Bookmarks tagged "personalweb"
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It’s just a website
The humble website :)
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MOUSELING.net - Hyper Text Muck-up Language
Solid tips for budding webmasters
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#11: fLaMEd Fury (flamedfury.com) - Wonders of Web Weaving
So, I did a podcast. James had me on his podcast to talk about my corner of the web. We got into gaming and TV communities, music, and why the indie web is worth it.
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What should a personal website be?
Ratfactor asks about what a website should be. A reflection of yourself, not some idea of what a website is meant to be.
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List of things I love seeing in personal webspaces
A non-exhaustive list of things Folkmoss love seeing in blogs/personal websites.
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Websites Are Not Going to Die
If Google stops linking to websites, it stops being a search engine. Another good reminder to keep the personal website going while corp search eats itself.
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Pseudonym as an escape
I've written about this previously. The pseudonym isn't hiding; it's breathing room. Been enjoying not being my IRL name online since 96.
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don't let Web nostalgia obscure a positive Web future
This has always been something I'm an advocate for. Draw inspiration from the 90s/2000s web, but don't rely on old and outdated hacks. Take advantage of the capabilities we have today, but don't go overboard with modern bloat.
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Newsonaut: Turning inner space into outer space
Linking out is the cheapest way to keep the indie web alive
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People and Blogs - fLaMEd 🔥
My People and Blogs chat on web ownership, 25 years of fLaMEd fury, and why I'm still here
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The Blogger’s Manifesto
Eight principles for blogging that go against the "build an audience" playbook. Staying small and honest is the point.
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Why I Still Like the Internet
Gordon on how blogs are quietly winning again
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Join the Inclusive Front
Sara Joy's manifesto for web folks who reckon building inclusively is just doing the job properly
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the web as a space to be explored · roytang.net
The web isn't dying. Roy Tang reckons the indie web is still alive and explorable
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A Secret Web
The indie web isn't secret, just hidden by commercial search. Benjamin Hollon on the tools we already have to find it.
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How to Surf the Web in 2025, and Why You Should
Algorithmic scrolling killed surfing, but David Cain reckons the old web is still there if you go looking.
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Own Your Web – Issue 18: Curators
Is curation the personal web's superpower now that half the web is AI-generated, or has it always been? :)
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Have a Fucking Website
"The internet was built on websites that linked to one another", don't rent your space inside the walled gardens.
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Who knows that you blog?
That weird gap between blogging publicly and never bringing it up with people you actually know
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Joyful web design
Treating playfulness on the web as the point, not a frivolous extra you tack on later.
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Ctrl-ZINE Issue.24
Stoked my flossing piece landed in this one alongside ~loghead's proper smol web rallying cry — issue 24 is a good one.
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How to feel at home on the Internet - by Jatan Mehta
Is having your own domain really the only way to truely "own" your online space?
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What is Digital Garage | ://digital garage
Digital Tinker's website is a workshop built for joy, not productivity. Creation without pressure.
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Unpolished human websites
Joel wants you to keep your website messy and human
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Oceania Web Atlas | Zachary Kai
Zachary Kai collects personal websites from across Oceania into one tidy, human-scaled directory.
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Scroll trīgintā ūnus
Shellsharks shares the latest edition of scrolls, posting online without overthinking
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Phoenix's Web Corner! - The Rise of Sanityware
Shubham talks about where they stand with the web in 2026, writing about independence, ownership, and what he wants his site to be moving forward.
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citations.css
Shellsharks experiments with styling citations in CSS, showing how small tweaks can make references to authors clearer and more readable.
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The Death of Curating, the Rise of Curation - Stephanie Stimac's Blog
Reflections on how we’ve lost the habit of curating what we read and share, and why intentional curation made the web feel more personal. I hope my bookmarks help make the web feel more personal :)
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The IndieWeb and Small web
What’s the overlap between the IndieWeb and the small web?
