River of News

Daring Fireball by John Gruber

Daring Fireball is John Gruber's blog. It's one of the blogs from the early 2000s Blogsphere.

I just found out...John Gruber is the creator of Markdown.

John Gruber has a rather unique writing style.

On Daring Fireball, he quotes and shares links, while also writing his opinions.

I think this was an early form of comment, different from social media.

Bloggers commented on each other's posts using their own articles.

Then they sent linkback like trackback and pinkback to let the website owner know.

Currently, linkback have been standardized and modified to Webmention.

Trackback and pingback easily become spam.

That drawback has been fixed with Webmention.

People read Daring Fireball because they are interested in John Gruber's perspective.

John has a unique writing style that reflects his personal identity. For over 20 years, his blog has been a popular destination for those seeking John's technology commentary.

One great idea of James

James had a great idea. He interview people who love the web and chat about all things indie web. And publish one podcast per week about that interview.

Scripting News by Dave Winer

For over 30 years, since 1994, Scripting News has consistently updated its content daily, stirring up the internet every single day.

Although Dave Winer is called the father of RSS and many other pioneering technologies, I only recently noticed and knew about him.

Scripting News can be considered the oldest active blog. It's like a witness to the history of the Internet for over 30 years, from its early beginnings.

Dave is an original blogger, a first-generation blogger from the start days of blogging.

Scripting News has a simple and common layout for personal blogs. The main content is on the left, and the sidebar is on the right. The sidebar contains a blogroll, a list of blogs that Dave follows.

The main content includes blog posts, links, news, and "about." Dave writes regularly every day, following his writing rhythm. Sometimes the blog only shows the date, month, and year without a headline.

Over the past 30 years, Scripting News' interface has undergone many changes, but its two-part layout has remained largely unchanged.

Maybe Dave has changed some CMS and SSG to create the website.

However, the articles still have full HTML extensions.

He also doesn't use HTTPS, as he explains in the About page:"This blog began in 1994, long before there was HTTPS. I don't have the time to jump through hoops that Google and the EFF want to force me to jump through. Google is a guest on the web, as we all are. Guests don't make the rules. "

Scripting News is a website worth visiting and following if you enjoy learning about the history of the Web, the Indieweb, and exploring technology from the perspective of an OG blogger – the creator of many simple yet unique and beautiful.

If we were to say which website best represents the Open Web, Scripting News would be the most fitting representative.

Tiny chicken pixels by Karin

I love pixel art. NES is mythic game console in my childhood. Karin wrote a tiny post about chicken pixel art.

Adding multiple h-feeds to the same web page by James

James'blog said very much about Indieweb. In this post, he said how to add h-feeds to the website.

What is Fictionkin? by tetsuo

I just found out...what is Fictionkin? and what is "kinning"? tetsuo's website is interesting with black background and white characters

A really simple coffee mug by Dave Winer

Dave compared Really Simple Licensing or RSL to RSS. Really Simple Licensing or RSL is "an open standard that lets publishers define machine-readable licensing terms for their content, including attribution, pay per crawl, and pay per inference compensation."

How to collect Webmentions for your site

Webmention is one of four type of linkback. In my opinion, Webmention is the most important protocol of Indieweb: Microformat2, Indieauth, Websub, Microsub, micropub. Because Webmention is send notification to target website that mention in source.

ASCII Art is an art born from limitations

Part_of the post

Using only CSS to design pixel art

There are 2 ways to design pixel art:Editor and code. In this post, we will know how to use CSS to design pixel art

Hybrid ASCII Art

Very nice! I stumbled upon this article on kottke.org, a long-standing blog.

An alternative Internet on Github. Although I don't like Web3: Alternative Internet

Link: the blood of website

"Links are the lifeblood of the web, and linking to other sites is a declaration of independence. Its a declaration that says, “I am the infrastructure of the web, I am not content, nor am I a product, I am a human and a participant in this great work of humanity we call the Internet”."

"The web has a superpower: permission-less link sharing. I send you a link and as long as you have an agent, i.e. a browser (or a mere HTTP client), you can access the content at that link."

"The web made the investigative process Bush described possible by preserving trails of association. When we navigate the web via links, we are in a sense travelling through the series of connections made by someone else, not unlike reading something they wrote. This is part of what Pope’s Dunciad reveals – the shape of a medium’s form communicates its content, and the interaction between form and content is how it produces meaning. This is of course what Page and Brin recognised in implementing the PageRank algorithm. The links matter as much as the text."

"Links — connections between ideas — are the magic system of the Internet. They power the open web, enriching online writing. Generative AI is the parasitic dark magic counterpart to the link."

Reply to post:Your world, your blog

Robert Birming wrote in this post:"Don't overthink your blogging.

It's your blog, write about whatever you feel like. Your blog is not a billboard, it's a friend. And true friends can talk about anything, right?

Whatever you write about, no one else could have written it. Because you wrote it from your perspective, from your corner of the world, based on your life experiences."

Comment:"Yes, I totally agree 100%. We can write anything that we feel love. Each person has own voice, insight and perpective "

Homelab: what and why

Homelab is power user's sovereignty. We can install almost all necessary services on Homelab: authoritative DNS, router, Web, email, AI model...

The distinction between digital garden and digital world is about page and post. Both are still HTML. Page is static. And post is dynamic. Of course, not perfect. Digital world building is about organizing pages. Digital garden is different from traditional blog. Digital garden can contain ideas, notes and essays. There are 3 phases: seed, plant and evergreen.

Reply to post:Fullstack Refereeing

Quote:"This post is about me taking an analogy way too far, but I think it's useful. As a referee, you are doing several different jobs at once. A lot of advice about running games gets muddy because it never says which of those jobs it's actually trying to help with."

Comment:"Great post! I like the way you are distinct about backend and frontend. I'm curious, is the backend duplicate with the runtime?"

Reply on Bluesky

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