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A personal website may publish hundreds of posts while its feed exposes only the latest twenty. That is often enough for regular subscribers, but it leaves an awkward question: if a reader arrives late or misses several updates, does the feed provide a define…
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A post is published, corrected the next morning, and moved to a cleaner URL a month later. To a reader, it is still the same post. To a fee…
A personal website may link to a code forge, a social profile, and a publishing account, but an ordinary hyperlink says little beyond “this…
ActivityPub for a Personal Website — What Federation Standardizes, and What It Leaves to You A personal website usually speaks in one dire…
A feed reader can discover a new article by checking a website's feed every few minutes. That works, but it creates an awkward choice: chec…
Somebody writes to a small blog and asks a simple question: may I translate your article into my language and republish it on my own site? …
A personal website can easily become a room where only its owner speaks. You publish notes, projects, and opinions, but readers rarely see …
A personal website can explain who we are, archive what we have made, and point visitors toward our best work. Yet those polished pages oft…
A Website Colophon — Documenting How Your Personal Site Is Made A personal website often grows one quiet decision at a time. You change the…
Every personal website eventually becomes a small museum. An old tutorial still receives visitors, a bookmarked essay keeps circulating, an…
