Here is day 100 of #100DaysToOffload.

The fourth time I've completed the challenge!

https://joelchrono.xyz/blog/400-days-to-offload

I'm trying something scary.

I've been stuck in my #writing (again).

I've been stuck in my #art (again).

I've been creatively backed up (again).

I've gotten too deep into my head (again and always and forever, amen).

So I'm trying something: I'm releasing this weird #creative experiment into the world. To challenge myself. To (hopefully? maybe?) help others get "unstuck."

I'd love if anyone out there gave it a look. And I’d be utterly thrilled if you told me about it.

https://fromemily.com/creative-ex-lax-experiment/

@actuallyautistic

New Kitten Release

• Improved Markdown parser

Kitten’s JavaScript tagged template strings (`kitten.html`) no longer fail to render as expected when interpolated values are used inside of Markdown where the Markdown render changes source order.

So, for example, the following will now work correctly, whereas, previously, the link source and link text would have been erroneously flipped:

kitten.html`
<markdown>
[${linkText}](${linkSource})
</markdown>
`

To implement the fix, I’ve moved Markdown rendering outside of the main render loop and into a pre-render stage and implemented a simple Markdown render tree that non-recursively handles all Markdown region renders.

More details: https://codeberg.org/kitten/app/src/branch/main/CHANGELOG.md#2025-07-21

Run `kitten update` to update your dev machines. Your deployment servers will automatically update in the next few hours.

You can learn more about and install Kitten from the Kitten web site:
https://kitten.small-web.org/

Enjoy!

Cool Tools Around the Indie Web

Lately, I have stumbled across some pretty cool tools focused on the indie web. So, I thought I would try out a few.

https://readbeanicecream.surge.sh/2025/07/20/cool-tools-around-the-indie-web/

So I'm having a very large, very slow clearout.

I want to get rid of my stuff with minimal use of evil corporate platforms so I'm trying out listing it on my own website.

My sale site is here: https://epic-attic.co.uk

I've got about 35 items listed so far, maybe 100 or so more to come, once I've taken photos and so on.

This is a real #smallweb project! You have to email me to buy/claim stuff there's no checkout and no tracking or scripts of any sort.

I think we need a hashtag for selling and giving away stuff in the UK (for non business stuff)

What about #secondhanduk ?

I thought ukforsale initially but that sounds like a political statement.

Is anyone else selling off their excess stuff in the UK? Should we start a #webring?

Kagi's algorithms prioritize organic, non-commercial sources over ad-heavy or tracker-riddled sites. This really helps to surface unique, human-generated content from smaller blogs, authentic sites and forums.

️ Small Web July: Steady as She Goes | July 20, 2025 - 9:30 a.m.

https://readbeanicecream.surge.sh/chatter/#small-web-july-steady-as-she-goes-july-20-2025-930-am

No podría estar más contento con mis feeds RSS, mis newsletters, mis zines, mis timelines en mastodon y pixelfed, mis interacciones en texto plano y simple en mis tildes, y mis páginas y blogs personales.

No es nostalgia por algo que ya no es. Si es. Siempre fue, nunca dejó de ser.

Los que nos fuimos somos nosotros cuando pusimos la comodidad por encima de todo lo demás. Y el precio que pagamos por eso está a la vista.

URGENT! 1226/2900€ DUE IN 14 DAYS

please help DionRa with emergency moving costs. his landlord has refused to renew his lease & he's at risk for homelessness

- PayPal: diontheblackdragon@gmail.com
- Cashapp: £KingDionRa
- https://ko-fi.com/dionra
- https://campsite.bio/dionra

AI and a Return to Rhetoric

As many schools struggle with how to handle the emergence of "AI" (actually LLMs), it may be time to look to the past to ensure our educational future.

https://readbeanicecream.surge.sh/2025/07/17/ai-and-a-return-to-rhetoric/

I feel so ridiculously happy to have discovered the #smallweb movement. I was part of it (the organic version) when I was younger, and I’ve felt so listless and lost without it for years. I’m just overwhelmed (in a good way) that people are still trying to preserve that vibe and ethos. I genuinely thought it was gone for good. Now I'm off to remember how html from scratch works again.

URGENT $165/700 DUE TODAY

please help my friend albi! ey are a queer, agender, polyamorous blogger, streamer, & webringer. ey need to keep the insurance on eir car. ey've been struggling with eir payments after totaling eir old car. anything helps!

- CashApp: $LeeOfTheHedge
- https://ko-fi.com/leeofthehedge
- https://paypal.me/LeeOfTheHedge

@mutualaid @blackfedi #BlackMutualAid #QueerMutualAid #TransMutualAid #MutualAid #MutualAidRequest #queerCrowdfund #transCrowdfund #crowdfund #fundraiser #queer #LGBTQIA #LGBT #LGBTQ #agender #polyamory #webRing #blog #smallWeb #web #writing #web #web2 #webDev #blogging #neocities #koFi #twitch #peertube

https://www.burgeonlab.com/blogroll/

Added a /blogroll page to my blog... Will be adding more soon like /uses, /junk(sale), /now, /postroll, /self-hosting, and /sitemap.

Inspired by https://slashpages.net! What other slash pages do you use for your blog? Let me know!

Shoutout to some of the cool people I've discovered/connected with on Mastodon in the last few months!

@joel
@kev
@jbaty
@shellsharks
@adamsdesk

#slashpage #slashpages
#blog #blogging #blogs #personalsite #smallweb #hugo

Been thinking a lot about #smallweb concepts lately and how to enable small creators of web content. Right now, a solid reason not to publish your artistic output on the web is that AI is likely to scrape and misappropriate it.

I have seen some examples of people poisoning AI models for things like image/song generators, and I was wondering... On a technical level, how would one implement AI poison in an HTML document? A quick search yielded not much. Anyone here have info I could read on this?

URGENT $165/700 DUE TOMORROW

please help my friend albi! ey are a queer, agender, polyamorous blogger, streamer, & webringer. ey need to keep the insurance on eir car. ey've been struggling with eir payments after totaling eir old car. anything helps!

- CashApp: $LeeOfTheHedge
- https://ko-fi.com/leeofthehedge
- https://paypal.me/LeeOfTheHedge

@mutualaid @blackfedi #BlackMutualAid #QueerMutualAid #TransMutualAid #MutualAid #MutualAidRequest #queerCrowdfund #transCrowdfund #crowdfund #fundraiser #queer #LGBTQIA #LGBT #LGBTQ #agender #polyamory #webRing #blog #smallWeb #web #writing #web #web2 #webDev #blogging #neocities #koFi #twitch #peertube

URGENT $165/700 DUE TOMORROW

please help my friend albi! ey are a queer, agender, polyamorous blogger, streamer, & webringer. ey need to keep the insurance on eir car. ey've been struggling with eir payments after totaling eir old car. anything helps!

- CashApp: $LeeOfTheHedge
- https://ko-fi.com/leeofthehedge
- https://paypal.me/LeeOfTheHedge

@mutualaid @blackfedi #BlackMutualAid #QueerMutualAid #TransMutualAid #MutualAid #MutualAidRequest #queerCrowdfund #transCrowdfund #crowdfund #fundraiser #queer #LGBTQIA #LGBT #LGBTQ #agender #polyamory #webRing #blog #smallWeb #web #writing #web #web2 #webDev #blogging #neocities #koFi #twitch #peertube

Interesting magazine about the small web:

elpis.ws/cgi-bin/cms/zine_jul_…