The Web

I'm working on a web CMS app that publishes directly to IPFS. If you're curious, the IPFS project has fantastic documentation, and it's been a pleasure to learn from. Hats off to the team.

Great post calling out the growing apathy around government corruption.

It matters. I care.

I was cruising around this lovely personal website - another pixel artist - and was curious what tool she uses to create her art. It’s https://www.piskelapp.com/ - a fun and free web-based alternative to Aseprite that can save files in browser storage.

Neocities provides a free website builder in the spirit of Geocities.

I found that at pomelo.lol, which also led me to Aseprite.

How to Survive the Broligarchy by journalist Carole Cadwalladr succinctly captures a lot of what I’ve been thinking about since January.

Speak n Spell implemented in JavaScript - Bonus points if you can get it to say “butcher”.

I thoroughly enjoyed this BBC article on the medlar tree and its fruit’s curious past. This was a discovery from Pocket, which I found out today is unfortunately shutting down.

Webrings are one of the best ways to surf the web. I will eventually get around to adding this site to the IndieWeb Webring. Check out a random site from the webring. There’s also a large webring of personal websites.

Just click PLEASE

Remember Yahoo! Directory in the 90s? Before Google took over, browsing through categories and sub-categories and sub-sub-categories of a website directory was a common way to find things. Cruising around a directory like this is a lot of fun. One of the great old directories was DMoz, aka the Open Directory Project. After getting bought by AOL and AOL getting bought by Yahoo!, it was shut down in 2017. A fork of the directory still exists today at Curlie. Give it a whirl.

Find out why you should maintain your own website at indieweb.org. Or fall asleep to my pontificating on self hosting.

First, a shout-out to Wikipedia, probably the most useful and valuable website in the world. Second, a shout-out to Archive.org and the Wayback Machine, because if there is no record of the past, the past is mutable.