#indieweb 2026-09-03

2026-09-03 UTC
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[aciccarello] Does anyone track words they look up? I noticed Tracy does that in her weeknotes and am thinking about doing it too. https://tracydurnell.com/2026/08/28/weeknotes-aug-22-28-2026/
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[aciccarello] For now I'm just adding bookmarks with a special tag
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[aciccarello] What is a definition?
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Loqi A definition on the IndieWeb wiki should be an accessible, basic, clear, plain English description of the term (or phrase) naming a wiki page, with an explicit connection to the term’s relevance to the IndieWeb, and ideally without any use of jargon https://indieweb.org/definition
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[aciccarello] That page is very wiki focused
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Loqi Homebrew Website Club - US Pacific is starting soon! Join us! https://events.indieweb.org/DGihvXRMi3pD
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[artlung] ^ yes, HWC US PACIFIC is happening now!
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yanglake__ ooo speaking of silos quit
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yanglake__ im trying to quit Notion and Google Drive
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yanglake__ i also dont exactly wanna move to Obsidian either, so Im working on replicating my Notion setup into a standalone desktop that I can eventually release in full by the end of the year
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yanglake__ artisinally handcrafted btw
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yanglake__ *artisanally
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tameshitake lemme guess, you use react
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[tantek] that sounds like a #indieweb-dev topic
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brennan hi Tantek :)
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rnkn question for those on discord -- why do you use discord instead of something open source like IRC?
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rnkn I guess the same goes for slack
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[tantek] questions about indieweb community infra are probably better for #indieweb-meta. for me personally, IRC lacks scrollback, and IRC clients typically have much worse UX than Slack, especially on mobile
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[snarfed] ^ same. tradeoff: open is good, but IRC UX is pretty awful
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[snarfed] too much legacy baggage, both tech and culture
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rnkn I use irctoday.com bouncer and goguma on mobile, both are fantastic
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rnkn discord/slack just seems anti the indieweb ethic
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rnkn I still have emotional and mental scars from the discord UX
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[snarfed] moving to #indieweb-meta
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[burgeonlab] [aciccarello] re: definitions, yeah I do include new vocab sometimes in my weeknotes too, tracked using the tag "vocab". It'll be nice to be able to search for them though like a list... I guess a data/definitions.yaml or something would be more suitable than just individual definitions in the Markdown content. https://burgeonlab.com/tags/vocab/
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Loqi [preview] [Naty S] Weeknote 2026-W06: Bookwyrm, CNY, NB 2002R & AI
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wturrell added a /silo-quits page (one-line entries with reason and where, if anywhere, I've moved to)
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wturrell re: chat, I steer clear of Discord etc. because of all the clutte. I like how the chat.indieweb.org is a very clean design, it auto-archives and you can easily browse by day. no nickname protection I suppose, but…
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[capjamesg] Following up from HWC last night, I now have a pet rock page: https://jamesg.blog/rocky
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wturrell that was worth it for seeing that Taylor Swift video for the first time
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[capjamesg] Yay!
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Loqi giggles
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[aciccarello] [burgeonlab] I started a "words" tag but I like "vocab" a little better
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Loqi Front End Study Hall #057 is starting soon! Join us! https://events.indieweb.org/0SMwgItLWoSd
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[aciccarello] I switched to a "vocab" tag https://www.ciccarello.me/posts/tags/vocab/
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[aciccarello] For markup I'm using bookmarks with a link preview for the definition or a manual quote block. I like that it's easy to bookmark a definition using omnibear and it works with multiple dictionary sites. There's some overlap with the "Today I learned" tag too.
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[aciccarello] I might do some magic in my indiekit formatter to clean things up. Right now I'm copying the definitions manually.
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[aciccarello] Ah, JS;DR is breaking my link previews
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[aciccarello] https://node.microformats.io/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.merriam-webster.com%2Fdictionary%2Fquiesce&lang=true&textContent=true&metaformats=true
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Loqi friendly reminder [aciccarello], can you move the tech talk (markup, Microformats, node) to #indieweb-dev to keep this channel more inclusive and inviting?
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[aciccarello] I knew I was tempting fate with that link 😅
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[aciccarello] what is js;dr
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Loqi js;dr is JavaScript required; Didn’t Read https://indieweb.org/js;dr
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[aciccarello] Oof, that page needs some cleanup 🙈
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[aciccarello] js;dr << Merriam-Webster's site is js;dr which broke link previews for {{aciccarello}} [https://chat.indieweb.org/2026-09-03#t1788458172041300 per chat]
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Loqi ok, I added "Merriam-Webster's site is js;dr which broke link previews for {{aciccarello}} [https://chat.indieweb.org/2026-09-03#t1788458172041300 per chat]" to the "See Also" section of /js;dr https://indieweb.org/wiki/index.php?diff=113347&oldid=112594
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[KevinMarks] https://michellebarker.co.uk/writing/little-websites-everywhere/
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[tantek] is anyone using Mapquest, either links, or as a form of search, or something else, on their personal site?
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[Mike] Not me, but totally parenthetically, MapQuest did something really funny last week. They set up a utility to let you rename Lake Ontario. I hit "Surprise me" and this is what it gave me.
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[Mike] https://chat-uploads.indieweb.org/files/2026/09/indieweb-20260903-234927-image.png
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