I'm reclaiming the title of 'webmaster' as the multidisciplinary creator who designs, develops, writes, and advocates for their own corner of the web and will save the world. Tracing the history from 1993 to the present, I argue that anyone can become a webmaster with minimal tools. Webmastery is an act of digital repatriation and human agency against corporate platforms and AI orchestration.
Announcing folk.zone, a collection of free, community-run internet services I'm building as an IndieWeb commons. Including Mastodon, WriteFreely, Forgejo, Pixelfed, Lemmy, and more. All self-hosted on hardware in my living space. This is infrastructure for the common folk, not for enterprise or scale, inspired by omg.lol and rooted in the IndieWeb and Fediverse principles.
indieweb
self-hosting
community
infrastructure
fediverse
open-source
homelab
I deployed my own AO3 fork called fanfiction.lol, an independent fanfiction archive with no invite queue, fandom-agnostic moderation, and expanded content warnings. A manifesto on why fan communities deserve free infrastructure, the history of transformative works from Virgil to AO3, and the challenges of running a volunteer-powered archive at scale.
indieweb
technical
self-hosting
fandom
community
open-source
I created a Medium export converter for the IndieWeb that converts your Medium archive into clean Markdown for Jekyll, Hugo, Eleventy, or Astro.js. Available as both a command line tool, and a web interface.
indieweb
medium
open-source
static-site-generators
web-development
I've spent the last few weeks working on three new free themes for IndieWeb blogging: Indiepaper, Newsprint, and brennan.jp.net, all of which centre around giving people a place to call their own on the internet.
How do you find your people, and your community within your local city? Calgary Groups is a searchable directory of grassroots organizations in Calgary.
After months of planning and building, Berry House is officially open. We're here to help independent creators, nonprofits, and small teams build fast, accessible websites while offering pro bono support to marginalized communities.
Berry House is looking for a talented brand designer to collaborate on our complete visual identity—from logo to brand guidelines. Join us in building something meaningful.
A quick write-up covering three issues—/tags 404s, empty /categories, and a 404 /feed.xml—and how we resolved them with Eleventy collections and a small filter.