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The art of the desk setup
Arun shares his desk setup. How small choices shape daily work
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Patrick - Fun with the web
Small playful experiments built in a blog post
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The lines that draw us together
Reflections on the invisible lines that connect us through writing, linking and sharing ideas across personal websites
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SSI (Server-Side Includes) - nekoweb.org
Nekoweb introduces SSI for static sites on their platform. Huge news for static site lovers. I could drop in a version of flamedfury.com from 1999 and it would render on Nekoweb. What a time to be alive
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I Wish People Were More Public
Borretti wants you to be more public online, share more things that you enjoy
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Understanding blogs – Tracy Durnell's Mind Garden
Tracey Durnell breaks down what personal blogs are.
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Experiences with social medias
Zhongvie reflects on writing and publishing on a personal site, focusing on keeping things simple and resisting the pressure to optimise or perform for platforms.
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You should start a blog today
Hamatti encourages people to start a blog now, arguing that waiting for the perfect setup only gets in the way of actually writing.
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Self-hosting versus lots of small indieweb providers
This Day’s Portion questions whether “Indie” automatically means self-hosting, arguing that intent, control, and how you relate to the web matter more than the specific technical setup.
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Looking beyond collective blogging • V.H. Belvadi
V.H. Belvadi writes about blogging as a shared practice, where writing alongside others creates momentum, connection, and a sense of community.
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Readers, writers and blogging ethics
This Day’s Portion on writing plainly and honestly online, even if it makes people uncomfortable, instead of softening ideas to please imagined audiences.
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How and Why Do I Blog?
MKUltra.Monster reflects on how “how to blog” advice often overcomplicates things, arguing that blogging works best when you just start writing and figure it out as you go.
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Building an IndieWeb house (I): introduction
An introduction to the IndieWeb from Coffee Now, explaining what drew them to it and why owning a small, independent site feels worthwhile
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Small Web, Big Voice
Afranca writes about how the small web still carries real weight, showing that personal sites and hand-built spaces can have a bigger impact than their size suggests.
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Feeds and algorithms have freed us from personal websites
Disassociated pushes back on the idea that platform feeds are “good enough,” arguing that treating Medium profiles as websites misses the point, and that personal sites still matter because they give you control rather than renting space inside someone else’s algorithm.
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Personal blogs are back, should niche blogs be next?
Disassociated writes about the return of personal blogs and why niche blogs might be the next wave as people move away from algorithmic platforms.
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Who's a blog for?
obb thinks through who a blog is really for and why writing for yourself remains the most sustainable approach.
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I ❤ shortcuts #3: read a random blog post
Hyde shares a neat script to help randomly surf the independent web.
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The psychological cost of having an RSS feed
Filip explores the anxiety that comes with writing a blog knowing it has an RSS feed.
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Contacting the small web
Bojidar reflects on finding real connection through the small web.
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Visitor stats and the point of blogging
Underlap writes about blogging for connection instead of traffic.
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Blogging psuedo-anonymously
Mattyblog writes about blogging under a pseudonym and the freedom it offers.
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Sanding off friction from indie web connection – Tracy Durnell's Mind Garden
Tracy Durnell looks at how indie web tools can be made easier to use, lowering the barriers for people to connect through their own websites.
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The HTML Hobbyist
A personal website by HTML hobbyist, Nathan, sharing simple HTML, CSS, and RSS tutorials based on courses they taught at Berkley Computer Training between 1997-2003
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bstn - RSS manifesto
BSTN argues for a return to open web standards and RSS-based curation.
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Personal blogs are the best, I love yours and I’ll try and tell you why - Nothing Original Here
Nothing Original Here writes about why personal blogs still matter more than social media.
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The Internet Feels Broken | Stephanie Vee
Steph Vee reflects on how the internet feels broken and why we should reclaim it through personal websites.
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The internet’s hidden creative renaissance (and how to find it)
Shame it’s on Substack. New Public explores the revival of the handmade web pushing back against the corporate internet.
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Just Put It On Your Blog
Shellsharks urges us to stop overthinking and just post on our own blogs.
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Why you should get (back) into RSS curation.
