#weirdweb — Public Fediverse posts

The current version of HisVirusness.com celebrated its first anniversary yesterday. It's by far the most substantial and persistent project I've been involved with in years, and it began with two posts, a general stylesheet and some PHP I wrote in my early 20's. I planted the seeds and let it become what it wanted to be; I couldn't be happier with the result. Here's to many more years of abject ridiculousness.

#indieweb #smallweb #anniversary #php #buildinpublic #webdev #selfhosted #weirdweb

TIL: dark mode styling support for textarea resize handlers in most (all?) browsers is basically non-existent. The only reliable way of doing this AFAIK: turn off resize altogether and wire up frankenstein JS to re-enable resizing with custom click handler. #weirdweb #darkdesign #html

TIL: dark mode styling support for textarea resize handlers in most (all?) browsers is basically non-existent. The only reliable way of doing this AFAIK: turn off resize altogether and wire up frankenstein JS to re-enable resizing with custom click handler. #weirdweb #darkdesign #html

The original idea was more ambitious as the page would update when you actually blink.

Alas, this turned out to be a bit too involved.

Maybe I'll return to some of these projects later, a few could be a bit more polished.

#WeirdWebOctober #WeirdWeb

The original idea was more ambitious as the page would update when you actually blink.

Alas, this turned out to be a bit too involved.

Maybe I'll return to some of these projects later, a few could be a bit more polished.

#WeirdWebOctober #WeirdWeb

Sub-optimal dining experience in #NYC.

https://weirdweboctober.stefanbohacek.com/2025/07/

#WeirdWeb #WeirdWebOctober

Sub-optimal dining experience in #NYC.

https://weirdweboctober.stefanbohacek.com/2025/07/

#WeirdWeb #WeirdWebOctober

Here's my #WeirdWebOctober submission for "Remix", which I then in turn used to create today's #looptober loop.

So that's a #WeirdWebLooptober, if you will.

https://weirdweboctober.stefanbohacek.com/2025/05/

@looptober

#loop #chopin #piano #remix #music #WeirdWeb

Here's my #WeirdWebOctober submission for "Remix", which I then in turn used to create today's #looptober loop.

So that's a #WeirdWebLooptober, if you will.

https://weirdweboctober.stefanbohacek.com/2025/05/

@looptober

#loop #chopin #piano #remix #music #WeirdWeb

One of the community-oriented challenges coming up next month is #WeirdWebOctober https://weirdweboctober.website.

Great way to learn how to make your own website!

Here are some of my favorite resources: https://stefanbohacek.com/blog/resources-for-keeping-the-web-free-open-and-poetic/

#TheWeb #indieweb #WeirdWeb

One of the community-oriented challenges coming up next month is #WeirdWebOctober https://weirdweboctober.website.

Great way to learn how to make your own website!

Here are some of my favorite resources: https://stefanbohacek.com/blog/resources-for-keeping-the-web-free-open-and-poetic/

#TheWeb #indieweb #WeirdWeb

Link Dump #1
• Floppy math: 695 floppies = 1 GB. How many for your life?
• Scary Meter: rate your nightmares before bed.
• DEVO Doc: trailer drop—don’t say I didn’t warn you.
A 1-minute read, a lifetime of distractions.

https://enemyofaverage.com/link-dump-1-floppies-candy-cravings-devo-dreams/

#WeirdWeb #RandomLinks #FloppyMath #CandyCravings #DEVO #EnemyOfAverage

Issue #4 of the HTML Review, an annual journal of "literature made to exist on the web".

https://thehtml.review/04/

via https://waxy.org/2025/03/the-html-review-04/

#HTMLReview #WeirdWeb #IndieWeb #WebArt

Issue #4 of the HTML Review, an annual journal of "literature made to exist on the web".

https://thehtml.review/04/

via https://waxy.org/2025/03/the-html-review-04/

#HTMLReview #WeirdWeb #IndieWeb #WebArt

Game of Life is too true
https://weird.sha.codes/interactive
#weirdWeb

Game of Life is too true
https://weird.sha.codes/interactive
#weirdWeb

Won’t you be our nomadic neighbor?👋

https://blog.muni.town/muni-town

Upcoming Posts:
* Digital Homeownership (and Weird v0.2)
* Weird Inc.
* Everlasting Tools
* Non-commercial licensing strategy
* Features Roadmap
* Weird MVP Release (v0.3)

#weirdweb #governance

Won’t you be our nomadic neighbor?👋

https://blog.muni.town/muni-town

Upcoming Posts:
* Digital Homeownership (and Weird v0.2)
* Weird Inc.
* Everlasting Tools
* Non-commercial licensing strategy
* Features Roadmap
* Weird MVP Release (v0.3)

#weirdweb #governance

#Design #Launches
Weird Web October · A challenge to create a website every day of October https://ilo.im/160a75

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#Challenge #October #Creativity #Web #WeirdWeb #WeirdWebOctober #Website #Webdesign #Fun

#Design #Launches
Weird Web October · A challenge to create a website every day of October https://ilo.im/160a75

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#Challenge #October #Creativity #Web #WeirdWeb #WeirdWebOctober #Website #Webdesign #Fun

Hey, go visit https://howdidyoufind.me and tell them I sent you.

