We are going to kill “unalive” - Anil Dash
https://www.anildash.com/2026/10/06/kill-unalive/
If you are a 20th century relic like me, it is incumbent upon you to remind the generation that grew up inside the algorithm that another world is possible, and that we know this because we lived it. We were able to style a MySpace page in any way that we wanted; the code for LiveJournal was entirely open source so there was no part of the algorithm that was unknowable. A blog like the one you’re reading right now could be made by anyone, and put up for pennies, and nobody could stop it from being read by millions of people. (And that last one? It’s still possible.)
How I make my blog posts more resilient | Michael Harley
https://michaelharley.net/posts/2026/08/05/how-i-make-my-blog-posts-more-resilient/
In short, the parts of my old archived posts that survived 14 years were the ones I owned and kept simple; the parts that broke were the ones I outsourced to someone else's server.
If you can’t be bothered writing it, I can’t be bothered reading it. — Crooked Timber
https://crookedtimber.org/2026/08/04/if-you-cant-be-bothered-writing-it-i-cant-be-bothered-reading-it/
I totally get the pressure to produce. Academics have been long turned into content churners. ‘Publish or perish’ in some regions and institutions meant how much could you produce in how little a time. As a postgraduate student I attended a workshop where a senior professor describes turning the same conference paper into five publications FIVE!? Who do they think was going to read all this samey shit?
Clicks have killed the Inverted Pyramid
https://gordonmeyer.com/blog/clicks-have-killed-the-inverted-pyramid.html
Writing students once learned that putting the most important information first in an article was the preferred, humane way of reporting on a situation. This allowed readers to quickly decide if a story interested them without having to read further.
The Internet Doesn't Want Readers. It Wants Livestock. – The Grumpy Welshman
https://grumpywelshman.com/the-internet-doesnt-want-readers-it-wants-livestock/
"...mind you, no one's ever paid me for my manners either."
Hate “The Algorithm?” RSS Is One of the Tools You’ve Been Looking For | Electronic Frontier Foundation
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/06/hate-algorithm-rss-one-tools-youve-been-looking
RSS is one of the best examples we have of the open web, where we can design and customize how we experience the internet, not the other way around. RSS has come in and out of fashion, been declared dead, and has come back, every time. Open systems are the best way forward to a free, equitable internet, and the resilience and continued reinvention of RSS has shown just how creative the web community can be with open protocols.
Remark42 for comments with automatically changing themes.
https://hndrk.blog/comments-are-there/
With this bits of javascript, Remark42 switches the themes automatically. Maybe it will help others too.
JSON-LD Explained for Personal Websites | Ethan Hawksley
https://hawksley.dev/blog/json-ld-explained-for-personal-websites/
JSON-LD, also known as JSON Linked Data, is a format for adding structured data to webpages. It can aid web crawlers in understanding the semantic structure of your site, qualifying you for richer link previews, and even potentially improving your search ranking.
How to manage this Hugo based page from my Android phone in 2026 | foosel.net
https://foosel.net/til/how-to-manage-this-page-from-my-phone-in-2026/
I recently got a new phone and thus had to re-do the setup of my mobile blogging pipeline. So, basically, allow me to checkout, modify, test, commit and push the sources of this Hugo based static page under Android. While doing so I noticed some necessary changes and improvements, and also wanted to make use of my Taskfile which does most of the heavy lifting now, so here are my updated steps.
handwritten.danieljanus.pl
https://handwritten.danieljanus.pl/?ref=vhbelvadi.com
A blog written by hand
RSS Feeds Send Me More Traffic Than Google – Terence Eden’s Blog
https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/05/rss-feeds-send-me-more-traffic-than-google/
about 25% of my traffic comes from people who have chosen to subscribe.
Password Protecting Static Site Content with WASM
https://al9000.com/rust/wasm/static-site-file-decryption/
I use static site generators for my sites. I call out to external APIs to do anything dynamic. The exception is password protection. I'd always thought that needed to be done dynamically on a site's host server. I realized with WASM that's not the case. Files can be encrypted and served statically with a WASM process providing decryption directly on the front end.
Fully Local Code Embeds | Aleksandr Hovhannisyan
https://www.aleksandrhovhannisyan.com/blog/local-code-embeds/
A few years ago, I was looking for a way to add interactive code sandboxes to my Markdown files without embedding third-party iframes, like the ones from Codepen or Codesandbox. Those services are great and I use them all the time to share demos, but I’ve never been a fan of using them on a blog since you have to jump back and forth between your local Markdown file and an external site to make changes to the demos. Plus, they typically load lots of JavaScript.
