@lornajane@indieweb.socialThe demise of Pocket is what started this thought process, so BIG shout out to @… and their hosted service at wallabag.it - I bookmark more things than I read so I'm creating new chaos there, but the experience is very good across all my devices. Again, you could self-host if you prefer that.
@lornajane@indieweb.socialFor RSS (because I really like only getting content I chose - just like happens here on Mastodon), I use @…. It's open source and theoretically self-hostable but I'm really happy with their hosted service.
@lightweight@mastodon.nzoss.nzI've just set up (again, didn't seem to 'take' last time) POSSE (https://indieweb.org/POSSE - Publish (on your) Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere) for this Mastodon account to my 'stub' account on BlueSky - if I understand it correctly, it should syndicate my posts here (in 'my ow…
@lornajane@indieweb.socialThis is your regular reminder that open source, self-hosting tools are great AND you don't actually have to host them yourself most of the time! Plenty of great companies offer these tools as a paid-for service - exactly like the subscriptions you have on those other platforms, except more ethical.
I'll share my favourites in the thread - please add yours!
@rossng@indieweb.socialIt's so easy to navigate cities now that most have simple contactless payments for public transport.
Meanwhile, Paris:
@lornajane@indieweb.socialI've always written short blog posts but now I'm doing a whole lot of post updates (the many syntax highlight plugins over the years eventually caught up with me), it's even more striking that there's content in a format that you rarely see these days (although yes I do read Seth Godin). 208 words in this post, I should try to go back to writing like this even if "the algorithm" doesn't like it :)
@lornajane@indieweb.socialFirst has to be @… which I have had for years as a hosted service from @…
Pretty sure I'm not using more than about 5% of the features of this one but my use case as a dropbox replacement and occasional file upload/download thing is brilliantly well served across my weird platform selection (iOS/Android/Linux).
@lornajane@indieweb.socialWhy are there so few women in the tech industry? If you think you know the answer, read the report #linkTuesday
@theadhocracy@indieweb.socialI can finally say I've had a small piece of the web that's all mine for a **decade** as of today 🥳
It's a little indulgent, but I decided to mark the occasion by piecing together a rough timeline for my personal site. It ended up being quite the fun thread to pull on 😁
An Ad Hoc Decade: #IndieWeb #SmallWeb #PersonalSites
@tante@tldr.nettime.orgThis comes down to the cyberlibertarian roots of most digital movements (thing Archive.org, EFF, EDRI etc.): To them "open" is a value in itself and any political values are read as "restrictions" or "regulation" or "lack of freedom".
https://indieweb.social/@jaredw…
@rossng@indieweb.socialMy guide to the CEFR levels of language proficiency
@al3x@hachyderm.ioThis is not fair…that food would make anyone love the editor too 🤣😇🤪 https://indieweb.social/@xenodium/114671523638724577
@lornajane@indieweb.socialReminder that this time tomorrow (noon London time, Wednesday 21st May), it's the digital OpenUK meetup. Our topic is "digital sovereignty" which seems ... timely - and we have two great speakers. Open to everyone, hope you can make it!
Details and sign up here: https://www.meetup.com/openuk/events/306642326
@jorgecandeias@mastodon.socialAnd this, people, is why Europe ABSOLUTELY NEEDS RIGHT FREAKING NOW its own human-graded space access system.
I'll never understand why nobody at #ESA thought of developping further the ATV in order to be also used to send people up instead of just cargo.
I know, the problem was mostly in bringing people down, as the ATV was designed to burn up in the atmosphere. But still. Now we…
@rossng@indieweb.socialHurrah! Big step forward for Firefox. Hopefully other platforms follow soon.
https://mozillagfx.wordpress.com/2025/07/15/shipping-webgpu-on-windows-in-firefox-141/
@gedankenstuecke@scholar.socialI added a link collection page to my website that's also subscribe-able via #RSS.
I thought that's a nice way to preserve them for myself (instead of hunting in the Mastodon search via in:library), while also surfacing them for others.
Let's see if I can build a habit to keep adding to it!
