#indieweb 2026-02-18

2026-02-18 UTC
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osteophage Is this the blog post about links you were thinking of? https://www.nngroup.com/articles/writing-links/
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[tantek] that's a decent post!
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zacharykaiwrites A collaborator and I have started a webring for Indie Presses (small publishing houses!) Fittingly, it's called the Indie Press Webring: https://indiepresswebring.com/.
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capjamesg zacharykaiwrites[d]++ that looks like a cool project!
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Loqi zacharykaiwrites[d] has 3 karma in this channel over the last year (5 in all channels)
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zacharykaiwrites Thank you so much! It's been a lot of fun to put together.
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aero1 hi
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aero1 Hello everybody! I'm from the eastern country of asia, maybe can I talk some question about IndieWeb?
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[Murray] Hi aero1, sure fire away; there's a useful bot around here that can help as well, if you phrase questions in chat (i.e. "what is the indieweb"). For example:
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[Murray] 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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aero1 Thank you very much! Murray san. I will learn it... Now I'm using WordPress running myself blog website, it's using kanji languages.
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[Murray] Very nice! Feel free to share a link so others can check it out 🙂 There's also a dedicated #indieweb-wordpress channel here, which may be of some interest
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Loqi [indienews] New post: "Hacking on Indiekit to customize my blog" https://rmendes.net/content/articles/2026-02-18-hacking-on-indiekit-to-customize/
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Loqi [indienews] New post: "IndieWeb wiki pages I really like" https://jamesg.blog/2026/02/18/indieweb-wiki-pages-i-really-like
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Loqi Homebrew Website Club Europe/London is starting soon! Join us! https://events.indieweb.org/evGZXlRieHUe
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[cleverdevil] *a wild cleverdevil appears*
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[cleverdevil] 👋
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[tantek] [cleverdevil]++ welcome back!
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aaronpk 🧐😈
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[snarfed] hey jonathan, long time no see!
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maddi heyy
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[cleverdevil] I thought I'd pop by! I am about 95% done with a brand new iteration of my site. Totally new custom CMS, new design, some really fun features too!
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[cleverdevil] Plus, I miss hanging out here 😄
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maddi that's so real
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Loqi misses hanging out here too
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[snarfed] whoa, new CMS from scratch, big project
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maddi whats your website
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[cleverdevil] https://cleverdevil.io right now
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[tantek] [snarfed] I'm actually shocked that all the Claudebros and Opencrawlbros aren't all making their own CMSs
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[cleverdevil] I have the in-progress new version in testing at https://dwell.cleverdevil.io (lots of content not imported, as I am still working out the kinks moving all of my data from Known)
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[cleverdevil] (Try the time machine at the top! And make sure to scroll down past all of the test content to see the mini map move around as you scroll)
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aaronpk whoa the radar thing is cool
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[cleverdevil] Yeah, that one was a challenge to get right. I had so many different iterations, and I really love how it landed.
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[cleverdevil] The inner ring is days, the middle is months, and the outer is years.
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[cleverdevil] As you scroll back through time you'll see the little dots moving
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[cleverdevil] Data all on disk as MF2 JSON in a hive partitioned directory structure, sucked into DuckDB to make it speedy and queryable, but without having to deal with running a traditional database.
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[Trevor_Morris] That's an impressive site 👍
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[cleverdevil] Good foundation for the future.
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[morgan] Cool website! Looks like you've got some cool hobbies, the site has a fresh and motorsport feel to it
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[Trevor_Morris] I wondered what the radar was, but doesn't appear on mobile.
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[cleverdevil] Yeah, I haven't figured that out yet 😄
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[cleverdevil] I *may* make it work on mobile, but probably not before an initial rollout. I've gotta stop tinkering and get it out the door 😄
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[cleverdevil] I think my favorite part is probably the time machine, but the annual/monthly summaries with the map at the top showing location from Overland + checkins overlaid is so cool too.
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CrowderSoup [cleverdevil]++ for building your own CMS! I have been on that train for the past few months. Got a really solid start so far and it's been powering my site for a while now. So much fun to build.
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[cleverdevil] Thanks!
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[Trevor_Morris] I saw the radar when flipping to landscape on my phone. Felt a bit overwhelming on a small screen. I don’t think it'll work well on mobile. Is Time Machine missing on mobile too?
