Yesterday was the IndieWeb’s Black Friday Create Day, an excuse, as if one were needed, to spend the day making rather than buying something. I had set myself the Create Day goal of finishing the first stage of the task I set myself in Berlin three weeks ago; to publish a static site of some of my better photographs, using Hugo to create the site. And I did it.

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Uptime-Kuma, a self-hosted internet monitor, will now send alerts to me using Signal. This is roughly how I did it, more as an aide-memoire for my future self, but perhaps it can help you.

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Both of the tasks I set myself for the second day of IndieWeb Camp Berlin came good, though the easier one was hard because I made it so and the hard one was easy because I spent too much time on the easy one. Confused? So was I.

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After far too long, I was once again able to attend an IndieWeb Camp in real life, and it was another great experience. Old friends and new, old problems and new too. And some great adjunct events.

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Yesterday arrived with an onslaught of Russian spambots abusing the comment form here, and nothing seemed able to stop them. Cloudflare worked, then it didn’t. Slightly panicked here, I might have slowed the flow by adding a block on 11 IP ranges. And still they seemed to keep on coming through. I a...

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