#indieweb 2025-10-13

2025-10-13 UTC
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GWG I now have a mini projector someone gave me to replace the less tiny one I got for $40
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GWG I need a place to bring it, like an IWC
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[tantek] when is Berlin?
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Loqi 🎪 IndieWebCamp Berlin in 18 days https://events.indieweb.org/oNMvxRpOvfEs
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ax5623 greetings
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[KevinMarks] ORG (the UK-based Open Rights Group)
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[KevinMarks] is organising a briefing around how small low risk sites could be exempt from some of the duties of the Online Safety Act. This is taking place on Monday 20th October at 2pm If you would like an invite please contact James Baker mailto:info@openrightsgroup.org
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[tantek] [Al_Abut] do you have any "packing" posts on your personal site?
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[Al_Abut] Nope, but that’s a great writing and photo prompt! Especially timely, since I just blogged for the first time in a year last night ;)
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[Al_Abut] Would actually be a great topic for a narrative photo album. I put a crap ton of work into my responsive image setup this weekend, each <picture> comes with up to 17 versions between the formats, resolutions, aspect ratios, and fallback for rss.
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[tantek] check out the examples so far for inspo! https://indieweb.org/packing#IndieWeb_Examples
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node1 what's indiweb?
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[tantek] needs another e
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[tantek] what is indieweb?
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Loqi The IndieWeb is a community of independent and personal websites based on the principles of: owning your domain and using it as your primary online identity, publishing on your own site first (optionally elsewhere), and owning your content https://indieweb.org/indieweb
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[tantek] [Al_Abut] we haven't found any examples beyond the 2010s which makes me wonder if it was a short term phenomenon or if the pandemic shutting down travel killed the trend
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[Al_Abut] Yeah, that’s sadly true and great question, I don’t know why. I’d bet the collapse of affiliate marketing is probably a bigger driver.
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[tantek] the "packing photo" phenom was different from the "here's a list of crap you should buy" phenom though
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[Al_Abut] My 2012 YC startup was driven by Amazon links and it barely worked then
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[Al_Abut] There’s a lot of overlap
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[tantek] sure
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[tantek] the arrangement of items in the photo in an aesthetically pleasing way was part of the point, like the art
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[Al_Abut] Knolling! Those overhead shots are so fun: https://www.amst.com/resources/knolling-the-trend-of-overhead-photography-35291
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[Al_Abut] It’s hard not to get sucked into the consumerism of it and focus on the craft or benefits. I remember when The Wirecutter was one guy’s blog and he advocated for people to *not* buy things, to use what they had already instead.
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[tantek] Exactly! I love that approach. Using nice photos to show off the beauty of existing / simple things instead of advocating for "go out and buy crap that will be obsolete in a year"
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[tantek] Knolling++
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Loqi Knolling has 1 karma over the last year
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[tantek] packing << The practice of knolling, arranging things neatly at right angles: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Sachs#Knolling
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Loqi ok, I added "The practice of knolling, arranging things neatly at right angles: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Sachs#Knolling" to the "See Also" section of /packing https://indieweb.org/wiki/index.php?diff=105199&oldid=105191
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[tantek] ^ [Al_Abut] looks like there a slightly different meaning for it on Wikipedia, Knolling being merely the arrangement portion, in the context of a workspace rather than packing!
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[Al_Abut] I think that comes from the original context where the photos were used in promo material for an office supply company
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[Al_Abut] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knoll,_Inc.
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node1 I have my domain where shall  i publish?
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[tantek] yes the WP link I shared notes that in the contents
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[tantek] node1, not sure what you mean by where publish, because you should publish on your domain!
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node1 i don't know how it works? and when publishing on my blog what benefit i should get?
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[tantek] what is why blog
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Loqi why post is a question that can help you post things more intentionally, perhaps less or more often, and provide motivation to post on your own site instead of social media silos or in addition for more distribution per the POSSE method https://indieweb.org/why_blog
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[tantek] ^ see there
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[tantek] you may also want to see:
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[tantek] what is getting started
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Loqi 🎉 Get started on the indieweb by connecting with the IndieWeb community, getting a personal domain, a place for your content, and setting up your home page and other IndieWeb essentials https://indieweb.org/Getting_started
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capjamesg We have cancelled this week’s HWC Europe. Mark and I are both busy. We will be back next week!
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capjamesg Apologies for also missing this week — both our schedules have been unexpectedly busy of late.
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