The world is a lot right now, so I built dumb little web toys to make you smile. Find out what your houseplant named itself. Get a compliment from a very specific person. Generate corporate excuses so jargon-filled they're meaningless. joy.stackandsignal.com #SmallJoys #IndieWeb #JustForFun

I've been watching lots of Downton Abbey... Lord Grantham's morning paper reading made me think of how nicely laid out newspapers are. I'm playing around with multi-column layouts and date filters on a personal #RSS aggregator. I'm liking the UX so far!

We see a lot of discourse about the state of the web, stemming from the fact that we have built a digital infrastructure hostile to meaningful human development, resulting in alienation. But what do we do about it? enocc.com/2025/12/19/i...

I've written about the year 2025 for powRSS. It's a summary of the stats, milestones, costs, and history of this #indieweb project you have all helped me build. enocc.com/2025/12/14/p... #rss #blogs

Quitting Spotify? Awesome! Just don't feel like you have to fill the hole with another streaming service. stephvee.ca/blog/enterta... #blog #blogging #indieweb #spotify #fuckspotify

The next book on lettrss will be A Christmas Carol. We will start reading tomorrow! Follow along via your #RSS reader. lettrss.com

Lo bueno de que ya sea diciembre es que me la pasaré viendo películas y series de Navidad todo este mes 🎄💜

Identifying how each of us inhabits cyberspace is the key to setting boundaries, managing expectations, and maintaining a good balance between the physical and digital world. enocc.com/2025/12/01/p...

« Les blogs de niche pourraient-ils sauver le web ? Face à l’IA et aux réseaux sociaux, et si on redécouvrait des contenus pointus, écrits par des passionnés, sans pubs intrusives ? 1 retour aux sources, mais en mieux ? #Blogging #IndieWeb #SmallWeb disassociated.com/personal-blo...

YES! Please bring back personal websites I'd LOVE to read all your writing there.

It's a myth that good ideas beat out bad ones in a capitalist market. In reality the sunk-cost fallacy means tons of bad ideas survive due to the pouring of more money into originally bad investments. That's how we get AI everywhere.

Naming blogs is a lost art form. You talk about what you're reading at The Blorbo Review? Sign me up. You review corn at Corn Corner? Hell yeah. Star Wars analysis at The High Ground? You know it.

I'm excited to announce that I'm the latest interview on Manu's People and Blogs today! manuelmoreale.com/interview/ka... I've been reading these interviews for over a year now and I'm honored to be asked to participate. I hope whoever comes to visit likes my little wee corner of the web.

This past weekend I saw a disheartening amount of shops using the "no more pennies" excuse to completely reject cash payments...

It was so nice to see this post about my projects from John Lampard. Thank you so much!! disassociated.com/read-chapter...

I'm going to soft launch buroak.club and stop trying to put coats of paint on it or it will take forever to be "ready". BurOak Club is a #webring for south-east #Michigan. Contribute your personal site. Hoping for an official launch later in the year. Re-wild the internet. #indieweb

Since I quit most social media, I've been wanting to create a website from scratch, but I never got to finish it. I recently stumbled upon the #smallweb or #indieweb movement, and it felt like finding my people! The web feels exciting again!

Read books in the public domain via #RSS feed with lettrss. Walkthrough in <1 minute: www.youtube.com/watch?v=FIGO...

Pro Tip: If you use Safari, you can select File > Add to Dock to read powRSS from your desktop.

need to kill the recurring thought of "no I can't replay/reread that, I have other stuff to check out" no. I am a poor little peasant living just after the advent of the printing press. I have five books at most and I will reread them so much they will know the death of the author was caused by me

Reminder: A lot of great books published this year during absolutely bonkers news & world event times. That squashes people talking about them. Keep buying books please, keep borrowing them from libraries, and for the love of all that's good, talk about them. Post about them. 📚

#powRSS now shows categories for all blogs!

You shouldn’t feel guilty about removing feeds from your RSS readers. It’s not a personal failure, it’s an allocation of resources like time and attention. enocc.com/2025/11/12/r...

