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For this month's IndieWeb carnival on “small web communities,” I'm thinking about lowering the barrier for web independence and freedom reillyspitzfaden.com/posts/2025/0... #IndieWeb #Blog #Blogging #WebDev #HTML #CMS

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NEW: Substack founders finally respond to Substackers Against Nazis. They say Nazis publishing and earning money on their platform is fine with them. Their full statement here: substack.com/@hamish/note...

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“‘What we are doing in Gaza is a war of extermination: indiscriminate, unrestrained, brutal, and criminal killing of civilians,’ he said.” www.huffpost.com/entry/israel... #Israel #Palestine #Gaza

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“Daniel Levy, the president of the U.S./Middle East Project think tank, said that Israel’s government was ‘desperately trying to find soft power venues’ and that Eurovision was one of the few opportunities it had left.” www.nytimes.com/2025/05/24/a... #Israel #Netanyahu #Eurovision

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Some cool photos from a walk through Highland Park today: reillyspitzfaden.com/notes/2025/0... #Rochester #RochesterNY #Park #Parks #Architecture #Reservoir

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In my wiki/digital garden I have a collection of tutorials on webmentions including the basics — you can get up and running with only two lines of HTML! Hope it can be helpful to someone reillyspitzfaden.com/digital-gard... #Webmentions #IndieWeb #Microformats #Eleventy #11ty #WebDev #HTML

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“These are the fracture lines in the Trump coalition, the places we should apply ourselves to if we want to neutralize the movement, shatter it back into a mob of warring factions.” pluralistic.net/2025/05/21/e... #USPol #Trump #Politics

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I'm still looking for reviews of my new album! Any outlet, any size is welcome! Happy to give you a code! Blogs, zines, TikTok, whatever, it's all good! I don't care if it's your 5000th review or your first! Get at me! etherdiver.bandcamp.com/album/the-me... #musicsky #MusicDiscovery

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My Swedish textbook publisher wanted me to listen to audio examples on their site or in their app. I had other ideas. A fun little project combating enshittification, and some practice with Node JS and web scraping! reillyspitzfaden.com/posts/2025/0... #NodeJS #JavaScript #Enshittification

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A growing number of apps are using the Play Integrity API to enforce installation from the Play Store. This is clearly highly illegal anti-competitive behavior. It doesn't impact GrapheneOS users installing apps with the sandboxed Play Store but does impact other install sources.

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WHAT IS THE CHARGE? EATING A MEAL?! A SUCCULENT CHINESE MEAL?!

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“…as decades of academic research have shown, it serves mainly to help far-right parties while hurting centre-left parties, which end up losing (young, female) progressive voters and barely gaining the (male) reactionary voters they court.” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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I'm having some typography fun on my site: reillyspitzfaden.com I'm using the CSS :before pseudo-element to put a chunky dark magenta opening quote before <blockquote>s. I also switched from a bit font for headings/Open Sans for body to just Libre Franklin — turns out I love grotesques! #CSS

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A centaur that's half small herding dog and half synthesizer The KORG-i

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I recently heard somebody use the phrase “all that is rebellion melts into content” when talking about brands mining counterculture aesthetics for profit (www.tiktok.com/@eugbrandstr...)

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I'm getting back into my software-defined radio hobby — here I'm tracking planes with an RTL-SDR and Raspberry Pi reillyspitzfaden.com/notes/2025/0... #RTLSDR #SDR #HamRadio #AmateurRadio #ADSB #Aviation

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my boyfriend says that I don't "need" to buy a bunch of transparent electronics on ebay like a 13in tv and a landline phone and alarm clock, because it's "not practical" and I "dont have money right now" this is a hard time for me for me and my family please respect my privacy at this time

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Liked | Your Own Core Rope Memory | Hackaday ⭐ hackaday.com/2025/05/14/y... 🔗 reillyspitzfaden.com/interactions... “This was famously used in early UNIVAC computers and the Apollo guidance computer.” #Retrocomputing #Maker #Electronics

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I added a digital garden section to my site! reillyspitzfaden.com/digital-gard... I'm using it to put tutorials, research/project notes, and other things that I will return to and build on over time. #WebDev #IndieWeb #DigitalGardens #DigitalGarden #Eleventy #11ty

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Liked | The Tyranny of Public Opinion ⭐️ stringinamaze.net/p/the-tyrann... 🔗 reillyspitzfaden.com/interactions... “The voters weren’t switching candidates based on their policy positions, they were switching policy positions based on their candidate.” #Trans #TransRights #Politics #Democrats

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Liked | Welcome to the IndieWeb - Serverless Industries ⭐️ serverless.industries/2025/05/07/w... 🔗 reillyspitzfaden.com/interactions... #IndieWeb #WebDev

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i would imagine hasan knows, rationally, not to talk in situations like this. he did anyway because cops of all stripes are very good at making you feel like in just this one particular situation it makes more sense to talk a bit. don't ever give in to that impulse.

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RSVP | Front End Study Hall #028 | May 20, 2025 | IndieWeb Events 📆 events.indieweb.org/2025/05/fron... 🔗 reillyspitzfaden.com/interactions... #IndieWeb #Frontend #frontendDeveloper #HTML #CSS #Coding #Programming

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To my newborn son: I am absent not out of apathy, but conviction | Mahmoud Khalil

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@benji.dog made some IndieWeb stickers that look like a metal band logo, and he sent me one — thanks! reillyspitzfaden.com/notes/2025/0... #IndieWeb #Sticker #Stickers

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Cool synth plugin I came across today: github.com/Mrugalla/Ham... It's a modal synth — resonant, keytracked filters where you can drag partials to custom locations and then play the filter like a synth using noise/sample “exciters” #VST #Plugin #MusicProduction #Synth #Synthesizer

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