#indieweb #WeirdWeb #SmallWeb

Hey, go visit https://howdidyoufind.me and tell them I sent you.

#indieweb #WeirdWeb #SmallWeb

What's weirder than doing weird web October in September?

Here is the first prompt (and maybe the only one I do) - nature

https://aweof.me/

I made the font for this.

#weirdweboctober #poetry #nature #oulipo #weirdweb #font

What's weirder than doing weird web October in September?

Here is the first prompt (and maybe the only one I do) - nature

https://aweof.me/

I made the font for this.

#weirdweboctober #poetry #nature #oulipo #weirdweb #font

I quite like the idea of Weird Web October. https://weirdweboctober.website #WeirdWeb

I quite like the idea of Weird Web October. https://weirdweboctober.website #WeirdWeb

🔗 The revenge of the home page https://archive.is/c59tM

#IndieWeb #WeirdWeb #PersonalWebsites #OwnYourWeb #tech #future #history #internet #search

🔗 The revenge of the home page https://archive.is/c59tM

#IndieWeb #WeirdWeb #PersonalWebsites #OwnYourWeb #tech #future #history #internet #search

UbuWeb has lots of avant-garde artifacts and while it is no longer updated, it will be maintained indefinitely: https://ubu.com/

#ubu #ubuweb #art #artifacts #indieweb #weirdweb #smallweb #web1

UbuWeb has lots of avant-garde artifacts and while it is no longer updated, it will be maintained indefinitely: https://ubu.com/

#ubu #ubuweb #art #artifacts #indieweb #weirdweb #smallweb #web1

Yeah, you're really gonna see which companies are just gonna allow the AI to scrape all their stuff now. I'm a copyleft/creative commons kinda guy. But if you have art that you don't want stolen, the answer is simple.

MAKE YOUR OWN WEBSITE and put your art there (edit: and use that Glaze type of stuff on your art that wrecks AI, just to be sure)! Neocities is SO easy to set up! Or your own domain and hosting via porkbun, GoDaddy (non-WordPress) - anything at all other than proprietary/walled stuff!

#tumblr #WordPress #IndieWeb #WeirdWeb #PersonalWebsites #art #AI #LLM #OpenAI #AIScraping #Midjourney #Automattic #neocities #copyleft #CreativeCommons

Yeah, you're really gonna see which companies are just gonna allow the AI to scrape all their stuff now. I'm a copyleft/creative commons kinda guy. But if you have art that you don't want stolen, the answer is simple.

MAKE YOUR OWN WEBSITE and put your art there (edit: and use that Glaze type of stuff on your art that wrecks AI, just to be sure)! Neocities is SO easy to set up! Or your own domain and hosting via porkbun, GoDaddy (non-WordPress) - anything at all other than proprietary/walled stuff!

#tumblr #WordPress #IndieWeb #WeirdWeb #PersonalWebsites #art #AI #LLM #OpenAI #AIScraping #Midjourney #Automattic #neocities #copyleft #CreativeCommons

Wrote a thing about the web in 2024. Walled web vs. decentralized, HTML, other stuff, I mention @stefan briefly, etc.

https://spacetimetech.wordpress.com/2024/02/19/the-state-of-the-web-novelty-booms-and-busts-the-joys-of-simple-html-centric-web-design-personal-websites-the-walled-web-vs-decentralization/

#SmallWeb #IndieWeb #HTML #WeirdWeb #design #SimpleWeb #fedi #fediverse #decentralized #decentralization

Wrote a thing about the web in 2024. Walled web vs. decentralized, HTML, other stuff, I mention @stefan briefly, etc.

https://spacetimetech.wordpress.com/2024/02/19/the-state-of-the-web-novelty-booms-and-busts-the-joys-of-simple-html-centric-web-design-personal-websites-the-walled-web-vs-decentralization/

#SmallWeb #IndieWeb #HTML #WeirdWeb #design #SimpleWeb #fedi #fediverse #decentralized #decentralization

Making good progress the last couple days going through and organizing links. I threw a bunch on a spreadsheet and have been sorting and filtering. My wife has really helped with some great ideas along the way. (she's GENIUS with data stuff).

