Alexandra

The Indie Web in 2030 Data autonomy should be a right, not a luxury.

Owning your online presence is a radical act. Hopefully five years from now it’ll be a lot more common.

#indieweb #smolweb #indiedev #dataprivacy #dataautonomy

What kind of an internet is possible outside of Big Tech’s profit incentives and surveillance?

For journalist and editor @chezpanique.bsky.social, it would look a little weirder (cyberpunk computer games, anyone?) and a bit more hand-drawn and creative.

I did a lil video tour of my favourite indie web haunts with the lovely people at @newpublic.org

🧶✏️👩🏽‍💻 The internet’s hidden creative renaissance (and how to find it) The indie web means the return of gifs, funky cursors, and personal websites

My article for New_Public gained a bit of a second wind and I’m so happy because a creative, grassroots internet is more important now than ever

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#indieweb #web1 #amwriting #indiedev #techjournalism #media

this is all I care to know about today's scheduled rapture

#rapture #adblock #rapturetok #indieweb

You can read this as a companion piece to my article for @newpublic.org. There, I go in-depth about what the indie web is & how you can get started, plus some fun and useful links to explore

that piece is here: newpublic.substack.com/p/the-handma...

Guys, There's So Much More To The Internet! Part one of a series where I interview indie web folk about the web 1.0 revival, unrotting your brain, and their top places to hang out online.

Interviewing indie web folk about the web revival, unrotting your brain, and their favourite places to hang out online

#indieweb #substack #writingcommunity #brainrot #techwriting

Algorithmic Revival: How a 1990 Article on a Government Landing Page Was Weaponized for the 'Radical Left' Narrative How outdated government content gets weaponized through backlink manipulation and AI training data

a wild dive into how SEO strategies like aggressive backlinking are used to weaponise outdated content for the AI era

#aislop #ai #investigativejournalism #writingcommunity

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Some of us are cutting carbs and doing 5am runs like we’re trying to summon a demon. Have we completely lost the plot? Is the Great Lock-In the end of the line for fitness challenges?

#greatlockin #tiktok #gymspo #lockin2025 #writingcommunity #amwriting #substack #indieweb

Screenshot of a pink-toned website (anhvn.com) with text overlay reading 'A Tour of the Indie Web.' Below it lists where to start: 'Ava's Space: An excellent explainer guide to the indie web' and 'ANHVN: A beautifully designed site that reads like a noir comic.' The page shows 'New_ Public' branding

Graphic showing alternatives to mainstream social media, listing 'Sublime and Are.na, both kind of like indie Pinterest for ideas.' Below is a view of the Are.na platform showing a 'hypertext club' channel with various content blocks including 'Coral Journalist Bronze' and other hypertext-related posts arranged in a grid layout.

Screenshot of eieio.games website by nolan royalty, featuring navigation menu items like 'media & speaking', 'blog & all work', and 'what's my deal'. An overlay highlights 'Some funky, niche sites and spaces' listing: Sonnet, GReg TeChnoLogY, Corru Observer, and EIEIO Games. The background shows someone playing what appears to be Pac-Man.

Doomscrolling get you down? The indie web is the way out.

Here you’ll find sites that aren’t built for views or profits, by creators who are embracing what made the world wide web beautiful and exciting in the first place.

@chezpanique.bsky.social has a list of her favorites to get you started.

This just in: smelling like a human being is now an act of rebellion

#dystopia #dystopiannews #resist

honored (hyperventilating, sweating, screaming) for this chat with Alexandra on the topic of indie/small web!! lots of amazing peeps mentioned - take a read

I've recently gotten excited about using Leaflet.pub & have fallen down some delightful, old-school web holes via pages there like it's 1999. Back to the basics!

My favorite collab this summer—read on to find out where the cool kids are hanging out online

#indieweb #smallweb #webdev #nostalgia #amwriting #writingcommunity #gamedev

Column | Social media is obsessed with ‘performative men’ – also known as men A recent ‘Performative Male Contest’ in Seattle went viral, starting a larger conversation about what it means to be a man.

my friend was 10 years ahead of the curve in 2015 when he took his library copy of Dostoyevsky's War and Peace to the beach, to "pick up chicks" (in his own words)

#wapo #amwriting #performativemasculinity

In fact, if you look up "synergy" in the dictionary you'll find this as an example

#indiedev #indieweb #writingcommunity #amwriting #substack

Tom Lehrer - We Will All Go Together When We Go YouTube video by The Tom Lehrer Wisdom Channel

RIP Tom Lehrer, the mathematician-musician who wrote some of the jauntiest, most hummable earworms about mutually assured destruction; who quit in protest when Kissinger got the Nobel Prize in '73; who lived to be 97 and see most of his cursed prophecies come true

#RIP #tomlehrer #musicsky

On the off-chance that trying to sustain a train of thought for longer than 10 seconds feels like chasing globs of mercury across an ever-tilting floor. If you wanna beat the constant churn of the algorithm.

blogtherapy.substack.com/p/cultivate-...

#indieweb #substack #writingcommunity #amwriting

in today's edition of Untested: making a top-secret font from scratch, the goofy occult teachings of Thelema, and a quiet song about nothing

#writingcommunity #amwriting #indiedev #indieauthor #fonts #fontmaking #indieweb

Reclaiming your attention span can look different for different people, but here are some suggestions

#digitaldetox #touchgrass #indieweb #indiedev #altweb

wondering what being dogpilled looks like? I eavesdropped on neighbour's kid's bday party—without wanting to, it was outside my window—and learned that we say hi to our dog the way most people talk to babies. with big, sweet voices full of love and awe.

#dogsky #dogsofbluesky #dogpilled

My friend is building a very cool game and you should absolutely check it out

#indiedev #indiegaming #indieweb #devlog #devsky #gamesky

I'm beginning to think I don't understand art (gasp) because here I was last night, watching Jozef van Wissem and Jim Jarmusch jam out dissonantly on two electric guitars for 20 mins of pure noise, their backs to the audience, and all I could do was laugh uncomprehendingly

#artsky #philistine

but also beaver is a fish in the Catholic Church so it's not like they're toooootally opposed to loopholes

use cases for this gem of a writing app, accumulated over 6 years and a few thousand users

coming soon to an Apple AppStore near YOU

#indiedev #amwriting #writingcommunity #writersky

no spoilers please, but...in Bunny by Mona Awad, is the Bunnies' Creative Process just, kind of, badly prompted generative AI?

#LitSky #BookBky💙📚 #GenAI #Showerthoughts #amreading

How to socialise as an expat in Portugal: what no one tells you A guest article by fellow Substacker and Porto resident, Alexandra.

so proud that my article for Portugal Decoded is live! trust me, it gets...personal. I also touch on expat psychology a little and what we can really expect from our adoptive countries

#portugal #expat #introvert #psychsky #usexpat

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not Bunny by Mona Awad roasting one of my favourite singer-songwriters of all time aka Joanna Newsom

#booksky #blueskyreads #horrorsky #booklover

consider Mango

#dogsofbluesky #dogpics #pupsky #fruitsky #dogphotos