Here's my entry for this month's IndieWeb carnival, hosted by @immarisabel!

I was excited for this prompt since it gives me the opportunity to talk about “color” as it relates to musical timbre, and how I like to emphasize those aspects when I write music:

https://reillyspitzfaden.com/posts/2025/08/indieweb-carnival-tone-colors/

#IndieWeb #Blogging #Blog #Musodon #Composer #ContemporaryMusic #ClassicalMusic #ElectronicMusic #ExperimentalMusic #NoiseMusic @contemporarymusic

If you have a blog, what do you use for comment management?

Remember webrings?

I made Webring Studio to bring them back — and it’s live now.

Take a peek:

WP site → https://webringstudio.com

App → https://app.webringstudio.com

Sale details → https://webringstudio.com/app-for-sale/

Here’s the twist → my life’s shifting gears, and this indie web project is looking for a new owner.

Tuesday! Front End Study Hall! Join us for an informal space where we examine web pages and their styles, try to fix bugs and show what can be done and how to make sense of CSS and HTML+! 6pm BST/10am PDT/1pm EDT https://events.indieweb.org/2025/08/front-end-study-hall-034-UzkXwuTEzyuG #IndieWeb #WebDev

Week Notes, No. 32.25 - So It Goes…

https://notes.krueger.ink/posts/week-notes-no-3225

I saw the “IndieWeb is Punk” shirt earlier this summer and found a way make more unofficial #IndieWeb merch happen.

<details: https://www.nicksimson.com/posts/2025-indieweb-is-metal>

#IndieWeb folks - I am only just getting into webmentions, and I am wondering a bit about etiquette.

Are webmentions mainly for blog posts, or would you send a mention if you link out from a note or permanent page?

Are they for any time you link to another site at all, even if it's just in passing?

So I thought I'd ask all of you: when do you send webmentions?

I always thought it was odd that everything the #IndieWeb org and #IndieWebSocial guys seemed to advocate for had to do with making it easier for bots to identify you.

Then when they celebrated #Threads adopting rel=me links I knew what their game was.

#Meta #SocialWebFoundation

https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/meta-facebook-tech-copyright-privacy-whistleblower

Hi, fedi! I'm crawling out of my hermit hole to share my new app, TumblBee, with you all

https://lilacpixel.itch.io/tumblbee

TumblBee is a pay-what-you-want cross-platform app for exporting your original #Tumblr posts (and pages) to Markdown or HTML. Back up your content and browse it locally, or export to Markdown and drop your posts into your favorite static site generator. (There's even a guide to exporting for Obsidian, if that's your thing.)

If you decide to give it a try, I'd love to hear about it! Boosts are, as always, hugely appreciated Thanks so much!

"My motivation for creating Unplatform is simple. Once upon a time, I, too, was a digital defeatist that believed that the internet was beyond saving, and that Silicon Valley had achieved total control over the digital world. It's been a deeply humbling and extremely inspiring experience to be proven wrong - and not only do I no longer believe that the internet is a lost cause, I believe there's never been a better time to take it back.

But it won't be easy. Silicon Valley is holding our communities, careers, and conciousnesses hostage. They lured us onto their platforms over the course of 20 years with the promise of access and convenience, and now that they've gone completely mask off, they're betting on the idea that we've got too much invested in them to walk away. Unplatform is here to help you prove them wrong."

unplatform.fromthesuperhighway.com/

#Unplatform #FromTheSuperhighway #IndieWeb #SocialMedia #SiliconValley

This is now the official account for #11tyCMS updates! More updates to come. We'll be posting here in the coming weeks #11ty #IndieWeb

My Refrigerator Thinks I’m in a Cult. https://sightlessscribbles.com/posts/20250808/ #Tech #SmartHome #Humor #Technology #Blogs #Blog #IndieWeb

ok, new account, new #introduction it seems

call me arch (or my middle name, if you happen to know it already *wink*). perhaps the youngest on this server as i'm in my early 20s. you may have seen me as a janitor of a certain non-mastodon instance.

born in deepest voids of poland, the fate decided i flee to the netherlands, currently haunting the province of gelderland with my presence. what comes afterwards is an unknown.

at the time of writing, i'm pretty much a NEET, but i try to find every joy that i can in my reality, as worries only make everything worse.

in my free time i do art. medium bounces between run-of-the-mill raster digital art and pixel art, as i have abandoned the pen and paper very early when i was still a kid, the moment i discovered drawing tablets exist, and thus begged my parents for my very first wacom.

below is a piece i finished a few days ago as a gift for a friend.

my interests go around surface-level knowledge of #retrocomputing, especially gaming consoles of 90s and 2000s, hoarding software and hardware i think i can find use for some day (guy who owns 2 macbooks, 2 non-apple laptops, a 2DS XL, an iPad, 3 different iPhone models, a steam deck; and is on his way to collect more devices if the funds allow me). from collecting i also collect plushies, mostly from favorite series such as #pokemon (i also have a TCG album that i re-started since i lost all my old cards, hi)

and, obviously, i like digital art. but, also, i fucking despise generative AI and similar creations in their modern meaning; if you're in support of Bullshit Generators this is not a place for you. support human art.

i used to have a website, but no longer have one, as being essentially someone with a fractured identity doesn't help in that department. one day i should put up another one again, if i get to do so. which may take a few months. i kind of fell out of love with being a webmaster, it has become boring and tedious for me, and i just try to find a place for myself in there.

this is not a safe space for techbros, fossbros, replypeople, virtue signalers, bigots of all flavors and Puyo Puyo fans.

i have been consciously trans since around 2014, most of that spent in closet, denial, questioning; only in 2025 did i manage to move forward medically and legally.

i can speak polish and english well enough to hold a conversation; dutch not so much.

feel free to treat this as an AMA thread, but be kind and think twice before sending something. as my tradition says, below is a tag spam for my interests and such.

How many webring memberships are too many?

hi hello I wrote up a little #blog #post about cooking up my own theme for hugo:

https://www.robyns.space/2025/08/creating-my-site-theme-from-xmin/

my host is blocking link previews from being pulled so here's a screengrab instead.

An Obituary for a Cookie, Sightless Scribbles https://sightlessscribbles.com/posts/20250806/ #Cookie #Cookies #Humor #Blogs #IndieWeb