#indieweb 2025-09-11

2025-09-11 UTC
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glitzeor4444 i am gagged — i love the aspirational air fryer hahaha
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Loqi nice
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glitzeor4444 Loqi, don't even pretend to talk to me lol
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[schmarty] Loqi loves laughter
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[tantek] alright I'm leaning towards "-->" as the best among a small number of choices for delimiting items in a one line linear timeline: https://indieweb.org/microsyntax#one_line_timeline_or_progress. I think it most looks like an actual arrow graphic and help separate the items on the timeline so they appear as clear separate things / steps
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[Al_Abut] Looks good. I love the Unicode arrow myself, use it all the time
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[Al_Abut] Is there a downside in an ascii kind of way to use special characters like that? I’d assume they have the same difficulty as an emoji
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[tantek] the unicode arrows don't visually separate what's on either side enough which makes it harder to read/scan
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[tantek] probably also need to test various options with screen readers
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[tantek] The nice thing about "-->" is that it is very unlikely it's something other than an arrow, and can be easily typed e.g. on mobile.
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[tantek] next challenge is to figure out what a good HTML+CSS presentation would be but that's more of a #indieweb-dev chat
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zachary.kai Hope this is alright to share! The Emerging Writers Festival in Melbourne, Australia is running currently. As part of it, they're doing a digital exhibition called How To Fall In Love With The Internet Again. I'd say there are some great pieces, but I guess I'm biased, because I wrote an essay for it too. https://emergingwritersfestival.org.au/how-to-fall-in-love-with-the-internet-again/
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zachary.kai And I thought this was super cool! https://chameth.com/making-a-font-of-my-handwriting/
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Loqi [indienews] New post: "30 collaborative things you can do on the web" https://jamesg.blog/2025/09/10/collaborative-web-activities/
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villepreux My website tries to follow most indieweb practices, but I always need more as I love just working on it (btw thank you James capjamesg[d] for yet more ideas!). Feedbacks welcomed!
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villepreux Hi everyone, Antoine here!
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villepreux Having [my own website](https://villepreux.net) for more than 20 years now, but discovered indieweb just a few years ago!
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villepreux Already following some of you via [my custom webfeed](https://villepreux.net/web-feed), and I can be reached on [mastodon](https://indieweb.social/@villapirorum).
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villepreux I hope I will find the time to come here often!
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Loqi [preview] [James' Coffee] James' Coffee (Collaborative web weaving - At this week’s Homebrew Website Club, I was introduced to the Live Share extension developed by...
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doesnm how web feed is working? (answer in #dev)
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zachary.kai villepreux[d] Welcome! Wonderful to have you here.
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villepreux doesnm: Hi! Was it asked to me?
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villepreux zachary_kai[d]: Thank you!!
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doesnm @villepreux yup
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capjamesg https://jamesg.blog/gravity now has a gravity switch.
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capjamesg [edit] https://jamesg.blog/gravity now has a gravity switch.
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Loqi [preview] Gravity switch: h/t vanderwal.net
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gRegor Don't you mean mavity? https://tardis.wiki/wiki/Mavity_(term)
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gRegor Very fun page! capjamesg++
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Loqi capjamesg has 69 karma in this channel over the last year (200 in all channels)
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[artlung] (and I was right, TVTropes is on the case and includes both the _Moonraker_ and _Guardians of the Galaxy_ examples). https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/NoGravityForYou
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capjamesg [edit] https://jamesg.blog/gravity now has a gravity switch.
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Loqi [preview] Gravity switch: h/t vanderwal.net
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paperbritt I'm running out of bright ideas. They just like me too much but I'm just too lazy to use cloudflare.
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paperbritt https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/866577279223595022/1415752727048486932/IMG_20250911_183226.jpg?ex=68c459f9&is=68c30879&hm=5155d67d72c7713f31bb16cf6012122ec991dd99986d5f3f2d2badd0f7d3365a&
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paperbritt This is over the past week.
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[tantek] does anyone have an 8-bit theme on their site or has had one ?
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capjamesg https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Press+Start+2P may be a fitting font.
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capjamesg [edit] https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Press+Start+2P may be a fitting font.
