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💛 Webring Wednesday #22 💛 | The Book Ring

The Book Ring is a cozy, bookish webring for readers, writers, and literary dreamers. Each member site is a unique window into someone’s personal library; be it filled with reviews, writing projects, fanfiction, or musings on favorite genres. It’s like getting to know people through their shelves, and it’s a warm invitation to wander from one book-loving site to the next.

The ring is part of a larger online library space and includes little snapshots of what members are currently reading, which makes discovering new titles extra fun. Whether you’re a fantasy lover, a historical fiction nerd, or just someone who enjoys curling up with a good story, The Book Ring is a comforting place to connect with fellow bibliophiles.

Check it out here: https://library.thecozy.cat/

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Hey folks time for some #MutualAid support. The folks who normally pick up the bullhorn are tired. You'll know when it's your turn on the mic.

URGENT! please help DionRa with emergency moving costs. his landlord has refused to renew his lease because he requested maintenance.

250/£2000 DUE AUGUST 1

- gogetfunding.com/help-two-disa
-paypal: diontheblackdragon@gmail.com
- campsite.bio/dionra

#MutualAid
#MutualAidRequest
#transMutualAid
#TransCrowdfund
#CreativeToots
#MastoArt
#FediArt
#OriginalArt
#handmade
#smallWeb
#portrait
#illustration
#drawing
#pride
#pretty
#femme
#prideMonth
#disabled
#trans
#beautiful

#writers, #blog aficionados, #web enjoyers, #website browsers: lend me your ears! i need help with a big push to get the word out about #writing for GOOD INTERNET magazine's autumn issue! a digital AND physical magazine that ships all over the world, run & contributed to by volunteers! (‼️)

in case you're unaware, GOOD INTERNET covers a lot of different aspects of the #SmallWeb: unplugging from the corporate web, fighting #enshittification, migrating from data-harvesting corpo social media, creating your own personal website, using code and website-building as an art form, federation, and creating websites for fun. the aim is to be approachable for beginners and enjoyable for seasoned #indieweb travelers!

you don't have to be a professional #webdev or a #coding smartypants to write about all the good things happening on "this side" of the web. the idea here is to spread the word about and share thoughts, independent web projects, services, methods, sites, meet-ups, and celebrate the non-corporate web together while making it easier for us to partake and unplug from #bigtech.

📏 looking for 1,000- to 4,000-word articles aimed at website owners and hobbyists, digital (and traditional) #artists, #internet culture enthusiasts, #technology nerds, #socialmedia expatriates, & anyone who wants to unplug from the corporate-owned #web.

⏲️ the deadline is AUGUST 22, 2025 ⏲️

ℹ️ more info here: goodinternetmagazine.com/conta

Good Internet · Contact UsPitching stories Unfortunately, at this time, we cannot pay for article submissions or art. Appropriate topics Articles can either be sourced and journalistic or first-hand accounts and personal stories. Since our magazine is geared towards hobbyists, articles should not be aimed at those who do not already own personal websites

🥳 New Kitten Release

• Fixed regression: Since we switched the h() render function to return a generator (for seamless async support in html templates), two other methods that were calling h() directly – `kitten.safelyAddHtml()` and `kitten.js()` – had begun to fail. This was also affecting the fetchiverse, streamiverse, and kitten-chat family of examples.

Enjoy!

kitten.small-web.org

(Run `kitten update` to immediately install the latest version on your development machines. Your production machines will automatically update in the next few hours.)

:kitten:💕

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Under Construction ist eine wunderschöne Hommage an das World Wide Web und die Unfertigkeit von Olia Lialina @GIFmodel

politikkultur.de/schwerpunkte/

«Wenn man heute ein »Under Construction«-Banner, […], bedeutet das vor allem eines: Einer vergangenen Ära wird Respekt gezollt. Einer Zeit, in denen Menschen nicht in Plattformen eingeschlossen waren.»
#www #smallweb #indie #html #internetculture

Politik und Kultur · Under Construction - Politik und KulturWas wissen wir über das World Wide Web vor der […]

I think I can actually implement a combined articles plus posts #RSS feed on my blog super easily with existing functionality in my static site generator.

BUT…the items in the feed would not be in chronological order. All of them do have pubDate set though.

Would this be a problem for modern feed readers…?

It's been years, many years, actually, since I last built a site with HTML. Recently, I've been wanting to end my participation in the larger web and start contributing to a smaller web. A web that was full of creative people, building cool and fun sites, and sharing information. Not the web of today that is full of companies pumping ads at us, forcing us to use ad blockers to keep us safe, or the companies scraping the web to build their AI models. The web of today is terrible, bloated, and not what the internet was originally created for.

I've deleted my personal and freelance/consulting sites, both built on bloated WordPress, and I have been reintroducing myself to HTML and CSS so I can rebuild my sites. I've been having so much fun. To do this, I've joined https://bearblog.dev for my personal site/blog, and https://neocities.org as a practice space for working on my HTML and CSS. Both are brilliant, and to support both, it's really affordable.

To start my journey of reintroducing myself to HTML and CSS, I read (multiple times) @bw's online book, "HTML for People". You can find it at https://htmlforpeople.com/. And if you enjoy reading it, throw a bit of money Blake's way for all of the hard work.

Anyway, I'll get off my soapbox about the bloated web of today and get back to learning HTML and CSS. My personal site is still a bit crap, but I'm working on it! 😃

#html #css #smallweb #bloatedweb

ʕ•ᴥ•ʔ Bear Blogʕ•ᴥ•ʔ Bear BlogFree, no-nonsense, super-fast blogging

I need some #blog software recommendations: a non-tech friend asked me to help her setup a website. I can host something for her, but I'm only familiar with Hugo and that's not going to work for her.

Her requirements are basically #WriteFreely but with image upload: a mainly text focused blog with the occasional picture. Admin with WYSIWYG, everything lightweight, minimal, clean and responsive. Comments/activitypub not required for now.

After searching (a lot) I think what may be the closest to this, is the open-source version of #Known

Do you have experience with Known, or other self-hostable software for #blogging that fits the bill? Please let me know, boosts are appreciated.

#indieweb #smallweb #smolweb

I've been unemployed for more than a year. To help bring some money in, I've been trying to get clients that need a website for their business, org, etc. For now, I'm using WordPress to build the sites, but as my HTML and CSS skills improve, I am going to completely move away from WordPress and build sites with HTML and CSS. People keep telling me that it's not possible, but these people are also WordPress, Joomla, and Drupal users and developers. You can totally do it. Some business sites can even be built with static site generators. We don't need all the bloat in website builds.

#html #css #smallweb