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Interesting to read Devastatia's IndieWeb Carnival entry, which opens with an account of The Breakfast Club, the day after we saw The Holdovers. We were talking about great high school movies of the past, and of course TBC was among them (also If, The History Boys etc). As a Boomer, I wonder how those and The Holdovers (set in 1971) come across to recent generations.

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These 40 questions -- in my case direct from Chuck Grimmett -- could make for a satisfying end-of-year exercise and maybe even an IndieWeb carnival topic.





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Interesting to come across Bryan Lehrer's piece on the same day as Ben Werdmuller's. Personal histories, both focussed on building for the internet, sorta, and both coming, I think, to the same conclusion: money is essential and money spoils everything.

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Replied to a post on werd.io :

Very interesting personal history from @benwerd ... and here I remain, ready and willing to move from one-off donations to paying a real price for WithKnown.

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Nice to see someone else trying to revive blog carnivals in an IndieWeb context. Sara Jakša's first taster appeals on two levels; it is a blog carnival and it is about food. Count me in.

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Spending time cleaning up my RSS feeds in Newsblur and it isn't easy. I can export the OPML, and work directly on that, but is there a tool that will let me do so easily? Codebeautify's treeview doesn't let me edit the tree. opml.org seems dead. Is there anything else?

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https://ooh.directory/

So that’s what $project was! A new blog directory from Phil Gyford. Reminds me of Halt and Catch Fire s04.

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Broke out my IndieWeb reader and added some feeds to get going again, thanks to your prompt.

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Replied to a post on appdot.net :

To my knowledge this is the first time I've been mentioned over at Mastodon, so it seems only right and proper to see whether the wonders of IndieWeb allow me to reply there. Good to see old online friends but not sure I can handle another channel.

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As I continue reading and sometimes re-posting things written on this day, I've decided to do one more thing at the end of a session: go to a random site in the IndieWeb WebRing. Today, I found something that resonates down the years: how to organise the content of a weblog.

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Today is the five year anniversary of installing WithKnown here. We’ve had our ups and downs, and it has been generally positive. Not sure about the future though, I must be honest.

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Hey @marcoarment Has something changed in Overcast back end? I am getting errors like `file_get_contents(): Failed to enable crypto` from my all data XML file. Maybe part of that root certificate thing, which I confess I do not fully understand.

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I think it is a splendid idea to revisit indiewebify.me and reorient the expectations around that page. It does suggest that one fiddle with HTML, and that might well be off-putting if one is new to IndieWeb.

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Day 1 of IndieWeb Challenge https://indieweb.org/2019-12-indieweb-challenge.

Fixed all the feeds for my main blog website and checked their validity.

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Good work so far. As you note, micro.blog already offers a lot of the IndieWeb building blocks. And it recently started to offer an option to register your own domain, addressing another of your points. It's a good option for people (who can afford it) to explore the possibilities, and the nice thing is you can always move your content somewhere else if you want to. That's another good reason not to rely on silos.





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It worked! Well done. Are you also in the IndieWeb IRC/Slack?





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Seems to me that your home page is great as a professional About page. Just add some markup like an h-card. You have a contact form, which is important, what more do you need?





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An IndieWeb Book Club is a really interesting idea for people who like that sort of thing, but I am a bit Groucho Marx about clubs. I may get around to the book, or I may not, but right now I will watch from the sidelines.





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Replied to a post on medium.com :

Very hard to believe that Tanner Campbell chose to put his very IndieWeb idea about podcasting on Medium rather than on his own domain. Of course, the idea will never work because the big players don't need it and the small ones won't hurt anyone by witholding their labour.






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This news of a site for IndieWeb on Textpattern is very exciting. I used to use TXP back in the day for one of my sites, but moved it to WP. Maybe I'll move it back ...





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Getting ready for two days of IndieWeb in beautiful Nürnberg.





