Finally finished my post about the #IndieWebCamp Düsseldorf 2026. I had such a great time there.

https://bjoern.stierand.org/events/indiewebcamp-duesseldorf-2026/

Already looking forward to IWC Nürnberg, still got some ideas on my todo list. #indieweb
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✍️ New post: Buckle Up

I recently added a “Failed Webmentions” view to my Craft CMS #Webmention plugin. Opened it before #IndieWebCamp Düsseldorf and found line after line of automated probing. Just shipped v1.3.0 to deal with it and wrote a bit about it:

https://matthiasott.com/notes/buckle-up

Buckle Up · Matthias Ott

Web design engineer, UX designer, teacher, and speaker – helping teams build websites and digital products with a focus on CSS, accessibility, and performance.

Matthias Ott – Web Design Engineer

I enjoyed reading James' post on the Indiewebcamp in Düsseldorf: https://jamesg.blog/2026/04/30/indiewebcamp-dusseldorf-2026

I also highly recommend checking the linked meeting notes on the wiki for website ideas: lots of interesting notions about what to put on your homepage, private posts etc. Seems like it was a great meetup.

#indieweb #IndiewebCamp #postroll

IndieWebCamp Düsseldorf 2026 - James' Coffee Blog

"web joy" — the joy you experience when visiting a website with joyful content and/or have a joyful experience (as a user) on a website, or the joy of creating such a website.

During the beyond tellerand conference this past week, someone mentioned “responsive web design” and having just completed IndieWebCamp Düsseldorf, the thought popped in my head that joyful web design should be a named thing, since many of us spent the weekend at IndieWebCamp doing just that.

I mentioned it to @jamesg.blog at a break between talks, we discussed it a bit and agreed that joy is a good motivator, and as creatives we both like creating things that are joyful to experience, and ideally joyful to create.

James blogged it before I got around to it: https://jamesg.blog/2026/05/01/joyful-web-design

That and a zoom chat today was inspiration to name that specific joyful experience “web joy”.

It’s a nod to “moon joy”, a mere weeks old phrase many have heard and been inspired by, coined by Mission Control science officer Angela Garcia, and transmitted (spoken) by CAPCOM on shift, Jacki Mahaffey, in reply to the Artemis II astronauts on mission (as noted in a NASA AMA: https://www.reddit.com/r/nasa/comments/1stjt7m/comment/ohw9g9l/). You can hear the “Copy, moon joy.” expression in context at the start of this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHUvedAssyE

Much thanks to James for his encouragement to blog “web joy”.

#webjoy #btConf #beyondTellerrand #webDesign #IndieWebCamp #indieweb
James' Coffee Blog

#BurgeonLab #WeekNotes 025 is out (not as late as last week)!
2026: Week 17/52 (Apr 20 – Apr 26)

➡️ https://burgeonlab.com/weeknotes/2026/w17/

Some site updates, adding a #webmention digest section, streamlined link roundup creation and a sneak peek at my remote #indiewebcamp participation!

This is post 35 of #100DaysToOffload
📈 https://burgeonlab.com/tags/100daystooffload/

#blogging #blogs #smallweb #indieweb #weeknote #personalBlog #weeklynote #linkdump #blog #indieweb #frontenddevelopment #frontend

Weeknote 2026-W17: My First IndieWebCamp & Link Roundup

Inspired by IndieWebCamp, discovered loads of cool people and their websites. Site changes and added webmention digest section, and the usual link roundup.

BurgeonLab
New #WeekNotes: Athens, Brussels, Düsseldorf — and a little bit of open source in between.
https://wersdoerfer.de/blogs/ephes_blog/weeknotes-2026-04-27-athens-brussels-d%C3%BCsseldorf/ #indiewebcamp
Weeknotes 2026-04-27 — Athens, Brussels, Düsseldorf

Bit of a travel-heavy week. I flew back from Athens on Monday after DjangoCon Europe, then was off again on Tuesday morning—this time on the train to Brussels for a few days on-site. Spent the rest of the working week there, which was no hardship: the food was excellent, the beer was better, and the weather actually cooperated for once. Got home Friday evening, and the weekend wasn't exactly quiet either: Saturday and Sunday I was at IndieWebCamp Düsseldorf, which traditionally piggybacks on beyond tellerrand—usually the weekend right before or right after. This year it was right before. Really nice to see that crowd again. Open Source Despite all the travel, I managed to ship a few small things: Brought my django-indieweb package back into shape. It was overdue for some attention and IndieWebCamp was the perfect excuse. Cut a new release of django-cast. Fixed an issue in kptncook and pushed a new release while I was at it. And because I clearly don't have enough side projects, I also started a small benchmark repo for local LLMs. The main question I'm after: which backend is actually faster (or slower) on which hardware? Primary focus is Apple Silicon, but I'm also curious about smaller GPUs you can pick up cheaply. Very early days—but local models are getting noticeably better and more interesting at the moment, and it feels worth tracking properly.

@dletorey Lovely demo today of the changes on your site! I look forward to seeing your implementation of masonry grid layout. There's this experimental CSS for it but I don't think it is usable yet as no browser supports it: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/Guides/Grid_layout/Masonry_layout

I personally use a CSS-only carousel on my photo section... maybe it would be nice to offer a masonry / grid view?

I'll be keeping an eye on your site ;) Thanks again for sharing at #indiewebcamp, Dave! PS I like the blog post about the event too.

Masonry layout - CSS | MDN

Level 3 of the CSS grid layout specification defines masonry layout (also known as grid-lanes layout), which is accessed via the display values grid-lanes and inline-grid-lanes. This guide details what masonry layout is and how to use it.

MDN Web Docs

It's a wrap! https://aprilscable.neocities.org/nes2

As a remote participant, showcased the page at the DEMO station at IndieWeb Camp Düsseldorf 2026. It was Create Day today! Many showcased websites were really beautiful and inspiring. Vielan Danke!
@jamesg.blog
@eclecticpassions @Bearina
@tantek.com
@bjoern
@jkphl
@etp
@paultibbetts
@dshanske
@dletorey

#blog #indieweb #indiewebcamp #nes #css #retro #sunday #weekend

NES.css

NES-style CSS Framework | ファミコン風CSSフレームワーク

It's the final stretch of Day 2 (Create Day) of the 2-day #indiewebcamp. It's been inspiring to see such a creative and skilled bunch of individuals all passionate about websites. I'm honoured and grateful to be part of it! There will be a demo/show-and-tell session soon where everyone will share what they worked on today. Can't wait! 👍

Event page: https://events.indieweb.org/2026/04/-indiewebcamp-d%c3%bcsseldorf-ewHCZehNA3gg

#indiewebcampdus #indieweb #webdev #personalsite #PersonalSites #personalBlog #blogger #SmallWeb #createday #IWC #smolweb

🎪 IndieWebCamp Düsseldorf

Fixed Webmentions display and rendering on my website. I even added cute little overlay icons to differentiate the different types of webmentions.

And, well, I reconfigured my Docker infrastructure to properly support IPv6 on the way.  Don't ask why, but this works as well now. ;)

See it in action on https://bjoern.stierand.org/notes/socialmedia - scroll to the bottom of the page.

#indiewebcamp #indieweb
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