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Indieweb Movie Club May 2026 announcement: Network (1976)
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Indieweb Movie Club May 2026 announcement: Network (1976)

May 3, 2026

Forgive the delay while I dithered whether to choose "Network" or subject you to a dizzying double-feature of "Resolution" and "The Endless", two little-known indie flicks (which I've only learned just this second were consecutive films from the same director and writer—do I know how to pick them, or what?) about desperate people traveling to remote locations in southern California where the time/space continuum doesn't work as expected.

I have decided to go with "Network", figuring mentioning the other two and leaving you to your own devices would be sufficient.

"Network" is my favorite movie, full stop.

This 1976 movie by Sidney Lumet ("12 Angry Men", "Dog Day Afternoon", "Serpico"), a pitch-black tragicomedy about a media conglomerate capitalizing on the unraveling mental health of one of its news anchors, predicted so many real-life media trends before they happened that it's astounding.…

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This is a test.

April 29, 2026

Once upon an Indieweb dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,
Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten CSS,
While I coded, nearly hacking, suddenly there came SYN ACKing,
as if packets gently attacking, attacking at my firewall ports,
"'Tis some webmention", I muttered, "SYN ACKing at my firewall ports,
only this and nothing less."

Eagerly, I wished the morrow, for in vain, I hoped to borrow,
from #Cafe, surcease of sorrow—sorrow for the lost IPv4—
For the rare and radiant spec whom the angels name IPv4—
This is only a test, please ignore.

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Indieweb Carnival March 2026 – The Soap Lady, And Other Museum Memories
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Indieweb Carnival March 2026 – The Soap Lady, And Other Museum Memories

March 31, 2026

Once a month, someone in Indieweb hosts the "Indieweb carnival", a monthly theme which a bunch of bloggers all write about the same theme, and the links to posts are collected in a page together. This month's theme: Museum Memories (see the announcement post, and the roundup and recap of all submissions.)

Like many people, I have many fond memories of museums. Here are some recollections.

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Bonus Gallery: Museum Memories Extra Images
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Bonus Gallery: Museum Memories Extra Images

Here are some additional images I created while working on the featured image for March 2026 Indieweb Carnival piece "Museum Memories".

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Webmentions (disabled)

Incoming webmentions are accepted by the site's back end but not displayed as of 26 April 2026. Details to follow.

The short version is, I had a lot of problems with the implementation of the webmentions plugin. It relies on comments being turned on, and the site's WordPress theme formatting and displaying them, which in the current theme shows them with virtually no useful information... simply a box listing that a webmention has been received from a given domain, with no indication of its type or content... having meaningless boxes plastered across the bottom of my pages doesn't do anything for me. At some point I would like to participate in webmentions, and hope to eventually make whatever theme modifications are necessary to have them displayed usefully and properly. Right now, though, with regrets, the technology is not in place to do this easily yet, and while I…

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Webmentions Receiver (disabled)

Incoming webmentions have been indefinitely disabled as of 26 April. More on this later. This page has been specifically created just to receive webmentions directed at the homepage. If you see nothing else here, then there aren't any.

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Intro — What Are Slashpages?
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Start here: Intro — What Are Slashpages?

Slashpages are common website pages, usually with a standard, root-level slug like /contact, /about, or /uses, usually giving basic factual information about the site or the individual behind it. They are distinguishing characteristics of the IndieWeb, a loose organization of web site owners and developers dedicated to cultivating independently owned, interoperable web sites and services, free of the data silos and walled gardens of the big, corporate-owned sites and technologies. Slashpages.net lists a bunch of common slashpages.

I will tell you, as I am in the process of gradually getting slashpages set up, some of them replace pages I already had up. I haven't reconciled this yet so there's some duplicate content.

Here's the current list of slashpages on this site:

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