Have you published an RSS or Atom feed?
Did you know it's possible to style it?
Yup! You can make that crusty old XML viewable in the browser.
Demo: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/feed/atom/
Tutorial: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2023/06/style-your-wordpress-atom-feed/
Oh snap! `YARR - Yet Another RSS Reader` has a new version and I missed it in March!
https://github.com/nkanaev/yarr/releases/tag/v2.5
YARR is like Feedly or NewsBlur, except more like TinyRSS or FreshRSS - you can self-host.
UNLIKE those, you can tell yarr to run at `<ip:port>`, so you can stick it at port 7666 for your reverse #proxy. And its lightweight, I run my own AND 3 other instances for fam. members on the same host accessed via different subdomains re-proxied by #nginx.
It's still pretty popular among the #smolweb
New blog post up: a brief review of Hannah Steenbock's Demonhunters of Terragon series, as it stands so far.
Also some print styling improvements, while I was at it. (It's not quite where I want it yet, but it's better than it was before.)
"The internet I came to love was quieter. Smaller – which is not to say small. It was still vast, but it was a vast collection of small sites instead of a small collection of vast sites."
Pet Cams with Motion
I have repurposed some old laptops into pet cams with the motion Linux application and Dropbox.
https://readbeanicecream.surge.sh/2025/06/01/pet-cams-with-motion/
Ctrl-ZINE is an independent smol web project, and its Issue 17 Vol. 2 happens to contain pieces by two of my favorite people on the fediverse. @rootcompute has a great piece here about his time on and thoughts about the fediverse, and @ttntm wrote a love letter to one of my own favorite games here, Diablo II.
Free PDF to read/download: https://ctrl-c.club/~singletona082/zine/2024/Ctrl-ZINE.Issue.17.pdf
What #geminiprotocol clients do you recommend to browse the #smolweb from an Android smartphone?
Currently, I am using Buran, but I am missing things like tabs.
so this is exactly what smallweb initiatives do a great job of:
over 15 years ago, a tiny robot tabletop rpg was designed by a group of 1d4chan users over a few years. it eventually grew into a formal rulebook, and even spawned a successful kickstarter to get a print of the rulebook printed.
the game is adorable and simple, and aside from a PDF of the final rulebook - the game went out of print years ago and all but disappeared from the web when 1d4chan shut down.
mercifully, a neocities user thought to preserve the original website thank you, singletona082 
https://cheapietheatre.neocities.org/engineheart
a backup of the final version of the book (free):
https://web.archive.org/web/20171203211028/http://viralgamespublishing.com/books/Engine+Heart+99E90F+2013+Edition.pdf
I just discovered [rdrview], a command-line "reader view" for websites, and I absolutely love it. Absolutely going to be a part of my terminal-life arsenal from now on. It cuts through a lot of the visual cruft you're subjected to when viewing websites on the terminal.
Kudos to @bbbhltz for turning me on to it via his excellent [post on Dillo].
cc: @amin
back when i first joined mastodon, one of the many surprising things i learned was that gopher had made a return to the public sphere after decades of obscurity.
i grew up with gopher and archie and veronica and many other www-alt protocols before getting hooked on the world wide web. they taught me how to hunt for things, in a time when web search didn't exist yet.
i've spent every day of the past week adding a new feature to kiki that i'm incredibly proud of, after hearing from several folks - namely @tomjennings and @scott, who (like me) are hungry for an information-dense and cruft-free internet
this works by turning your kiki pages into gopherspace pages through some formatting magic and textmunging. so now, you can host your kiki instance on both the www and in gopherspace, simultaneously.
it will be released in an upcoming version of kiki, available soon here: https://tomo-dashi.itch.io/kiki
new #kiki update a'for the weekend because i know it's such a great idea to release patches on a friday afternoon 
this adds a really nice feature: now you can add any custom dynamic variables you want to /layout/dynamic.bug, and pages can use them!
