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Running on FreeBSD

 

As of Sunday, June 1, 2025 at 10:00 AM, all of my sites (including this one) are being served using Caddy on a FreeBSD server from Vultr.

Yesterday everything was on an Ubuntu server at Hetzner. I would have prefered to stay at Hetzner, but they don’t seem to offer FreeBSD.

Why have I done this? I don’t really know. Many years ago (early 2000s), I ran FreeBSD for all our client’s servers. We only moved to Linux because “that’s where everyone was headed” at the time. I’d always liked FreeBSD, so I wanted to try it again.

So far, it’s as simple as I remember. Everything feels tight, if that makes sense.

Anyway, it was a good excuse to learn something new.

Baty.net posts

01 Jun 2025 at 15:05

IndieWeb Movie Club: June 2025

Also posted to Indienews

Hey all! For this month's IndieWeb Movie Club I encourage people to (re-)watch 1964's Mary Poppins! Especially for those of you with kids this might be a great movie to watch together. Despite being 61 years old I think it holds up very well.


Read more on the site…

Jo's Blog

01 Jun 2025 at 14:46

Why I moved my blog to Micro.blog

 This blog has moved from Bear and now has a new home on Micro.blog.

But it was far from an easy or obvious choice.

I posted my first entry on Bear on February 16, 2023, and I still love the platform. My time there has led to several valuable connections, thanks to the fantastic community that has grown around it. Creating the Bearming theme also brought me both joy and new knowledge.

So, why move? The short answer: I started to feel limited.

I want to be able to do more than “just” publish text — like posting images or logging the books I read. That is possible with Bear — I even created different solutions for it — but over time it started to feel a bit cumbersome. Another option would’ve been to run separate blogs for different types of content, but I prefer having everything in one place.

More room to grow

I feel that Micro.blog gives me more room to grow without having to rely on complicated solutions or third-party services. I also really like the platform’s IndieWeb principles and the social dimension it adds. Since I don’t use separate social media, that’s a welcome bonus.

There’s a lot more I appreciate about Micro.blog — like the variety of apps and the ability to publish directly from my favorite text editor — but those were the main reasons for the move.

I’ll still be checking in on Bear’s discovery feed, and most of my feed reader is still made up of Bear users. It’s also possible that I’ll continue working on the Bearming theme.

Thank you!

I want to end with a huge thanks to everyone who discovered my blog through Bear and reached out with kind, encouraging words via email and the guestbook.

Thank you so much!

I hope you continue to find joy and value in my blog. And no matter what tool you use to publish your posts — keep blogging!

Robert Birming

01 Jun 2025 at 13:46

Junited 2025

 Junited is a fun little blogging adventure all about sharing. About 20 bloggers joined in last year—think we can top that this time? 😍

To join this June activity, create a blog post (or a page, if you prefer) titled “Junited 2025.” Throughout the month, update it with links to blog posts or blogs that you feel deserve some extra love. If you’re active on social media, you might also want to share your updates there. For example:

“I’ve just updated my #Junited2025 list with this great post: URL”

There’s even a Junited Shortcut you can use with Safari to make posting a little easier.

If you’re curious, you can read about the idea behind this event.

Participants

Robert Birming

01 Jun 2025 at 09:57

My Junited 2025 list

 Junited is all about sharing. If you’d like to join in—or just see which bloggers are taking part—check out the Junited 2025 post.

Each day in June, I’ll update this page with a new link to a blog or post that I think deserves a little extra love.

  1. My first attempt at iOS app development by mgx
  2. I Like Your Blog If… by Lou Plummer
  3. You’re the One Making This Heavy by prickly oxheart
  4. The illusion of knowledge by Vince
  5. My BEARy First Anniversary by JCProbably
  6. The Strange Rhythm of Loving Books by Yordi
  7. When we stopped reading by Alex’s Blog via dearmishmash
Robert Birming

01 Jun 2025 at 09:49

LinkLeesMap S01E03 - Doorgaan met die naam!

 Het zijn toch een beetje die kriebels om na te denken, zouden de lezers dit een leuke link vinden? Inmiddels stuur ik links standaard naar mijn Sublime Canvas, waar ik op verloren momentjes wat schuif, verbind en verwijder. Ik heb in geen jaren zo’n directe klik gemaakt met een digitaal product als met Sublime. Maar daar ga ik later nog meer over vertellen, hebt geduld…

Drie rijen met kaarten zijn zichtbaar met tekst en afbeeldingen elke rij bevat verschillende onderwerpen en details onderaan is een sectie voor nieuwe kaarten in groene omranding

Wat zag ik zoal deze week?


Glitch was altijd die online service die ik te weinig gebruikte maar echt te gek vond. Bij Glitch kreeg je simpelweg de ruimte om je eigen projecten te hosten. Van een eenvoudige about-me pagina tot interactieve browser-games, verzamelingen, test-scripts, noem maar op. De community rondom Glitch was divers, enthousiast, open en positief. Glitch was een typisch gevolg van de online remix-culture uit het begin van deze eeuw. Waar bloggers en artiesten constant elkaars werk overnamen, knipten, plakten en er iets nieuws van maakten En ja, je kreeg de ruimte. Want Glitch houdt op te bestaan. Het moederbedrijf Fastly stopt met de cruciale onderdelen van Glitch, de profielen en het hosten van apps. Voormalig Lead Engineer Keith Kurson schrijft een uitgebreide blogpost over de achtergronden, de community en wat Glitch achterlaat. Met een bittezoet einde.

