waking up to kiki on the front page of hacker news was equal parts surprising and intimidating.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48348545

while i can't say the threads contained much enlightening discussion, i'm relieved that the nastiness that constituted earlier years of HN posting culture was minimal

#indieWeb #worldwideweb #kiki

two years ago i finally lost my mind dealing with wordpress and markdown for clients.

it forced me to write an entire website construction kit in php from scratch (kiki). it forced me to learn how to write a customizable markup language (bug). all so i would never have to touch wordpress and markdown ever again.

https://tomotama.com/kiki

two years later, there are now dozens of kiki instances run by sysop-admins around the world. it's incredibly gratifying to see the web made less shitty by just elbow grease and diy learning. the instance admins are a blend of writers and coders who painstakingly find bugs, dig into the source, and inspectorgadget workarounds. improving it and patching it is a lifelong commitment, even if it doesn't pay the bills.

in the coming week is a feature that 0.01% of users will take advantage of, but i'm so happy to add it, to keep the dream of an indie web alive: kiki will now generate RSS 2.0 compliant podcast feeds. i thought regular old web RSS was bad. but RSS for podcasts is about 10x worse 😅

the attached screenshot is a new site i'm building with kiki 1.2.0, which autogenerated a podcast feed using metadata in each post.

this morning i'm updating a client's wordpress site, and for all my moaning about how bad RSS is, i can't believe how much worse wordpress is. 😆

#indieweb #smallweb #selfhosting #kiki #rss

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A webpage modeled after the Macintosh System 7 interface. It shows a desktop and window. The window is titled CD-ROM Encartapedia & Podcast. There are two icons on the desktop: CD-ROM Safari Podcast, and Encartapedia. The top right has two podcast icons, one for RSS feeds and another for Apple Podcasts. The page reads: Welcome to the CD-ROM Encartapedia! Love 1990s multimedia CD-ROMs? The CD-ROM Safari Podcast (formerly known as the Multimedia HyperGuide Podcast) is your friendly and fun tour of the best CD-ROMs of the era. You can also flip through the Encartapedia pages - think of it as a tiny Mobygames for Multimedia!