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A Quick Guide to Everything I Know about Webmentions
Collection of tutorials on webmentions including the basics — you can get up and running with only two lines of HTML! — using microformats to enrich your mentions; adding a webmention form; and parsing, displaying, and updating them with Eleventy, Netlify, and Bridgy.
Sending Webmentions with a Simple Shell Script
I came across a convenient way to send webmentions from my terminal using a simple Bash script.
A Certain Sickness
You feel that a certain sickness has been pervading your life. It's a dull ache that suffuses subtly through many unrelated things, a background radiation to your everyday…
Re: Turning towards the positive
IndieWeb Carnival: Tone Colors
For this month's IndieWeb Carnival, I'm writing about music that emphasizes timbre or “tone-color,” and how I use this kind of approach in my own composition.
IndieWeb Carnival: Take Two
I've been mostly making music tools rather than writing music. Today I'm talking about getting out of this rut with a “take two” on my current composition.
May 2025 IWC—More Easily Joining Small Web Communities
For this month's IndieWeb carnival on “small web communities,” I'm thinking about lowering the barrier for web independence and freedom
Liked | play; ground | James' Coffee Blog
Liked | Welcome to the IndieWeb - Serverless Industries
RSVP | Front End Study Hall #028 | May 20, 2025 | IndieWeb Events
RSVP | Homebrew Website Club - Americas | May 14, 2025 | IndieWeb Events
IndieWeb Stickers from Benji
IndieWeb Blog Carnival—“Renewal”
I often feel compelled to tweak and redesign my website at the expense of other things I value. I talk about reconnecting with what I most enjoy about composing and coding, and avoiding treating my leisure and projects as if I need to impress someone.
IndieWeb Movie Club: “The Castle” (1997)
My watch and discussion of this month's IndieWeb Movie Club pick — it's nice to participate in a group blogging activity!
RSVP | Homebrew Website Club - Americas | April 16, 2025 | IndieWeb Events
Liked | In defense of unpolished personal websites
RSVP | Front End Study Hall #025
Liked | Time at the Recurse Center
RSVP | Homebrew Website Club — Americas
Blogrolls as a Social Network
I added an OPML file of my blogroll, and I talk about some really cool ideas from around the IndieWeb for using blogrolls as social web infrastructure
Jamesg—Which HTML element are you [Quiz]?
I took James' quiz—I like doing these kinds of web games!
Webmentions Without Plugins
At yesterday's Pacific Homebrew Website Club meeting, I got some great feedback and was able to figure out making my own code to bring in webmentions!
Displaying Webmentions
I finally figured out displaying webmentions on my site without any client-side JavaScript!
Setting up a "notes" feed
Short posts, thoughts, and interesting things from around the web — it's like Twitter but I own all my posts!
Blog Tag Game
Tumblr-style tag game about blogging—I'd love if you join in!
Hypertext, the Memex, and Collaboration as Socialization
What if socializing on the Internet were more like editing Wikipedia? Read on to know why I'm thinking about this!
Static Site Generators Are Nice
Making it easier to blog, and to use my site instead of social media
Receiving Webmentions, Part 1
Setting up my blog to receive Webmentions
Healthy, Sustainable Social Internet
Thinking through what I want from the social internet, and the difference between a social "network" and social "media"
RSS Is Nice
My process of adding RSS to my blog, my rediscovery of how nice RSS is, and some music blogs I've been enjoying
Hello World!
An introduction to this blog and what I plan to do with it