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So I'm going public with a project I've been working on: github.com/Tend-Notes/tend/. I've been disappointed at the state of note-taking tools. Too complicated, too monetized, too unstable. I set out to build a self-hosted, always free, outliner/digital garden, based on Markdown, accessible from anywhere with a browser, with optional encryption, backlinks, bullet cross referencing, etc. Very alpha, no representations or warranties, provided AS-IS. AI-assisted development. #indieweb #selfhosting
Scrolls 28 is out! A link-packed extravaganza for all things #indieweb, #fediverse & #infosec / #cybersecurity.
https://shellsharks.com/scrolls/scroll/2026-02-06
Oh and it looks like I've finally made it back to publishing this thing on Friday. Go me! Hope you enjoy! 🧡
Scrolls 28 is out! A link-packed extravaganza for all things #indieweb, #fediverse & #infosec / #cybersecurity.
https://shellsharks.com/scrolls/scroll/2026-02-06
Oh and it looks like I've finally made it back to publishing this thing on Friday. Go me! Hope you enjoy! 🧡
I co-own a software studio, @tooinconsistent together with @siwek and others. We build custom software and our own apps.
Right now we’re building an end-to-end encrypted app for democratic organizations. Think decision-making infrastructure that doesn’t force groups to choose between chaos and hierarchy. (Currently in alpha testing, measuring twice before we launch to avoid data loss. Come say hi if you’re into #encryption and want to help. We plan to make it #opensource, and I will post a bit about our journey.)
I’m also a mother. Motherhood clarified my beliefs and increased my confidence in myself given *gestures wildly around* the world we live in.
I care about #climate , #TechEthics (unfortunately my industry), and urbanism. I’ve come to hate cars. #FuckCars. Too many, too loud, destroying everything good about places. I choose what’s in my power: electric bike, trains, solar, walking, no car for as long as I can avoid it. Not perfect, just trying to do the least harm with what I know.
I’m renovating a 19th century house and thinking a lot about craft, longevity, and respecting what came before while adding new things. I’m trying to let that sensibility permeate into the kind of software we build, to make things that last, for a world still worth inhabiting another 100+ years from now. I’m interested in #SmallWeb, #RightToRepair and similar initiatives.
I’ve lived in five countries by accident, rather than design, and now speak just as many languages, some badly. Bună, hi, bonjour, hoi, dzień dobry.
I garden, read (mostly nonfiction, sometimes #scifi ), write when motherhood allows it, look for beauty in the chaos, am partial to green tea, dark chocolate and have a weakness for #sękacz / #Baumkuchen, and joke that we build software for a world on fire, the antithesis to whatever the tech bros are doing.
Would love to connect with parent-builders, #solarpunk dreamers, #urbanism folks, #IndieWeb people, journalists, creators, critical thinkers. People trying to change the status quo, or at least not make it worse.
Do say hello! 👋
Ever wonder how incense-makers come up with such colorful descriptions for their wares? Wonder no more! I have built a handy woo-woo incense description generator to help you spice up those Etsy listings. https://nathanupchurch.com/blog/woo-woo-incense-description-generator-and-other-updates/ #woo #incense #maker #eleventy #indieweb #blog #blogpost
Ever wonder how incense-makers come up with such colorful descriptions for their wares? Wonder no more! I have built a handy woo-woo incense description generator to help you spice up those Etsy listings. https://nathanupchurch.com/blog/woo-woo-incense-description-generator-and-other-updates/ #woo #incense #maker #eleventy #indieweb #blog #blogpost
On the Matter of TikTok Alternatives
I have never been a fan of TikTok and long called for it to be banned yesterday. Despite having come close, President Trump was derermined to snag partial defeat from the jaws of victory, potentially ameliorating some, but certainly not all, of the concerns I have raised about TikTok in a deal of questionable legality under the TikTok divestment law. Even were we to sepparate the Chinese Communist Party concerns from TikTok, its rapid fire short video format combined with its promotion of […]
Re; The Indie Web Is Not Defined by Its Enemies
I read an excellent response blog post by Khürt Williams titled The Indie Web Is Not Defined by Its Enemies. In the post, Mr. Williams eloquently makes the case for defining the indie web by what it is for instead of what it is against.
