Yesterday I watched Peter Van Hardenberg - Local First: the secret master plan. I've come across Peter and Ink & Switch before. It caught my interest then, and it caught my interest now again. This time I saw similarities between the local first concept and IndieWeb. One of the requirements for local first (particularly in the context of collaboration) is the ability to diff different versions of a document and sync changes between different people. In the programming world, we have had ...

Yesterday was another Homebrew Website Club. Nina showed us her newly created Instagram-Archive site using Memento Mori. She also detailed how cumbersome it is to delete one’s Instagram account. We then talked about Dark Patterns for a while. AI has also always been a topic again. How it can for example be useful to get away from big tech and host services yourself. Jochen told us about how he does just that now. What he previously didn’t have the time for now became possible. He also ...

“Do I want this thought to exist publicly beyond my own notebook?” If the answer is yes, publish it on your site. Everything else is distribution. #indienews #indieweb

I found the URL design page particularly interesting. I have given URL design some thought. I should maybe write up the thinking behind the current design. However, I've sometimes gotten frustrated because I felt that I couldn't reach a perfect design. And perhaps there is no right and wrong. Only trade-offs as in other types of design. I want to implement URL rewriting so that I can fix bad URL design with HTTP redirects so that old links can keep working while still promoting the newer ...

I'm curious about how private posts could look like on the open web. I see a need to share certain posts only with certain people and not have everything on my blog public. Today I have to share that in another way. And I'm not sure they can all co-exist on my blog and what that would look like.

Proud to finally have a new version of Omnibear available that improves login security and allows replying to mastodon and bluesky posts! Posted via Omnibear v2.2.0

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