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androson I joined the IndieWeb, here's what I learned

GitHub Pages is free for public repos, which makes perfect sense for a public blog. IndieWeb content is public by design.

androson I joined the IndieWeb, here's what I learned

If you can learn to make a hamburger, with or without AI, they can learn to manage their site.

androson I joined the IndieWeb, here's what I learned

A CV on your personal domain is the most IndieWeb thing you can do, it means your professional identity lives under your control, not LinkedIn's. The "anarchy symbol on expensive clothes" critique works when someone claims to reject the system while feeding it. IndieWeb does not claim to reject professionalism, it claims that your content should belong to you and outlive any platform. The headshot, the CV, the polished blog... those are fine. Locking them inside a silo that can shut down, sell your data, or vanish is the thing being criticized.

androson I joined the IndieWeb, here's what I learned

Are you sure?

androson I joined the IndieWeb, here's what I learned

Currently, the RSS feed is what's driving the most traffic to my blog.

androson I joined the IndieWeb, here's what I learned

You remind me of the article "Nobody Cares About Quality Anymore" by Shawn Seymour where convenience is always valued. Or where people use information as a tool, without any desire or motivation to preserve it.

Thank you for your comment! It motivates me a lot.

androson I joined the IndieWeb, here's what I learned

I like your website design! Next.js, React, TailwindCSS in Vercel? Is this your design? It's very nice.

They have monthly and annual events; perhaps you can discover them for yourself! However, I recommend that you first understand and apply some of their philosophy!

androson I joined the IndieWeb, here's what I learned

Rather than self-hosting, IndieWeb advocate for managing hosting; like GitHub Pages or similar.

androson I joined the IndieWeb, here's what I learned

I don't think anyone enjoys generating or reading RSS feeds. You have many alternatives, but none surpass the popularity of RSS...

androson I joined the IndieWeb, here's what I learned

Its initial 7 steps: having your domain, managing your site, creating your pages... are quite accessible. There is some unavoidable complexity, such as configuring DNS. However, with interest and AI, there are no real limitations.

androson I joined the IndieWeb, here's what I learned

Good luck :)

androson I joined the IndieWeb, here's what I learned

I'm not very scared; there are no precedents for similar cases except for security problems or the dissolution of a country.

Update: I see you've edited the comment. Regarding paying Google, I have no problem paying for their services. I don't know what the issue is. By the way, the domain is managed by Squarespace.

androson I joined the IndieWeb, here's what I learned

Human error, thanks for the heads-up!

androson I joined the IndieWeb, here's what I learned

I'm asking you out of pure curiosity, it's not an attack: what difference does it make to have a domain controlled by Google versus a more general one?

androson I joined the IndieWeb, here's what I learned

Today it's quite easy to keep your private notes on your infrastructure, manage them with your iPhone, and even store them in plain text: Joplin, Syncthing, WebDAV (https://en.andros.dev/blog/9abcdcfe/your-denote-notes-on-the...)...

androson I joined the IndieWeb, here's what I learned

I prefer Org Social a million times over Nostr :) https://en.andros.dev/blog/8c640241/why-org-social-when-you-...

androson I joined the IndieWeb, here's what I learned

I really like your comments! I'll include them when I have some time. Thank you so much!

androson I joined the IndieWeb, here's what I learned

Yes, I knew that. I would have liked to obtain my personal top-level domain, but it seems complicated to me.

androson I joined the IndieWeb, here's what I learned

Well, don't shoot the messenger. I'm just letting you know what they recommend :D

By the way, andros.dev has an RSS feed.

androson I joined the IndieWeb, here's what I learned

Good job to you too!

androson I joined the IndieWeb, here's what I learned

h-feed is recommended for the IndieWeb, making your HTML your feed, and RSS/Atom for the rest of the planet.

androson Why Org Social is the ethical Fediverse alternative

Totally agree, I love that a social network is 100% social.

androson A bad X is better than none

The capital X is the English convention for a wildcard or variable; a social network using it in its rebranding shouldn't change the rules of the language :D. If Snapchat changes its name to "none," should the title change? :)

androson A bad X is better than none

I think the mathematical symbol or expression existed before the social network :D Thanks for the heads up! :)

androson I built a GPU back end for Emacs

That's me!

androson I built a GPU back end for Emacs

To avoid UI freezes, separate event processing from rendering (for example). It's very common to see the interface freeze while a complex command is running.

androson I built a GPU back end for Emacs

There's not much of a secret here; I used ffmpeg to pre-download the video—there's... no actual streaming. When you select a video, it downloads in parallel and starts playing. Sorry to disappoint you :)

androson I built a GPU back end for Emacs

There's a lot to discuss here, a very interesting comment. I wouldn't want to talk too much publicly about certain technical elements, and because I don't want to encourage solutions decided by LLMs, however the Skia/Cairo-GL angle is interesting but would be a heavy dependency and does not help Linux, where the same gfxterm.c policy drives the OpenGL backend. The vtable abstraction was specifically designed so the rendering logic is written once and the platform just supplies the draw primitives.

androson I built a GPU back end for Emacs

You have libraries for multithreading. I use them myself for parallel tasks. However, how events and redrawing work is a completely different matter.