🚨 PSA: A new IndieWeb virtual event for Southeast Asia / Pacific time zones!

I have some exciting news to share: this event is for those living on this side of the world! 🌏

Wrote a short note about it here: https://burgeonlab.com/rsvps/2026/0715-1415/

It's my first RSVP #microformats markup post via #indiekit too! But need to work on #Hugo as some layouts broke while creating new sections.

#smallweb #personalBlog #personalsites #personalwebsite #indieweb #smolweb #blogging #bloggingcommunity

New at my blog, a review of Old Gods and Other Tales by Scott Oden!

Eleven stories spanning Sword & Sorcery, historical fantasy, and straight historical fiction. Action, overwhelming odds, and desperate last stands! Winner of the Robert E. Howard Foundation’s 2026 Costigan Award for Literary Achievement.

(As always, boosts are appreciated!)

https://robinmarx.writeas.com/review-old-gods-and-other-tales-by-scott-oden

#BookReview #Books #Bookstodon #Booksky #Fantasy #SwordAndSorcery #HistoricalFiction #Blog #SmallWeb #IndieWeb @bookstodon

Been meaning to do a proper #introduction here: My name is Matt and I've been a part of the #fediverse since 2018. I don't do #bigtech, so all my profiles are spread across #holos (my main), #pixelfed, and #lemmy. Senior #fullstackdeveloper who's pivoting into #devops, Building an #indieweb/#smallweb blog. I'm into a lot of different topics, was previously majoring in #sociology with a focus on #socialjustice.

#ally, #antifascist, #acab, #freepalestine, #privacy, #digitalsoveriegnty, #linux, #foss

what does one put on a blogroll these days?

#askfedi #smallWeb #personalwebsite

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#free #badges #NoAI #humanmade #smallweb #indie

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New blog post: "Write better commit messages"

One of the most valuable things that I was taught as a software developer, is to write “good” Git commit messages.
Obviously “good” is very subjective, so let me dive into it a bit.
I want to explain what I think a “good” message is, but also why I think it’s relevant that you write a good message.
[...]

https://schafe-sind-bessere-rasenmaeher.de/tech/write-better-commit-messages/

#Blog #BlogPost #SmallWeb #Git

For research on my small web post, what are some of y'alls favorite webrings? I know @sarajw runs one, etc. Boosts appreciated!

#webrings #SmallWeb

Petrapixel is building an Indie Web Database. “The Indie Web Database is a collection of all things indie web. For now, we have a collection of websites, webrings and cliques. The database is a project created and managed by Petrapixel (that’s me, hi!), but contributions can come from everyone. This way, the maintenance of the database is not depended on one person, but a task of the community. […]

Somehow, me working on the library section in my website tends to repeatedly lead to me having to re-label 600 books.

#personalwebsite #smallweb #books

Want an alternative to the Big Web of the Googles and the Facebooks of the world?

Support our work on the Small Web:

https://small-tech.org/fund-us

We won’t take venture capital. We don’t have corporate sponsors. We don’t take half a billion dollars a year from Google. We’re just two people working to create a simple, viable alternative that will give everyone the chance to own their own place on the web.

If you share our vision, please support us.

https://ar.al/2020/08/07/what-is-the-small-web/

💕

#SmallWeb #FundUs

Forty years of the internet: how the world changed for ever

This article is more than 16 years old
In October 1969, a student typed 'LO' on a computer - and the internet was born..

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2009/oct/23/internet-40-history-arpanet

#web #web1 #indieweb #smallweb #oldweb #retroweb #retrocomputing #olcomputers #retro #press #writers #blog #readers #fediverse #internet #archive #history #asitwasbefore

Always bogged down in the details.

#Blog #PersonalBlog #SmallWeb

https://lessthannonsense.com/posts/everything-but-the-sync

New page on #BurgeonLab

➡️ https://burgeonlab.com/junited-2026/

It's #Junited2026, where you share links to blog posts you enjoyed in the month of June.

Sharing is caring, and I love the small web / IndieWeb, so this is a lovely initiative by Robert Birming (the creator of this community event).

#blog #blogging #smallweb #smolweb #indieweb #junited #bloggers #personalsites #personalsite #personalblog #blogger

When I decided to make my own website, I designed these badges to classify my video game reviews based on accessibility.

