#indieweb 2026-09-10

2026-09-10 UTC
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[Mike] @extralongdivision++ like your site and the couple of posts you've got up. I, too, have been an avid em-dash user for decades, long enough that I was thrilled many years ago when I discovered Mac let you type them with a simple keystroke. I will not change in that.
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Loqi @extralongdivision has 3 karma over the last year
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[Mike] About 20 years ago, I put on my okCupid profile that I knew the difference between a hyphen, en-dash, and em-dash, as well as when to use one or two spaces after a period. I got a lot more interesting responses to those than anything else I said on my profile.
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extralongdivision [Mike]: Glad to find another em-dash enjoyer.
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lesleylai Up until 2024, I used to search em-dash on Google/DDG to type it 😅
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extralongdivision [Mike]: Modern editors make this decision for us but WOW the opinions on this were fierce
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extralongdivision lesleylai[d]: I had to set up my editor to auto replace "--" to "—"
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burgeonlab [Mike]: I love em dash too and have been using it long before AI slop started appearing everywhere. ;(on my keyboard I click shift + super + - to get —)
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[artlung] I like https://symbol.wtf
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fafau06 some got turned into emojis tho
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fafau06 ⍝ looks like a certain video game jelly bean character that was trending back in the '20s....
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vansh095709 I created my website "pointverse" for genz with cool ui not only plain white ui and it also have mood status on your profile u can here share post and make flips ( short form video ) btw I am 15 yo .[Pointverse](https://pointverse.org) [Youtube Channel ](https://youtube.com/@pointverse-v5h?si=PA5SENEYhx-WKwfd)
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vansh095709 https://pointverse.org)
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vansh095709 [edit] https://pointverse.org
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[capjamesg] about personal websites first.
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[capjamesg] vansh095709 Welcome to the chat. We are mainly focused on people’s personal websites and projects made by active community members. We’re going to remove your posts from #indieweb-dev and #indieweb-random since they are repetitive. You’re welcome to stick around if you want to chat about things you are making on your personal website, but we ask that you don’t self-promote without getting to know the community and participating in dis
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[jgmac1106] My next goal over the next few weeks..I have about 1,800 pdfs stored on my shared host. I want to build a searchable index. Going to try a mix of PHP and SQLite...
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[schmarty] jgmac1106 hey! long time no see! sounds like a good start to a project.
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[jgmac1106] glad to see you are around! getting back into building features of my website, with a heavy dose of vibecoding help. Was able to convert all my old Known posts and Twitter archives into data files, and then build views to access the archive . A few wordpress sites to go, and I will have everything in one place.
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[jgmac1106] I think for pdf archive, I might download Zotero, let it do all the metadata indexing, and use those results to build search. Will post updates to let folks know how it goes.
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[aciccarello] Woah! I finally got an instagram posse post working with https://posseparty.com/ !
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[jeremycherfas] A wild [jgmac1106] appears!
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[Mike] @extralongdivision++ BTW I don’t want to get too into detail on your content in chat, but as I’ve booked around your site I saw some refreshing perspectives. I like your discussion about your World Cup user experience, and particularly your content philosophy article, which talks about several ideas that are very important to me personally and that I very much agree with your takes on.
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[jeremycherfas] OK, right, We are in complete agreement, although I never use two spaces these days, because apart from code, where it isn’t relevant, the only monospaced writing I do is in markdown, which I proofread using Marked, so I see the spacing as typographers intend.
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Antraeus Hello, I've been trying to connect with my Web 1.0 roots and through some trial discovery found this community. I was a hobbyist hoping to become a junior developer from 1998-2004
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morganwebdev Nice. Do you have a site at the moment?
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Antraeus I had one which was a teen domain in the early 20's called dazed.org
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Antraeus I've saved some of my work but it's been shut down for awhile
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morganwebdev Nice! your in a good place/ the wiki and related resources are all here to help you dip as far back into the web as you wish to
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Antraeus Thanks a lot.
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morganwebdev Theres a few channels for different topics, if things get too dev-y/tech-y they tend to get ushered over to #dev
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[capjamesg] Welcome!
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Antraeus I don't have a website at the moment but felt incredibly betrayed by Web 2.0
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Antraeus I'll write down this website and hope to come back. I am using the library computers right now as I'm basically penniless
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morganwebdev This group provides resources and information that should enable anyone to participate as much as possible regardless of means, but basically it is strongly reccomended to at some point get your own domain. But that can happen when means support such a thing :) !
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Antraeus https://web.archive.org/web/20040131200407/http://www.dazed.org/
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morganwebdev Oh wow thats some old school art
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Antraeus Yeah I have an idea for a website domain right now
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Antraeus yeah we were digital content creators back then
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Antraeus we had to scan everything from magazines because we didn't have money for getty images or something
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Antraeus or use digital cameras
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Antraeus we would always link our pages with web-rings
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Antraeus you know its a teen domain when they have those, and usually with way back you can conduct some archaeology if you find a page with webring
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Antraeus I just remember those day pretty fondly. We would update a splash page regulary
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Antraeus Just to let people know we were still alive I suppose
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morganwebdev Less captured times. Not always the best of times, but something about authenticity and shade of anonymity comes to mind. Well, welcome back, 2026 is a bit of a different feeling for many
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Antraeus thanks morganwebdev
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morganwebdev Definitely check out the indieweb.org resources, including web ring, random site, wiki and such... its a pretty good corpus of stuff. When I got involved at first I didnt read as much before diving into things, wish I had read more myself~
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morganwebdev And yeah :D ! Welcome. Im working on my site today. which is morganwebdev.org
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Antraeus =]
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[tantek] morganwebdev++
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Loqi morganwebdev has 3 karma over the last year
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Antraeus i was reading your 'About Me'
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Antraeus I grew up with Australians and Kiwis online because of our schedules
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Antraeus Dazed.org was based in Melbourne
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Antraeus I was basically the next shift
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Antraeus I am based in Washington also
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morganwebdev Nice! Im in Whatcom County, Im going down to Seattle in October to speak at a conference about websites. I do like the NW~
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widdershins1 Just saying hello. I’m getting my blog, widdershins.verja.net, connected to the IndieWeb and learning my way around.
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[capjamesg] Welcome!
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widdershins1 Thanks! Last time I was in a chat area like this was like 2002! LOL
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thamara_k welcome Antraeus and widdershins1
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