#indieweb 2025-02-28

2025-02-28 UTC
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DrWalt Hello?
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[morganm] https://bellingham.netlify.app/ Hello DrWalt. I came here to share this personal website I made, not yet on its own domain, maybe will add to a subdomain
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naradat Hi, I am Narada from a suburb near Vancouver, BC, Canada. I already have a website (www.narada.ca). But I haven't updated it and have used it at its full potential yet.
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naradat Back in the late-2000's, I used to run a few blogs by myself and with some friends/strangers in my mother language, Sinhala. I hope to go back to my roots and the internet I loved through my personal site and communities. At least to some extent! 🙂
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naradat But thanks to some unexpected series of events in my life, I am finally pushing myself to make my ideas and dreams come true. It will also help with my advocacy efforts, to strengthen my skills, and reduce social media use.
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osteophage Hi Narada! Welcome to the IndieWeb chat.
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[Jo] welcome
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capjamesg[d] Welcome to the community, naradat[d] 👋
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capjamesg[d] I like the design of your website!
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Lars-Christian What @capjamesg[d] said @naradat[d] — and welcome!
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wagnerbeethoven Olá meninos e meninas, eu sou Wagner, do Brasil. Designer tentando mergulhar mais no universo indieweb! My issue its about code 🥲! Thanks for space.
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wagnerbeethoven [edit] Hey boys and girls, I'm Wagner, from Brazil. Designer trying to immerse more inside indieweb universe! My issue its about code 🥲! Thanks for space.
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[Jo] welcome wagner, there's lots of people here who can probably help with that! if you have questions about code you can ask or share in #indieweb-dev
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capjamesg[d] I have added a few new features to my web reader this week: https://jamesg.blog/2025/02/28/artemis-changelog-3
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capjamesg[d] [edit] I have added a few new features to my web reader this week: https://jamesg.blog/2025/02/28/artemis-changelog-3
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[aciccarello] This is an interesting quirk of sharing URLs in QR codes https://hackaday.com/2025/02/26/shout-for-smaller-qr-codes/
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[aciccarello] My website redirects uppercase urls (including paths) but uppercasing everything still feels wrong
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[aciccarello] But I did confirm this works
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[qubyte] My big gripe with QR codes is how big the actual images libraries which generate them produce. I once went down a hand-coded bit-depth-1 and 1 pixel per module PNG rabbit hole for that reason. It was a lot of fun!
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[tantek] wow that's pretty amazing. original post with the details: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/02/why-are-qr-codes-with-capital-letters-smaller-than-qr-codes-with-lower-case-letters/
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[aciccarello] URL shorteners often consider uppercase and lowercase to be different (26 more possibilities for each character). I doubt the savings of QR code encoding size would justify case-insensitive short URLs.
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[aciccarello] but domain names are case insensitive so could be useful if you are linking to your homepage
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[aciccarello] From what I can tell, if a single letter (i.e. the path portion) is lowercase, then you get no size savings from uppercase
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doesnm own url shortener
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[aciccarello] I'm still toying with creating my own URL shortener
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[aciccarello] Still not happy with my short domain name so I want to figure that out first
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catgirlin.space i'd like to do a personal url shortener :3
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[aciccarello] My requirements for a short domain are that it's short, inexpensive, relevant to me, and easy enough to say verbally
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catgirlin.space i think the shortest domain i have is saige.ink >.<
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[tantek] aciccarello, yeah, unambiguously speakable, listenable, readable, typable
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SylvatiCodes savagebananasoup.com is my blog, but it's only tiny at the moment. using emacs org-mode and exporting to html. a lot to learn!
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capjamesg[d] SylvatiCodes++
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Loqi SylvatiCodes has 1 karma over the last year
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capjamesg[d] Nice work!
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[qubyte] I use http://qc.wtf for my short links. When my regular site builds it templates a separate netlify redirects file, hosts that, and then triggers a build of my short link site that curls and consumes the redirects file. Works a treat!
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[qubyte] wtf addresses were (are still?) cheap. I can’t imagine why 🤔
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[tantek] that's a very nice short domain
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[tantek] what is wtf
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Loqi wtf is a top level domain that costs about 40€/year to register https://indieweb.org/.wtf
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[tantek] ^ qubyte add yourself to a new IndieWeb Examples section there?
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doesnm 40$ is cheap?
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doesnm i'm paid 10$ for my domain. 2$ to register
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[tantek] doesnm, feel free to add yourself to the appropriate page's IndieWeb Examples listing the short domain you use!
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doesnm my domain are short?
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[tantek] short domains was the context of the conversation about costs, is that not what you meant about $10 ?
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doesnm i mean about cheapest domains. Think cc zone also can be used for short domains
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balintm my full name is Bálint Magyar and i snagged bm.gy for my "shortener" :3 it's so cute
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balintm "shortener" because it's literally just a .htaccess file i generate
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[qubyte] I’ll add to the examples when I’m at my machine 👍
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[tantek] 👍
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balintm i'm trying to add mine to the short-domains article now, but i can't seem to figure out how to link my page properly. i'm doing {{chatname}} seemingly like others, but the preview shows it as Template:chatname…?
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[tantek] what is a sparkline?
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Loqi A sparkline is a small, simple, data-dense graphic with typographic resolution that is shown inline and in-context with relevant text https://indieweb.org/sparkline
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[tantek] what is wikify?
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Loqi wikifying is the practice of capturing information and ideas on the wiki https://indieweb.org/wikify
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[tantek] gRegor what was the page called for making personal templates?
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Loqi hey balintm, [tantek], it looks like this conversation is getting pretty technical (template, templates), can you take it to #indieweb-dev?
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balintm i have a User: page with the lil box that also has my chatname, and i listed myself on the chat-names page...but i'm probably still missing something
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[tantek] yes a sparkline template
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[tantek] probably better chat for #indieweb-meta
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balintm ohh ok i think i found the section on the wikifying page that explains, ty
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