@nim here with an account of teaching a room full of people to make art sites with basic HTML in the former back room of a Lady Footlocker in 2025. https://ideastore.dev/blog/The-Rad-Web/ The radness was greatly enhanced by code and work of @glitchdotcom @stefan @spencerchang and @eleventy #indieweb #webart #ladyfootlocker #octothorpes

"Octothorpes are hashtags and backlinks that can be used on regular websites, connecting pages across the open internet, regardless of where they're hosted. A page that's tagged or hashtagged will show you the pages on a single domain with the same tag, but a page that's octothorped will show you the pages with the same tag across an unlimited number of domains."

I figured out conditionally adding @octothorpes tags to my blog posts in Eleventy! I can simply add an "octothorpes" field followed by a list of tags, and those will appear in the correct HTML, or if I leave out that field, no tags.

For example, one of my posts shows up under this tag: https://octothorp.es/~/Audio