IndieWebCamp Personal Libraries Pop Up Session

We’ve scheduled a date and time for the previously announced Personal Libraries pop up session. Everyone with an interest in the topic is invited to join and participate. Date: Saturday, February 19, 2022 Time: 9:00am – 1:00pm (America/Los_Angeles) Code of Conduct: indieweb.org/c … | Continue reading


@boffosocko.com | 2 years ago

A Domain of One’s Own for use as a personal Learning Management System (pLMS)

I love that Johannes Klingbiel’s article Building a new website highlights having his own place on the Internet as a means to learn. To learn—A rather obvious one, but I wanted to challenge myself again. ❧ While I suspect that part of the idea here is to learn about the web and p … | Continue reading


@boffosocko.com | 2 years ago

Call for Interest: IndieWebCamp pop up session on Goodreads replacements and decentralized book projects

Based on some recent discussions with a variety of people I’m helping to organize an IndieWebCamp pop-up session on personal libraries online. If you’ve ever considered how to own all your own Goodreads-like reading data and still interact with others or you’ve got an website, pr … | Continue reading


@boffosocko.com | 2 years ago

Different types of notes and use cases

In taking notes and making annotations recently, I’ve started a list of some of the broad semantic types I’ve come across.  Ideas New ideas spurred by reading, potentially for future expansion and refinement. Questions Questions relating to the the text. What’s missing? What shou … | Continue reading


@boffosocko.com | 2 years ago

Handwriting My Website with a Digital Amanuensis

A description of how I'm using Micropub to publish handwritten posts to my personal website. | Continue reading


@boffosocko.com | 2 years ago

Handwriting my Website with a Digital Amanuensis

A Capital User Interface Idea A few weeks ago I saw Ben Stokes’ post about PaperWebsite.com and my immediate reaction was, “I have to be able to do that!” I’ve long enjoyed writing by hand over typing as the tactile feel of of pen or pencil and paper is such an enjoyable one. I p … | Continue reading


@boffosocko.com | 2 years ago

IndieWeb as a Service (IaaS) Idea: PESOS from all the Silos with Feeds using Micropub

IndieWeb as a Service idea: Imagine a Micropub client that could accept any form of feed (RSS/Atom/JSON/h-entry/etc.) as an input and publish the content to your personal website. Then any silo service (Soundcloud, Goodreads, Flickr, etc.) with such feeds could be used to syndica … | Continue reading


@boffosocko.com | 2 years ago

Annotation Colors Using Hypothes.is: Problems and Solutions

I frequently see the feature request from Hypothes.is users to have the tool add the ability to choose different colors for highlights. The first occurrence of the issue is probably documented here: https://github.com/hypothesis/vision/issues/123, by the head of the company. I su … | Continue reading


@boffosocko.com | 2 years ago

Does Spirit hide in the filing cabinet?

On a slip in his zettelkasten (a card catalog or filing cabinet of personal notes), entitled “Does Spirit hide in the filing cabinet?”, Niklas Luhmann wrote a note about people who came to see his system: “People come, they see everything and nothing more than that, just like in … | Continue reading


@boffosocko.com | 2 years ago

On Note-Taking: Putting Ideas into a Crib

I use the word incunable in much the same way others in the personal knowledge management space might say fleeting notes. Ideas are born and written onto a page where they are kept in proverbial cribs. Some may grow and and develop into young adults others into old age. Some flou … | Continue reading


@boffosocko.com | 2 years ago

ThreadReaderApp Supports Micropub; Allows publishing Twitter threads to blogs

So... a while back I tweeted about a bit of functionality I've long thought would be a cool one to have for Twitter: I wish @ThreadReaderApp had the ability to authenticate into my personal websi | Continue reading


@boffosocko.com | 3 years ago