IndieWeb

The IndieWeb is a movement all about encouraging people to maintain their own websites, and be independent of the whims of the major tech giants. It can be seen as a variant of the Small Web concept.

Did you know? I also have a wiki page called ‘IndieWeb’! If you want to check that out, you can do so here.

Posts

2020-11-10: 💻 Hello World!: Greetings! My name’s Jessica, and I’m a twenty-something leftie from Melbourne. A couple of days ago, I …
2020-11-25: 🖥 Two Weeks on Micro.blog, and Some Discussion of “Likes”: As of yesterday, I’ve now had this site on Micro.blog for two weeks. So far, I’ve really been enjoying the …
2021-01-10: 🖥 Tracking My Reading: One of my major hobbies is reading. I was a fanatical reader as a kid, and while I’ve definitely gone through …
2021-01-14: 🖥 Owning My Content: One of the reasons I started this blog is that I’d come across the concept of the IndieWeb and really liked it. I …
2021-02-09: 💻 Site update: It’s been a busy day of barely doing anything but website work, but I’m making good progress getting the …
2021-02-14: 💻 Site update: So I think I’ve now got interactions set up and displaying properly! I’m relying on …
2021-02-21: 🖥 How I Integrated Webmentions Into My Hugo Static Site: Since I moved my blog over to Hugo, I’ve been wanting to do a little series of posts about various aspects of my …
2021-04-27: 📱 Updating My Hugo Blog From My Phone: It is a truth universally acknowledged that an individual in possession of a Hugo blog must feel compelled to make loads …
2021-05-02: 💻 Site update: So, I’m taking the teensiest little baby steps towards creating a Micropub endpoint (external link) for my …
2021-05-05: 📰 Micro post: Trump self-hosting his own microblog (external link) may not be the endorsement of the concept I would prefer, …
2021-05-10: 💻 Site update: It’s been outwardly really quiet on this blog in the last few days, and that’s because I’ve been hard …
2021-05-11: 💻 Site update: I’ve run into more obstacles than I thought I would, but not only do I have an Indiekit Micropub endpoint up and …
2022-04-26: 🖥 So Elon Musk Bought Twitter: Just before I went to bed last night, the news broke that notoriously obnoxious billionaire Elon Musk had clinched a …
2022-09-02: 🖥 Heroku Abolishing Free Plans: About a week ago I got an email from Heroku, linking to this blog post (external link), telling me they’re …
2022-09-28: 💻 Site update: Last night I added a new statuses section to this site, where I’m gonna PESOS my status.lol posts (external …
2022-10-03: 💻 New Ido-Language Site Edition: At long last, I can announce that the Ido-language edition of this site has been made publicly available! 🎉 I’ve …

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Jessica Smith is a socialist and a feminist who loves animals, books, gaming, and cooking; she’s also interested in linguistics, history, technology and society.