I’m starting The Wonderful Wizard of Oz tomorrow 😁 I’ll be reading it from my #RSS reader via Lettrss, a project I built to syndicate public domain #books via RSS. lettrss.com

If you sent me one chapter a day of a book to my RSS reader, I'm sure I'd read it all. I'll be putting this to the test with Lettrss, a project I built to syndicate public domain books via RSS. Since Wicked is coming out soon, I'm starting with The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. lettrss.com #RSS

In this blog post I write a response to a surprising analogy I read in an essay by an American professor of philosophy. He compares women to AI to claim artists have no legitimate complaint if an AI trains on their work. enocc.com/ai/2025/11/0... #AI #Blogs #Philosophy

"An encouraging aspect of having a blog is also being read by others [...] Perhaps you wrote an awesome essay on your favorite topic back in 2022. How can I or anyone else stumble upon your work?" #rss #blogs #writing enocc.com/2025/11/05/h...

I've made a video walkthrough of how powRSS can help you discover the Indieweb. www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSd7... #RSS #Indieweb

Three posts I came across that talk about blogs, note taking, and hoarding quotes, links, bookmarks, etc. enocc.com/2025/11/04/o...

My blog has been added to @cspe.bsky.social's RSS feed aggregator! powrss.com

in the firmament github documentation i have these images showcasing each theme + colour palette. you think i used photoshop to make these? you think i used indesign? nope. it's html. it's all html that i took screenshots of. i keep making single-use websites for mockups and no-one can stop me

This 2005 design book is a relic of 2000s web design.

A little theme in my photos of Dubrovnik has become portals: views within views. Enjoy!

Sharing some of the interesting links I came across this week. enocc.com/2025/10/30/w...

Investing in #RSS "The act of spending that time in those feeds still feels like a very deliberate, intentional act. Curating a set of feeds I find interesting and making the time to read them feels like an investment in myself." via timkadlec.com/remembers/20...

You got a modern #indieweb blogroll in powRSS. powrss.com

It’s freeing to think about returning to a site built in Notepad as a more direct expression. Jarrett Fuller unpacks simple tools in this essay. interfacecafe.com/read-this-ja... #WebDesign #IndieWeb #Simplicity

@cassidoo.co writes: "I’ve been thinking a lot about the internet lately, like as a concept. I don’t know where everyone went... When the algorithms are determining everything we should be seeing, it’s a much less personal internet" In response I made powrss.com to rediscover the personal web.

"I find myself wondering if social media —precisely the thing we need to collectively push to meaningfully change— isn't purpose-built to prevent us from banding together collectively for meaningful change." from "view from the present" blog on collective action: viewfromthepresent.com/2025-10-29

It is now easier than ever to discover new #blogs across the #indieweb with the #powRSS Blogs section. 36 new blogs were added in the past week. Welcome :-)

The best parts of the internet were never viral, they were personal. If you have a blog please consider adding it to powRSS to make those corners visible again. #blogs #writers #rss powrss.com

It seems so rude and careless to make me, a person with thoughts, ideas, humor, contradictions and life experience to read something spit out by the equivalent of a lexical bingo machine because you were too lazy to write it yourself. #blogs #AI #writing enocc.com/ai/2025/10/2...

Last week on #powRSS The Blogging Years a Rumination by Darice. "I followed tons of personal blogs, people who wrote about regular life stuff, music, books, the web. I blogged too back then, I have like 500 old posts set on private... The blog years were awesome, I still miss the old internet."

Yes please 🙏

There's a few of us (currently 200+ blogs indexed) over on powRSS. You're welcome to check it out! There's a lot of stuff like this under the Indieweb umbrella :-)

Some thoughts on joining the #IndieWeb “We must make software that lives on a server but has a welcoming interface and piques people’s curiosity, respects privacy and dignity, and connects us to the World Wide Web.” enocc.com/2025/10/22/d...

Bluesky friends, I’ve updated powRSS to sport more of a retro look and added a few new features to make discovering independent blogs easier and more fun. I’d love it if you took a look 😁 #blogs #indieweb powrss.com

All of us developing software for the #indieweb need to give this a read. Hamish points out pitfalls in large scale projects and shows the shortcomings of not having a grassroots approach to economic sustainability. Great read.