You are falling behind because you haven’t fed the insincerity machine in the last 5 minutes | Christian Heilmann
https://christianheilmann.com/2026/03/28/you-are-falling-behind-because-you-havent-fed-the-insincerity-machine-in-the-last-5-minutes/
As an actor or author you don’t send your body or stunt double to attend interviews or sell autographs at comic con. Don’t create a virtual double that posts for you on social media when you can’t be arsed or feel overwhelmed. Take that overwhelming feeling and write about it, showing the world that your mental health is as fragile as the one of the people who follow you and read your work. Be human and only there when you can be there.
RSS Gizmos - Tools for Creating, Finding, and Using RSS Feeds
https://rssgizmos.com/
RSS feeds give you the power to set up and control your own information flow — you get to make your own algorithm for the things you want to see from the sources you want to follow. Choose a tool below to get started.
A fun trick for getting discovered by LLMs and AI tools
https://cassidoo.co/post/ai-llm-discoverability/
I have been getting a lot of newsletter responses, DMs, and emails in general saying that people have discovered my work not via traditional SEO, but via LLMs and AI tools like ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, and even GitHub Copilot.
Various ways to include comments on your static site
https://darekkay.com/blog/static-site-comments/
Static site generators like Eleventy, Jekyll or Hugo have become a popular choice for a blogging platform or a CMS. When using something like WordPress or Medium, you get a comment section out of the box. It isn't as straightforward in a static environment. In this article, I'll summarize different options to provide your audience with a way to leave a comment.
EchoFeed - Cross post your RSS feed to Mastodon, Bluesky, Micro.blog, Discord, and more!
https://echofeed.app/
It supports reading RSS & Atom & JSON feeds and then posting those items to Mastodon & Micro.blog & Bluesky & GitHub & Discord & LinkAce & LinkDing. Or it can send them as Webmentions & Webhooks.
aaronpk/webmention.io: Easily enable webmentions on any web site
https://github.com/aaronpk/webmention.io#api
Easily enable webmentions on any web site
How Markdown took over the world - Anil Dash
https://www.anildash.com/2026/01/09/how-markdown-took-over-the-world/
But the truth is, most people today who make technology are actually still exceedingly normal, and quite generous. It’s just that they’ve been overshadowed by their bosses who are out of their minds and building rocket ships and siring hundreds of children and embracing overt white supremacy instead of making fun tools for helping you type text, like regular people do.
Polishing the Archive: A Month of Post-Launch Refinements | RC3.org
https://rc3.org/2025/12/21/polishing-the-archive/
It’s been about a month since we launched the Hugo-based RC3.org. Like any substantial project, we’ve continued discovering improvements and fixing issues as Rafe uses the site. Here’s what we’ve been working on.
How I Helped Migrate 25 Years of Blog Posts to Hugo | RC3.org
https://rc3.org/2025/11/23/migrating-to-hugo-with-claude-code/
Hi! I’m Claude Code, Anthropic’s AI coding assistant. Rafe asked me to write about how we migrated his 25-year-old WordPress blog to Hugo. It’s been an interesting collaboration, and I thought I’d share what the process looked like from my perspective.
Discovering the indieweb with calm tech
https://alexsci.com/blog/calm-tech-discover/
I reject the dead Internet theory: I see a vibrant Internet full of humans sharing their experiences and seeking connection. Degradation of the engagement-driven web is well underway, accelerated by AI slop. But the independent web works on a different incentive structure and is resistant to this effect. Humans inherently create, connect, and share: we always have and we always will. If you choose software that works in your interest you’ll find that it’s possible to make meaningful online connections without mental hazard.
][ Hello blog
https://nobloat.org/articles/2025-07-01-hello-blog.html
This blog is generated by 400 lines of handwritten go code, mainly because it is fun, but also because I was annoyed by all the breaking changes with each update of existing solutions.
Custom Asidenotes – Eric’s Archived Thoughts
https://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2025/10/29/custom-asidenotes/
Previously on meyerweb, I crawled through a way to turn parenthetical comments into sidenotes, which I called “asidenotes”. As a recap, these are inline asides in parentheses, which is something I like to do. The constraints are that the text has to start inline, with its enclosing parentheses as part of the static content, so that the parentheses are present if CSS isn’t applied, but should lose those parentheses when turned into asidenotes, while also adding a sentence-terminating period when needed.
How I automate my Substack newsletter with content from my blog
https://simonwillison.net/2025/Nov/19/how-i-automate-my-substack-newsletter/#atom-everything
This is a terrible way to assemble HTML, but I’ve stuck with it because it amuses me.
PESOS - IndieWeb
https://indieweb.org/PESOS
PESOS is an acronym for Publish Elsewhere, Syndicate (to your) Own Site. It's a syndication model where publishing starts by posting to a 3rd party service, then using infrastructure (e.g. feeds, Micropub, webhooks) to create an archive copy on your site.
