Pixel Shannon

Bluesky Domain Handles: How do I change my Bluesky username to my domain name? www.pixelshannon.com/bluesky/doma...

Pssst, try @fastmail.com join.fastmail.com/5a7bc1e2

Ten Tips For Building a Bionic Weblog in 2001 https://web.archive.org/web/20010607075754if_/http://www.metascene.net:80/bionic.html

I've been finding it fun to use lately. It can be like normal blog, or you can use it to make a website. It'd be fun to have more artists using it (so I can also link my blog to you and follow your blogs/sites!)

cowsite of the week time! this is an AWESOME puppet maker with awesome pet rats vivavulture.cowsite.net

My corner of the web is up to date. Most of my websites are static. Today I see that Synology has updated the affected PHP packages. Of the software I'm self-hosting in docker containers, only two use PHP; FreshRSS and SpeedTestTracker. #PHP2Shell #SmallWeb #SelfHosting #Synology #Updates

Some young people came to my door yesterday to ask me to switch mobile carriers. I told them about archive.org, which they said they'd never heard of! They were back in my neighborhood again today, so I told them about Project Gutenberg, and explained what "public domain" is. www.gutenberg.org

I hope Indivisible gets some answers! Reminder: Don't rely on Instagram and Facebook. Have a website! Especially if you run a local chapter of a group like this. Register a domain name if you can. Have your website address on every image you share on other platforms. yourownwebsite.org

Results of my Suck at Something September blog.shannonkay.com/2026/09-3... #SuckAtSomethingSeptember #Drawing #BlogPost #WebProjects #SmallWeb #Crayons

Did you know about the special characters for degrees° Fahrenheit and Celsius, ℉ and ℃ ? blog.shannonkay.com/2026/08-2... #Degrees #Unicode #BlogPost #Blogging #Blaugust

Have you created a new website on Neocities, Nekoweb, or elsewhere, and don't know what to put on it or do with it? Read this great blog post from James! 100 Things you can do on your personal website jamesg.blog/2024/02/19/p...

this month's newsletter is on the 'old web' aesthetic and resources on exploring online spaces that still feel whimsical and like the web that wasn't full of notifications and expectations. are there any topics you'd liek to see explored within this? =] #oldweb #newsletter #cowsites

Today, while browsing through the Way Back Machine on Internet Archive, I stumbled upon an old website that I had made. This was almost certainly my first "professional" website, and I believe I made it in the year 2000 when I was sixteen. blog.shannonkay.com/2026/08-1... #OldWeb #Blaugust

The Gravatar profiles have a custom domain option that I might test out as a review(if I find time!). There's no connecting domain names you already have, but they are giving 1 year of domain registration for free, and have something built in for using it as a custom domain Bluesky handle.

The perfect storm was created with The Beths playing on my husband's birthday right in our own county. We didn't even have to drive to Los Angeles! #TheBeths #Concerts #LiveMusic #BlogPost #Blaugust #Blogging

Happy HTML Day! Maybe you don't have time to write a whole HTML document today. That's ok. Let's write the HTML for a link! Link to your website or any website you want. <a href="https://make.yourownwebsite.org">Make Your Own Website</a> #HTMLDay2026 #HTML #HTMLDay #SmallWeb #Websites

HTML Day 2026 is tomorrow ❇️ 2026.html.energy Start your text editors !

I've tested another new small web website hosting option. How to host your website on pages.gay Part of git.gay, and run by @besties.house yourownwebsite.org/freehosts/#p... #WebHost #PersonalSites #SmallWeb #IndieWeb #FreeWebHost

New web hosting test added to my site! Hosting your website for free on Vercel. yourownwebsite.org/freehosts/#v... #WebHost #PersonalSites #FreeWebHost #StaticHost

Happy 35th Birthday The World's First Website! On August 6, 1991, the World Wide Web (WWW) creator, Tim Berners-Lee launched the world’s first website. #InternetHistory

Happy 35th birthday to the World Wide Web! And to the first website; Published August 6, 1991. #WWW35 #WWW #WorldWideWeb #InternetHistory

Hosting your website for free with Netlify Drop yourownwebsite.org/freehosts/#n... Update: A test of Netlify Drop has been added to my free website hosts page. Great choice for using a custom domain name! Fast and easy to upload your site with drag and drop. #WebHost #PersonalSites #FreeWebHost

Asking for a friend… does anyone on here know Sir Tim Berners-Lee?

i made this html+css template as an alternative to linktree for people who want to ditch it. you can host it for free on neocities! and it's yours forever :) if for any reason neocities falls in the future, you can easily grab the files and host them somewhere else.

