What have you been into lately with web development?
I’m setting up multiple websites. I want to allow my main website to be a space for journaling and reflections, while also having spaces to explore my interests in games, animation, books, genealogy and hiking. I’ve been paying for the domains for ages, it makes sense (to me) to finally use them. However, I’m also setting them up with subdomains, should I decide I can’t afford paying for all the top level domains 
Also planning my first shrines about Cowboy Bebop and Scandal. Tempted to see if I can use the Webdeck Player Cooperationiskey mentioned too.
What are you excited about right now with the indie/personal web?
The opportunity for self expression and experimentation.
I’m excited to build different kinds of layouts. For example, trying to draft an answer to this thread about favourite tv series or movies I found I had ended up with a whole blog’s worth of content.. but combining it with this idea of ‘special media’ made me realise I could make a layout to showcase all my most liked media (and avoid me having to choose between them )
Adding features to my website that are unusual or ideas that aren’t fully formed just because I want to try them out.
I recently went to an in-person Homebrew Website Club where we talked about - amongst other things - viewing a historical timeline of a website’s content. That spurred the idea on the train home of the ability to scrape away the current content to reveal older content, like how you can scrape away layers of wallpaper to see the history of a house. I mocked up a quick example that I want to flesh out into a page template on my website to hide little Easter eggs in some places. I would never have even thought of that had I not been inspired by members of the indie web/personal web community.
What do you like about what the 32-bit cafe’s doing? What do you dislike?
I really didn’t like, and struggled to read, the white on teal new post counters in the old theme. So opening up the forum to the new theme was a pleasant surprise this morning. I didn’t realise there are multiple themes. I’m excited to try some of them out.
I don’t like that my go to emoji (“smiling face with rosy face and cheeks”) doesn’t have an alternaitve on the 32-bit Cafe and I keep posting the “blush” emoji by mistake 
I like that multiple people in the community care about accessibility and are keen to learn more and share their experience. I also like that there’s multiple ways to participate, regardless whether you’re actively writing on your website or doing web development (e.g. the chat or forum games like the ABC ones). I feel this is particularly important for members of the community who may have challenges with consistent participation, whether due to illness, disability or their living situation etc.
I really like the broad range of topics! I visit the share your blog posts / what did you do on your website today? topics daily but I always find something really interesting by seeing what else has been recently updated. For example, this thread about Misc pages.
I like that the community encourages community and personal projects like Good Internet Magazine, tkr and the Ianto Fanzine. It’s good to see what other people are working on.
I also like that the community encourages anyone to build their own website, but that there’s not a heavy focus on the technical side. I like that there are dedicated spaces in the forum for programming and technologies, but it doesn’t feel like a developer-oriented forum. I think this is super important if we are to welcome non-coders and show them how personal websites can be a really fulfilling form of self-expression.
I really like the way the mods are running the forum! I’m sure a lot of work goes on behind the scenes to make this a safe space for everyone, but from what I do see there is a focus on transparency, fairness and wellbeing that isn’t common on other forums. It’s also cool that you have your own personal websites 