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Elena. (she/ her)

Edit: You people are amazing! There are so many sites linked below that it will take me quite a while to get through all of them. And I will get through all of them and reply to everyone.
No one can rightully say the (small) web is dead. It is not and you all and many many more are proof of that.

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Ok, people, give me your blogs.
Your personal hobby blogs. Your e-zines. Your websites. Heck, even your wikis. (I am interested in those but have not yet wrapped my head around them.)
I am most interested in the hobby sites, made my non-professional web devs. The ones you code away at in your spare time. Preferably static, but share anyway if it's not. And if you're a pro and have a personal hobby site, share away too! The more the merrier.

Even if I already know your site, share anyway because there might be people who do not have come across it yet.

3, 2, 1, go!

To start, here's mine: https://theresmiling.eu

#personalWebsite #personalBlog #blog #blogging #personalWeb #smallWeb #indieWeb

theresmiling has a website

SunDancer Mar 6

@theresmiling https://www.warmonger.de

Post sometimes in German, sometimes in English, always using ActivityPub

Warmonger | Tabletop. Warhammer 40k, Celtos und co.

Elena. (she/ her)Mar 8

@SunDancer Cool, thanks for linking!
I love finding blogs about topics I don't know anything or only very little about. And I love clicking around and find other sites and blogs. Like your other blog, where I read your post about streaming and not streaming music. Just a couple of weeks ago I digitised my CDs that weren't yet ripped. It's like shopping your own collection. It was so much fun to re-discover those old albums.
I currently load music to my phone song by song. I may eventually do the self hosted streaming thing, but that is for some time in the future.

PurpleJillybeans

@theresmiling I have a snac instance that I use as a blog: https://blog.n8fq.org/social/jillybeans

PurpleJillybeans (@[email protected])

6 following, 33 followers · 40-something girl from Michigan, US. Small-time homelab and retrocomputing tinkerer. Casual gamer and occasional streamer. Lover of cats, chickens, flowers, and the Oxford comma. Hater of bigots, fascists, and other mean people. #nobridge

blog.n8fq.org

@PurpleJillybeans @theresmiling i've not seen snac before but it looks interesting

Elena. (she/ her)Mar 8

@PurpleJillybeans That's cool!
I don't think I've ever visited a Snac instance, though I have heard about it. Looking good!
Thanks for the link!

Stephan Max Mar 6

@theresmiling Woohoooo, what a wonderful call to action!

This is my personal site, in the middle of a redesign 😅 Tech, art, creative coding, and life: https://stephanmax.com

Stephan Max

Elena. (she/ her)Mar 8

@stephanmax That column design is very cool! 😃 I also love the variety of topics you write about.
Thank you for linking your site. I am now following your RSS.

Stephan Max Mar 8

@theresmiling Thank you for your kind words—they mean a lot; especially since I constantly question the column design and my lack in content coherence 😅 Love your “Sammelsurium” and am following you as well; yay for RSS 🎉

Elena. (she/ her)Mar 17

@stephanmax Personally I think restricting ones blog to only one topic is highly overrated. Especially if it is a personal blog. If it is something a person wants to do, fine. But we are so much more than one topic. And if one likes to write about all kinds of things, they should absolutely do it! That's the great thing about personal sites and blogs: you can do what you want!
The columns are so unique and therefore special. It's really fun scrolling through them.

Thank you for your kind words now and for subscribing! 😊

@theresmiling you know mine of course, but as requested:

https://beast.tanagra.rocks/

The beast at Tanagra

My new blog

The beast at Tanagra

Elena. (she/ her)Mar 8

@picard I do and I hope more people do now as well.
The URL is great btw.