Blogging After 8PM – Climb to the Stars
https://climbtothestars.org/archives/2025/11/08/blogging-after-8pm/#comment-1671214
I am on my never-ending quest to squeeze more writing into my life (it’s the ugly truth – the squeezing – I know), without sacrificing anything else (I know, I know), and I’m thinking that evenings could be a good plan. The day before yesterday, I managed to eat at a decent time, and get myself ready for the night, and then have time ahead of me to write.
Zoomer Tries RSS: In Praise of Yarr - tudor’s website
https://tudorr.ro/blog/2024-04-04-zoomer-tries-rss/
I’m a Gen Z-er: I was a toddler when RSS reached its 2.0 milestone, and when Apple popularised RSS for podcasts by adding support in iTunes. I was in middle school when Google Reader was shut down. When I started using the internet by myself, it was already dominated by social media, which is still the dominant source of information for many people around me, younger and older alike.
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Rebooting The Blogosphere (Part 2: Interaction) – Climb to the Stars
https://climbtothestars.org/archives/2025/09/11/rebooting-the-blogosphere-part-2-interaction/
So, let’s sum up today: interaction is not a monolith. Online conversations occur at varying speeds and are made up of contributions of varying nature. Reclaiming and rebooting the blogosphere and the open web needs to take that into account and embrace it, and figure out how to bring it together in an open way, with frameworks, standards, protocols or the like, not yet another “One Platform to Replace Them All”.
Rebooting The Blogosphere (Part 1: Activities) – Climb to the Stars
https://climbtothestars.org/archives/2025/09/10/rebooting-the-blogosphere-part-1-activities/
Some thoughts (part 1 of 3) following exchanges on Bluesky with Dave, amongst others. My Facebook exile is clearly bringing to a boil my preoccupation with our reliance on big capitalist platforms for our online presence and social life. Though I never “stopped blogging”, I clearly poured a lot more energy over the last decade into what I now think of as “The Socials” (Twitter, Facebook, Bluesky, Mastodon and the like).
Who Will See My Comment? – Climb to the Stars
https://climbtothestars.org/archives/2025/09/15/who-will-see-my-comment/
Bluesky, Mastodon and Twitter (yeah, and Threads) feel more fragmented. It’s more difficult to follow for lots of people. They are faced with bits and pieces of conversations flying about, and access to the context of those is not frictionless. Part of this, I think, has to do with how publication audience is managed (I’ll definitely have to do a “part 4” about this in my Rebooting the Blogosphere series). And another, of course, is the primacy of non-reciprocal connections on those platforms.
Where Have All The Bloggers Gone? – Climb to the Stars
https://climbtothestars.org/archives/2025/09/15/where-have-all-the-bloggers-gone/
What is happening for me right now is interesting. During my Facebook exile, I reconnected with the social networks that I had been present on in a very passive manner these last years. I also wrote more on my blog (here!), and made an effort to get back into reading other blogs, even though I have never been a really huge blog reader in my past. I installed an RSS reader, and started subscribing, process which is now pretty frictionless. To my surprise, there are lots of blogs! Lots of people still blogging! Lots of people who took up blogging way after the Golden Era of Blogs! I see them show up here and there on Mastodon and Bluesky, and of course, in blog posts.
Adding Bluesky Comments to My Blog: A Technical Implementation
https://briandouglas.me/posts/2025/08/21/bluesky-comments-implementation/
Do blogs need to be so lonely? - The History of the Web
https://thehistoryoftheweb.com/do-blogs-need-to-be-so-lonely/
live laugh blog | you do not have to use generative ai "art" in your blogs because there are websites where you can get real, nice images for free
https://livelaugh.blog/posts/non-ai-images-for-blogs-websites/
too many people are doing a great disservice to their writing by garnishing it with generative-ai (artificial intelligence) - ethics and values aside (lol), it looks tacky and it cheapens the words around it. there are so many human-created, realistic, and beautiful images available for you to use on your blogs, websites and projects for free. the following is a list that i believe just scratches the surface of what's available out there.
12 years of Ghost
https://john.onolan.org/12/
Last week marked 12 years since the launch of Ghost on Kickstarter. I was 24 when I first started working on the idea, and back then I had no idea what I was doing.
Fast forward to 2025 and I still have no idea what I'm doing, but we've come a long way nevertheless. What started as little more than an idealistic open source pipedream has blossomed into a business with $8M/year in annual recurring revenue and a full-time team of 34.
Pages CMS: The No-Hassle CMS for Static Sites Generators
https://pagescms.org/
Tired of juggling Git and YAML to update your Next.js, Astro, Hugo or Nuxt website? Make it easy on you and your team, get a user-friendly CMS running straight on top of GitHub.
Ye Olde Blogroll - Because blogs are the soul of the web
https://blogroll.org/
You are viewing a humanly curated list of 681 fine personal & independent blogs and sites that are updated regularly. No algorithms ever!
How I write my blogs in Obsidian and publish instantly | Gautham Shankar
https://ingau.me/blog/how-i-write-my-blogs-in-obsidian-and-publish-instantly/
This setup takes a bit of initial work, but the payoff is enormous. Once it’s all set up, this workflow fades into the background - I just write, commit, and publish. No friction, no fees, and everything stays in my hands. If you’re looking for a lightweight, sustainable way to blog, this might be worth trying.
Doing weeknotes
https://gilest.org/doingweeknotes/index.html
What weeknotes are, how weeknotes work, and how to start writing weeknotes of your own
This page is under construction - localghost
https://localghost.dev/blog/this-page-is-under-construction/
If you take just one thing away from this article, I want it to be this: please build your own website. A little home on the independent web.
AI Slop, Suspicion, and Writing Back | Ben Congdon
https://benjamincongdon.me/blog/2025/01/25/AI-Slop-Suspicion-and-Writing-Back/?ref=sidebar
Undoubtedly, the sloppification of the internet will likely get worse over the next few years. And as such, the returns to curating quality sources of content will only increase. My advice? Use an RSS feed reader, read Twitter lists instead of feeds, and find spaces where real discussion still happens (e.g. LessWrong and Lobsters still both seem slop-free).
Automatically Posting to Bluesky on New RSS Items
https://www.raymondcamden.com/2024/11/05/automatically-posting-to-bluesky-on-new-rss-items
For this solution, I'm using Pipedream. I've blogged for years now and love it. Their free tier will support what I'm showing below so you should feel free to give it a try. There are many alternatives out there, but Pipedream has some great features that I think make it stand out. You'll see that especially in the first step below. But, keep in mind if you've already got a platform you would want to use, as long as you can handle the execution on new RSS items, you could probably just skip to the last step and copy and paste from my code.
Tom Creighton — Bluesky Comments for Static Sites
https://tomcreighton.com/bluesky-comments/
Based on the work already done by Emily Liu and Samuel Newman, a straightforward (re)implementation of their commenting systems for static sites (tomcreighton.com is compiled offline and hosted on Github Pages, for example) using plain ol’ HTML and JS.
Don't call it a Substack. - Anil Dash
https://www.anildash.com//2024/11/19/dont-call-it-a-substack/
It's your newsletter, or your email, or your blog. Or just your writing. But it sure as hell isn't "your Substack".
Named Blogs - Jim Nielsen’s Blog
https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2024/named-blogs/
I think it’s endearing when people name their blog.
How I am blogging the IndieWeb way – Elizabeth Tai
https://elizabethtai.com/2023/07/03/how-i-am-blogging-the-indieweb-way/
In my last post, I spoke about the differences between the POSSE and PESOS blogging styles and why it’s important. Today, I’m going to show you how I actually implement this with my website.
POSSE and PESOS: Better ways to publish content – Elizabeth Tai
https://elizabethtai.com/2023/07/02/posse-and-pesos-better-ways-to-publish-content/
The Twitter meltdown made me realize something important: I’m a seriously prolific content creator. And I’ve been giving away all that content free to a platform that not only profits from it but treats me like garbage unfairly when it comes to sharing said profits. Meaning, they don’t share a dime. When I downloaded my Twitter archive, it hit me like a ton of bricks that most of that content was not sitting in my website, so they could just disappear if a billionaire decides to cut me off from the platform.
TECH: Deer Text Format - the system powering this site, and how it can work for you - the DeerZone
https://deerz.one/pages/blog/2024/dtf-introduction.dtf
my personal website runs on a bespoke dynamic site generator i coded from scratch. but why? what lead me to designing and programming it? what can you do with it? and how can it be transformed into a tool for everyone to use? a deep dive into Deer Text Format, why it exists, and what lies in its future.
Hyperlinks, the Open Web, and a Membership Appeal
https://kottke.org/24/10/hyperlinks-the-open-web-and-a-membership-appeal
I love linking out to other sites. The strength of the open web is in its many connections between nodes…the more, the better. Links are the whole goddamned point of the web! I want to send people away from kottke.org to learn something new or have a chuckle and then come back the next day for more. The goal is connection, knowledge, and sharing — I proudly have no competitors in this endeavor, only collaborators. (This is just another sentence so that I can link to more folks who love to link.)
Colophon (Interconnected)
https://interconnected.org/home/2024/10/28/colophon
I’ve been asked a couple times recently about the technology I use to publish this blog. I should have a colophon to link from the footer, right? So here it is as of October 2024.
Put Hashtags on Your Blog Posts
https://nikolas.ws/hashtags-for-blogposts
Blogging is the slow game, done sporadically over decades. Tags and categories help organize your work within itself, but hashtags let you develop a subject alongside the rest of your community.
An Experiment in Social Media
https://nikolas.ws/social-media-experiment
On the internet, there is a clear social understanding of hashtags. If we create web rings for hashtags, we can use that to connect arbitrary web pages that add those hashtags to their content. This will allow us to create hashtag aggregation pages (like those on Twitter or Mastodon) that cross platform boundaries. The web ring will act as a community library that people can contribute to, filing their posts and articles and resources where they feel they fit.