this idea is courtesy of @minterpunct who is the first kiki webmaster use dynamic content *really* creatively in their pages - storing chunks of html code that can be re-used all over the place - stuff like emojis and javascript code! i honestly never imagined using it this way, and it's a super smart way of re-using code without having to retype it anywhere
https://tomo-dashi.itch.io/kiki/devlog/936985/v1010-patch-notes
back in the early 90s my parents brought home an ibm ps/1 with an internal 2400 baud modem. i assumed it was only for sending/receiving faxes.
one day my computer teacher (thank you mr. mckinney!) explained that the modem made my computer capable of dialing out to *other computers* and exchanging data with them. he printed off a five page ream of tractor feed paper titled "The 403 BBS List" and sent me home with it.
i stayed up until 3am that night, dialing every single board on that list using Windows Terminal, creating accounts, and exploring what BBSes were capable of. by the wee hours, i had a new terminal program (Terminate!), knew how to use the z-modem protocol, and had
pirated my first game 
one of the little mysteries i came across that night was FILE_ID.DIZ files. every board had them. every zip file had them. they were tiny capsule descriptions of what a program/game was, constrained to 45 cols and 10 rows of ascii. they usually also included some kind of nod to the piracy group that "released" the program.
most BBS software would extract the .DIZ file from the zip, and use that as a file area description for the program, allowing users to understand what they were downloading.
to celebrate this weird little historical curio, today kiki got a FILE_ID.DIZ packed into the zip 
in version 1.10 onwards every copy of kiki will now include a FILE_ID.DIZ.
if you haven't heard of kiki yet, check out the project page:
https://tomo-dashi.itch.io/kiki
and if you're new to the kiki community, please post to the #kiki hashtag so we can start building a little webring of kiki instances
Hey #Fediverse, #Smolweb, #Smallweb, #Indieweb folks, what is the latest thinking on sharing videos on your personal website? Of course, just uploading videos to youtube is fine I guess but maybe peertube? What are our thoughts on uploading the video files directly to the site and hosting it there?
Our lives are a slow betrayal of our ideals.
#Confession: I preach the #SmolWeb and #LowTech and still pay for Netflix.
Hypocrisy isn't a bug, it's a feature of human nature!
And you, what are your most deepest #contradictions?
Do you have a smol website, a person blog, or other non-corperate internet thingie?
If so, I’d be interested in browsing it and probably adding an entry to my pixel wall if you have a wee 88×31 graphic for me to use. A return link is optional but appreciated.
My wall is here: https://lordmatt.co.uk/about/matts-pixel-wall/
Giving pages.casa https://pages.casa/ a try. Thanks to @adelesocial@pollux.casa for getting things quickly set up on the server. Switching my DNS from @hover was quick and I'm up and running. Pages.casa also has a method that lets you publish markdown directly with out having to build things yourself (https://pages.casa/posts/publish-markdown-files-easily/ ) #smolweb #indieweb
for the past few years, i'm sure many of you have read my many lamentations about the death of the old, small web many of us grew up with.
there are tons of static site generators out there, but none of them did what i wanted: something that could build an entire site without futzing with javascript and library dependencies. i wanted something that we would have had in 2005, but didn't have in 2025.
in january, i decided to do something about it instead of whining. i started gluing together a few php scripts i had been using to build blogs, rss feeds and mini homepages. i even wrote a new mini markup language.
i thought it would take me a week. it took >3 months.
it ran for the past month as globaltalk.network's interactive site, and many of you asked if i'd ever let other people spin up an instance. i can finally say: yes!
today, kiki is officially finished and released for public use. named after my little black house demon, it's small, fast, and sometimes well behaved. and, it's all written in php without a single external dependency. just unzip and go.
it's released as shareware - in the oldest, finest, jankiest meaning of the word: you're free to goof around with and share the unregistered version. build your own little kiki instance, and customize the heck out of it until it feels like your own little home in the world wide web:
