ad.network is open and advertising is free during the launch. Publishers earn USDC from paid clicks and can advertise their own site free.

Keeping a system useful can erase evidence of its earlier states as maintenance replaces obsolete arrangements.

Jason Kratz wrote a rebuttal to my arguments against the precedent set by Aaron Parecki’s decision to use AI in his work on the IndieWeb and his method of defending it. It is a poor rebuttal for…

Figured it was time for a fresh coat of paint~

Microsoft Clarity is a useful way to see how people interact with your website. I’ve been using it since it first came out in 2020, but ignored or overlooked something that happened a year ago,…

80 users online HE tracker has been back up for over a week and it shows that we have a steady community that after 18+ years is still online and still chatting in real time. This has significantly…

One of the reasons I started this blog was to connect with others with similar values, and who are interested in similar things as I am. I find it a...

i joined a new webring! the Creatively Weird Webring :) see it on my homepage.

This page is auto-generated from Github Actions workflow that runs every day at night and fetches the 5 latest articles from each of my favorite blogs.

No one has ever asked me what I’ve learned making a blog entry a day for a year. And I hate that this dangerously flies very close to a LinkedIn-style post, but it’s what I’ve got to say today, which…

I now follow three websites or feeds whose authors write in French; in at least two cases, the authors write in both French and English. When I see posts in different languages, I use Firefox’s…

Today I learned: ICANNWiki is an independent and not-for-profit encyclopedia about Internet Governance, unaffiliated with ICANN. It contains 11,046 articles. To contribute, read our content guide,…

I want to draw your attention to some changes in the menu of this blog, most notably the addition of the “About this Blog” tab. I’m going to go grab the text I put there and paste…

Standing for "what you see is what you get", wysiwyg has become so ubiquitous that many people consider it a must-have for a writing environment. But it is leaving the integrity of content in tatters.

Just to let you know link testing was completed here at the hub today - a number of bad links were removed. Virtually free of link rot at the moment (the way I like it). 😎 -joe jenett

Sydney, Australia, based author and journalist Richard Cooke explores the inner workings of online encyclopedia, Wikipedia, is his recently published book, The Last Best Place On The Internet: In…

Considering... Sharkey account, specifically sakurajima.social . Same groups that hosts the Mastodon sakurajima.moe server which is focused on "Japanese-media and Anime/Manga/Japanese Media…

New Writing Yapping Community! Pretty barebones at the moment but I created an alternative to my writing yap tag (mary writes) on Dreamwidth. It's called arimamary-writing.dreamwidth.org . Writing…

I've been using Bear for a few weeks now and it's been such a boon to my good energy to be doing something creative every day. And while writing in my own little corner of the web has been joyful,…

A non-exhaustive list of home offices (hopefully still) available on the internet: Stefan Didak: https://www.stefandidak.com/wp/ and https://www.stefandidak.com/office/ Mitch's Crazy Office:…

Many websites have started running some sort of “human-verification” script before showing the content. I don’t know what’s going on behind the scenes (these seem to be much…

And it was absolutely an effective use of my time.

Hooman, we are ready to receive your apple core. 🍎 Thanks for reading this post via RSS. RSS is ace, and so are you. ❤️ You can reply to this post by email, or leave a comment.

[Add “recommendation engines” to the list of automated tech it should be possible to opt out of.] My pal Ethan Marcotte is tired of recommendation engines . You can be sure I share in his distaste.…

Turns out, a Github based publishing workflow comes with its own headaces.

some people have hidden their up votes and I unhide them in dev tools just to upvote them when I like that Out of spite of course

Every year, browser vendors collaborate via the Interop project to synchronize their efforts on new HTML/CSS/JS features. This year, there’s a ton of super exciting features being considered! In this…

As part of the general redesign around here, I managed to screw up the RSS feed for some, but not all, of the posts. If you’ve been following me via RSS and getting truncated posts, I apologize…

For a Tinderbox demo tomorrow at Università del Piemonte Orientale, I put together this assortment of recent publications that are about Tinderbox and adjacent topics. In case that’s useful to…

October 20, 2026 Meta is now charging to post links. Business and creator accounts get two free links a month. After that, they need a paid Meta One subscription , with tiers that run up to $499 a…

In Episode 24, I chat with Alex, the author of alexsirac.com about, among other things, collective intelligence in public commons, what the IndieWeb can learn from Wikipedia, community in comments,…

TL;DR: This blog has moved from https://andrea.corbellini.name to https://andrea.corbellini.blog. Please update all URLs pointing to this blog, and sorry for the inconvenience. Me and .name Back in…

Ten years ago I articulated my understanding of “indie web.” The following section is an excerpt from That’s what the web is to me (2016-09-22). My words still apply and explain the…

I’m terribly sorry to bring this news to you. While we did have many people reach out about the non-profit initiative, it became apparent that we crucially wouldn’t be able to find someone to take…

I connect the gestalt shift of treating an HTTP origin as a live agent feed—grounded in Thomas Kuhn's model of scientific revolutions—to the practical four-vector control plane of Nix, Python, Vim,…

messing around with octothorpes, i think i love it.

alammo has been around for a while on youtube, posting pc-98 mixes with some very interesting and obscure picks (i recommend!). recently, they created this quirky website where you can browse various…

A winding history of waylonwalker.com, from the domain and early blog through hosting changes, Markata, thoughts, pings, and Markata Go.

What we capture when we scan a family photograph, what we keep, and how we expect it to still be readable in fifty years without any of the software that made it.

The twenty-fourth episode of Wonders of Web Weaving is out: In Episode 24, I chat with Alex, the author of alexsirac.com about, among other things, collective intelligence in public commons, what the…

Posted on October 20, 2026 by Evgeny Poberezkin Tags: ai, internet They can – but not on the networks most people use. Internet: a market that nobody owned When the internet began, only research and…

I wrote a somewhat flippant piece for a friend’s site (sadly now defunct) some time back about my frustration with people asking for websites as a sort of off-the-shelf, finished thing. The point of…

Lola Odelola shared the news on Bluesky last week . I’m using my blog and web presence to signal boost it. Long story short: There currently is no Baseline or caniuse for accessibility . The…

I want a Markdown variant that pays attention to text semantics, so that italic and emphasis and bold and strong emphasis aren't considered interchangeable.

I am half Frisian: my mem, my pake and my beppe come from Fryslân. So when I found out that the .frl domain was still free for my name, I did not have to think long. willem.frl is mine, and it takes…

Something funny happened a little while ago: I read about FreshRSS, and it sounded nice, so I installed it on a server and started using it. That would not have happened a year ago, but then again, a…

I just discovered that the prinsessor-loving Des’s long-running blog Desbladet has vanished from the internet, and if you turn to the Internet Archive you get the dreaded “Sorry. This URL…

GVBM has officially surpassed more than TEN THOUSAND user-made blinkies!!!! celebratory cake :]

It always feels good to do a fresh start. It’s the transition between old and messy, to new and clean. It’s exciting because you can do things differently now, based on the mistakes from…