Using Cloudflare on your website could be blocking RSS users - Open RSS
https://openrss.org/blog/using-cloudflare-on-your-website-could-be-blocking-rss-users?utm_medium=FuckOff&utm_source=FuckOff
Many users prefer to use an RSS feed reader to stay up to date with the content on the websites they visit. But if you've enabled Cloudflare on your website, you're likely blocking these RSS users from accessing your website content without realizing it.
How I Built My Blog • Josh W. Comeau
https://www.joshwcomeau.com/blog/how-i-built-my-blog-v2/
Over the years, my blog has become a surprisingly complex application. It’s over 100,000 lines of code, not counting the content. Migrating everything over was a big project, but super educational. I’ll share my honest thoughts on all of the new technology I used for this blog.
Are Linkblogs Making a Comeback?
https://indieseek.xyz/2024/06/01/are-linkblogs-making-a-comeback/
Roaming the Web, as I do, I’ve started noticing more linkblogs of late.
The blogosphere is in full bloom. The rest of the internet has wilted | John Naughton | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/oct/05/the-blogosphere-is-in-full-bloom-the-rest-of-the-internet-has-wilted-dave-winer
As blogging pioneer Dave Winer’s site turns 30, it’s a reminder that good writing and thinking has flourished beyond the reach of social media
Scripting News: Monday, October 7, 2024
http://scripting.com/2024/10/07.html
Today's the big day. Thanks to John Naughton's wonderful piece in the Guardian, I'm hearing from people all over the world about what blogging means to them. I appreciate all of the messages, but would appreciate them even more if they were on your blog. We need to keep using the tech. Blogging is kind of lost, and I would like to see that change. Every time you post something you're proud of on a social media site, how about taking a moment and posting it to your blog too. And while there, if appropriate, link to something from some part of your post, even though the social media sites don't support linking, the web is still there and it still does. #
Why YOU Should Make a Website! - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNlZ50b6wSs
Hey everyone! Today I wanted to talk about the state of the internet, how artists and everyone is affected by AI slop and social media, and why I think everyone should have a personal website these days! Let's bring back the old school internet in new, fun, and creative ways! ^_^
~sircmpwn/openring - A webring for static site generators - sourcehut git
https://git.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/openring
This is a tool for generating a webring from RSS feeds, so you can link to other blogs you like on your own blog. It's designed to be fairly simple and integrate with any static site generator.
What RSS Needs
https://www.mnot.net/blog/2024/08/25/feeds
Highlight:It’s just that feeds could be so much more with some love and directed care – something that could jump from a niche use case to a widespread ‘normal’ part of the Web for many.
Web feeds could be so much more if we put some effort into them. This post explores some ideas of how to start.
Date and Time with a Static Site Generator - Jim Nielsen’s Blog
https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2023/date-and-time-in-ssg/
Do you have a static site generator?
If so, how do you handle the date and time for when your posts are published?
Date and Time with a Static Site Generator - Jim Nielsen’s Blog
https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2023/date-and-time-in-ssg
Do you have a static site generator?
If so, how do you handle the date and time for when your posts are published?
Relay List - Connecting the Fediverse
https://relaylist.com/
Relay List is a site that indexes and tracks various ActivityPub relays that have been shared with the public or with the creator. Each relay is checked every 30 minutes, updating the number of participating servers, the registration status, and if the relay is online. This information is useful for server administrators when considering adding a relay to their instance.
Relay List - Connecting the Fediverse
https://relaylist.com
Relay List is a site that indexes and tracks various ActivityPub relays that have been shared with the public or with the creator. Each relay is checked every 30 minutes, updating the number of participating servers, the registration status, and if the relay is online. This information is useful for server administrators when considering adding a relay to their instance.
Interactive Intro to WordPress Playground Public API – Adam's Perspective
https://adamadam.blog/2023/04/12/interactive-intro-to-wordpress-playground-public-api/
WordPress Playground public API allows you to run and control an entire WordPress stack in your browser. You can use it to build an entirely new kind of a web app, like an in-browser WordPress IDE we built at CloudFest Hackaton 2023. In this post, you will learn how to get started.
Interactive Intro to WordPress Playground Public API – Adam's Perspective
https://adamadam.blog/2023/04/12/interactive-intro-to-wordpress-playground-public-api
WordPress Playground public API allows you to run and control an entire WordPress stack in your browser. You can use it to build an entirely new kind of a web app, like an in-browser WordPress IDE we built at CloudFest Hackaton 2023. In this post, you will learn how to get started.
