Retire an old server to be a static site

Today marks two years since I first set up an e-ink display in my mom’s apartment to help her live on her own with amnesia. The display has worked extremely well during those two years, so I’m sharing the basic set-up in case others find it useful for similar situations. Note: unless you have specific experience caring for someone who has amnesia...

The basic site auditing tool in #WebOrigami can work against a site defined in many ways: a data file, files in the file system, an Origami program — or a live #website running in production. In the video I show an audit of the unbelievably massive Space Jam. For a site with 350+ handwritten HTML files, it contains surprisingly few broken...

A simple protocol lets you make the contents of your #smallweb / #indieweb site more fully discoverable and explorable by interested users. This can also let site A see what resources site B offers. I’ve been working on this in the spirit of the web’s simple, venerable, and immensely valuable View Source facility. View Source just lets you view a...

I made a short video walking through how I generate OpenGraph images for the pages on my blog using Origami. This video is an experiment. It takes me ages to create polished documentation or videos — and that’s discouraged me from creating anything at all! I thought I’d try recording a video with only minimal rehearsal and no editing and see if...

I want to test RSS-to-Mastodon posting via MastoFeed, so here’s a test post with a photo of Mojo, who wants to come inside. Update: I couldn’t get MastoFeed to work, and ended up following these instructions for Pipedream instead.