#indieweb 2026-03-06

2026-03-06 UTC
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nico1 Hey y'all! What are your favourite essays about the indie web? I'm compiling a small list
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aaronpk what are posts about the indieweb?
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Loqi Welcome to News About The IndieWeb where recent notable articles about the IndieWeb are cited and linked to keep you up to date https://indieweb.org/Posts_about_the_IndieWeb
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aaronpk also https://news.indieweb.org
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capjamesg Also https://projects.kwon.nyc/internet-is-fun/
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capjamesg [edit] Also https://projects.kwon.nyc/internet-is-fun/
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Skaterfish Dropped a new post specifically about Pixel-art this time on https://www.skaterfish.net/me.html
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spamt0n Skaterfish: I just read it. great resources!
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spamt0n your website looks sick btw
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[Al_Abut] I’m such a sucker for these “why I redesigned my website“ type of posts:
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[Al_Abut] https://arun.is/blog/arun-is-3/
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[Al_Abut] The section on tooling made me wonder: does anyone here use pull requests when working on their personal site? I just YOLO it in one main branch.
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[tantek] That assumes use of a repo when working on your personal site 😆
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[tantek] Branches? Where we're publishing we don't need branches
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Skaterfish [spamt0n] Thank you. I'm happy to hear that! :)
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[Trevor_Morris] Depends on the level of work. If it's a big change - either breaking or new feature with lots of moving parts - then I do use a branch. Else it's just on develop branch. Then merge to master.
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[Al_Abut] [Trevor_Morris] makes sense. But what if all my personal projects start with “I bet this should be easy” and end up with “holy scope creep, Batman!”
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[Al_Abut] (that may be a personal problem)
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[Al_Abut] also thanks to Loqi for not kicking me straight into dev jail right away. Apparently my Slack game is rusty…
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[tantek] oh yeah repo talk belongs in #indieweb-dev I totally didn't notice
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[tantek] goes to edit /jargon
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capjamesg [Al_Abut] arun.is has a beautiful design!
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Kupietz I use github for my WP plugins but usually edit them in the WP plugin editor. I just push them to github from there (have a plugin that gives me a "push to github" button in the WordPress admin panel.) All I really care about is the version history so I can roll back, don't really mess with branching. If I was developing in something a little more git-compatible than WordPress's admin area I might.
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[Al_Abut] Makes sense Mike! That's my flow as well, will probably stick to it.
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Kupietz @Al_Abut re: "what if all my personal projects start with..." Hah! That's why I'm on WordPress. "I just need to get a site up quickly and have it look good." [three years later] "I wish I hadn't done this in WordPress"
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Kupietz James, I agree, that is beautiful design. Man, I wish I had that touch for clean, light design. I am a Wagner who wishes he was a Satie.
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Kupietz Oop, just saw tantek's comment about repo talk, been replying to older comments in sequence. Sorry, {{t}}.
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[tantek] No worries kupietz. It's one of the hazards of chat :)
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[Al_Abut] And of having me in the chat, haha
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Kupietz Hey, you know what I love? The movie Repo Man.
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Kupietz Lol, looks like the nudge isn't active yet.
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[tantek] lol
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[Al_Abut] Wagner vs Satie! Had to look that one up, it’s a version of “minimalist versus maximalist” I hadn't heard before
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[Al_Abut] Take that crazy movie talk to #indieweb-random 👮‍♂️
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Kupietz I thought for a minute about who to use for a maximalist. I almost said M. Ravel but I didn't want to flatter myself like that. Satie was an easy pick, though.
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Kupietz Is there a Random channel? I miss so much being on the web interface
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capjamesg The random channel isn't available on the web interface.
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capjamesg It is available via Slack, Discord, and IRC though.
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Loqi misses so much being on the web interface too
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Kupietz Yeah. I just gotta bite the bullet an accept using chat apps :-\
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[Al_Abut] Yeah, I think the web interface prioritizes only the public channels, whereas random is intentionally not logged, so it’s in the other apps
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Kupietz Loqi, you and I are kindred spirits in so many ways.