Another take on rediscovering RSS as a way to take control of what you read online, curating a personal, intentional feed instead of relying on algorithm-driven platforms
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Curate your own newspaper with RSS
Molly White wants us to escape newsletter inbox chaos and algorithmic surveillance by building your own enshittification-proof newspaper from the writers you already read
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Do blogs need to be so lonely? - The History of the Web
If the web is participatory, and I really think it is, then how come blogging can feel so lonely?
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Bringing Back the Blogroll
Luke wonders about the Blogroll and ends up slapping it on the homepage sidebar after some inspiration
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Breaking Free from Social Media Silos
Luke discovers the indie web and discusses the struggle of being out of touch when it seems like most of society exists on facebook rather than the web.
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The small web is rehabilitating how I write
Molly finds focus, clamness and a renewed passion in writing after abandoning big tech and embracing the personal blog.
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For Love of God, Make Your Own Website - Aftermath
We were already long overdue for a return to websites we control, rather than feeds manipulated by tech oligarchsI’m
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Long live hypertext! – Tracy Durnell's Mind Garden
Tracy Durnell talks about the importance of hyperlinks and how they help maintain the essence of an open and healthy web. How we can fight against a hostile future domination by corporate AI hell that would love to see our online experience turn from an interactive experience to a passive one.
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Beardy Guy Musings
Beardy Guy thinks about blog discovery.
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Blogging is cool. - [Gabz/mL]
My weblog/blog/space is a digital diary. It is personal and not a brand. I share and write basically about anything in my head; my thoughts, stories, and things I like, but I mainly do it for my enjoyment and entertainment.
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What a Blog Is For
Michael Thomét wonders about the purpose of their blog
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Flamed Fury - A Personal Website Well Done
New Zealander, Flamed, has a well designed and maintained personal website that serves as an example for any new Indy Web folks looking for inspiration
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Rheenah's webpage | Blog
Your blog doesn't have to be as monotonous as a daily diary recounting your activities. It can be simple, silly, stupid. It can be YOU. Or anything you want it to be. Someone will find it interesting, someone will read it.
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Beyond the Wikipedia Silo Suggestions for Your Next RetroWeb Site
The Independent Web, (the retroweb, yesterweb, slow web, whatever) needs substance. It needs content (although I hate that word.) And it needs these things to be independent of the silo’s.
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A whole year on the Indie Web - Frills
Frills' celebrates one year of having her personal website 🎉
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Why I Blog. You Should Too!
You should start a blog. If you disagree, I certainly understand the hesitancy. I was once like you! I’m here to convince you otherwise.
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The Teenage Web
>Welcome to the Corporate Internet. It didn’t used to be like this. The web used to be a collection of independently-operated sites that we all individually controlled. We used to be so punk rock about the web.
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Which self is this?
Like knowing to use an alias to represent my online persona in my first era, I instinctively knew before and during medical school that my online self, who, while earnest and genuine was also a bit messy and still figuring herself out, was not and never could be the self that was expected to show up to see patients.
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Blogging Isn't Dead. It Never Died. It's Never Going to Die. Neither Is Personal Blogging - Jeffrey Pillow
Blogging isn't dead. Punk rock isn't dead. Zip it.
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Why Personal Blogging Still Rules
Remember when personal blogging was a thing? I don’t mean those things tacked on to business sites or any of that ad-riddled click-bait junk. No, I mean blogs that existed to be, well, blogs. If you are under the age of thirty, you perhaps don’t. But let me tell you, kid - blogs were hella cool. Yet for the longest time, I thought that era was dead and gone. That personal blogs had gone the way of the dodo or the fansite. But I was wrong.
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This website is personal - Frills
Sometimes, I come up with a banger of a blog post idea, only to find myself grappling with writing the content, and eventually adding it to my increasing pile of forgotten drafts.
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blakewatson.com – omg.lol: an oasis on the internet
omg.lol is a gateway into the fun side of the web. It is one of many places on the modern web doing things right.
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I hate work. — Joan Westenberg
If given the choice, I would gladly banish it forever. Given the choice, I’d spend hours leisurely lounging by the pool, engrossed in Agatha Christie novels, sipping on ice-cold Diet Coke until noon.
