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Tag: indieweb

  • Large companies find HTML & CSS frustrating โ€œat scaleโ€ because the web is a fundamentally anti-capitalist mashup art experiment, designed to give consumers all the power.
    - Mia, 2019

    This is what I needed to be reminded, today.

    Read more (114 words)

    • Repost
    • of this original
    • posted 17 February, 2025
  • If the most useful thing I achieve this Bank Holiday Monday will have been to make it easier to post short geotagged notes from my mobile to my blog (and Mastodon), it will have been a success.

    Full image of Dan sits on the grass in a garden, with his French Bulldog.
    Alt

    Dan sits on the grass in a garden, with his French Bulldog.

    This has been a test post. Feel free to ignore it.

    • Note
    • posted 26 August, 2024
  • Dan poses in front of circa 1999 and present-day copies of his blog, both showing posts from January 1999.

    Blogging Like It's 1999

    After looking at a 1999 screenshot of my blog, I was inspired to implement an alternate theme for my blog today, that brings back the feel of the Web of the last millenium. And you can try it!

    Read more - about 4 minutes (748 words)

    • Article
    • 4 comments
    • posted 27 July, 2024
  • A watery blue background and the word WEBSITES with a solar flare.

    Write Websites

    Enbies and gentlefolk of the class of โ€˜24: write websites. Sara Joy reinvented Baz Luhrmann reinventing Mary Schmich, adding an IndieWeb slant, and it's brilliant.

    Read more (474 words)

    • Repost
    • of this original
    • posted 18 July, 2024
  • Monochrome photograph showing sprinters at the starting line.

    100 Days To Offload

    The #100DaysToOffload challenge asked personal bloggers to author 100 posts in a year. I've done that a dozen times by accident, but does it count?

    Read more - about 3 minutes (628 words)

    • Article
    • 2 comments
    • posted 5 February, 2024
  • Golden cornfield with setting sun behind.

    [Bloganuary] Communicate Early, Communicate Often

    How do I communicate online? It varies depending on whether you mean publicly, or privately!

    Read more - about 3 minutes (698 words)

    • Article
    • 1 comment
    • posted 14 January, 2024
  • A white man wearing a spacesuit sits on a pebble beach using a laptop.

    They See Me (Blog)Rolling

    Inspired by Tracy Durnell, I've for the first time since 2008 started publishing a 'blogroll' of people I follow (now, dynamically-produced from my feed reader!).

    Read more - about 3 minutes (533 words)

    • Article
    • 2 comments
    • posted 18 December, 2023
  • Automattic Acquires ActivityPub Plugin for WordPress

    WPTavern reports that Automattic is to acquire Matthias Pfefferle's ActivityPub plugin for WordPress, and I couldn't be more excited!

    Read more (209 words)

    • Repost
    • of this original
    • 23 comments
    • posted 14 March, 2023
  • Reply to The ethics of syndicating comments using WebMentions

    In reply to Terence Eden, Dan says that he considers it's morally-acceptable for a personal website to take a reactive approach to the moderation of comments syndicated via WebMentions, and explains why.

    Read more - about 3 minutes (609 words)

    • Reply
    • posted 3 December, 2022
  • Screenshots showing STS-6, listing the most-recent blog posts on DanQ.me, in two different display styles.

    Spring '83 Came And Went

    As the sun begins to set on Spring '83, I finally finish implementing my server for the protocol, way too late for anybody to pay attention or notice.

    Read more - about 4 minutes (795 words)

    • Article
    • 2 comments
    • posted 20 November, 2022
  • Photo showing fragile dewey spiderwebs on blades of grass.

    Wake Me Up When September Ends

    Inspired by Hugh Rundle's post about Mastodon's imminent "Eternal September", Dan muses on what he can best do to help as the fediverse faces its biggest expansion surge yet.

    Read more - about 3 minutes (657 words)

    • Article
    • 5 comments
    • posted 9 November, 2022
  • Beverley's blog post "Setting up an Accessibility Book Club" in FreshRSS.

    XPath Scraping with FreshRSS

    The latest version of FreshRSS's killer feature is XPath scraping. Dan demonstrates how to use it.

    Read more - about 5 minutes (1173 words)

    • Article
    • 30 comments
    • posted 27 September, 2022
  • JSON output from DanQ.me's .well-known/links, showing 1,150 outbound links to en.wikipedia.org domains, for topics like "Bulls and Cows", "Shebang (Unix)", "Imposter syndrome", "Interrobang", and "Blakedown".

    .well-known/links in WordPress

    Dan implements a WordPress plugin to support Jim Nielsen's proposal for .well-known/links.

    Read more (230 words)

    • Article
    • 8 comments
    • posted 25 August, 2022
  • Screenshot of YOURLS interface showing Dan Q's list of shortened links. Six are shown of 1,939 total.

    Making an RSS feed of YOURLS shortlinks

    After switching his personal shortlinks from S.2 to YOURLS, Dan dusts off his XSLT experience to make himself an RSS feed of his shortlinks!

    Read more - about 7 minutes (1663 words)

    • Article
    • 5 comments
    • posted 5 October, 2021
  • Blog posts by type and month, a graph showing how articles barely change throughout the year but reposts are highest in the first half of the year, checkins peak in the spring and summer, and notes get a big boost in November.

    When do I #blog? A breakdown of my top four #indieweb content types - articles, reposts, checkins and notes - by month.

    Read more (93 words)

    • Note
    • 7 comments
    • posted 9 September, 2021

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