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[Al_Abut] My favorite minimalist composer is Philip Glass, seen him twice in concert
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Kupietz Yeah... we touched in this in the Europe meetup the other day
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Kupietz Ah, a serialism fan. Yes, not my favorite genre but he has his moments. Steve Reich has some cool stuff too
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gRegor Slack and Discord can both be used in browser. Only way I've ever used them actually :)
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gRegor Obviously they're still heavier than chat.indieweb.org, but yeah
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Kupietz I do use Discord in-browser... when I *have* to use it.
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gRegor Fair! XD
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Kupietz I have a couple of clients who insist on Slack so I do have to have the app for that, so I can get phone alerts. which are going away, because I'm a crotchety old luddite and only use obsolete hardware
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Kupietz Slack loves to bother me about my iPhone SE 1st gen
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Kupietz So, uh, @al_abut, I rarely get an opportunity to pimp my music on here but if you're interested I did a serialist album. Definitely not minimalist, but serialist. Still unfinished but demo is posted: https://michaelkupietz.com/themes-uncertain-times-v08905/
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Loqi [preview] Posted with great reluctance, my perpetually unfinished magnum opus, likely to someday stand as my failed masterpiece, a ponderous 65-minute arabesque of serialist post-rock instrumentals which, after 7 ongoing years of work and no end in sight, is a...
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[Al_Abut] Oh hell, yeah, I’ll check it out. I’m such a sucker for Steve Reich too. He comes up a lot on Drone Zone, my favorite channel on SomaFM.
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Kupietz Oh, you're leaving me a ton of openings here! I did a drone album, too... strangely, maybe my favorite thing I've ever done: https://michaelkupietz.com/the-golden-yatra/ Recommended for late-night headphone astral travel. If you listen to Drone Zone you'll probably like this better than the first one.
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Loqi [preview] This one is finished except for the final production and mastering... it needs some studio gloss on it. This a a drone album I did in early 2023. I created the basic audio for this with the wonderful Bento analog synthesis emulator, then arranged an...
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[Al_Abut] Oh man, this second one is awesome. It’s exactly the kind of thing I was hunting for!
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[Al_Abut] I popped on my old school Sony monitors for this one, it’s rumbling away
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Loqi [indienews] New post: "Why I dislike .well-known" https://beesbuzz.biz/code/6987-Why-I-dislike-.well-known
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[Al_Abut] [Michael_Kupiet] reminds me a ton of Solar Fields, ever heard of that artist?
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[Al_Abut] https://solarfields.bandcamp.com
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Kupietz Ah, glad you're liking it! Yeah, something about that one just really worked out right somehow. "Five Themes" also ends with a very long, slow, quiet piece too, lots of space, but it kind of sneaks up on you out of a big racket, it's kind of designed not to be noticed. No, I haven't heard of solarfields... will check it out, thanks!
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[snarfed] loving this! also...probably => #indieweb-random
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[snarfed] ([Al_Abut]++ for mentioning it already 😎)
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[Al_Abut] (And yet still I violate these social norms… 🤣)
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[Al_Abut] It's like I’m the criminal and cop, all in one.
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[snarfed] https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/comments/82p4mm/debugging_is_like_being_the_detective_in_a_crime/
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[Michael_Kupiet] You're the roadrunner and coyote!
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Loqi [indienews] New post: "An Alternate History of Social Media (with Ben Werdmuller)" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HdyOihQnWv0&t=27m30s (from https://artlung.com/indienews/c02f05bcc7ed828267a07f14cadbb533)
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[tantek] [fluffy] ++ and well-known--
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[tantek] well-known << Criticism: 2026-03-06 {{fluffy}}: [https://beesbuzz.biz/code/6987-Why-I-dislike-.well-known Why I dislike .well-known]
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Loqi ok, I added "Criticism: 2026-03-06 {{fluffy}}: [https://beesbuzz.biz/code/6987-Why-I-dislike-.well-known Why I dislike .well-known]" to the "See Also" section of /well-known https://indieweb.org/wiki/index.php?diff=109384&oldid=108478
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