Blog posts in category “IndieWeb”
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Dec 13th, 2025I’m a tool builder at heart
This week, two things made me think about my relationship with desires and joys of building tools to control chaos.
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Dec 10th, 2025Where are we going, IndieWeb?
December is always a good time to look forward and plan the future. In this month’s IndieWeb Carnival, V.H. Belvadi is asking us where we see the IndieWeb community in 2030.
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Dec 2nd, 2025I built a tiny RSS generator for my Advent of Code solutions
My current publishing setup for my notes doesn’t allow separate feeds for different categories so I built a small tool for my website to add entries manually to a separate feed with a single CLI call.
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Nov 8th, 2025What’s the story my front page tells?
V.H. Belvadi inspired me once again with his website renewal work and accompanied note about the difficulties of building the homepage of a personal website.
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Aug 29th, 2025I keep geeking out about my print styles
Specific print styles make my blog posts readable even when printed out on paper. You can print this one out and enjoy it in your reading nook while sipping chamomile tea.
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Aug 28th, 2025Build the forum you want to see in the web
The only way we’ll see the personal blogs, open forums and non-corporate platforms to shine again is if people who want them, make them happen.
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Aug 25th, 2025#971226 is my colour in the web
Ruby red is my main colour I use across my website, CVs, resumes, presentations. Over the years, I’ve grown to really like it and consider it mine.
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Jul 23rd, 2025IndieWeb principles and I
IndieWeb wiki lists 11 principles and I go through all of them and share my thoughts on them and how they relate to my website and other projects of mine.
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Jun 18th, 2025The web is more than just information
I don’t want chatbots to replace browser as the interface to the web because web is so much more than just information. It’s personality, it’s whimsicality, it’s diversity.
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May 17th, 2025Notifications about (almost) anything with ntfy.sh
Notifications suck when they are controlled by others but are fantastic when you can create them for things you want.
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May 14th, 2025Providing next event as API with Eleventy’s Global Data Files and Netlify Functions
I wanted to provide a programmatic access to the next event in our community’s event calendar and combined Eleventy and Netlify Functions to achieve it.
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May 3rd, 2025Hard to spot auto-format error with Prettier, Netlify redirects and Mastodon webfinger
My custom Mastodon redirect kept breaking semi-randomly. I finally figured out why and added a fix to my website project.
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Apr 23rd, 2025How I write and publish blog posts in April 2025
It’s time for documenting my current stack and process for writing and publishing a blog post.
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Apr 16th, 2025Resisting the urge to rewrite the website
Jamie invited us to write about renewal for this month’s IndieWeb Carnival and I decided to write about the technical choices I’ve made to help resist the urge to do big rewrites.
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Mar 15th, 2025view-source explorers welcome
You can look at this site’s source code in the browser and find comments and explanations and non-minified code. I welcome anyone to read the source and learn from it!
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Oct 2nd, 202412th anniversary of hamatti.org
This October marks the 12th anniversary of my current domain. Last six of those years I’ve been running this very site with its blog with over 400 blog posts.
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Jul 8th, 2024I prefer discussion in open web
One of the best parts of an interconnected blogosphere is when we have discussions with each other through blog posts. Manuel Moreale wrote about his preference of having those discussions via email and here I share another personal preference that prioritises discussion in open web.
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Jun 30th, 2024Why a personal site rather than social media presence?
Kev Quirk answered the question in his blog and I wanted to add my two cents on top. It’s a topic close to my heart as a website owner and personal web advocate.