Glitch was the closest thing we had to the early web’s spirit of “view source” and “anyone can build here.” But let’s be honest: we proved that you can’t build a sustainable platform around helping people create rather than consume—at least not in today’s internet economy.

PS: Check de rest van Keith’s site en glimlach om de hovers bij diverse links. ✨ ✨


Het korte verhaal (of de tokenized koortsdroom van een literaire dataset) Shit’s Gonna Get So Fucking Weird and Terrible doet me enorm denken aan The Day the Internet Woke Up waar ik recent naar linkte, en een ouder project van Robin Sloan, Sentence Gradients. Je leest een dystopische reis waarin de mensheid door zelfingenomenheid en winstmotieven, langzaam en dan ineens onder de controle komt van LLM’s.

None of this will look like a sci-fi apocalypse. It’ll look like another tool being adopted. Another budget adjustment. Another quiet month.
Collapse by a thousand optimizations.


Genoeg gloom and doom, tijd voor het internet dat we willen! met Taking an Internet Walk zou ik 25 leesmappen kunnen vullen, dus zie het als een cadeautje. Je klikt je kwijt in de lijst van boeiende online experimenten, alternatieve zoekmachines, webrings en niche communities. Dit is het internet waar ik verliefd op werd en verliefd op blijf.

Een tekenfilmfiguur danst met een zachte glimlach omringd door een abstracte achtergrond met blauwe lijnen en rechthoekige vormen die aan schermen doen denken met enkele knoppen en tekst.


Over communities gesproken! Ik wilde het wel, maar schoof het steeds voor me uit. En nu is het juni. Dus is de Indieweb Carnival van mei officieel ten einde. Met het mooie onderwerp Small Web Communities. Ik werd heel blij van Sacha Chua’s “Working on the plumbing in a small web community”, over haar werk om de Emacs community constant te voeden met updates uit diezelfde community en ze samen te vatten. Eerder deze week zat ik met Martijn Aslander in de avondzon, herinneringen op te halen over de Lifehacking community die we ooit startten, hoe ik met de Dutch Bloggies de weblogcommunity een plek wilde geven, en wat nu gebeurt in de Digitale Fitheid community. Het voelt goed om weer samen op te trekken. Zo ben ik maandag 2 juni zijn sidekick bij de Beginnerssessie Obsidian in Utrecht.


Een vel papier met handgeschreven tekst in verschillende kleuren toont instructies om verhalen te vertellen en emoties bij mensen op te roepen in een creatieve context.

Dat was de LinkLeesMap van deze week. Ga naar buiten, de zon schijnt. Maak een wandeling, praat met je buren en bezoek je lokale bibliotheek!

Frank Meeuwsen

01 Jun 2025 at 08:58

What We Lost with PHP and jQuery

 

What We Lost with PHP and jQuery

by Ibrahim Diallo

Back in the day, building websites with PHP and jQuery was quick and simple—but now, with all the Reacts and Webpacks, it feels like overkill for small projects. In the post, Ibrahim shares how trying to update an old React app turned into a nightmare, and in the end, plain old HTML and CSS did the job better.

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I really enjoyed this post and agreed with a lot of what Ibrahim said. The simpler history of the web was nice, and it's something I try to maintain with this blog. I'm running Kirby, which is PHP, but does use Vue as well. That's still pretty good by today's standards though.

As I've been learning PHP by doing a course and a few fun little projects, I've thought about building my own, super simple blog in PHP. Problem is, I really enjoy using Kirby.

One final point: I'm not sure jQuery was as great as Ibrahim makes it out to be - I can't speak for the earlier days, but when I used WordPress with jQuery, it was a bloated mess. 🤷🏼‍♂️


Thanks for reading this post via RSS. RSS is great, and you're great for using it. ❤️

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Kev Quirk

01 Jun 2025 at 07:45

Scripting News: Sunday, June 1, 2025

 

Sunday, June 1, 2025

Good morning and welcome to June. Another month gone, and coincidentally the end of the NBA season. I woke up this morning with the worst hangover ever, and I haven't had a drink in months (never was my vice, I have others). The Knicks lost fair and square to the Indianas last night. My first message came from NakedJen who isn't as far as I know a Mets fan, saying simply "Let's go Mets!" I like that, though it will of course take me some time to get re-adjusted. I think the Knicks were jinxed because Brunson said in his podcast that New York has two teams, the Knicks (I agree) and the Yankees. What! No. I think we may have to consider trading him to a team without philosophy. I'm not sure anyone will have him though, considering this possibly fatal flaw, philosophy-wise. And no doubt the Knicks are going to change some things over the summer, and I've heard that they might try to get Kevin Durant. I sure hope not. I think the Knicks are benefiting from the jinx he put on himself when he tried in vain to stir up a "rivalry" between the Knicks and the Brooklyns. No, that isn't likely to happen, unless they try to become a contender without kicking the Knicks in the butt like KD did. Maybe the Portland Trail Blazers will want him. That's about as far from New York as you can get in the NBA. And with that I now officially shut the door on the 2024-25 NBA season. We had a great run. See you all in October! 😄#

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01 Jun 2025 at 05:00
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