My latest pet #project: Replace the "free" #location sharing services with simple solution where one has full control of (a) data collection (b) data storage (c) data sharing/visualisation.
If you want to give this #GoogleLatitude like alternative a go, I'd be happy for any and all comments:
This post by @Daojoan is spot on, and the reason I decide to (re)launch @indieaisle. I would add that you should use tools, resources, and other people to help develop your site. Work with a designer, a developer, a template, a system. BUT understand how it all works together and how you can make changes if you need to.
When the backup and restore branch lands, there will also be a breaking change to the Streaming HTML workflow.
Currently, when you expose an onConnect() handler, Kitten automatically adds hx-ext='ws' and ws-send attributes to your forms. Going forward, it will only add the former.
You’ll have to add ws-send (or Kitten’s syntactic sugar, connect) manually.
I remember folks in the web community shunning me when I first started speaking out against Big Tech – because I was criticising their friends who worked at Google, Facebook, etc. – saying I was exaggerating things.
I wonder what the same folks think now given what we know about these very same corporations; given a number of them are actively enabling a genocide.
Am I still an alarmist?
(I understand if some of you are too busy working at one or debating the minutiae of CSS syntax to reply.)
(And I’ve since been working on the problem and trying to formulate solutions to it, which has led me to what I’ve been working on for the last ~6 years with the Small Web) https://ar.al/2020/08/07/what-is-the-small-web/
does anyone know of any podcasts that are #smallweb ? Like not hosted on YouTube and stuff - just independent people doing niche things. I like nature, news, engineering stuff. A shining example to me is TLE on their castopod (I know they're also on yt but I only use the castopod.
If you have a website with neo cities, just know that the creator actually likes AI, and will add it again based on this post alone. Moratorium on freaking out about AI https://kyledrake.com/writings/ai
This is a niche one and will likely not affect any of the (three?) people playing with Kitten¹ right now but, in any case:
If you persist custom types to your Kitten database, you might be hit by this bug that was introduced when I released versions of Kitten with minified identifiers.
I briefly wrote about what happened, how you can identify if you’re affected, and how you can fix it here:
If you’re not using html-validate, you should. Kitten* has is integrated by default so you get your markup validated on every save and you can see validation errors in the browser (you can even have it highlight the invalid elements visually on the page) :)
"Our online spaces are not ecosystems, though tech firms love that word. They’re plantations; highly concentrated and controlled environments, closer kin to the industrial farming of the cattle feedlot or battery chicken farms that madden the creatures trapped within." https://www.noemamag.com/we-need-to-rewild-the-internet/
@lilithsaintcrow@laguiri Well, some of us are trying and it would be amazing if folks actually funded us so we could continue to exist and do our work.
If you’re working on Kitten¹ from source, please clone a fresh copy.
I just rewrote history to reduce the repository size (correctly this time, including all references from branches, tags, etc.).
The good news is that – contrary to what the Codeberg interface is currently showing the size to be (176MB) – the repository is only about 5MB now so it should only take a couple of seconds to clone.
(If you’re wondering why the repository was 176MB to begin with, it’s because I was initially deploying from the /dist folder in the repository. But since then I created a special deployment site for Kitten and now Kittens come from, well, where else but https://kittens.small-web.org.)
:kitten: 💕
PS. It takes me ~3.5 seconds to build and deploy a new version of Kitten so its common for there to be multiple new versions in a day. Run kitten update to get the latest.
"But I was very skeptical. The trailers seemed to indicate a train wreck. They were full of explosions, angry screaming guys and the taglines about war. Dune was never about war. War was in there, but it was never the point. But cinema, SciFi especially, loves special effects, and big-booms are amongst the most used. I dislike a lot of SciFi movies from the USA, as the (so called) spectacle is all there is."
I've only just discovered the #fediverse and found out #indieweb and #smallweb are what you call those cool, fun, real websites I've missed so badly.
I feel like I've just opened a door that I've only ever heard muffled crys of joy from the other side. It's completely bonkers in here. So much creativity. Am I late to the party or is it just getting started?
I think we're focused on the wrong thing when we look at what tech works for a company like Amazon or Facebook or Netflix.
We should be looking at what tech works when you don't have a small army of staff engineers optimizing it. I want to know what I can scale without paying someone a half million dollar salary to do it.
There should be more case studies on things that don't have a billion-dollar company propping them up, humming along quietly on a cheap-ass VPS somewhere.
I’ve been looking for an ngrok alternative for a while now that’s (a) affordable (b) easy to use and (c) works with Kitten¹. Today, after testing a bunch of them again and getting fed up, I found LocalXpose that checks all the boxes.
I signed Small Technology Foundation up as an affiliate so if you use this link to check it out, we’ll get 40% of your $6/mo pro account fee should you subscribe:
Exploring the benefits of blogging with and using a pseudonym online, how it still enables me to build meaningful relationships world wide with others who share similar interests.
Coming soon: it’s going to be trivial to deploy a different app on your Small Web server. Useful if you’re a dev and you’re playing around with different apps.
(Also, notice the speed at which deployment happens. I’m one step away from implementing this in Domain using pre-warmed Kitten instances – called toasty kittens – thereby bringing the time it takes to deploy your own Small Web place down to a handful of seconds.)
It now takes ~10 seconds to set up your own Small Web¹ place using Domain².
This was closer to one-minute last week.
Been working towards this for six years… That’s ~10 seconds to get up and running with your own Small Web place at your own VPS server and at your own domain name.
Can owning your own place on the Web be as simple as setting up a Facebook account? Yes. Likely simpler. And this brings us one step closer to that goal.