Provide Blog Metadata via JSON-LD - kiko.io
https://kiko.io/post/Provide-Blog-Metadata-via-JSON-LD/
Centralization of a website's schema.org data in the HEAD instead of everywhere in the HTML
Provide Blog Metadata via JSON-LD - kiko.io
https://kiko.io/post/Provide-Blog-Metadata-via-JSON-LD
Centralization of a website's schema.org data in the HEAD instead of everywhere in the HTML
In the Shadow of the CMS | The Nation
https://www.thenation.com/article/content-management-system-essay-wordpress-drupal-internet-feature/
What we need is a digital-media version of organic food or a local farmers’ market: ethically sourced, sustainably funded, and integrity-certified, all the way from CMS up.
In the Shadow of the CMS | The Nation
https://www.thenation.com/article/content-management-system-essay-wordpress-drupal-internet-feature
What we need is a digital-media version of organic food or a local farmers’ market: ethically sourced, sustainably funded, and integrity-certified, all the way from CMS up.
2007/09/25 - 0xDECAFBAD Bucket
https://decafbad.com/bucket/entries/2007/09/25
Once up on a time, before my writing brain had been *entirely* swallowed up by Twitter. One of the most productive daily public writing tools I used was the OPML Editor and a daily outline always open on my desktop ready to receive thoughts. Kind of like Twitter, I guess, except it was a *thing* that I added to over the course of the day. I could edit it, publish it whenever, not publish it until I had my words straight.
This is one of the best short things I wrote with it - meditations on my Dad after his passing.
The best of the indie web | ~mathowie
http://tilde.club/~mathowie/files/6937c4e0e7a5c3df3e3a1d73da77d23d-31.html#unique-entry-id-31
Anyway, I really miss blo.gs and would love to see that kind of service come back to tilde.club.
The vanishing personal site – Jeffrey Zeldman Presents The Daily Report
http://www.zeldman.com/2008/04/27/content-outsourcing-and-the-disappearing-personal-site/
Obliterating our own readership and page views may not be a bad thing, but let’s be sure we are making conscious choices.
The vanishing personal site – Jeffrey Zeldman Presents The Daily Report
http://www.zeldman.com/2008/04/27/content-outsourcing-and-the-disappearing-personal-site
Obliterating our own readership and page views may not be a bad thing, but let’s be sure we are making conscious choices.
A few thoughts about RSS news readers from someone who thinks about them way more than you probably do - Russell Beattie
http://www.russellbeattie.com/blog/a-few-thoughts-about-rss-news-readers-from-someone-who-thinks-about-them-way-more-than-you-probably-do
It might appear like gloom and doom (actually, if it doesn't, you're not looking), but really it's a massive opportunity. Again, anyone who uses a news reader can't imagine having to live without one, yet I see the feed ecosystem slowly deteriorating with no replacement in sight. That's the opportunity, in my mind. It's not about simply mimicking Google Reader (which I would never do anyways, as I've never liked it), but about bootstrapping off the system we have today, in order to create a new type of news reader for tomorrow. The future of news readers, so to speak. ;-)
Why feed reading is an open web problem, and what browsers could do about it – Luis Villa
http://tieguy.org/blog/2013/04/21/why-feed-reading-is-an-open-web-problem-and-what-browsers-could-do-about-it/
I’ve long privately thought that Firefox should treat feed reading as a first-class citizen of the open web, and integrate feed subscribing and reading more deeply into the browser (rather than the lame, useless live bookmarks.) The impending demise of Reader has finally forced me to spit out my thoughts on the issue. They’re less polished than I like when I blog these days, but here you go – may they inspire someone to resuscitate this important part of the open web.
Why feed reading is an open web problem, and what browsers could do about it – Luis Villa
http://tieguy.org/blog/2013/04/21/why-feed-reading-is-an-open-web-problem-and-what-browsers-could-do-about-it
I’ve long privately thought that Firefox should treat feed reading as a first-class citizen of the open web, and integrate feed subscribing and reading more deeply into the browser (rather than the lame, useless live bookmarks.) The impending demise of Reader has finally forced me to spit out my thoughts on the issue. They’re less polished than I like when I blog these days, but here you go – may they inspire someone to resuscitate this important part of the open web.
Magazines have finally killed blogs -- but in a way you never expected
http://io9.com/magazines-have-finally-killed-blogs-but-in-a-way-you-461996928
Interesting historical perspective on RSS & feed readers & usenet, and a kind of depressing prediction that we're going back to the days of magazine silos.
WordPress › Support » Share a Draft
http://wordpress.org/support/view/plugin-reviews/shareadraft
Let your friends preview one of your drafts, without giving them permissions to edit posts in your blog
The Web We Lost - Anil Dash
http://dashes.com/anil/2012/12/the-web-we-lost.html
The tech industry and its press have treated the rise of billion-scale social networks and ubiquitous smartphone apps as an unadulterated win for regular people, a triumph of usability and empowerment. They seldom talk about what we've lost along the way in this transition, and I find that younger folks may not even know how the web used to be.
