I did it. I finally updated my old 11ty + Neocities guide.
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i am trying my hand at a new little webweaving experiment :)
https://brennan.day/announcing-folk-zone-an-attempt-to-build-the-indieweb-commons-myself/
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Looks to be a sweeet project, canāt wait to see how it unfolds
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what do you guys think of this
Very timely as I try (with great difficulty) to learn game development.
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Some thoughts on reach and the personal web, and why I like my quiet, remote island.
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I followed your instructions and got as far as deploying to Neocities. Not sure if Iām up to trying Forejo Actions.
i found it difficult to read! Was this a response to Bloggers, can we make better titles for our posts? | Michael Harley ?
Assuming my post? Thatās crazy cool you took the time to run through.
Iāll actually get my demo site up - thatās the missing piece for the guide I think.
Iām going to run through again to make sure Iāve not missed any steps. I had one piece of feedback from someone saying they couldnāt get the CSS to load - did you experience this?
No problem with CSS. I ran the server from src instead of root by mistake. Installing Ruby was a hassle.
yes? it links it right there
As someone who does prefer more indicative post titles, I wonder if recontextualization may be playing a role here as well. Is the complaint about generic posts showing up from a blog that the reader deliberately subscribed to, or is it that those posts are showing up in an aggregator? The original complaint begins āIāve been scrolling the Bubbles new feed,ā so I think thatās our clue.
Not every blogger is necessarily expecting all their posts to get automatically broadcast to an aggregator, let alone writing with that broadened audience in mind. Meanwhile, if someone is browsing a site that encourages you to vote on what you see, a generic journaling post might look out of place. So in light of that, Iām inclined to point out that Bubbles is recontextualizing peopleās posts as part of a competition that not all of them necessarily asked for.
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I agree - wish there was a better option.
my two tips I throw at anyone remotely approaching game dev:
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read Characteristics of Games. You do not know how good that book is.
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Itāll take less time to prototype an idea and see if itās actually fun than it will be to theorycraft it from every angle and argue with people about it.
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made a new blog post about literally nothing important! yipeeee <3
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This weekās tiara post is More Floral Tiaras! I made a post earlier this year about floral tiaras but there are so many out there that I thought it was time to take a look at some more.
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Agreed. This is one of the things I really donāt like about Bubbles (and similar RSS aggregators); they should be opt-in* only. Iād be very irritated if I wrote a throwaway post with a throwaway title that was never intended to reach a mass audience, only to find that it has been reposted on a popular aggregator where everyone in the comments is having a good whinge about the title of a post that was never even supposed to reach their eyes.
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* Though I suppose hardcore RSS proponents would argue that by sheer dint of providing a syndicated feed in the first place, youāre already tacitly āopting inā to having your blog reposted on a third-party siteā¦ Itās one of the many reasons why I do not offer an RSS feed for my blog. I donāt care at all if a small number of people want to read my posts on their private RSS reader, but Iād really rather not have my blog featured on a big third-party aggregator without my knowledge or consent.
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