The other day I listened to the episode "The Linguistics of Darmok" of the Strange New Worlds podcast. That was interesting. Maybe you'll find it interesting, too. Or maybe you've already listened to it. 😅
https://soundcloud.com/strange-new-worlds/episode-193-the-linguistics-of-darmok?utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing

Episode 193: The Linguistics of "Darmok"

Guest: Dr. Kristina Šekrst Philosopher, linguist, and AI researcher Kristina Šekrst beams aboard to discuss the TNG episode "Darmok," where Picard and crew encounter the Tamarians, a species who onl

SoundCloud

@theresmiling i hadn't but i have now! very interesting episode. actually i think you mentioned the podcast but i'd forgotten about it, so added it to my feed as well. that was a very good episode.

Elena. (she/ her)Mar 17

@picard I think the podcast is on my links page. And I probably have mentioned in here too. Just this week I listened to the episodes about Discovery seasons 3 and 4, where Mike talks about biology related things in the episodes. Made me want to re-watch Disco.

Ambient Sponge Mar 6

@theresmiling I only update this for two months every year for obvious reasons, but here's my project I've been doing for 12 years now.

https://christmaswrapping.wordpress.com

Christmas Wrapping

I watch Christmas movies as a warning to others...

Christmas Wrapping

Elena. (she/ her)Mar 8

@retrosponge This is great! I love it. I've subscribed.
And I don't even particularly like Christmas, let alone Christmas movies. But I do appreciate a blog like this very much.

Ambient Sponge Mar 8

@theresmiling Thank you❤️

It started out as me writing little bullet point reviews on a different blog I used to run and then after about the third year I decided to turn it into its own thing. (The other blog has been dead for years now.)

I really enjoy doing it every year. Even when some of the movies are absolutely dreadful.😂

The fact I was able to do it this past Christmas while I was in the middle of moving house, I was quite impressed with myself.

I greatly appreciate your comments!

Elena. (she/ her)Mar 16

@retrosponge Oh goodness I bet some of those films are awful! LOL

Lesley Lai Mar 6

@theresmiling My personal site is at https://lesleylai.info/ . I also have a separate note/digital garden thing at https://notes.lesleylai.info/

Lesley Lai

Personal website of Lesley Lai, featuring a blog, public notes, and a portfolio of personal projects

Elena. (she/ her)Mar 8

@lesley Thank you for linking your sites!
I like the graph paper background and your very clean design. Unfortunately I do not know or understand anything about the topics you write about. I love when that happens, when I find blogs where I can "only" "understand" the design, but not the words. I love the web!
I also love that you have both English and Chinese versions. The more bi- or multi-lingual sites I encounter the more I catch myself wondering if I want to write more in my own language as well.

A collection of small and partially eccentric static site generators might be of interest in this regard.

https://codeberg.org/thgie/awesome-small-web-publishing

awesome-small-web-publishing

A curated list of awesome small web publishing tools and frameworks.

Codeberg.org

Elena. (she/ her)Mar 7

@thgie Thanks for the link! This looks like a great resource.
I code my site by hand, so most of the links are not super interesting to me, but some of the articles at the bottom are. 😃 Thanks!

💙🩷💜Brett🐡🍉🐧Mar 6

@[email protected] coiloptic.org

Elena. (she/ her)Mar 8

@[email protected] Thank you! I enjoyed clicking my way through your site and read about Fu style. Fascinating topic!
I also very much enjoy your simple design. It just looks great and calm.

💙🩷💜Brett🐡🍉🐧Mar 8

Thanks! It does need a bit of an update, eg I made the font size too big and never got round to altering 🙂

Elena. (she/ her)Mar 17

@[email protected] I like the big font size. It's so easy to read that way. But don't listen to me! You should do what you like. 😉

tranarchy_punk_nonbinary_wartime

@theresmiling nice website!

neocat_floof_happy

mine is at https://getimiskon.xyz, if you want to check it out

neocat_floof__w_

gettie's space

Elena. (she/ her)Mar 8

@[email protected] Thank you! 💜
I want to check out all the sites. 😅 I like the purple you chose, and the cat is cute too! Keep it up!