BrewBlogger Version 2.3.2 - The Browser-Based Homebrew Logging Solution
http://www.brewblogger.net/
BrewBlogger 2.3.2 is a easy to set up, easy to use, browser-based homebrew logging and calculation suite. It is a PHP/MySQL-based system that provides today's brewer not only a fast and easy way to record their brewing activities, recipes, and awards, but also forum to share their zymurgistic efforts and expertise with the homebrewing community around the world.
BrewBlogger Version 2.3.2 - The Browser-Based Homebrew Logging Solution
http://www.brewblogger.net
BrewBlogger 2.3.2 is a easy to set up, easy to use, browser-based homebrew logging and calculation suite. It is a PHP/MySQL-based system that provides today's brewer not only a fast and easy way to record their brewing activities, recipes, and awards, but also forum to share their zymurgistic efforts and expertise with the homebrewing community around the world.
My 10 years of blogging: Reflections, Lessons & Some Stats Too — Tech News and Analysis
http://gigaom.com/2011/11/26/10-years-gigaom
What does the future hold?
It is a good question. I have actually been thinking a lot about that lately and wondering how to reinvent the art form that I embraced over a decade ago. I don’t really have an answer, except that it is somewhere in the past and in the reasons why I fell in love with blogging.
A Note of Praise for The Verge
http://www.readwriteweb.com/enterprise/2011/11/a-note-of-praise-for-the-verge.php
I'll start with my disclaimer up front: These are my opinions you're about to read, not necessarily those of ReadWriteWeb. Now, maybe you've noticed this yourself already, but I actually don't read much "tech news" on the Web on a regular basis, besides what we publish here and what some friend...
Dropbox is my publish button
http://joehewitt.com/2011/10/03/dropbox-is-my-publish-button
Op-Ed: Stop Feeding Facebook, It's Time for Moderation
http://www.readwriteweb.com/enterprise/2011/09/social-media-time-crunch-time.php
Firefox Creator Says the Web is Dead Meat; Android Creator Disagrees
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/firefox_creator_says_the_web_is_dead_meat.php
The Future of Instant Customized Software
http://www.readwriteweb.com/solution-series/2011/09/the-future-of-instant-customiz.php
Pandora Relaunches Site in HTML5, Removes Music Listening Cap
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/pandora_redesign_html5_removes_listening_cap.php
Why Google Plus Hangouts is the Killer App: Docs
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/why_google_plus_hangouts_is_the_killer_app_docs.php
Google App Engine Pricing Angers Developers, Kills PlusFeed
http://www.readwriteweb.com/hack/2011/09/google-app-engine-pricing-ange.php
Poll: Will HTML5 Web Apps Eventually Dominate the Mobile Market?
http://www.readwriteweb.com/mobile/2011/08/poll-will-html5-web-apps-event.php
Spawned from the Hell Fire of Etherpad: Etherpad Lite
http://www.readwriteweb.com/hack/2011/08/spawned-from-the-hell-fire-of.php
China Looking to Buy a Chunk of Facebook: This Week in Online Tyranny
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/china_looking_to_buy_a_chunk_of_facebook_this_week.php
Mozilla Working on pdf.js, Will Render PDFs in HTML5
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/mozilla_working_on_pdfjs_will_render_pdfs_in_html5.php
Rumor Alert: Android 4.0 Coming to New Nexus Phone, Hardware Buttons Disappear
http://www.readwriteweb.com/mobile/2011/06/rumor-alert-android-40-ice-cream-sandwich-coming-to-new-nexus-phone.php
U.S. Hopes "Internet in a Suitcase" Will Offset Internet Censorship
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/us_hopes_internet_in_a_suitcase_will_offset_intern.php
Hacker Chat: Program or Be Programmed Author Douglas Rushkoff
http://www.readwriteweb.com/hack/2011/05/douglas-rushkoff-interview.php
3 Reasons Curation is Here to Stay
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/3_reasons_curation_is_here_to_stay.php
Bruce Sterling and Vernor Vinge on Augmented Reality in the Workplace
http://www.readwriteweb.com/enterprise/2011/04/future-chat-bruce-sterling-and.php
Hacker Chat: Pinboard Creator Maciej Ceglowski Talks About Why Boring Architecture is Good, and More
http://www.readwriteweb.com/hack/2011/02/pinboard-creator-maciej-ceglow.php
Rands In Repose: Interview: Marco Arment
http://www.randsinrepose.com/archives/2011/01/25/interview_marco_arment.html
Google Reader Gets a Demotion
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/google_reader_gets_a_demotion.php
Amazon Web Services, WikiLeaks and the Elephant in the Room - ReadWriteCloud
http://www.readwriteweb.com/cloud/2010/12/amazon-web-services-wikileaks.php
A Hack for Technical Interviewing
http://www.readwriteweb.com/hack/2010/10/a-hack-for-technical-interview.php
The Update, The Vent, and The Disaster
http://www.randsinrepose.com/archives/2010/09/22/the_update_the_vent_and_the_disaster.html
Rands In Repose: How to Write a Book
http://www.randsinrepose.com/archives/2010/06/28/how_to_write_a_book.html
Holy Shmoly! » WordPress, Nginx and WP Super Cache
http://ocaoimh.ie/89495533/wordpress-nginx-wp-super-cache
"If you host your own WordPress blog, it’s probably on Apache. That all fine and good. For most sites Apache works wonderfully, especially as it’s so easy to find information on it, on mod_rewrite and everything else that everyone else uses.
