Tag: indie web
Somewhere, I'm online and listening to music
For a while now, my home page has shown whatever song I'm listening to (or, if idle, the last one I played). Initially, it was powered by last.fm. As I've built my own scrobbler, I populated the element from my own data. The static implementation is straightforward: I store each listen as a record. When a listen is inserted, the cache is cleared and warmed, and an update is displayed.
going back to my roots
At 33 years old, I feel like everything I enjoyed in my teen years are all colliding together. Bands I used to listen to came out of retirement/hiatus with new music. Certain fashion pieces I used to wear are back in style (I want the 00s style poncho top again - have had no luck in finding any!). And now the "indie web" as the kids call it. I'm a long time blogger since Xanga days, but even before that, I wrote in my own handmade diaries and journals that my siblings bought. I don't know what it is about me, but I've always had a knack for writing about my day-to-day life.
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Blog questions and whatnot
I've seen the blog question challenge going around recently among folks I follow and bacardi55 was kind enough to tag me to participate. So, without further delay, here we go!
(Most) pages are actually posts
Adam wrote up a post about everything on a site being a web page — posts included. He's absolutely write. I have some pages I think of on this site as being static ( about , uses , colophon et al) and these are often slash pages . But they aren't static .
A personal website is a bit like a quilt
If there's one thing I'm good at, it's torturing a metaphor. I grew up wrapped in quilts — my mom has made them for years (as a hobby and later, professionally). It's a passion, it's a patchwork assemblage of fabric — designs, patterns, mementos. They're handcrafted, require nigh-endless patience and the result is unique and irreplaceable.
It's not just a blog
Lately, one of the things I've most enjoyed doing on this site has been expanding on the facets of it that aren't strictly related to the blog. I've been working around the edges on filling out music, movie, TV and book related functionality.
Building a scrobbler using Plex webhooks, edge functions and blob storage
I've written before about embedding music into my site and I've largely used Last.fm to do so. Their API is rather extensive, though it is showing its age — the default response format is XML, they've dropped artist images and have intermittently failed to return album art. ListenBrainz is great, but client support is still lacking. I've also tried charting Apple Music data from their (quite limited) API.
An indie web primer
If I haven't made it clear enough recently, I love where the open web is heading and the indie web's part in it. This has grown out of the opportunity created by the ongoing fragmentation of the corporate social web and renewed interest in staking out personal spaces on the web. I've been blogging for a while and this is the longest period with which I've stuck with it and the most I've enjoyed it.
Building a reactive website
No, not that kind. I'm thinking of the indie web kind we're seeing lately. The kind that incorporates content from around the web that the creator of the site cares with and engages with. I find this to be complementary to the popular and well-explained POSSE concept. I've adopted this approach to populating numerous parts of my site, written using Eleventy, via frequent rebuilds.
Adding client side webmentions to my Next.js blog
The latest iteration of my website is built on Next.js, specifically Timothy Lin's wonderful Tailwind/Next.js starter blog..
The rise of the IndieWeb
IndieWeb? Schon wieder so ein hippes Buzzword-Dingens wie DataPortability, Synaptic oder Federated Social Web? Naja, irgendwie schon aber irgendwie auch nicht... ;) Seit dem ich das Internet für mich entdeckt habe hatte ich meine eigene Webseite... Von den ersten Frontpage (das hätte ich vielleicht besser verschweigen sollen) Versuchen auf Geocities mit Kostenlos-Domain-Weiterleitung (wer kennt noch...