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Weird incident yesterday with self-proclaimed “AIs” joining an IndieWeb Homebrew Website Club meetup. They awkwardly edited the Etherpad, and apparently blanked/deleted chunks of content.

The meeting hosts reacted quickly to change Etherpad and Zooms and not re-admit the aliases that had claimed to be “AIs”.

Now we have an “AI policy” page on the wiki where we are documenting examples of the AI policies of:
* individual personal websites
* community efforts like blogging challenges (e.g. Blaugust)
* contributions to the IndieWeb wiki
* participants in IndieWeb meetups

https://indieweb.org/AI_policy

Do you have an AI policy on your website? Add yourself to the IndieWeb Examples section.

Does your community have an AI policy? Add it to the Community Examples section.

Incident documentation of what happened at that particular meetup:
* https://indieweb.org/events/2026-08-05-hwc-asia-pacific-incident

This is post 12 of #100PostsOfIndieWeb. #100Posts #IndieWeb
#AI #AIs #LLM #LLMs #HomebrewWebsiteClub #HWC #AIpolicy
#Blaugust #Blaugust2026

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Weird incident yesterday with self-proclaimed “AIs” joining an IndieWeb Homebrew Website Club meetup. They awkwardly edited the Etherpad, and apparently blanked/deleted chunks of content. The meeting hosts reacted quickly to change Etherpad and Zooms and not re-admit the aliases that had […]

I was on James' Wonders of Web Weaving Podcast and enjoyed the coversation about Fractal Kitty, #CarnivalofMath, #indieweb, and math:

https://web-weaving.jamesg.blog/13

📝 New Post: Winter is here

What I've been up to in July.

🔥 https://flamedfury.com/posts/winter-is-here/

#Indieweb #Smallweb #Personalweb #Blogging #Lifeonweb

Tinkering around a bit the the CSS. I think thos day theme looks a bit better. It was all too blue before and too much glossy. Also changed the 20x20px smileys for 40x40px ones.

#blog #status #personalweb #personalwebsite #indieweb #web #webdev #webdesign #WencesByte

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Another good read: The Hardcore Indieweb. #indieweb https://www.neatnik.net/hardcore-indieweb

hooray! i finally posted v1.2.0 of the kiki homepage construction set. this includes a new feature that allows for Podcasting RSS feed support, which you can see in action at cd-rom.ca

https://tomotama.itch.io/kiki

thank you kiki sysops for keeping this tiny web alive with your experiments and feats. i haven't had to touch wordpress in two years and counting thanks to you 🙏

#kiki #smallweb #indieWeb #php

paperboat.website now has a new Create Post screen which lets you write new posts much quicker. I feel like this should have been there from the start but sometimes it takes some time and distance to really see where the points of friction are. #webdev #indieweb #smallweb #blogging

The post that stays

A blog's front page is the only page that's a statement. Everything else is chronology doing its job. So pinned: true in a published post's header now holds a copy of it at the top of the first listing page. That's the whole feature, and the…

https://blogsh.app/posts/2026/the-post-that-stays/

#blogsh #Ruby #JavaScript #IndieWeb #SelfHosted

I think once you have some people you like and admire signed up, and you see how easy and fun it is to applaud them for making the stuff they’re already making, subscribing will be an easy decision.

Slowclap is for the #indieweb, for niche communities to support each other. It’s designed so it can be easy, fun, and affordable make it more lucrative to build great stuff in public than it is to release ad infested slop.

I don’t want anyone spending a dime until they know it’s not being wasted!

I had missed that mastodon.cloud is shutting down. While its active user base has been shrinking, it still has a lot of total users and millions of posts. There’s still no way to migrate posts between Mastodon servers. (Mastodon posts → Micro.blog and some other fediverse servers works.)

Has Linux actually captured 10% of the desktop marketshare? Probably not, but that doesn't mean that adoption isn't growing.

https://hisvirusness.com/the-year-is-here

#linux #marketshare #steam #steamos #steamdeck #steammachine #proton #valve #opensource #foss #writing #opinion #indieweb #smallweb

I love bumping into super-old websites that just keep running.

Case in point:

https://www.ryanbrill.com/

#web #openweb #indieweb

“Treat the agent as an operator of primitives you understand and could fall back to, not as a replacement for understanding them. Keep the formats open and the exit cheap”

Thoughtful post by @simoncarstensen

Can you be indie with an LLM?
https://simonbc.com/can-you-be-indie-with-an-llm

#indieweb #AI

Just discovered that my HTML experimenting broke my newsletter form, so if you followed via email in the past 24 hours, you were never subscribed, so go here to follow me via email. https://newsletter.sightlessscribbles.com/ #WebDev #Email #Newsletter #IndieWeb

How I make my blog posts more resilient https://michaelharley.net/posts/2026/08/05/how-i-make-my-blog-posts-more-resilient/ #Blaugust #Blaugust2026 #Blogging #IndieWeb

How I make my blog posts more resilient

I imported a bunch of old posts from 2012-2019 and here are some lessons learned about post resilience.

https://michaelharley.net/posts/2026/08/05/how-i-make-my-blog-posts-more-resilient/

#Blaugust #Blaugust2026 #Blogging #IndieWeb

Small data point from running AI heavily:

Claude Max + ChatGPT Pro at €213/mo is returning roughly 27.5x in API-equivalent value for me.

Not because I chat more, but because I treat it as infrastructure for planning, coding, ops, writing, and debugging.

#IndieDev #MacApps #LocalFirst #IndieWeb

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Marre du web actuel gouverné par les GAFAM ? Le web bricolé et kitsch vous manque ? Et si c’était possible d’avoir à nouveau un blog perso ? Quelques réflexions et pistes d’actions. #indieweb justin.missaghiehponcet.eu/palimpseste/...