#indieweb
https://tzovar.as/links/
@qbi@freie-re.deThe return of web rings.
https://serverless.industries/2025/05/27/webring.en.html
@lornajane@indieweb.socialWriting documentation for something, I have no idea why I'm surprised that I suddenly understand this thing so much better now! #opensource #docs
@lornajane@indieweb.socialToday we had to say goodbye to Orbit the cat. He came to us needing a temporary home when he was 2.5 years old, and lived to be 20! A handsome creature, but it must be said that he was not the sharpest tool in the box!! We'll miss our little friend but it was time. Sleep well, puss.
@theadhocracy@indieweb.socialIf I ever create a microblogging platform, I'd call it "The Void".
Posts would be "shouts". Comments would be permanently disabled. Likes would just add an ever increasing number of eyes around the edge, staring at what you wrote from every angle 👀
@lornajane@indieweb.socialDoes anyone know why Vimium doesn't seem to "click" on the mastodon web interface any more? I don't use mastodon in the browser often enough to know exactly when this changed. I'd like to understand the problem well enough to know how to report the bug to either mastodon or vimium, does anyone have any insights please? I know @… recently did upgrade the interface, is it that? #a11y #mastodon
@rossng@indieweb.socialVery impressed with DJI service: 45 EUR total (incl. labour, postage) to repair a damaged gimbal. With sub-week turnaround.
@lornajane@indieweb.socialI'm not sure it's legal to have such a well-reasoned discussion of AI and tech employment, but in case it is: #linkTuesday
@lornajane@indieweb.socialI’m a recovering frequent flier, and today I’m at the airport to take my first travel-for-work flight in TWO YEARS … after 3 days in my new role. Travel is a craft and I feel like I’ve lost a lot of skills!
@theadhocracy@indieweb.socialI hadn't planned on migrating several sites away from Netlify over the bank holiday weekend, but nevertheless, here we are. They didn't leave me much choice...
https://theadhocracy.co.uk/wrote/buh-bye-netlify
@rossng@indieweb.socialLaw of physics: corporate entities are incapable of writing any text containing the phrase 'we are increasing the price'
@lornajane@indieweb.socialIt’s new job time! Yesterday was my first day with https://www.tmforum.org/ where I’ll be helping publish Open API standards (described by OpenAPI, I know it’s confusing!) that can be adopted across industries.
First impressions: Enterprise software tools are a very different world!
@lornajane@indieweb.socialThem: you should probably use the keyboard layout that matches the actual labels on your keyboard
Me: …
@rossng@indieweb.socialUsers don't understand what LLMs can and can't do. We should probably do something about that.
https://www.rossng.eu/posts/2025-07-02-users-arent-comprehending-llms/
@lornajane@indieweb.socialI'm working with a few organisations with different meeting cultures at the moment, and I really enjoyed this post about levels of note taking #linkTuesday Which level do you use?
@rossng@indieweb.socialBuild your own learning tools: a small thought about how programming computers lets you take matters into your own hands.
https://www.rossng.eu/posts/2025-04-27-build-your-own-learning-tools/
@lornajane@indieweb.socialAt the risk of stating the obvious, please do state the obvious! In two separate meetings this week it seemed like someone was arguing against a proposed change and in both cases, they were actually very supportive of the idea, and had already moved on to talk about what else could be done. Stop. Express your support (you can thank the suggester if you like!) so that it's clear, and THEN you can build on the original suggestion.
In both cases, we nearly ended up not doing the original thing!
@rossng@indieweb.socialThere's something immensely satisfying about putting the washing machine on at exactly the right time.
@lornajane@indieweb.socialIntellectually, I know that ChatGPT is mostly reflecting my own tone and attitude back at me, but that doesn't stop me from enjoying some of the quips I get!
(today: a code snippet and an invitation to return with questions or "mysterious filepath errors (we've all been there)" - yes little robot, we have!)
@lornajane@indieweb.socialI also want to recognise the wonderful luck of having family members both able and willing to “bother” me like this. My SIL lost her mum years ago and I know I’m lucky!
@lornajane@indieweb.socialI complain about how often I find my parents in my house unexpectedly (they live fairly close) but I just came downstairs to discover one of them had left home grown strawberries and sweet peas in my house. They are temporarily forgiven!
@lornajane@indieweb.socialYour open source needs docs - and to get you through this experience I have written a guide to creating minimal open source project documentation in a single afternoon. https://lornajane.net/posts/2025/just-enough-docs
Assemble the basics, immediately benefit your project, and also create a space for future documentation contributions to land!
