“They are selling you a solution to a problem they created. They want you to feel insecure. If you feel insecure, you pay the subscription.” “You are not bad. You are a jazz musician in a world trying to sell ringtones.”

here’s a collection of articles that to some degree answer the question “Why have a personal website?” with “Because it’s fun, and the internet used to be fun." (It still is, but it used to be, too)

Every time I visit Ricardo’s garden his open tabs become my open tabs.

I’ve seen a few indie web directories popping up lately, so in an attempt to keep track of them all I’ve started on a directory of indie web directories . Then I was introduced to Russel’s paradox , which asks if a directory should include itself? The answer is no, you make another one .

all the signs are pointing to the fact that we might be in endgame for “open” as we’ve known it on the Internet over the last few decades See also: Prepping for the endgame of the open web Some Thoughts on the Open Web

Yes, I'm going to Homebrew Website Club London tonight.

Three days after posting Changes to the Site and it’s already out of date. I wrote that I was going to optimise my photos so they would be smaller and I could include them in my posts, since that’s all I was planning to do. Then I realised I needed a video in my post. If you’ve read Museum memories you’ll know why.

This is my entry for this month’s IndieWeb Carnival: Museum memories. I have not been to many museums or galleries. I am not a cultured person. My favourite museum is the city of Barcelona.

I’ve made some recent changes to the site and have a few ideas for what comes next. Changes: Notes: shorter posts that don’t need titles Bookmarks and likes: a way to share links without writing full posts Replies: posts that are part of a conversation with another site Webmentions: now appear below posts Ideas: serving media through a CDN dynamic image resizing with imgproxy publishing from my phone using micropub

[…] the path back to feeling like you have some control is to un-spin yourself from the Five Apps of the Apocalypse and reclaim the Internet as a set of tools you use to build something you can own & be proud of

paultibbetts/terraform-provider-mythicbeasts is a Terraform provider that lets you declare infrastructure from the company Mythic Beasts as code. I use it to provision the infrastructure for my personal website. This is why I built it, what it does, and how to use it.

My RSS feeds now contain content:encoded and source:markdown. These are used by some feed readers to show the full content, which means my posts are now fully readable through RSS.

In my last post I recommended starting with RSS to make your site followable. This is how to do that.

You’ve got 3 posts on your site and you want people to be notified about new ones. Here’s all the ways I can think of doing that.

paultibbetts/ansible-role-caddy is an Ansible role for Caddy web server that lets you install Caddy with plugins. I use it for my personal site and in my homelab. This is what it does and how to use it.

My site was hosted on GitHub Pages. It was simple and free, but it didn’t really feel like it was mine. I’ve fixed that with a Raspberry Pi.

Launched: infra.paultibbetts.uk A documentation site for the infrastructure that runs paultibbetts.uk.

Published: paultibbetts/terraform-provider-mythicbeasts A Terraform provider for Mythic Beasts.

Published: paultibbetts/mythic-beasts-client-go A client for the Mythic Beasts APIs, written in Go.

Published: paultibbetts/ansible-role-caddy An Ansible role to install and operate Caddy web server.

Last year I wrote my own take on the Steam Awards , and in 2025 I played less games, so instead of pretending otherwise, this is a list of my favourites from this year.

This post is not a step-by-step guide. It’s a record of what I tried and what I learned getting Pangolin to run on a Raspberry Pi with NFS storage in an IPv6-only environment. TLDR: if you want to run Pangolin hassle-free, use a VPS with local SSD storage on an IPv4 network.

The worst pains in tech are self-inflicted. Then it’s bad Wi-Fi. I’ve just fixed a very niche problem that was both.

We live in strange times, with strange social networks doing strange things. So why, on the same day I said I was team IndieWeb, did I enter the Fediverse?

The second step to getting on the IndieWeb is to have your own site. This is easier said than done, and there are lots of different ways of doing it. This is what I did.

The first step to getting on the IndieWeb is to have your own domain. I’ve already got one, so I thought I’d explain how I got it.

The IndieWeb is a people-focused alternative to the “corporate web”. I’ve been a believer for over a decade. Here’s why.

I’ve pushed my developer environment setup scripts up to GitHub, and now they have their own little website to go with them.

June’s IndieWeb Carnival prompt is “Take Two” and there’s a hundred different ways I could join in on this. So here’s my first post joining in with an IndieWeb Carnival; Take Two.