied on a quarterly slide. He brings things in the order they happened. He does silence properly. The river arrives in the morning with twenty-seven items; you read two, save three, and let the rest drift by with the calm certainty that rivers do not take offense. He remembers what you finished. He promises tomorrow will come with its own bundle, and if you happen to be away, he will keep the stack neat and not wedge a “You Might Also Like” leaflet between your socks.
These days, though, ArrEsEs is lean at the ribs. The big estates threw dams across his tributaries and called them platforms. Good water disappeared behind walls; the rest was coaxed into ornamental channels that loop the palace and reflect only the palace. Where streams once argued cheerfully, they now mutter through sluices and churn a Gloomwheel that turns and turns without making flour—an endless thumb-crank that insists there is more, and worse, if you’ll just keep scrolling. He can drink from it, but it leaves a taste of tin and yesterday’s news.
A god’s displeasure tells you more than his blessings. His is mild. If you hide the feed, he grows thin around the edges. If you build a house that is only a façade until seven JSters haul in the furniture, he coughs and brings you only the headline and a smell of varnish6. If you replace paragraphs with an endless corridor, he develops the kind of seasickness that keeps old sailors ashore. He does not smite. He sulks, which is worse, because you may not notice until you wonder where everyone went.
Still, belief has a way of pooling in low places. In the quiet hours, the little chapels hum: home pages with kettles on, personal sites that remember how to wave, gardeners who publish their lists of other gardeners. Somewhere, a reader you’ve never met presses a small, homely button that says subscribe. The god straightens, just a touch. He is gentler than his grandmother who rattled windows with every edition, but the family gift endures. If you invite him, tomorrow he will be there, on your step, with a bundle of fresh pages and a polite cough. You can let him in, or make tea first. He’ll wait. He always has.
Heavily edited sloptraption.
- He maintains it’s saffron, which is what halos say when they are trying to be practical ↩︎
- The sort of feature named by a librarian, which is to say, both accurate and doomed. ↩︎
- Not to be confused with the software that borrowed her title and a fair chunk of her patience. ↩︎
- Old Google Reader People ↩︎
- On festival days he will accept serif, sans-serif, or whatever the village printer has not yet thrown at a cat.
↩︎ - He can drink JSON when pressed; stew remains his preference. ↩︎
#AI #algorithmicFeeds #blogging #blogrolls #Discworld #doomscrolling #feedReaders #GoogleReader #history #IndieWeb #internetFolklore #openWeb #OPML #personalWebsites #philosophy #POSSE #printingPress #quietWeb #RSS #smallGods #TerryPratchett #webStandards #writing
-
"…The World Wide Web didn’t leave us
The World Wide Web is still here, we’re just not using it like we were.. It doesn’t need to be complicated to allow us a free and open expression of creativity."
#HTML #PersonalWebsites #TheOpenWeb #IndieWeb #SmallWeb #SmolWeb
-
The annual celebration of HTML, HTML Day 2025 is coming up on August 2.
"On Saturday, August 2nd, 2025, we'll be gathering in places around the world to write and celebrate HTML."
via https://xoxo.zone/@waxy/114921694060600175
#TheWeb #internet #IndieWeb #HTMLDay #HTMLDay2025 #html #PersonalWebsites #PoeticWeb
-
In a groundbreaking revelation, Aral Balkan unveils the revolutionary concept of... using IP addresses, because domains are just so last century! 🌐✨ Apparently, the "Small Web" is about to make a big splash (or maybe just a ripple) with its dazzling #innovation of... personal websites. 🙄💻
https://ar.al/2025/06/25/web-numbers/ #AralBalkan #SmallWeb #IPAddresses #PersonalWebsites #HackerNews #ngated