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paperbritt No, but if I find the energy one day I'd love to get some sort of light mode, dark mode, 8 bit mode switcher sorted out.
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[tantek] nice
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[tantek] what is 8bitday
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Loqi It looks like we don't have a page for "8bitday" yet. Would you like to create it? (Or just say "8bitday is ____", a sentence describing the term)
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[aciccarello] I do enjoy landing on a site with an 8-bit theme
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[tantek] please share next time you land on one!
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[tantek] also different from terminal/green
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gRegor Kind of related, I loved finding out that the Indianapolis mutual aid site is 1) on neocities 2) retro themed: https://ccma.neocities.org/
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[tantek] aciccarello, we are talking 8-bit rather than "simply" terminal green right?
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[tantek] what is terminal green?
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Loqi terminal green is both a specific shade of green (#4AF262) and a design aesthetic based on that or a similar bright green on black (usually monospace) text as a nod to 20th century green phosphorous monochrome computer terminals, used on a few personal sites, and sometimes as a site theme, or a temporary blog theme https://indieweb.org/terminal_green
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[aciccarello] Yeah, but my memory is vauge. I think I'm also remembering some sites that made use of monospace fonts which often wouldn't be considered 8-bit.
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gRegor I usually think of pixel art and pixelated fonts/images
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[tantek] 1970s << terminal green
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Loqi ok, I added "[[terminal green]]" to the "See Also" section of /1970s https://indieweb.org/wiki/index.php?diff=104432&oldid=103893
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[tantek] yeah 8-bit theming is decidedly a 1980s vibe, while terminal green aesthetic, monospace inverted text (what folks today call "dark mode" lol) is a 1970s reference (whether intended or not)
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gRegor Someone from HWC whose name is escaping me... I saw they had a pixealted, kinda D&D themed site
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[tantek] 8-bit vs 1-bit 🙂
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gRegor it's gonna bug me until I find it now haha
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[tantek] ooh, pixelated D&D themed sounds like original/early Ultima
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[tantek] e.g. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/89/Ultima1-3.gif
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gRegor I think it was on HWC EU and also was a m.b site (or used m.b for part of it). Sound familiar, capjamesg?
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capjamesg Oh!!!
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capjamesg Yes.
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capjamesg I can picture it but I can't remember the name.
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capjamesg It had a brown background.
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[tantek] was it linked in the notes from that HWC EU?
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capjamesg Likely but we're going back months.
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gRegor I've been poking around notes
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capjamesg Found it!!!
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capjamesg https://magicalgurll.com/
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capjamesg [edit] https://magicalgurll.com/
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capjamesg Notes: https://indieweb.org/events/2025-08-06-hwc-europe
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capjamesg [edit] Notes: https://indieweb.org/events/2025-08-06-hwc-europe
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gRegor different one than I'm thinking of, but also cool!
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capjamesg Oh haha
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capjamesg I'm not sure then.
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capjamesg I love how many creative sites people have!
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gRegor Found it! heyloura.com
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[tantek] design << pretty pixelated themed site: https://heyloura.com/
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Loqi ok, I added "pretty pixelated themed site: https://heyloura.com/" to the "See Also" section of /design https://indieweb.org/wiki/index.php?diff=104436&oldid=103376
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capjamesg Oh of course!
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capjamesg gRegor++
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Loqi gRegor has 10 karma in this channel over the last year (124 in all channels)
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capjamesg Amazing find.
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gRegor Yes, too many sites, good problem to have :)
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[artlung] pixel themed page. https://lab.artlung.com/wml/faux
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capjamesg [edit] https://magicalgurll.com/
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capjamesg [edit] Notes: https://indieweb.org/events/2025-08-06-hwc-europe
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[tantek] definitely giving WML / Palm Pilot vibes [artlung]
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[tantek] what is pixelated
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Loqi pixelated is in the context of the IndieWeb a reference to the use of pixelated images for a variety or reasons like privacy, and a way to blur potentially arbitrary images received from external sources https://indieweb.org/pixelated
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[tantek] ^ maybe worth expanding that dfn/page to include "pixelated theming" ?
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