Sorting links is tedious and time consuming but it's something I've needed to do for a long time. It was also something I needed to do BEFORE I finish writing the couple blog posts I'm in the middle of - great to dig up some of this stuff for resources.

Lots of great indie web stuff, etc. 🔥

#IndieWeb #WebDev #WeirdWeb

Making good progress the last couple days going through and organizing links. I threw a bunch on a spreadsheet and have been sorting and filtering. My wife has really helped with some great ideas along the way. (she's GENIUS with data stuff).

Sorting links is tedious and time consuming but it's something I've needed to do for a long time. It was also something I needed to do BEFORE I finish writing the couple blog posts I'm in the middle of - great to dig up some of this stuff for resources.

Lots of great indie web stuff, etc. 🔥

#IndieWeb #WebDev #WeirdWeb

Weird Web Throwback Thursday (shall I make it a Thing?):

https://sidetalking.com

#WeirdWebThrowbackThursday #WeirdWeb #ThrowbackThursday #WWTT

Weird Web Throwback Thursday (shall I make it a Thing?):

https://sidetalking.com

#WeirdWebThrowbackThursday #WeirdWeb #ThrowbackThursday #WWTT

Good summation of the current weird, rewilding state of the web (and tech) from surprisingly, Rolling Stone (a little weird he calls it 'Dungeons and Dragons' rules for instances, but here we are). And it mentions @stefan too!

https://archive.ph/j7bkl

#IndieWeb #WeirdWeb #Mastodon #fedi #fediverse #corporatocracy #privacy #decentralized #decentralization

Good summation of the current weird, rewilding state of the web (and tech) from surprisingly, Rolling Stone (a little weird he calls it 'Dungeons and Dragons' rules for instances, but here we are). And it mentions @stefan too!

https://archive.ph/j7bkl

#IndieWeb #WeirdWeb #Mastodon #fedi #fediverse #corporatocracy #privacy #decentralized #decentralization

"..for the truly sick freaks of online, well, you can make the thing you want."

GREAT Verge piece.

"What would the internet of people look like now?"

https://www.theverge.com/2023/7/22/23803538/google-facebook-myspace-internet-culture-web-dot-com-crash

#IndieWeb #WeirdWeb #SmallWeb #PersonalWebsites #Web1 #tech #history

"..for the truly sick freaks of online, well, you can make the thing you want."

GREAT Verge piece.

"What would the internet of people look like now?"

https://www.theverge.com/2023/7/22/23803538/google-facebook-myspace-internet-culture-web-dot-com-crash

#IndieWeb #WeirdWeb #SmallWeb #PersonalWebsites #Web1 #tech #history

https://birdga.me is awesome. Play around with that one! 🐦

https://ooh.directory is a GREAT searchable directory of over 1900 blogs!

https://rotatingsandwiches.com is fairly pointless. But I like a LOT of pointless things. Heck, it *looks* nice, and it definitely delivers what it promises. 🥪

#CoolWebsites #directory #directories #TinyWebsites #sandwich #sandwiches #RotatingSandwiches #interactive #game #games #websites #weird #useless #IndieWeb #WeirdWeb #WeirdWebsites

https://birdga.me is awesome. Play around with that one! 🐦

https://ooh.directory is a GREAT searchable directory of over 1900 blogs!

https://rotatingsandwiches.com is fairly pointless. But I like a LOT of pointless things. Heck, it *looks* nice, and it definitely delivers what it promises. 🥪

#CoolWebsites #directory #directories #TinyWebsites #sandwich #sandwiches #RotatingSandwiches #interactive #game #games #websites #weird #useless #IndieWeb #WeirdWeb #WeirdWebsites

Tiny websites have always fascinated me, along with internet web portals (which haven't been a thing for many years-- at least in the way we used to know them). I'm talking a simple HTML page with just a graphic or two, and a bunch of links. Something that might resemble the early days of Yahoo, etc.

The idea for this site I made has been buzzing around in my head for a while now. It is NOT responsive, there is NO JavaScript, and there's just a TINY bit of CSS. The whole site (one HTML page) is only about 9kb!

A simple site like this one might look primitive compared to some of the huge, complicated websites we see as standard on the internet today, but this site is guaranteed to work on any browser or device.

I used links for sites/documents that I frequent or use a lot, and mixed in my own personal projects for fun. It's a super simple page-- mostly for my own usage. But I really love the design of it!

