Important #indieweb lesson in #modular website setup this morning: Keep your DNS provider separate from your CDN separate from your webhost, so you can swap out any one of them as necessary. #Cloudflare #Outage #NJTransit #ChatGPT #Shopify #Dropbox https://t.co/wRIUzhUCG7

🎃 Night before #IndieWebCamp #Berlin! Participants are tucked into their beds, dreaming of what things they can brainstorm for their personal sites Saturday, and #HackTheirPlanet on Sunday. Keep up with their feeds & more: https://t.co/fot2chf3Jo 👻

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 …

… speaking of badges (Wikipedia User: 20 year editor badge in my previous post) … I got the Hacktoberfest 2025: Level 0 Registered badge from Hacktoberfest @hacktoberfest @digitalocean! https://t.co/bxrM0Vmb9e via @holopin_ Personal site link:

Saturday was my 20th #Wikipedia editing anniversary. I’ve created 25+ articles and 100+ redirects. Five this year: * Governors Public Health Alliance * #RaptureTok * Northeast Public Health Collaborative * West Coast Health Alliance * Take California More:

fire, water, wind, steam, electric, solar, nuclear https://t.co/WjoMCCeGnG

The Vision for #W3C has been published as a W3C Statement: https://t.co/NjrOlZzrji As one of the editors, along with Chris Wilson (@cwilso), I’m both proud of this multi-year W3C Advisory Board effort, and grateful … https://t.co/Dz1PmkzxUK #w3cVision #w3cAB #openWeb #Vision

Team @microdotblog has done it again. * https://t.co/ka8S1sjSTb * cost: $1 a month Simplest & cheapest way to own your identity & posts. Stop posting in someone else’s garage. Export your Twitter and migrate your Mastodon to your #indieweb home. More:

Do you use #Strava? See my brief notes on how to find and get your 2024 #YearInSport before it disappears after January 6th! Save your info locally so you can #ownYourData and write and publish your year in sport on your #indieweb site instead. More:

1/1 is a good day to publish a year in review on your #indieweb site. Services that create a year in review weeks beforehand (e.g. #Spotify #Unwrapped or #Strava #YearInSport), are short-changing you. No one asked for an 11 months in review. More:

Welcome to 2025! 15 years ago I began posting notes on my own #indieweb site first, and only later on #socialMedia. You can too. I am once again asking you to: 1. Get a personal domain name 2. Post on your own site, then syndicate elsewhere #POSSE More:

Last 2024 #donation request. I donated to: @ACLU @NAACP @InternetArchive @Wikipedia @PPact @Mozilla** @EFF @CalAcademy @deYoungMuseum @Exploratorium @MontereyAq @SFMOMA @SFParksAlliance #Donate to ^ that resonate **Disclosure: I work for @Mozilla More:

Last day of 2024 to #donate! Start with: consider a #donation to the #independentArts, like a local #arts org or one that friends or family are involved in. E.g. @theatermitu: https://t.co/LzOK7LItVH #TheaterMitu #NewYork #NYC #Brooklyn More:

I’m going to @btconf #Berlin 7-8 Nov and you should too! Great speakers, talks, & side events by @marcthiele+crew. The best independent #webdesign, #webdev, inspiration conf in #Europe Get a ticket: https://t.co/qC6vNEiTX9 and come to #IndieWebCamp too …

⚠️ .io domain likely being phased-out (as were .cs & .yu) — 7 suggested steps 1. Avoid buying new #dotIO domains 2. Run a .io service? Make & publicize a transition plan 3. Got an #indieweb .io? Make a transition plan 4. Using a .io e.g. #GitHubPages? …

I have put a lot of thought into deliberately shifting metaphors, often in the context of the #indieweb. One goal is to replace use of violent or divisive metaphors with actively constructive, cooperative, or joyful alternatives like: * gardening/farming…

Happy October! For some reason this month has a plethora of daily blogging or other creativity prompts. Here’s a few I found: * #Blogtober (consider this post my first for this, retroactively day 1) * Inktober — https://t.co/2guQiaeiH7 * LOLtober … https://t.co/B98T4LjVrK

Last week I participated in #w3cTPAC 2024. It was quite packed, and often started early, from 8am informal breakfast meetings at a nearby IHOP, to Working Group, Community Group, and other small group meetings every day (but Wednesday) til 18:00. …

Had a great time @IndieWebCamp Portland this past Sunday — our 10th IndieWebCamp in Portland! Being a one day #IndieWebCamp, we focused more on making, hacking, and creating, than on formal discussion sessions. #IndieWeb site intros, demos, and more: https://t.co/AteZBaiV5y

Nice #IndieWebCamp discussion session with @KevinMarks.com on the topic of auto-linking¹ I’ve implemented an auto_link function² that handles many use-cases of URLs (w or w/o http(s):// ), @-name @-domain @-domain/path @-@, #hashtags, and footnotes(^) …