Mastodon, The Only Good Choice
Good article about what Mastodon delivers if you enjoy social media.
This blog is written in en-GB
Yeah, it's okay to write in your own voice, and for yourself. Weird huh?
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Do you need a CMS?
Through my day job I hear about Yoast a lot, often in ways that bother me. This often comes from people who seem to think all the web is WordPress. So it's kind of amusing that a creator of the tool in question ha swapped their blog over to using a SSG.
It's even more amusing given this happens around the same time I build my own SSG and, just for the LOLs more than anything, go for it on the SEO front and seem to get fine scores. No third party tools. No plugin ecosystem at all.
blog.cpjobling.net is now a static site
Another blog that has existed a long time has migrated to being built with BlogMore.
Blog More Fresh and Crispy with blogmore?
Someone's mention of BlogMore as a possible candidate tool for building and hosting their pre-existing blog.
BlogMore performance
Andy checks out the time cost of each of BlogMore's optional features.
The Boring Internet
The internet is not dying, but the commercial layer built on top of it is. This layer, characterised by platforms and services, is straining under the weight of machine-generated content and a focus on profit. Beneath this layer lies the protocol layer, a collection of older, less polished technologies that are harder to monetise but also harder to control or destroy.
Hot-wiring the lisp machine
Using Emacs and Org to make an SSG. Cool!
Ye Olde Blogroll - Because blogs are the soul of the web
Handy site for discovering blogs.
Embedding a Mastodon thread as comments to a blog post
A method of using Mastodon threads as a comment system for blogs.
blogging more with BlogMore
Another blog post about BloreMore, that isn't written by me.
davep - powRSS
My blog on powRSS.
powRSS - Discover the Indie Web
Another collection of "small" blog feeds.
CommentBox.io - No ads. No Tracking. Just Comments.
I keep thinking I might like to add comments back to my main blog. This might be an affordable (or free) option.
Blogosphere - Frontpage of the indieweb
Kind of a "planet" site for personal blogs in genral. Could be a good place to find stuff to read and follow.
in praise of BlogMore
Someone said nice things about BlogMore.
fun with static site generators
A pretty good review of lots of static site generators.
Braindrop - flotte Terminal-Abfrage für den Bookmarkdienst Raindrop.io
An article discussing Braindrop and Raindrop.
How Broken OTPs and Open Endpoints Turned a Dating App Into a Stalker’s Playground
A pretty amazing and worrying story of one person's exploration of a data app's API.
How to Write Blog Posts that Developers Read
I don't really care if anyone reads my blog or not; but this is an interesting read relating to what might grab people's attention. It's an interesting check of what grabs my attention when I read other people's blogs.
WordPress is in trouble
I've not really kept up with the WordPress drama, but I'm aware that it's ongoing and bizarre. This blog post seems to do a reasonable job of helping catch up on what's what.