More on the Indie Web

Surfing the web... not something any of us normies have done in a long time in our spare time. It used to be like that. Not so much anymore. We've all been corraled to somewhere between 5-10 websites so our attention can get farmed for cash from advertisers. Your regular reminder that this internet world sucks, and there is a better way.

I've spent the last week falling down a rabbit hole, which has been, honestly, an amazing feeling. I'm just gonna link a bunch of the stuff I've found, because it's cool and I don't want to forget what I've found. But there's a ton to discover and a ton to learn from that isn't just algorithms force feeding me whatever it thinks I want to see or read or hear.

What I'm gathering:

• There are deeper things going on on the web than I realized. I had just lost sight of that.
• Vanilla HTML/CSS are still dope, and you can make really cool things with them.
• The open web is ripe for normal people to pick up. There are ways of interacting online that are so different than what so many of us have been taught.

Links to Cool stuff

Blogs I Want to Explore (in no particular order)

• Nicky Case
• Kev Quirk
• notusknot
• Luke Smith

Things I Want to Learn More About

• Becoming an Internet Landlord
• Bubo RSS - especially to learn how to build my own reader in this style
• IndieWeb Micropub Protocol
• Django Deployment. Not sure this solves the bloat problem... but I have been learning Django for a while, and actual deployment seems out of reach currently.

One-Off Articles, Videos, or Lists For More Reading

• "This Page is Designed to Last"
• "The Website Obesity Crisis" (2015)
• 512 kb Club
• Ye Olde Blogroll
• "Get Blogging!"
• HeavenTree

Tools

• CSS Flexbox
• CSS Grid
• BrowserSync
• Simple.CSS

(It's possible if you're reading this post in November 2022 that the layout's all funky. I'm playing with the CSS, half of which I stole from Simple.CSS.)

Tagged: open web, blogging,