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Web Wandering 2

A sketch of a brown house spider

Spidah.

It’s been rather sticky of late. The plants are suffering and my sun screen budget has spiralled out of control. Luckily it seems we’re through the worst of it for this year and I’ve managed to catch my breath a bit, and so I come bearing links.

I’ve been wanting to do another of these posts for quite a while, never quite gotten around to it. Links are what make the internet go round. They’re how one gets from ‘A’ to ‘B’ without relying on Big Tech’s perfidious recommendation algorithms. They’re what you use to navigate the open web when you dare to venture outside the gilded cages of the platforms and – perhaps most of all – it’s easy content.

I’m going to try to commit to doing these Web Wandering posts on a more frequent schedule than annually. If nothing else, it gets me out there and reading stuff.

  1. Hardcore IndieWeb: Run your own website 100% independently for only $0.01/day

    A really good little motivational guide on standing up your ow website. I’m a big fan of any attempts to help people on their way to owning their own home on the web. Adam’s promoting the creation of homebrew static sites here, which just so happens to be my own preferred way to build blogs.

  2. Meet New Books

    Haven’t had much of a chance to kick the tyres on this yet since my TBR pile is already visible from orbit, but I love the idea. Anything that promotes long-form reading gets a thumbs up from me.

  3. Bubbles.town

    A link aggregator with voting (like Reddit or Hacker News) focused on the indieweb. Very handy for finding new websites. There are those that argue such applications skirt the line of bringing some of the undesirable qualities of the mainstream web into the indie sphere and those folks say we should rely on blogrolls and link blogs and the like to find new sites. That’s fair enough, but I’m not that much of a purist.

  4. Techrights.org

    I’ve been mining Techrights for links recently. They post tonnes, both web and gemini, alongside tech news with a focus on digital rights and free software. Certainly worth browsing, and the RSS feed will give you plenty to read.

  5. Transistors Changed Everything. Here’s How They Work – wired.com

    This is a very interesting article about the basic building block of digital computation. It charts the history of the component from the early electrical relays to the present day. The modern world runs on these little switches and if you’re anything like me then an opportunity to learn a bit about them will be time well-spent.

  1. Gleanings From Gopher

    Bit of a think piece on permacomputing and the excesses of modern tech. Gemini and similar light/alternative web technologies fit the whole permacomputing ethos down to the ground and there’s plenty to read on the topic within various capsules.

  2. Coldscars

    Haven’t the foggiest who this person is, but their poetic little gemlog entries are really quite lovely. ‘So lightly’ from the 16th of August this year (2026) is a good place to start.

  3. Quiet Optimism

    I’ll forgive this poster for not liking ‘1984’ since they’ve written quite a thought-provoking little opinion piece about online privacy and surveillance capitalism. A shade defeatist perhaps, but it’s hard to dismiss.

Alright, that’s enough from me.

Toodles,

–Antony F.