The indie web is stronger when it is defined by what it does: people owning their publishing, people controlling their data, people connecting through open standards and handcrafted links. That identity does not require a villain. It stands on its […]
On the Matter of TikTok Alternatives
I have never been a fan of TikTok and long called for it to be banned yesterday. Despite having come close, President Trump was derermined to snag partial defeat from the jaws of victory, potentially ameliorating some, but certainly not all, of the concerns I have raised about TikTok in a deal of questionable legality under the TikTok divestment law. Even were we to sepparate the Chinese Communist Party concerns from TikTok, its rapid fire short video format combined with its promotion of […]
Re; The Indie Web Is Not Defined by Its Enemies
I read an excellent response blog post by Khürt Williams titled The Indie Web Is Not Defined by Its Enemies. In the post, Mr. Williams eloquently makes the case for defining the indie web by what it is for instead of what it is against.
The indie web is stronger when it is defined by what it does: people owning their publishing, people controlling their data, people connecting through open standards and handcrafted links. That identity does not require a villain. It stands on its […]
LittleLink is an open-source Linktree alternative you can fully self-host.
No trackers, blazing fast, and easy to deploy. Perfect for escaping centralized link-in-bio platforms while keeping full control of your links.
👉 https://github.com/sethcottle/littlelink
👉 More tools like this: https://digital-escape-tools-phi.vercel.app/
🔗 https://stephvee.ca/blog/rewinds/rewind-jan-2026/
My latest rewind is up, where I summarize the blog posts I wrote this month, recommend some entertainment titles worth checking out (including The Pitt and The Studio, among others), and share a few interesting links.
I love reading /uses pages on the #indieweb, but I always want to know more about WHY people use what they use... so I made sure to add that information to my own /uses page. 
I mainly record these for me, but I posted my books read in 2025 (https://nicks.im/posts/2025-in-books.html) and music listened to in 2025 (https://nicks.im/posts/2025-in-music.html) this week.
Snow will continue falling on my website for a few more days.
At today's #IndieWeb Homebrew Website Club: Pacific online meeting, we discussed how to track books and reading habits.
Some people, like Nick, tracks books manually: https://social.lol/@nsmsn/115824912511030742
And others like @joel uses #Bookwyrm + a manual blog page https://joelchrono.xyz/bookshelf
I'm also considering using Bookwyrm and restart my book tracking.
IndieWeb Event notes can be found: https://events.indieweb.org/2026/02/homebrew-website-club-pacific-MyM39P5egEsp
#HomebrewWebsiteClub #books #reading #books #read #booksofmastodon #bookstodon
LittleLink is an open-source Linktree alternative you can fully self-host.
No trackers, blazing fast, and easy to deploy. Perfect for escaping centralized link-in-bio platforms while keeping full control of your links.
👉 https://github.com/sethcottle/littlelink
👉 More tools like this: https://digital-escape-tools-phi.vercel.app/
I mainly record these for me, but I posted my books read in 2025 (https://nicks.im/posts/2025-in-books.html) and music listened to in 2025 (https://nicks.im/posts/2025-in-music.html) this week.
Snow will continue falling on my website for a few more days.
At today's #IndieWeb Homebrew Website Club: Pacific online meeting, we discussed how to track books and reading habits.
Some people, like Nick, tracks books manually: https://social.lol/@nsmsn/115824912511030742
And others like @joel uses #Bookwyrm + a manual blog page https://joelchrono.xyz/bookshelf
I'm also considering using Bookwyrm and restart my book tracking.
IndieWeb Event notes can be found: https://events.indieweb.org/2026/02/homebrew-website-club-pacific-MyM39P5egEsp
#HomebrewWebsiteClub #books #reading #books #read #booksofmastodon #bookstodon
#BurgeonLab #WeekNotes 013 is out!
2026: Week 05/52 (Jan 26 – Feb 1)
https://burgeonlab.com/weeknotes/2026/w05/
This is #8 of #100DaysToOffload
Progress: https://burgeonlab.com/tags/100daystooffload/
#blogging #blogs #smallweb #indieweb #weeknote #personalBlog #weeklynote #indiekit #webdev
100DaysToOffload
I love reading /uses pages on the #indieweb, but I always want to know more about WHY people use what they use... so I made sure to add that information to my own /uses page.
Well put: “To conclude this wrapup of my #indieweb experience in 2025: more than ever, I still regard the open web as my online home. There are communities I feel like I belong to within it — like the 'open social' community, the Mastodon community, the Eleventy community, etc. Maybe there will eventually be a Cybercultural community! (1/2)