A Swiss Army knife of free browser tools, with QR and barcode generators, a background remover, palette tools, a favicon maker, PDF preflight, typography calculators, social media croppers, and dozens more quick utilities. No login, no ads, and no tracking. Did we mention it’s FREE? 👀

Right! Linktree doesn’t offer anything novel from what I was coding into my old Angelfire sites

For those of you who are concerned about LinkTree starting to use AI, I've set up a linkstack instance at directory.theheart.land which you are free to use <3 NSFW okay, just no illegal or hateful things

I started writing a tutorial for a basic HTML handmade "link tree" website a while back. I guess I should finish it.

Yes! Make your own website. yourownwebsite.org

Bing has blocked neocities and all user subdomains from its search index. We’ve spent months trying to resolve this through official channels and gotten nowhere. Until this gets resolved, we are recommending that people do not use Bing. Blog post with details: blog.neocities.org/blog/2026/01...

Some of my favorite TLDs are going up in price at every registrar on October 6. This includes domain extensions like .coffee and .pink and .cafe! If you have a domain name with one of these TLDs, you can renew now for multiple years to get the lower price. #DomainNames porkbun.com/blog/domain-...

Me: Today has been the birthday of the World Wide Web. 34 years old today! Kid: The world is 34 years old?! #WorldWideWeb

To celebrate HTML Day #htmlday I added a link page on my awesome Neocities website and illustrated it quickly with a scanned pencil drawing that I doodled on the back of an envelope. maijanlainen.neocities.org/mustikka

Just in time for #htmlday I have a new way to write HTML, dancing! Feeling the @htmlenergy.bsky.social 🪩 doodles.patrickweaver.net/dancing-html/

Happy HTML Day! In honor of #HTMLDay I've got a new URL and printable cheat sheet for Make Your Own Website. make.yourownwebsite.org yourownwebsite.org#printables #HTMLDay2025 #HTML #SmallWeb #MakeYourOwnWebsite #PersonalSites #PersonalWebsite #WebWeaving #IndieWeb

I've added a test of tiiny.host to my Free Website Hosts page. web.pixelshannon.com/freehosts/#t...

New emoji for Unicode 17! I'm excited about the ballet dancer, as a ballet mom. #Emoji

Defragmenting

"Now through April 6, all omg.lol signups, renewals, and gift codes are 25% off with the promo code KINDNESS. And during this same period, I’m donating 25% of all sales to Best Buddies International" omglol.news/2025/03/29/c...

I've installed Readeck on my server for saving and reading articles from the web, and I really like it. It has highlighting! https://readeck.org #SelfHosting

I'm checking out free web hosting providers that can be used for fun and personal websites. I wanted to know what to recommend to people who want to make their own website, so I decided to try things out for myself! #WebHost #PersonalSites Testing Free Website Hosts web.pixelshannon.com/freehosts

No Web Without Women "A collection of innovations by women in the fields of computer science and technology." https://nowebwithoutwomen.com #WomenInTech

Here's a roundup of some great indie/small web newsletters this week. Most of these were delivered to my RSS reader. Scrolls by Shellsharks: https://shellsharks.com/scrolls/scroll/2025-03-07 People and Blogs: https://manuelmoreale.com/pb-james This Week in Self-Hosted: https://selfh.st/newsletter/2

Do you want more pink in your RSS feed? If, like me, you are in the Venn diagram of people that read #RSS feeds with the #NetNewsWire client and also want their News to be pink, I have the perfect theme for you! You can get my #pink themes for NetNewsWire here: https://www.shannonkay.com/themes/

Here's what I use for internet basics. - Email: iCloud Mail with Custom Domains (https://support.apple.com/en-us/102540) - Browser: Safari or Firefox; Opera or Vivaldi if I need something Chromium-based - Search Engine: DuckDuckGo (https://duckduckgo.com) - Domain Registration: Porkbun.com

Having your own website is not going to fix democracy, or capitalism, but it makes a political statement. It says "I want to carve my own space on the web" and I think this is a radical act. It was when I originally said this in 2022, and I mean it even more today. localghost.dev/blog/this-pa...