tranarchy_punk_nonbinary_wartime

@theresmiling thank you

neocat_floof__w_

Ton Zijlstra Mar 6

@theresmiling my (wordpress) blog is at https://www.zylstra.org/blog
I follow a long list of personal blogs, you can get the entire list (in human and machine readable form) at https://zylstra.org/opml/tonzylstra.opml

Interdependent Thoughts – by Ton Zĳlstra

Elena. (she/ her)Mar 9

@ton Thank you for taking part in this call.
I enjoy clicking through your blog and discovering all the interesting posts that are hidden everywhere. I particularly like the first day at school photos of your daughter. What a great collection this will be when it's finished!
The human and machine readable blog roll is cool too! I'm bookmarking it to rummage through it at a later date.

Eduardo "Corujo" Silva Mar 6

@theresmiling my little blog that I started but again let it silde because life happens and I forget about it

https://corujo.com.br/

Corujo.com.br

Elena. (she/ her)Mar 9

@corujosilva I LOVE that you write in Portugese and not in English! I do not understand a lot, only a few words and phrases (what I do understand comes from my limited knowledge of Italian), which of course is a bit sad because I do want to understand everything. But what I love about it is that not everything has to be English.

Is blogging something you'd like to get into again? Or is it something that was nice to try but you don't really want to continue?

Eduardo "Corujo" Silva Mar 9

@theresmiling you know when we start some parallel/extra activity but something happens that prevents you temporarily, but that "temporarily" becomes a long/indefinite tem

oh, and I'm not a great writer and such, but at least in Portuguese I write _better_

Elena. (she/ her)Mar 21

@corujosilva Oh, I absolutely know what you mean! 😅

Khleedril Mar 6

@theresmiling Your blog is very nice. Mine is at https://khleedril.org/blog and my latest post is much ado about Star Trek!

Dale Mellorʼs Blog

Dale Mellorʼs blog; maths and science and life in general.

Elena. (she/ her)Mar 9

@khleedril Thank you! 😃
Oooh, a Trek article! Yay!
Some years ago I was talking to a co-worker about re-watching Trek (I had just started to re-watch TNG and DS9 at the time). He asked me if that wasn't a bit backwards of me to do so. He thought I should only watch new shows. I was like What are you talking about? Because re-watching something after a decade or more can give so much new insight, you recognise things you didn't before. You are older and therefore understand many things differently now. That's enlightening! Also, dammit, it's Star Trek, my favourite show and I'm going to watch and re-watch it all until the day I die.

@theresmiling Sure: blog.k3can.us

Can I ask why? Are you just looking for something to read, or design ideas and inspiration for your own site, or something else entirely?

It might encourage more people to share if they know that you're not just looking to scrape their content or something.

Elena. (she/ her)Mar 6

@me Sure. I am a member of the small web community. I enjoy coding my own site, I enjoy blogging. I also enjoy seeing what other people do and have to say.
I do not scrape anything, I am a human who has a website as a hobby. Sure, other websites can inspire me to write a blog post or add a page to my site. But I am not interested in copying or stealing.

@theresmiling Sounds good! Feel free to give feedback, too. I'm always interested in ways to improve.

Elena. (she/ her)Mar 10

@me I cannot tell you if there is anything you can improve. But I do like the green background and your buttons. I also enjoy the simple design with the two colums.

@theresmiling my blog has hundreds of pages of book, web, film, & TV excerpts as RPG/writing inspiration. Also personal fiction. Recently started blogging original content, too.
https://xenograg.com/?ref=mastodon

I am/was a PHP developer, and customized this WordPress installation. “Other Excerpts From This Source,” for example.

Elena. (she/ her)Mar 10

@Xenograg Wow, what a site! And it goes back to 1997, too. That's amazing! Thank you for taking part.

It’s not mine, but this is a search engine that is developed in maintained by one individual. Specializes in finding the small unknown hobby sites on the web.

https://marginalia-search.com/

Marginalia Search

Marginalia Search is a small independent do-it-yourself search engine for surprising but content-rich websites that never ask you to accept cookies or subscribe to newsletters. The goal is to bring you the sort of grass fed, free range HTML your grandma used to write.

