Awesome thing about the ØɄ₮₴łĐɆ webring: Joining the webring is automatic. No email submission process, no pull requests on GitHub; just read the rules, put the links on your site and... join the webring. That's it. Easy, right?
#SmallWeb
Oh and this one, Rubik's Cube except you can only see one side at a time and it's monochromatic LOL https://vigrey.com/journal/my-first-game-for-the-playdate-flatcube.html #smallweb #geminiprotocol
I updated the initial Kitten course based on our first lesson with @casey and your feedback here. So now we start with no tooling except for your default terminal app and Kitten and it serves as a gentle introduction to the command line and gets to you seeing your first web page in your web browser far more quickly.
https://kitten.small-web.org/course/hello-kitten
The tooling chapter is now Chapter 2:
https://kitten.small-web.org/course/tools-of-the-trade
And there’s a new Chapter 3 that gets you editing your newly-created web page using Helix Editor:
https://kitten.small-web.org/course/hello-kitten-revisited
I’m going to add an introduction to git to this chapter soon.
The course is being developed as Casey and I have our lessons so new chapters should trickle in and things may change with rewrites, etc., as we go.
https://kitten.small-web.org/course
Please feel free to follow along and pipe in with thoughts and suggestions if you have any.
Enjoy!
:kitten:💕
PS. There will be screenshots, etc., added as I work on it more. I know it’s a bit text-heavy at the moment.
#Kitten #KittenCourse #course #SmallWeb #PeerToPeerWeb #web #dev #HTML #CSS #JavaScript #NodeJS
📝 New Post: What Music Ownership Means to Me
A personal look at music ownership, streaming, and how I buy, collect, and stream music I actually own.
🔥 https://flamedfury.com/posts/what-music-ownership-means-to-me/
#Music #Vinyl #Musicownership #Personalweb #Indieweb #Smallweb #Selfhosting
I like the Gemini Protocol, but — I think too many of the other small-net protocols try to mimic Gemini.
One alternative path that small-net & small-web communities could try is —
Make a new version of the HTTP protocol.
One that includes small-net values.
A small-net HTTP (HTTP/1.4 ?) server could be backwards compatible, such that extant web-browsers could see something (even if the experience is better in a small-net web-browser).
#BurgeonLab #WeekNotes 007 is out.
2025: Week 50/52 (Dec 8 – 14)
https://burgeonlab.com/weeknotes/2025/w50/
#blogging #blogs #smallweb #indieweb #blogpost #smolweb #weeknote #personalBlog
If you miss messing around with computers, maybe you just need to get an old laptop.
This is CogDogBlogged: "Yam Yam Yamming Reuse of Flickr Photos"
As Forrest Gump never said, “Momma told me life is like a box of yams…” Nope that does not work, just the morning brain on free association.
For those not reading ariound here before, my love of taking and sharing photos is not centered in making money or getting anything from my photos, and this is the 9th year in the experiment of what happens when I shared some 70000+ photos under open […]
🥳 New Kitten Release
• Reduces minimum Bash version requirement for installing Kitten to Bash 3.2+ (was previously Bash 5+). This removes the requirement for people on macOS to upgrade the ancient version of Bash that Apple ships with their desktop operating system. (If you’re on Linux none of this was ever an issue for you.)¹
• Updates runtime to Node 24.12.0, the latest long-term support (LTS) version.
¹ While it’s easy enough to update your version of Bash on macOS using Homebrew, that only works (as we discovered on Friday https://mastodon.ar.al/@aral/115706233541301655) if you’re running one of the latest three versions of macOS and thus excludes people with perfectly functional older computers. (Don’t get me started on why Apple ships an ancient version of Bash as we’ll go down the rabbit hole of open as in “open for business” vs “free as in freedom” and corporate capture and how capitalism will happily be the end of us if we let it. Aren’t you glad you didn’t get me started?) ;)
RE: https://mastodon.social/@countablenewt/115720294257077514
Fun, I added an author attribution to my personal site so it links to my Mastodon when you share it
Yes the site already links to my Mastodon and yes it's already verified, but this is also a neat thing I've been thinking about doing
Any time my site is shared around here it'll link directly back to me without even having to open the website
Site update!! Mainly me yakking about The Internet and progress on Fear of Falling again. #SmallWeb
hikatamika.com/changelog/
HK★TMK | Site Changelog (Full)
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I think some of the hopes for Small-Net & Small-Web from its fans, enthusiasts, and advocates is —
• the return of individuals creating and publishing niche narrowly focused sites,
• removing the modern Gate-Keepers.
These obviously aren't the only desires from those in the Small-Net & Small-Web scene and social-movement, but — I think these 2 are interesting because they are related to the origin of the World-Wide-Web.
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The Web wasn't the start of the social-movement to get rid of these (historical) Gate-Keepers.
(The social-movement goes back to at least BBS and other similar networks — i.e., what, for regular people, was before the Internet.)
But the Web did have a big impact on removing these Gate-Keepers. A BIG one!
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Prior to the Web, if you wanted to publish something you created and reach a mass audience or a community — most of the time you would have to go through the TV industry, the film industry, the radio industry, or the newspaper industry.
These were the Gate-Keepers of the time.
In practice, only those with wealth or power were able to get permission from these Gate-Keepers.
For most of the people in the world — this wasn't an option
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I think people nowadays are unaware of just how big of a deal that latter part was — being able to write and publish content you created and reach an audience!
It was a huge deal!
As much as the Web was a technology, it was also a social-movement.
Part of the social-movement of the Web getting rid of Gate-Keeper.
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As I said, these niche web-sites about some narrow topic were one of the draws of the Internet on the 1990s and early 2000s.
Both reading what others wrote about niche topics you also cared about and perhaps also obsessed over.
But also, being able to create your own niche content on the (narrow) interests you obsessed over.
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These niche web-sites about some narrow topic of the 1990s and early 2000s were one of the draws of the Internet back then.
(And, to put this into context, remember that the mass-Internet, where regular people used the Internet, didn't really start until about the years 1998 to 2001.)
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The Web of the 1990s and early 2000s (then called the World-Wide-Web) was different (in quality) from the Web of today.
One interesting thing from that era was that — there were many individuals who (on their own) created whole web-sites about some (narrow) topic each of them obsessed over. Something that each of them raged to master and document — and then published to the world (via the World-Wide-Web).
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RE: https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/@Larvitz/115718085687749256
My latest blog-article is (of course) also available via the Gemini protocol on my personal Gemini capsule:
Client Info
Server: https://mastodon.social
Version: 2025.07
Repository: https://github.com/cyevgeniy/lmst