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What to Blog About When You Don’t Know What to Blog About
Here’s an interesting thing someone else has to say. Here’s my take on it. This is what I’ve been reading/watching/listening to recently.
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It's 2023, here is why your web design sucks.
What happened to the web designer role?
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Simple Truths About Personal Websites · Matthias Ott – User Experience Designer
Write. Publish. Enjoy.
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Taylor Lorenz Extremely Online Book Interview | The Mozilla Blog
Great interview with Taylor Lorenz. I'm looking forward to getting my hands on and reading her new book, Extremely Online: The Untold Story of Fame, Influence, and Power on the Internet.
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The Best Time to Own a Domain Was 20 Years Ago, The Second Best Time Is Today
I'm a strong supporter of personal websites, and in my opinion, the first step before diving into your design or choosing hosting is securing your own domain name. As Jim discusses in the post, your domain can be your digital verification badge, adding an extra layer of authenticity to your online presence.
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The end of the Googleverse
“They were encouraging people to write on the web,” said Baio. Bloggers like Lenssen, Baio, and Beale felt like everything Google was doing was in service of making the internet better. The tools it kept launching felt tied to a mission of collecting the world’s information and helping people add more content to the web.
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Every person on the planet should have their own website 💡 Amin Eftegarie
Every person on the planet should have their own website, on their own domain name, and blog about whatever they want.
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melankorin
Kori sits down to think about what it takes to build a personal website.
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How Websites Die
The author looks to understand how websites die after researching defunct blogging platforms.
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Why Is the Web So Monotonous? Google.
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The Age of PageRank is Over | Kagi Blog
Great read on the state of search. I'm going to give Kagi a try!
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We Should Replace Facebook With Personal Websites
Personal websites and email can replace most of what people like about Facebook—namely the urge to post about their lives online. Why did we abandon personal websites in favour of the social network platform of the month?
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Discover personal websites
Another (hilarious) article emphasises the importance of website discovery. I'm nodding while reading, agreeing with the absolute state of search results. Provides some tips and resources for discovering new websites. Always be on the lookout for personal recommendations to find new exciting websites.
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No, Blogging Is Not Dying Anytime Soon - Darius Foroux
The author argues against video content creators' claim that blogging is dead. Video is not my favourite way to consume information. I still enjoy a well-written article. The key takeaway is to spend your time doing the thing you like.
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The future of blogging
Koos discusses the challenges and opportunities for bloggers in a rapidly evolving online landscape, emphasizing the importance of adapting to changing trends and technologies and creating high-quality content that provides value to readers. He also explores the potential for emerging technologies, such as artificial intelligence and virtual reality, to shape the future of blogging. I can get behind this.
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A Web Renaissance
Written in 2022, Anil declares the internet is experiencing a new wave of innovation and creativity, similar to the early days of the web. Dash cites the proliferation of web-based apps, the rise of decentralized technologies like blockchain, and the increasing focus on privacy and security as signs of this renaissance. He also emphasizes the importance of building a web that is open and accessible to all rather than controlled by a few tech giants. Dash advocates for a renewed focus on the core values of the web, including decentralization, interoperability, and community-driven innovation.
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Welcome to the new Verge
I'm interested to see how this works out for The Verge. Their redesign aims to provide a better user experience by improving the navigation, reducing clutter, and emphasizing the content. I've enjoyed reading so far and paying attention to who the authors of the blog posts are.
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Bring back personal blogging
I whole heartedly agree with the message in this post, I share similar thoughts in my manifesto.
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There Can Be Money in Blogging - Chris Coyier
I don't care for the making money parts, but the other points are solid.
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Own your stuff
Another article stresses the importance of owning and controlling your digital content rather than relying on social media or other platforms. Owning your content gives control over its distribution and longevity and reduces the risk of losing it due to how the tech giants feel about a particular service. Bryce offers practical tips and tools to create and host your own website or blog.