Marginalia Search

Elena. (she/ her)Mar 10

@Da_Gut That's cool! Is bookmarked. Thanks for the link.

Dr Alice Violett Mar 6

@theresmiling https://www.draliceviolett.com mostly book reviews, but also mostly round-ups and a random short story.

Dr Alice Violett

Thoughtful book reviews

Elena. (she/ her)Mar 10

@alicemcalicepants A classic book blog away from Goodreads and similar sites, is something nice! Thank you for taking part!

Dr Alice Violett Mar 10

@theresmiling
I have a blog that I started to collect stories and information about family for my grandchildren. I also post random thoughts, and I'm trying to find time to post about my hobbies/crafts, if I ever get time in between knitting projects, and coding the blog, and reading, and researching.
It's all handcoded, with a little sprinkle of php, and some "borrowed and modified" css
It's https://lynfox.au
#genealogy #familyhistory #indieweb #knitting #fiberarts

Home

Elena. (she/ her)Mar 10

@lynfox This is such a beautiful site! I really like that you collect your family's stories for your grandchildren. They will treasure it I am sure.

flaggenderfluid

@theresmiling https://vavakado.xyz :)

vavakado's home

hiii, i'm Vladimir

Elena. (she/ her)Mar 10

@vavakado Thank you for linking your site. I like the colours you chose.
I really liked your post about connecting through pain. You're absolutely right! I'm glad you have these friends.

Jake in the desert Mar 6

@theresmiling hi there! Okay, I have two I regularly do. A main one that's kinda general (https://spacetimetech.wordpress.com) and one on cartoons (https://animatedtvblog.wordpress.com).

space • time • tech

space • time • tech

Elena. (she/ her)Mar 10

@jake4480 Hello! I love your little love letter to HTML on your blog. I subscribed.
I totally like your cartoon blog as well. I love such blogs. It's always so lovely to see what peoples' passions are and with how much love they write about them.

Jake in the desert Mar 10

@theresmiling aww thank you so much!! This is so nice to get today, when I'm having such a weird week 😂

Elena. (she/ her)Mar 11

@jake4480 I'm glad I could make your week a tiny bit better. Which makes my stupid week better in turn. 😊

@theresmiling Sure, why not. That retro gaming blog that was so much fun to code but I've since been seriously slacking off on updating.
https://jmc.nekoweb.org/

Johnny's Memory Card

Elena. (she/ her)Mar 11

@[email protected] Sometimes that happens, doesn't it. We make something and when it's done and working we lose interest a little, or a lot. But hey, the site is there and you can always come back to it if you like.
In any case, thanks for sharing!

@theresmiling this is mine: https://ttntm.me

and this is a directory of many others that I started 2 years ago: https://bukmark.club

have fun exploring :)

Homepage

Tom's homepage. A personal website, journal and playground.

Tom's Homepage

Elena. (she/ her)Mar 11

@ttntm I have heard about Bukmark, and have probably bookmarked it (I'm not at my home computer so I can't check), but I still have to take a closer look. Thanks for reminding me!
Maybe I'll apply to be listed too. I have never done that with any such directory.
Thank you for also sharing your site. I really enjoy these clean designs with a mono space font.

@theresmiling thanks for checking it out :)

I checked and just saw that your site's already listed in the directory. Seems like I stumbled upon it about a year ago: https://github.com/ttntm/bukmark.club/commit/5f5820010fd23d958ba7e0010ac2a0ec56acf15b
It's in a good neighborhood, so I hope that's ok. If not, just let me know, and I'll take care of it.

+261-272 · ttntm/bukmark.club@5f58200

A directory of websites from across the Internet. To be eligible for a listing in this directory, a website must have a curated collection of bookmarks/links to other websites. - +261-272 · ttntm/bukmark.club@5f58200

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