I've written up full instructions on hosting your own website using the open source Chobble Template, at https://example.chobble.com/instructions/

It doesn't require any technical ability, or for you to edit a single line of code - you just need to sign up for Github and Neocities, and click buttons and copy text into boxes.

It's based on #Eleventy and comes with neat features like:

- Pages, news, products, categories, galleries, team members, events, and menus
- Contact forms via Formspark with Botpoison spam protection
- Tiered, easily expanded navigation
- Built in theme editor
- Responsive image resizing
- Mobile friendly design by default
- Near-perfect Lighthouse scores
- JSON-LD built in
- Stripe button support
- Loads more stuff I can't remember

If you'd like to host your own web presence, free from the reach of big tech, but have been scared of the techy bits - fear no more! The Chobble Template is here to make all that stuff easy peasy.

Please check it out and let me know how you get on!

does anyone here know a good QR code generator without tracking/ads?
like an open source app that someone hosts for public use, perhaps with planned expiration?

A new site, "Is It Really FOSS?", tackles open source claims with clarity! It categorizes big projects like Proton Mail, Signal & Bitwarden, exposing hidden licensing risks and marketing hype. Check out the truth behind FOSS labels: https://cyberinsider.com/new-is-it-really-foss-site-tells-truth-about-open-source-claims/ #FOSS #OpenSource #TechNews #newz

️Linkwarden: The Self-Hosted Bookmark Manager That Solved a Problem I Didn’t Know I Had

Thank you, Linux Unplugged and Jupiter Broadcasting @ironicbadger, for introducing me to Linkwarden—a FOSS gem that will change how I save, share, and preserve the web.

Like many of you, I’ve been using browser bookmarks for years. I’d save articles, tutorials, and interesting links, only to find them gone when I finally got around to reading them. Link rot is real, and it’s frustrating. But until I heard about Linkwarden https://linkwarden.app/ on Linux Unplugged https://jupiterbroadcasting.com/, I didn’t realize how much I needed a better solution.

I used to think, “Browser bookmarks are fine,” and honestly, backing them up manually from time to time isn’t a real trouble—just a slight inconvenience. My problem is that I experience massive link rot when looking into two-year-old links, often with interesting subjects on small sites—they are often just gone when I want to recall them. The problem is that saving the link isn’t saving any of the information.

But Linkwarden @linkwarden isn’t just another bookmark manager—it’s a preservation powerhouse, a collaborative hub, and a self-hosted dream. And thanks to the folks at Jupiter Broadcasting, I now understand why it’s a game-changer.

I haven’t started hosting it yet, but I definitely will, and I hope some of you out there will find it useful too.
Thanks to @daniel31x13 for making a awesome tool ️.
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• Linkwarden github.com/linkwarden/linkwarden —  Self-hosted collaborative bookmark manager to collect, read, annotate, and fully preserve what matters, all in one place.
• Announcing Linkwarden 2.11 blog.linkwarden.app/releases/2.11
• Linkwarden Browser Extension github.com/linkwarden/browser-extension

@selfhosted@a.gup.pe @selfhosting @selfhosted@lemmy.world @selfhost #OpenSourceSoftware #TechForGood #Linkwarden #SelfHosted #FOSS #OpenSource #WebPreservation #Fediverse #LinuxUnplugged #SaveTheWeb #NoMore404 #TechCommunity #DigitalArchiving #LinkRot #PrivacyFirst #BookmarkManager #Bookmark

We’re announcing the 2.12.1 minor patch release of #LabPlot with small improvements and bug fixes.

https://labplot.org/2025/08/18/labplot-2-12-1-released/

We recommend everybody update to this patch release which is available from our download page:

https://labplot.org/download/

New features and enhancements are coming in the next major release. Stay tuned!

#FLOSS #FOSS #OpenSource #DataAnalysis #DataViz

@labplot@lemmy.kde.social

Rewriting the Windows section of Kitten’s installation instructions.

Update: it’s live now.

https://kitten.small-web.org/

Minding the Big Picture: Opportunity from Chaos with Nate Graham.

How can KDE be a source of stability in times of disruption?

Register: https://akademy.kde.org/2025/register/
Program: https://akademy.kde.org/2025/program/

With pull request #50 the Schemacs Elisp interpreter is now able to load all of two very important Emacs Lisp source files:

• ./lisp/emacs-lisp/byte-run.el and
• ./lisp/subr.el

…which are two files that define most of what you could call the the Emacs Lisp “core” language (by which I mean macros like defun and lambda).

With these files now loaded, I can proceed to the next task, which is implementing enough of the C-level built-in functions in Scheme to be able to run ./lisp/emacs-lisp/cl-lib.el, which is in-turn one of the dependencies for running the Emacs Regression Tests (ERT) suite.

Once ERT is up and running, it will be much easier for anyone to contribute code to this project as you will just be able to pick a failing regression test and write whatever code is necessary to make it pass.

We’re happy to share that OpenProject has been nominated for the #FOSS Awards 2025 in the category Project Management.

The voting ends soon and if you’d like to support us, you can add your vote here:

https://www.20i.com/foss-awards/category/project-management