I have an obnoxious problem with crawlers eating bandwidth on my personal web site—not just the fact that crawlers consume so much bandwidth, but rather a behaviour that is absolutely next-level. And I think it's something that precludes the use of caching, but there are probably many of you with more knowledge than I have and who may know what can be done

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#IndieWeb #WebDev #PersonalSite

Things I want to do with my website (part 1): https://taonaw.com/2026/04/23/things-i-want-to-do.html

I want to do more with my website. I play 2 plus hours of Linux games daily, but blog about them once a month, maybe. Why? Because one game deserves 5 posts, not a paragraph. I kind of have a solution, just not the time. A familiar pattern, I know

#blogging #website #indieweb #games #gaming

@brine Visually very pleasing web app. It is fun to read stuff on you page. Would you consider also publishing the feed list as OPML?

Asking because I try to solve the discover problem on the RSS / OPML side for feed readers with https://lwindolf.github.io/rss-feed-index/ and I'm looking for #indieweb sites publishing OPML sources.

My best take on blog discovery...

https://discover.brine.dev

discover is a hand-curated list of RSS feeds worth following. Writers, makers, and thinkers who actually share their work via RSS.

Browse by playlist or tag, preview posts before you subscribe, then take what you want. Copy individual feed URLs or build a custom list in My Feed and export as OPML.

100% free. No accounts, no ads, no trackers. Your follows stay in your browser.

#IndieWeb #RSS #OpenWeb #Blogging #Discovery

@sharpblue Something positive came out of it, at least. :) Glad you enjoyed the website. There are lots more like it out there; check out the #indieweb hashtag here on Mastodon or Kagi's smallweb search. blogroll.org is great for blog discovery too.

Hey so if you're the kind of person who cares about this kind of thing, Bubbles.town's labeling is being done with AI, which I suspect means that it's been fed your blogs regardless of what your robots.txt/ai.txt says

I was really excited about this project until I learned this. The site does not disclose that AI was used, I had to go digging through the dev's replies to find this. It's really disappointing to see for something purporting to be for the indie web

#IndieWeb #Blogging #Blog

One of the hard things about speaking more than one language is keeping up with stuff that happens in each.

For instance, not only is there a wonderful feed of English-language #indieweb blog posts on https://bubbles.town/, but there's also a German-language feed on https://bubbles.town/de/!

OMG. How do I keep up??? This is both Fluch und Segen zugleich.

"Unplatform is an interactive guidebook, online library, and recommendations database intended to help you escape social media and join the indie web

And with a big database!

https://unplatform.fromthesuperhighway.com/
#database #oldweb #indieweb #usefulweb

Bloggers of Scotland

Kanadskí politici naďalej predstierajú, že ich nevydierajú. Pomôže tento najnovší policajný nábor Toronta podviesť Kanadu? https://jungyulkim.com/free-press/sk/articles/kanadskí-politici-pokrčia,-pretože-korupcia-sa-ujíma-hlavného-mesta.html #News #Art #Canada #NewYork #Toronto #Mafia #Crime #Indieweb #Headlines

About writing other bloggers Email: https://taonaw.com/2026/04/22/about-writing-other-bloggers-email.html

Writing emails to each other as bloggers is good.

#indieweb #posse #blog #blogging #email

System lag and database timeouts with background script executors

I was able to join tonight's Homebrew Website Club and my eldest made sure to say hi too. But I also showed one of my very offline projects: my own #IndieWeb cross-stitch banner 🪡😁

PS.: there's an #IndieWebCamp this weekend ahead of https://beyondtellerrand.com

https://events.indieweb.org/2026/04/-indiewebcamp-d%C3%BCsseldorf-ewHCZehNA3gg

I was able to join tonight's Homebrew Website Club and my eldest made sure to say hi too. But I also showed one of my very offline projects: my own #IndieWeb cross-stitch banner 🪡😁

PS.: there's an IndieWebCamp this weekend ahead of @beyondtellerrand.com@bsky.brid.gy events.indieweb.org/2026/04/-ind...

V súčasnej dobe špinavšie ako gestapo, môže Torontská polícia obnoviť svoj obraz náborom senzačný nový Maskot? https://jungyulkim.com/free-press/sk/articles/kanadská-demokracia-v-ohrození,-zatiaľ-čo-toronto-davy-vládnu.html #News #Art #Canada #NewYork #Toronto #Mob #Crime #Indieweb #Headlines

Update on only-eu.eu.

130+ European products. 33 categories. Available in German and English. Hosted on Bunny.net (EU CDN). Analytics via self-hosted Plausible (no Google).

No sponsored placements. 12 products have affiliate links. The other 118+ link directly to the product page. That is the entire business model.

If you know a European product we are missing, reply or open a suggestion on the site.

https://only-eu.eu

#OnlyEU #BuildInPublic #EUAlternatives #IndieWeb

Bubbles mostly seems to be a place to vote for blog posts about Bubbles. (I kid, of course. It looks nice and I’ve bookmarked it.)



#Indieweb

Today's Write Now interview features Gideon Sterer, author of THE UNDERWEARWOLF.
https://justincox.com/blog/2026/04/write-now-with-gideon-sterer/
#IndieWeb #Blogging #Interview

Update on only-eu.eu.

130+ European products. 33 categories. Available in German and English. Hosted on Bunny.net (EU CDN). Analytics via self-hosted Plausible (no Google).

No sponsored placements. 12 products have affiliate links. The other 118+ link directly to the product page. That is the entire business model.

If you know a European product we are missing, reply or open a suggestion on the site.

https://only-eu.eu

#OnlyEU #BuildInPublic #EUAlternatives #IndieWeb