Juha-Matti Santala
Community Builder. Dreamer. Adventurer.

Blog posts in category “IndieWeb Carnival”

My blog posts that are participation in IndieWeb Carnival.

  • Jan 15th, 2025
    Be careful with introducing AI into your notes

    AI models like large language models can make it seem easier to create notes and extract information about them. But notes don’t exist for the sake of creating them or outputs based on them. Notes are a tangible tool to assist thinking and using too much automation to skip that thinking will reduce the value of your notes.

  • Dec 11th, 2024
    Struggles with believing in myself

    For this month’s IndieWeb Carnival, I write about my struggles with self-confidence, impostor syndrome and believing in myself.

  • Nov 13th, 2024
    Impact.

    I do what I do in life to increase the (positive) impact I can have on the world.

  • Oct 9th, 2024
    Multilingualism in a global web

    For this month’s IndieWeb Carnival, Riccardo invites us to write about multilingualism in web so I decided to ponder my relationship with language and why this site is almost completely in English.

  • Aug 13th, 2024
    Rituals build community camaraderie

    Shared rituals help build sense of belonging to a group. In this IndieWeb Carnival entry I discuss a few ways to build them.

  • Jul 20th, 2024
    Home-cooked, situated software

    I consider myself as a “Saturday evening hobbyist” when it comes to software development but recently I’ve learned better terms like home-cooked software and situated software. For this month’s IndieWeb Carnival, I explore these terms and my relation to them through the tools I build.

  • Jun 12th, 2024
    Crafting tabletop games

    This month’s IndieWeb Carnival topic is DIY and I decided to take this opportunity to once again talk about my hobby of designing and creating tabletop game projects.

  • Jun 1st, 2024
    IndieWeb Carnival May Round-up post: Creative Environments

    Let’s take a look at all the wonderful posts people wrote this month about their creative environments.

  • May 20th, 2024
    Reminder: IndieWeb Carnival May is still running

    You still have a week and a half to participate in this month’s IndieWeb Carnival. Share your thoughts on creative environments to participate!

  • May 8th, 2024
    The nook of creativity

    This month’s IndieWeb Carnival is hosted by yours truly and I wanted to hear stories of creative environments from various people around the world. In my entry, I write about what kind of places make me feel creative and how the pandemic was tough for that because spoilers: that creative space is not in my home.

  • May 1st, 2024
    Indie Web Carnival May 2024: Creative environments

    I’m hosting next month’s Indie Web Carnival and I’m inviting you to write about creative environments

  • Apr 17th, 2024
    Good enough as a power for good

    For this month’s IndieWeb Carnival, Aaron invited us to write about “Good enough” and the impact adopting this mindset can be. I decided to shift the perspective to the positive side of the equation and see where “good enough” can lead us.

  • Mar 11th, 2024
    Thoughts on accessibility in personal web

    This month’s Indie Web Carnival is hosted by orchids and that got me thinking about accessibility when I build my personal websites.

  • Feb 10th, 2024
    Anonymous, asynchronous friendships

    This month’s Indie Web Carnival took me to think about digital relationships and I ended up on a nostalgia trip back to early 2000s and friendships I made in the IRC and discussion forums - anonymously and asynchronously.

  • Jan 20th, 2024
    A few core memories

    foreverliketh.is challenged Indie Web Carnival to dig on some core memories and find some that remind of the good parts of myself