I call it 'Mr Beamer's Old Timey Web Portal' 😂

EDIT: I moved it to Neocities! ⬇️

http://oldtimeywebportal.neocities.org

#html #simplesites #webportal #webportals #htmlmostly #css #bareboneshtml #weirdweb #personalsites #personalwebsites #indieweb

Tiny websites have always fascinated me, along with internet web portals (which haven't been a thing for many years-- at least in the way we used to know them). I'm talking a simple HTML page with just a graphic or two, and a bunch of links. Something that might resemble the early days of Yahoo, etc.

The idea for this site I made has been buzzing around in my head for a while now. It is NOT responsive, there is NO JavaScript, and there's just a TINY bit of CSS. The whole site (one HTML page) is only about 9kb!

A simple site like this one might look primitive compared to some of the huge, complicated websites we see as standard on the internet today, but this site is guaranteed to work on any browser or device.

I used links for sites/documents that I frequent or use a lot, and mixed in my own personal projects for fun. It's a super simple page-- mostly for my own usage. But I really love the design of it!

I call it 'Mr Beamer's Old Timey Web Portal' 😂

EDIT: I moved it to Neocities! ⬇️

http://oldtimeywebportal.neocities.org

#html #simplesites #webportal #webportals #htmlmostly #css #bareboneshtml #weirdweb #personalsites #personalwebsites #indieweb

Update on my weird web project: kinda upset that I was seriously almost done with this project I've been working on, even late into last night/this morning- now it looks all messed up on mobile. Ugh! Time to try to undo some stuff, hopefully to get it it back to kinda what it was before it started looking crappy. The good thing is that I now have the sections/links all planned out, so if I have to go back and basically start from scratch, at least I know what I want the site's sections to contain. It's my only consolation. I'm sick too, and a little annoyed I have to keep messing with this. Ah, life. 🤣

#html #webdev #design #weirdweb #oldstyleweb

Update on my weird web project: kinda upset that I was seriously almost done with this project I've been working on, even late into last night/this morning- now it looks all messed up on mobile. Ugh! Time to try to undo some stuff, hopefully to get it it back to kinda what it was before it started looking crappy. The good thing is that I now have the sections/links all planned out, so if I have to go back and basically start from scratch, at least I know what I want the site's sections to contain. It's my only consolation. I'm sick too, and a little annoyed I have to keep messing with this. Ah, life. 🤣

#html #webdev #design #weirdweb #oldstyleweb

Something I've been working on for a few days is almost finished, a weird idea I've had marinating for a while. I showed my wife just now the almost-finished version and she laughed. So that's promising. That's the idea. 🤣 It'll probably be ready to post in a few more days. It's always about making those little tweaks here and there up until the very end, right? Waking up and seeing if you still like the look and feel of the design in the morning, that kind of thing.

#html #webdev #weirdweb #design #oldstyleweb

Something I've been working on for a few days is almost finished, a weird idea I've had marinating for a while. I showed my wife just now the almost-finished version and she laughed. So that's promising. That's the idea. 🤣 It'll probably be ready to post in a few more days. It's always about making those little tweaks here and there up until the very end, right? Waking up and seeing if you still like the look and feel of the design in the morning, that kind of thing.

#html #webdev #weirdweb #design #oldstyleweb

I am very much in favor of the recommendations here, particularly vanilla HTML/CSS and no hotlinking: https://jeffhuang.com/designed_to_last/ If you have even the mildest interest in maintaining a Web presence, consider this. #smallweb #worldwideweb #persistence #webdesign #weirdweb

All of you Fediverse friends, please consider signing the Web0 Manifesto: https://web0.small-web.org/ #smallweb #web0 #weirdweb #decentralization

@ajroach42 right on! I’m a big fan of #diy also, especially #synthdiy and #selfhosting
Also a fan of the #weirdweb and #indieweb
I like to make music, and recently like doing it with #vim and #tidalcycles

#ff #followfirday

@CaptainUnderpants - Fresh off the PCT

@djsundog - I'm pretty sure 90% of the fediverse already follows him.

@TheDoctor - Teaching us how to do weird stuff on the internet.

@enkiv2, @UberGeek, @vilmibm, @crc
- #Gopher/ #weirdweb/ #BBS folks.

@brokenfingers
- RELENTLESS ENCOURAGEMENT

Okay, Hashtag #interests time because I want to find more people!

I do #tech #activism. I'm working on several #podcast s. I'm a big fan of #DIY in general, and #DIYMedia specifically.

#postcapitalist #jazz #blues #IF #Gopher #BBS #mBBS #Replacethenet #weirdweb #vinyl #retrofuture #cyberpunk #cybrepunk

I want to hear your #garageband, I want to see your #homemademovies and your #tildesites.

Uhhh... I guess that'll do for now.

What are your #interests?