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Chris Aldrich's discussion of the rewarding discovery that a friend has read something that you are reading, before you see it in their feed, is spot on. It is fun. And it reminds me of two things. The most important is that I really need to get to grips with my tags, both in Zettelkasten and, perhaps even more importantly, in Pinboard.

The whole business of bookmarking, storing copies, highlighting and annotating remains a source of confusion for me. There are just too many moving parts. I quite like Chris' suggestion of making it a topic at a future IndieWeb Camp. I've got two projects on the go, either of which could be my thing in Nürnberg in a couple of weeks.

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Have you taken a look at indieweb.org? There are people doing lots more than hinting.





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Twitter weirdness. Ability to follow links seems to have changed. In Safari, with mu-block, I can click on a link shared directly by someone, but not on a link in a retweet. Is this a change in behaviour, or something I simply never noticed before? Or both.

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Managed to find some time to join [virtual Homebrew Website Club](https://indieweb.org/events/2018-08-22-homebrew-website-club) today. If you're interested in and have a moment, come and join us.

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It says here https://indieweb.org that "The IndieWeb is a people-focused alternative to the 'corporate web'", but that's just a start and of course there is more to it than that. More a state of mind than a thing, I'd say.

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Quick reminder that a 3-hour [virtual Homebrew Website Club](https://indieweb.org/events/2018-06-13-homebrew-website-club) will be starting in about 22 minutes. We use [Mumble](https://indieweb.org/Mumble) to chat about anything and everything . See you there.

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Quick reminder. Virtual Homebrew Website Club to talk about anything IndieWeb-related will start in about 40 minutes, using Mumble. Details at https://indieweb.org/events/2018-05-23-homebrew-website-club

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People of Europe's timezones!

There will be a [virtual Homebrew Website Club meeting](https://indieweb.org/events/2018-05-23-homebrew-website-club) this evening.

Feel free to drop in and discuss anything IndieWeb.

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If you would like to know more about the IndieWeb beyond micro.blog and WP, why not join us for the [virtual Homebrew WebsiteClub](https://indieweb.org/events/2018-05-02-homebrew-website-club#Virtual_European_Time) this evening at 17:30 CEST?

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@dgold if you are in IndieWeb IRC, can you figure out what just happened? Every one left in a hurry. Something about *.net *.split

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For all the joy of the , and the pleasure of civil discourse, I am becoming incredibly confused by aspects of micro.blog. There’s the question of titleless posts, of which is this is one as an experiment, versus status updates. There are posts that appear to be contributions to an interesting conversation but aren’t because they have been cross-posted automatically from elsewhere. And there is the lack of a scroll back, which means that as I follow more people and choose not to check in the middle of my night, stuff vanishes irretrievably from my timeline.

There are also issues with Known that are nothing to do with micro.blog.

None of this is insurmountable. For me, though, it does add friction.

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Getting set for virtual Homebrew Website Club. Want to join us? https://indieweb.org/events/2017-11-29-homebrew-website-club#Virtual_European_Time

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Would any pnut devs who speak Python be interested in bringing pnut more fully into the world of , by integrating with brid.gy? Instructions here https://github.com/snarfed/bridgy#adding-a-new-silo

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Replied to a post on ti.to :

Flight booked for @indiewebcamp Nürnberg. This is getting real.

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This is a perfect use of Huffduffer.com, to listen to audio with a specific tag where I might not want to subscribe to a that only occasionally deals with that topic.

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I wonder whether I can use the Recipe plugin for @withknown to markup a recipe for and then copy the HTML to my own site?

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Just for fun, I marked up my recipe for cornbread with syntactic tags that I hope meet the h-recipe spec. Not sure why. http://www.fornacalia.com/2017/cornbread-for-fornacalia

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Testing syndication from Quill<p> </p>

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Having switched Quill's endpoint to my new instance of WithKnown, I thought it only right and proper that my first post there be my first post from Quill.<p> </p>

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A giant leap ... My own installation of in a sub-domain on my main site. Getting more serious about the , but lots more still to do.