This is a submission for the March 2025 IndieWeb Carnival on Self-Expression hosted by Pablo Morales. To exist is to explain. Especially if you occupy multiple intersecting identities...
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Adding “subscribed via” to the Artemis bookmarklet
I often subscribe to blogs I like after reading one or two of their blog posts. When I see the blog in my web reader, it sometimes takes a second for me to remember what posts inspired me to subscribe to the website.
Artemis has a bookmarklet that, when clicked, takes you to...
Web readers and RSS readers
I think the term “RSS reader” needs revisiting. I much prefer “web reader.”
The term “RSS reader” is protocol-first — RSS — rather than use case first. To understand what “RSS reader” means, you need to know what RSS is and why it matters. Designing tools for everyone, not j...
“Tell me, what are words for?” They are for blogging!Earlier today during an informal espresso live stream in the #indieweb cafe, Spotify was playing an auto-generated daylist, something like “romantic 80s tuesday morning”, and the 1982 song “Words”¹ by the band Missing Perso...
I started sorting out my blog posting workflow again. Ever since the Git-based CMSes stopped working, I posted considerably less. I’m using Jekyll to build this site; and creating a file, adding all the frontmatter, making a Git commit and pushing the repo is just too much overhead for me.
So now I have started to automate all those above steps. For now, this works on iOS/iPadOS for my Notes. I currently start writing in the Drafts app; then I can trigger one Shortcut which handles everything else for me via the Working Copy app. And Gitlab CI builds the page as usual.
Artemis changelog #5
Below is a summary of new features added to Artemis, the calm web reader I maintain.
Search your subscriptions
You can now search all of the posts published in the feeds of websites to which you are subscribed.
To search your feeds, go to your Account page and click “Search ...
Announcing Artemis Link Graph, a new way to explore the web
Artemis Link Graph is a web extension that lists the web pages authored by people you follow that link to the page you are viewing.
Here’s an example of the extension in action, showing the links to the Bear Blog home page from blogs I follow:
The Bear Blog homepage with th...
Bookmarklet to show all rel= links on a page
rel= links describe the relationship between the web page a link is on and the resource the page is linking to. For example, rel=alternate is used to say that there is an alternate representation of a web page available at another URL. This may be an RSS or JSON feed, or some...
Matthias Ott
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An Internet Archive Plugin for Craft CMS 5
Now that the Webmention plugin is finally Craft 5 compatible after last week's update, I jumped at the chance and updated another plugin I had once written for my personal site.
The Internet Archive plugin automates the archiving of your posts to the Wayback Machine. Each ti...
Text notebooks with editable outputs
“Notebooks” are a programming environment where you can run code in the same file as you see the output. You can edit your code and run the edited code again as many times as you want. Notebooks are made of cells. A cell can either be code, non-executable text – for example, ...
Adding an edit button to my static site on mobile
In my My static site editing bookmarklet blog post, I outlined the bookmarklet I made that, when clicked, automatically takes me to the GitHub page associated with a URL on my website. I use this link daily to edit the wiki-like pages on this website.
Today, I thought to mys...
Flowers and plants and trees; in which I find joy and inspiration
Photos taken in the Royal Botanic Gardens, Edinburgh. Pink blossom on a tree A plant with mostly green leaves, except for the occasional red leaf, one of which is in focus A palm tree A bush with many white rhododendrons and the occasional pink blossom A bush with many red rhododendrons White blossom on a tree
Flowers and trees
“There is a joy to walking on a familiar path but in a new direction,” I thought as I walked to the botanic gardens. I enjoyed walking on the sunny side of the street as I ventured to a part of the city I don’t visit as often. With every step, I found delight in my surroundin...
The bookshop
The well-kept antique books in the window caught my eye, all carefully bound in the way that only old books are. I stopped and looked around. Through the tall window through which the natural light of the sun was beaming – the bookshop was on the sunny side of the street – I ...
🎥 Forkalyst Live Cut
I cut a little 2 minute video from a handful of phone recordings from our gig last saturday.
I see some nice activity there on the Mozilla bugtracker for an implementation of `hidden=until-found` 😍
Matthias Ott
• Matthias Ott
Webmention for Craft CMS 5
Imagine my surprise, when, roughly two weeks ago, I received a direct message on Mastodon from Brandon Kelly, the founder and head of the team behind Craft CMS, opening with:
👋 I spent today worki...
Quotes
I collect quotes on a quotes page on my website. I add to it every few months. Since I think the quotes page is only linked on one page — my pages page (#meta) — I wanted to publish a post to say it exists. I hope you enjoy the quotes! If you have a collection of quotes on your website, send me an email and let me know.
Tales of Debugging: The missing character
I received an interesting bug report this week. A new user of Artemis reported that the letter “n” was missing from all of their post titles. For example, one post title ended in “Oe Moth I” instead, as it should read, “One Month In”. What was causing the bug? I had a hunch.
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Website reflections
Guided by wondering “what would I say to my younger self starting a website?”, I started taking notes. Here they are:
Don’t worry about writing on one topic. You’ll find great joy in exploring new ones. Write what you love — the observations of your life, the things that mak...