Here's all the links to pages that inspired me this week and the people behind them.
Like I've been saying, there are some seriously awesome people out there on the webs doing very fun cool stuff. And I'm grateful they're sharing it with all of us. Thanks to you all!
Expanding on some recent posts on Mastodon, I wrote my entry for this month's IndieWeb Carnival (topic: Digital Relationships).
TL;DR — Words are crucial to build a sense of online community, however many of us have been using them straight out of a soulless corporate lingo in order to sell ourselves as a product.
Ken Zinser encourages to publish "cornerstone pages" on personal websites and blogs, i.e. pages with standardized URLs and well defined content such as /about, /blogroll, /contact, /now, /photos, and more.
Does your website have a booklog or reading list of any kind? I am looking for inspiration since I want to redesign mine from a simple table to something a bit more fun.
Please link your #blog if it has something like this!
I finally have a tiny home on the internet again, dedicated to what I am passionate about, and filled with what I am reading, writing, and working on (coming soon).
This is not just a designer's portfolio it is a representation of myself. I got inspired by loads of folks, but especially @matthiasott, his posts and newsletter has been among the driving forces to finish my personal website. 😊 #indieweb
I also set up a newsletter on #buttondown called Datest (https://buttondown.email/philipp) which I will write casually to share updates about my site, writings, and interesting links.
Does anyone know a good, ethical host for a static, small website? Ideally it should have a free tier, but I don't mind paying a bit (let's say 5€/month).
I want to be able to command-line upload to it (or connect a git repo) and it should be clean and renewable energy, ideally.
When I switched from a blog to a digital garden, I thought it would be easier to just write small snippets and insights, without having to worry about having to write an entire "post".
The problem I'm having now is that I can't think of anywhere in my graph to stick the new nodes. Like where does this link from? I have no idea! So I end up not writing it.
I've been busy reworking my personal website, but now it's in a good enough state, something I feel good about. I finally got it to be "verified" on Mastodon!