New on the blog: The one where I tell you how I drink my coffee. A reply to @axxuy@pony.social's post on the same topic.

https://theresmiling.eu/blog/2025/05/coffee

#personalBlog #persnalWebsite #indieWeb #smallWeb #personalWeb #blog #coffee

New on the blog: The one where I present you 10 prointless facts about myself as prompted by @daj@gofer.social in his recent blog post.

I also updated my stylesheet and added a page for my Python art.

#personalWebsite #personalBlog #personalWeb #smallWeb #indieWeb #blogQuestionsChallenge #pointless10 #bloggingChallenge

the 32-bit cafe's second event of 2025 is kicking off in a couple of days! we're creating free templates and themes to share with new website owners in a tea party.

https://32bit.cafe/spring25/

join us if you like to code and/or design!~ we'll be making a directory of layouts and templates to share on the world wide web. :)

New on the blog: The one where I talk about my name.
This is a reply to @joel@fosstodon.org's blog post. I've been meaning to write about my name for a while, so this was the nudge I needed.

#personalWebsite #personalBlog #personalWeb #smallWeb #indieWeb #blogQuestionsChallenge

Bon j'essaie de concrétiser une idée qui me trotte dans la tête depuis quelques temps : vous me filez un coup de main ?
L'idée : animer des ateliers grand public pour regarder sous le capot du web et créer une page web basique (mais personnalisée), dans un cadre non professionnel.
Je compte m'adresser en particulier aux publics des bibliothèques et des EPN. J'ai donc fait un questionnaire pour affiner tout ça : https://framaforms.org/quels-ateliers-web-pour-votre-public-1744120879

#IndieWeb #MedNum #PersonalWeb #Bibliothèques

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Small update to my website: I shuffled some links around, added new ones and from now on mark those with a hot pink "New!".

https://theresmiling.eu/

#personalWeb #personalWebsite #indieWeb #smallWeb

I updated my website.
Besides some smaller changes here and there, I added a page about web and phone games I play. Some of the games I list, currently three, are ones where you can add friends. So if you play one of them, feel free to add me!

https://theresmiling.eu/games

#indieWeb #personalWeb #personalWebsite #smallWeb

New on the blog: My first German language blog post.

Heute mein erster Blogpost auf Deutsch. Ich antworte auf @annette@bonn.social's Aufruf, zu überlegen, wie gutes Web aussehen kann. Ich bin zufällig über Annettes Blog gestolpert und fand es interessant, dass ich erst kürzlich darüber geschrieben habe, wie ich Social Media nutzen möchte. Jetzt also auch mal ein paar Gedanken dazu auf Deutsch.

#SoSollWeb #smallWeb #personalWeb #personalWebsite #blog #personalBlog

I've been thinking about turning my now (https://kevingimbel.de/now) page into a feed to preserve old entries, but that kind of misses the point? The now page is a insight into what happens now, not what happens now and in the past.

#personalweb #indieweb #personalwebsite
https://kevingimbel.de/status/1742798385

New #blost - "The Era of the Personal Website"

Yet another discussion on the personal web from an IndieWeb fanatic ;)

: https://ww0cj.bearblog.dev/the-era-of-the-personal-website/

#indieweb
#personalweb

I wrote a blog. It's about how I want to use social media. I have talked about it a while ago already (here in the fedi), but I added some thoughts and updates.
https://theresmiling.eu/blog/2025/03/social-media-use

I added some other things to the site as well.

#personalWebsite #personalBlog #personalWeb #smallWeb #indieWeb

this is it, folks! we are in the final week before submissions are due for GOOD INTERNET, a new print periodical magazine about all the things that make the #web fun: things like the #smallweb, the fediverse, the #indieweb, and efforts to actively fight #enshittification. submissions are open until MARCH 15.

check the submission guidelines or sign up for email alerts to be notified when we publish in may!

https://goodinternetmagazine.com

if this is your first time hearing about this, you still have enough time to come up with and write an article or complete a digital #art piece, if you're passionate about the #internet and want to write about it! :) bloggers, it's your time to shine!~

i can't wait to show y'all the incredible stories that have been submitted from all over the 'net, and some of the coolest art i've seen about the web!

thank you to everyone who's been so supportive of this project already. this is why this side of the internet is amazing. please boost, if you can; i want to make sure i did everything i could to include as many diverse voices as i can.

thank you!

original post: https://tilde.zone/@xandra/113913277766098384

What I absolutely adore about the indie/ personal/ small web: Everybody's approach is very different. There are super modern looking websites and there are the ones who seem to come straight out of the 1990's/ early 2000's. There are ones that are specially made to work on the oldest computers. There are ones with and ones without Java Script. Ones made by pro web devs and ones made my people who are just starting to learn the basics. There are people who've been there from the beginning and those who are very new. And everything in between. People of all ages, backgrounds, and walks of life.
In visiting personal websites you are seeing and experiencing the diversity of the world. And it's glorious!

#indieWeb #personalWeb #personalWebsite #smallWeb

I'm a bit obsessed with working on my website currently. And inspired by all the fantastic personal websites I'm finding. So here's another update to my website:
I added three pages: a sitemap, a page where I want to collect all the single pages I want to make, and one such single page.
I also put the change log on my homepage into a scrollable box. I'm not super happy with how it looks, but I do like a scrollable box thing.
I am feeling a bigger re-design coming... I have ideas, but don't know when I'll actually sit down to try it out. I have some ideas of single pages first.

#personalWebsite #neocities #smallWeb #personalWeb #indieWeb

Last night I pushed some super basic custom CSS to my photo-focused GoToSocial profile @kamera@haugenh.us. While it's no Pixelfed, I like the simplicity of GtS.

• Gallery: https://fedi.haugenh.us/@kamera

To any considering running a personal fediverse instance, I highly recommend checking out GoToSocial. Don't be fooled by it's simplicity, it also gives control in a way no other fediverse platform I've tried has done, including interaction controls, control over post visibility – on ActivityPub as well as the web and RSS feeds – post importing and backdating, and of course custom CSS at both instance and profile levels.

Getting things up an running was easy for me due in large part to the fantastically motivated GtS community. Especially helpful for me were:

• FediHost by @fedihost for a quick start through dead simple managed hosting.
• Posty by @oli for a tool to manage old Pixelfed and Mastodon backups.
• Slurp by @vyr to import and backdate posts from Mastodon and Pixelfed backups (some of which I needed to run through Posty first for reasons).

Now presenting

Make Your Own Website
https://web.pixelshannon.com/make

This guide is intended to help beginners make their first website with HTML/CSS.

I originally wrote it for my daughter, then 12 years old, so she could make a website for a school project. I think it is now complete-enough for anyone to follow to get started making a personal or hobby site.

Let me know what you think!

everyone should blog! but what if you don't feel like you have something to say?

@flamed has some ideas on what to #blog in case you're struggling for ideas, pulling inspiration from the loveliest of places, local bookstores. <3

https://flamedfury.com/posts/what-to-write/