Worth Wandering: HTML Energy
HTML Energy reminds us the web is still something a person can make— open a text file, write some HTML, and you have a website.
Inspired by html.energy · Laurel Schwulst & Elliott Cost
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Europe's New Packaging Rules May Make Small Sellers Stop Shipping There
Europe's Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation is already pushing small tabletop publishers to reconsider EU shipping—not because they dislike the goal, but because compliance does not scale.
Inspired by rascal.news · Khee Hoon Chan
Worth Wandering: Ytoo!
Ytoo! is a one-person web portal built to send you somewhere else—dense links, hand curation, fake ads, and a guestbook that proves people use it.
Inspired by ytoo.org · VegBao
Joshternet.org Is Live
Joshternet.org is live as the public home for the Joshternet—still PRE-JOSH, with three draft RFCs and room for other Joshes to find what is wrong.
Inspired by joshternet.org
I May Have Accidentally Started the Joshternet
After finding 2,000 Joshes on the independent web, draft RFCs for a decentralized Joshternet—/.well-known/josh, stay on your own site, Joshness is declared never derived.
Inspired by github.com
Against Platforms — Geert Lovink
Waiting on the shelf after current reads — a look at platform culture from Geert Lovink.
I Found More Than 2,000 Joshes on the Independent Web
Joshing You lists 2,083 Josh-named personal sites. Wandering the directory restores finding something because you were not looking for it—and this site’s Now page is in there.
Inspired by joshing.you
A Solid Underdog for the Open Web
rss.chat does not need to dominate the web—it needs enough people willing to use it, test it, and show there is still another way to create social software.
Inspired by scripting.com · Dave Winer
The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation — Cory Doctorow
How to seize the means of computation, by forcing Silicon Valley to do the thing it fears the most: interoperate.