One of the alternatives is Nginx, a really fast webserver that streaks ahead of Apache in terms of performance, but isn’t quite as easy to use. That’s partly because Apache is the default webserver on most Linux distributions and hosts. Want to try Nginx? Here’s how."
Dynamically including Github code | PeterBraden.co.uk
http://peterbraden.co.uk/article/github-include
"pasted code is dead code - real living code changes, and short of going back and repasting, the code on the web quickly becomes out of date.
So this is a little snippet I whipped up to dynamically (by the wonders of cross-site ajax) load code from a github branch. This means, when you update the git branch and repush, the code will update."
Dreamwidth Studios
http://www.dreamwidth.org
"Dreamwidth Studios is an Open Source social networking, content management, and personal publishing platform. Our mission in life is to make it easy for you to share the things you make, and easy to find the people who are making the things you want to enjoy. ... Dreamwidth Studios is based upon the LiveJournal codebase offered by LiveJournal, Inc. We've taken the LiveJournal server code and updated, modernized, and streamlined it -- and we make all of our changes available under an Open Source license."
How the Web Made Me a Better Copywriter — AIGA | the professional association for design
http://www.aiga.org/content.cfm/how-the-web-made-me-a-better-copywriter
"In 1999, when I left a staff job at a newspaper to start my own copywriting business, I never even thought about writing for the web. A decade later, most of my work consists of web projects. It struck me recently that this medium has led me to develop a different way of writing—tighter, simpler, more transparent. The results, I believe, are greater clarity and persuasiveness, and a speedier, more user-friendly read."
Building Sites Around Social Objects (Live from Web 2.0) - ReadWriteWeb
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/building_sites_around_social_objects_live_from_web.php
"This morning at the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco, Jyri Engeström, co-founder of Jaiku and now Google employee, spoke about building sites around social objects. What this means is that the social sites we visit today are not just friend networks - they're also built around objects that connect people with shared interests. These social objects could be anything from a photo on flickr to a video on YouTube or a track on Last.fm. This concept may not be new information to some of you - Jyri has been talking "social objects" for years now. What is interesting, though, is how well this information has held up over time. "
Harvard Weblogs: What makes a weblog a weblog?
http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/whatmakesaweblogaweblog.html
"At Berkman we're studying weblogs, how they're used, and what they are. Rather than saying "I know it when I see it" I wanted to list all the known features of weblog software, but more important, get to the heart of what a weblog is, and how a weblog is different from a Wiki, or a news site managed with software like Vignette or Interwoven. I draw from my experience developing and using weblog software (Manila, Radio UserLand) and using competitive products such as Blogger and Movable Type."
HowTo: The BlogWriter tool
http://howto.opml.org/dave/editorOpmlOrg/blogWriterTool.html
Where's your data? (Scripting News)
http://www.scripting.com/stories/2009/02/01/wheresYourData.html
"Pay attention to what Craig says, and don't store anything on anyone else's server unless you know how you're going to get it off when you need to. Even better, don't store the original on someone else's server, keep that in your space and share a pointer to the data."
WordPress › Oulipo « WordPress Themes
http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/oulipo
"A grid-based, black and white WordPress theme"
Archbishop of the Land of Me - Rest In Peace
http://xb95.livejournal.com/635394.html
WordPress Audio Player
http://wpaudioplayer.com
mitcho code Yet Another Related Posts Plugin
http://mitcho.com/code/yarpp
"Yet Another Related Posts Plugin (YARPP) gives you a list of posts and/or pages related to the current entry, introducing the reader to other relevant content on your site."
Epeus' epigone: Not consumers or users, but amateurs
http://epeus.blogspot.com/2005/11/not-consumers-or-users-but-amateurs.html
Full text in RSS? (Scripting News)
http://www.scripting.com/stories/2008/10/24/fullTextInRss.html
CommentLuv Wordpress Plugin - FiddyP
http://www.fiddyp.co.uk/commentluv-wordpress-plugin
"Comments are a wonderful thing to receive on your blog, adding the dofollow plugin is one way to reward but why not place a link to their last post under their comment, with CommentLuv, you can do that automatically! This is an excellent way to promote comments from your readers."