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[cleverdevil] Time Machine == Radar
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[Trevor_Morris] Ah, gotchya 👍
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[cleverdevil] Yeah, its just too big on mobile. I think I could make a tiny version with some effort, though.
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[cleverdevil] A shrunken version with small dots and rings on the timeline and then a simple date picker after tapping on it is probably the way I'll go.
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[Trevor_Morris] Ooh, I just clicked it and now the “radar” makes sense.
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[Trevor_Morris] The JSON storage driving it is nice, too. I've got all mine in many database tables.
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[cleverdevil] 🙂
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[cleverdevil] That was easily the biggest thing that held me up for a while. I really wanted to have a dynamic, queryable site/API, but I also wanted like zero maintenance. DuckDB is ideal for this, but I'm still working on eliminating some kinks. DuckDB and concurrency can be tricky.
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Loqi friendly reminder [Trevor_Morris], [cleverdevil], would you mind moving this more technical conversation (database, JSON, API) to #indieweb-dev? thanks!
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Loqi [indienews] New post: https://blog.rickardlindberg.me/2026/02/18/204440.html
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Loqi [indienews] New post: https://blog.rickardlindberg.me/2026/02/18/205000.html
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Loqi [indienews] New post: "Feed Patterns: A collection of patterns of ATOM or RSS Feeds I have found." https://smorgasborg.artlung.com/feed-patterns/ (from https://artlung.com/indienews/b98349df04fa70b6bbbc785ba868e500)
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Loqi [indienews] New post: "re: Private posts on the open web" https://beesbuzz.biz/blog/chatter/6274-re-Private-posts-on-the-open-web
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[morgan] [zacharykaiwrit]++ just looking over your zine collection via lunapress, I want to add more to the wiki about zines, glad to see that there
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btrem Just got a 404 on a website, with this message: `Welp, this 404 is awkward` `But maybe not as awkward as when you go in for a high five and they go in for a fist bump.` (First line is header, second is paragraph.)
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btrem Made me laugh.
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capjamesg 😄
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[aciccarello] That's great. I love 404 pages.
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[aciccarello] what is 404
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Loqi 404 is an HTTP/1.1 Status Code returned from a web server to signify that the requested URI was not found https://indieweb.org/404
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btrem Yeah. Makes me think I should come up with some clever 404 page.
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btrem Or other clever error pages. 500, 401, 403, etc.
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deathcomestotime my error pages are poems :^)
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[morgan] poems++
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[morgan] The last time I talked about 404 pages it was in a very dry setting debating about whether they should be decorated and guide users back or just basically basic 404 landing pages... Im here for this poem energy
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deathcomestotime poems++
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deathcomestotime yay poems
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Loqi 😄
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btrem I've actually never liked "404" appearing in 404 pages. It seems like an old version of console log, a way for early website admins to see the error code that should have been reserved for the status code but left out of the error message.
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btrem But at this point, I suspect that many (most?) regular web users understand 404. In fact, it's probably the only status code they understand.
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btrem deathcomestotime: care to share your domain? I'm curious about your error poems. :)
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deathcomestotime sure thing! https://dead.garden/404
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deathcomestotime for 403 you can try https://dead.garden/img
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loke_artemis Really cool
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deathcomestotime thank u!!
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deathcomestotime ofc i also have https://dead.garden/coffee
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[morgan] your 404 page is less than a kilobyte, but has poem energy worth a smile. I can find no way to critique this approach at all 🪄
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deathcomestotime lol
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[morgan] (I wouldnt just randomly critique but last time I talked about 404s at length it was all about the size of the page)
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loke_artemis deathcomestotime: Love that error page
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btrem lol @ your mugshots. That's really good!
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btrem And it actually returns a 418 status code! Brilliant!
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[morgan] Mine just says "This is not the page you were looking for"... I have an idea for something to think of to do during HWC pacific later!
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deathcomestotime thanks!
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deathcomestotime morgan excited to see what you'll come up with 👀
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Loqi [indienews] New post: "PADD Updates (last for a while!): Managing Channels and Feeds" https://crowdersoup.com/blog/post/padd-updates-last-for-a-while-managing-channels-and-feeds-1771457556/
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