On Transient Slash Pages • Robb Knight
This is a great idea that I’m going to file away for later:
I like the idea of redirecting
/now
to the latest post tagged asnow
so one could see the latest version of what I’m doing now.
Don’t see making your own web page as a nostalgia, don’t participate in creating the netstalgia trend. What you make is a statement, an act of emancipation. You make it to continue a 25-year-old tradition of liberation.
This is a great idea that I’m going to file away for later:
I like the idea of redirecting
/now
to the latest post tagged asnow
so one could see the latest version of what I’m doing now.
Unfortunately, this is what all of the internet is right now: social media, owned by large corporations that make changes to them to limit or suppress your speech, in order to make themselves more attractive to advertisers or just pursue their owners’ ends. Even the best Twitter alternatives, like Bluesky, aren’t immune to any of this—the more you centralize onto one single website, the more power that website has over you and what you post there. More than just moving to another website, we need more websites.
The slides from a lovely talk by Ana with an important message:
By having your own personal website you are as indie web as it gets. That’s right. Whether you participate in the IndieWeb community or not: by having your own personal website you are as indie web as it gets.
I have a richer picture of the group of people in my feed reader than I did of the people I regularly interacted with on social media platforms like Instagram.
If you only write when you’re sure you’ll produce brilliance, you’ll never write.
Some handpicked highlights from my blog.
Serendipity is the best algorithm.
Write for yourself.
A selection of blog posts from the past year.