You can find them around in my blog. They fit nicely with my forest-themed site✨
I’m very proud of the result tbh :D

#MastoArt #Blogging #AshenwaveArt #DigitalArt #Art #FediArt #SmallWeb #OriginalArt #illustration #CreativeToots

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Illustration of three badges used to classify a game based on its accessibility. There are three of them: Recommended, Perfect and Don’t Recommend. Each one of them has the form of a cut-off tree, with its rings visible and a letter (A,S and D).

Abbaye is a Static Site Generator (#SSG) for your #software releases, for those of us who can't or won't use a full-featured software forge.

Big release!

Some refactoring to make the code easier to maintain, some small bugfixes (mainly introduced by the new features :p).

But the star features of this release are:

• Artifact categories and naming: artifacts are now categorized and named consistently, making it easier to understand what each artifact is for, if you choose to do so. It is done via the new [[builder]] category, name and comment keys in the configuration file.
• Add multi-format support. It's still in the early stages but it's functional and supports HTML or Gemtext (for all my #smolweb folks out there).
• Add support for non-interactive terminals, as in the case of a CI/CD pipeline. You'll still see progress via some log messages and not be stuck on a black screen without any information! (note: this requires the use of abbaye --verbose)

Here's Abbaye's 0.8.0 page, as built with Abbaye itself: https://vit.am/~ololduck/abbaye/0.8.0/

#Rust #SmallWeb #Rustlang #StaticSiteGenerator

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view of abbaye's revamped sidebar where you can see that downloadable items now have names, categories and descriptions

Abbaye is a Static Site Generator (#SSG) for your #software releases, for those of us who can't or won't use a full-featured software forge.

This release simply fixes some minor issues and introduces #git branch/tag inclusion/exclusion when building the browsable repository as well as the https-cloneable one.

I had some work-in-progress branches on another project and wanted to publish a release for a small fix, and i saw that my work branches were still there, so… there you have it.

This release also includes an #AUR package but shhhhh! it's not 100% ready yet :D

Anyway, enjoy this release with abbaye self-update!

Here's Abbaye's 0.7.1 page, as built with Abbaye itself: https://vit.am/~ololduck/abbaye/0.7.1/

For the next release, i plan to add artifact categories so we can present artifacts in a more structured way. If you look at the "downloads" section, you'll see it's starting to be a bit crowded and unclear what does what.

#Rust #SmallWeb #Rustlang #StaticSiteGenerator

A neat idea to make a website a more social experience.

"I wanted presence, not a social network. Something lightweight and temporary. A small reminder that there are other people here too."

https://cauenapier.com/blog/townsquare/

#websites #PersonalWebsite #indieweb #SmallWeb

New blog post:

"Speeding up static site generation with BSSG"

Some fantastic new features by @stefano to his excellent bash static site generator.

https://neilzone.co.uk/2026/06/speeding-up-static-site-generation-with-bssg/

#selfhosting #smallWeb #blog

Abbaye is a Static Site Generator (SSG) for your software releases, for those of us who can't or won't use a full-featured software forge.

Phew, this version has been in the works for a while, and I'm glad to finally release it.

The big highlight of this release is a brand new repository browser that allows you to look at the code of what you would (maybe) download. That's something that was missing compared to most other software release browsers.

You can now browse:

• The availables refs (branches, tags, etc.) of the repository;
• The git history of a given ref;
• Individual commits (with collapsible diffs !);
• The code of a given ref.

Note: The code browser is only generated for branch "tips" (i.e. the latest commit on the branch) and for tags (i.e. the latest commit on the tag).

All of this still as html files without any javascript.

And with the addition of the updater in the last release, all of this is a simple abbaye self-update away!

Here's Abbaye's 0.7.0 page, as built with Abbaye itself: https://vit.am/~ololduck/abbaye/0.7.0/

#Rust #SmallWeb #Rustlang #SSG

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A screenshot showing the main repository log page showing the commit history for Abbaye

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Detailed view (with diff!) of the release commit for abbaye v0.7.0

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"refs" view detailing the branches/tags of the repository

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Viewing a file (with syntax highlighting) in the integrated file browser

Abbaye is a Static Site Generator (SSG) for your software releases, for those of us who can't or won't use a full-featured software forge.

Big usability features in this release! We got:

• parallel builder execution with some nice progress reporting (And if you use the cargo builder, building different targets _also_ is in parallel!);
• A self-update command to update abbaye to the latest version, based on Abbaye's own rss feed;
• Automatic JSON schema generation for abbaye.toml, so you can get autocompletion and type checking for your configuration;
• A markdown builder/renderer for your documentation needs.

#SmallWeb #Rust #Rustlang, #SSG

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A gif of Abbaye building its release website