Social interactions on the (open) (Indie) Web.
💬❤ Liked: Redesigning James' Coffee Blog
My blog has used the same design – except for a few changes, like adding a background image or changing spacing here and there – for the last year or two. After a conversation with a designer, I have been increasingly thinking about what I like and do not like in web design. This encouraged me to take a fresh pair of eyes to my site, and ask: how do I want my blog to feel? Like all parts of my website – from the stories I tell to the blog posts I write to the HTML on the page – the design of …
❤ Liked: I'm Online Now | benji
You may have noticed my homepage now features an image which sometimes has a basic border around it, and other times it has a blinking orange border around it. The orange border is meant to represent that I'm online now. By online now I mean that I am at my desk sitting at my computer. I'm never at my computer unless I am working on something, personal or professional, but it could also mean that I'm in a meeting or available for a chat. I've shown this to a few people before but since I had …
❤ Liked: The IndieWeb’s next stage?
I think two main groups of people are drawn to the IndieWeb: 1. technical people who want to control their web experience, and 2. people who admire the vision on the homepage: “The IndieWeb is a people-focused alternative to the “corporate web”.“ (And some are in both.) You can probably guess that I’m in the latter group 😉 Over its first decade-plus, the IndieWeb community has done a great job developing protocols and experimenting with a wide range of tools to accomplish many online activiti…