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How to fix the internet
Written in 2015. Should the tech giants control user-created content like videos, podcasts, music and blogs? Think of a web where standard and open formats such as .video, .podcast, .blog, and .tweet exist. They are not tied to apps rented to you by the tech giants. An entire ecosystem exists for users to choose how to consume this open and free content. I love these ideas and would love to work on something to push this...
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The Year of the Personal Website
Have you heard me say 'create your own homepage!' before? Make 2023 the year we take back the web!
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Organizing the Eleventy config file
Lene dives deep and discusses how you could approach organising your Eleventy config file.
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2023, the year of websites
2023 will be the year of websites as people become more aware of the value of owning their content and digital identity. Andy, like myself, encourages everyone to start building their own websites to have more control over their online presence and the ability to showcase their work. Check out the article for tips and resources for building your own website.
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Web 0.5
A few people have already used Web 0.5 by back-construction from Web 2.0. Sean Coates used it derogatively of MySpace, but this O'Reilly blog post is more positive, suggesting Web 2.0 is a return to earlier Internet applications.
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The Organic Web
There was a time when owning digital space seemed thrilling, and our personal sites motivated us to express ourselves. There are signs of a resurgence, but too few wish to make their digital house a home... People talk about growing communities and growing brands, but does anyone talk about growing a website?
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Let's bring Fan Sites and webrings back! - bryanlrobinson.com
In the days before the web was mainstream, it was a place of creation. First for education, then for every random idea that any creator had! As the web transitioned from a network of educational institutions to the consumer force it is today, the early adopters were technologists...
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The Return of the 90s Web
Max wonders if having your own website is trendy again.
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How the Blog Broke the Web
The author first got online in 1993, back when the Web had a capital letter — three, in fact — and long before irony stretched its legs and unbuttoned its flannel shirt. Back when you could really say you were surfing the net...
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It’s Time to Get Personal
Is it just me or does nobody have their own website anymore? Outdated sites, or sites that only contain a list of links to social media profiles on big tech platforms don't count. Despite being people who build websites, who love to share on the web, we don’t share much on our own sites
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Seven Reasons for having a Personal Website
There are at least seven reasons you should have a personal website. Cheapskates lets us know what they are.
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Autonomy Online: A Case For The IndieWeb — Smashing Magazine
There is an alternative to corporate bubbles online — it’s called the indieweb. build your own personal websites, control your online presence, and learn on your own terms.
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2015 is the year the old internet finally died
The old blogosphere is being eaten alive by the rise of social media and the mobile web.
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Making the Web Fun Again
Kyle looks at how the web could be made fun again.
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The Missing Hit and the Open Web
If it doesn't appear in google's search results, does it really exist?
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Statistically obsessed
Measure, analyze, check your stats, take a look at the insights. Whether you are running a business website, a personal blog, a Twitter account or a Facebook page, there is someone breathing down your neck asking about the numbers...
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Underscores, Optimization & Arms Races - Anil Dash
A dozen years ago, the web started to reshape itself around major companies like Google. We can understand the genesis of today’s algorithmic arms race against the tech titans just by looking at a single character...
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Hunting the Nearly-Invisible Personal Website
Cheapskates goes hunting. The personal website is a somewhat mysterious animal that lives mostly unobserved in the jungle of the Internet
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A love letter to my website - DESK Magazine
A declaration of love for personal websites.
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One Terabyte of Kilobyte Age | Digging through the Geocities Torrent
Digging through the Geocities Torrent
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sadgrl | There's no place like the old internet
I started on the Internet back in 1996. Sadness came later. In this blog post she explores what the old web looks like compared to the new web.
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Make your own independent website
Victoria shares how to make 2021 the year of the independent web....
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Blogging and me
Ana reflects on how blogging has been part of her life since the early 2000s.
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Overthinking my blog
Ana starts to over think her blog and needs to get it back on track.
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Overthinking my nostalgia
Ana reflects on her nostalgia for the old web and what she can learn from it.
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Letting Go of the Old Web
Desiree explores what gets us to build a website and tries to understand what a website actually is today.