Posted by Mark on 17 Jun, 2025
This blog has been up for quite a while now. It still looks clean and minimalist to me, but it definitely isn't sleek at all. That's okay, I'm not an artist and this is a personal blog. I don't have to sell anything or pretend.
A few months ago, one of my bands decided that we need a new website, though. We have been happy with Facebook to promote upcoming gigs and document them afterwards with a few images and sometimes a short video. But public Facebook profiles are getting more and more locked down by Meta, so that they are effectively useless if you don't want to log in.
This is why we want to own our content and publish it ourselves. So I set up a WordPress site - because that's what everyone does and there's tons of themes. But I had just one little wish: I wanted two independent streams of blog posts, each with their own RSS feed. One for the upcoming events and one for our actual blog content. And after one day of fiddling around, I finally gave up and started a Django application from scratch. To my surprise, I had an initial version ready after just a few hours. It's live now at https://pimentamalagueta.de.
The funny thing is: I had the impression that I'm a novice at building a homebrew website and I'd really like to meet up with others to exchange ideas and learn. And just a few days later, I stumbled upon Jochen's Weeknotes where he wrote about the formation of the Homebrew Website Club in Düsseldorf.
Today, I've attended - and I'm really deligted. I didn't even get that Indieweb is not just a website, but a real movement with plenty of people, ideas, and documented knowledge, best practices and tutorials. I've already refined the rel-me links for RelMeAuth on this blog and added h-card markup to my profile today. Cool stuff!
Next thing up will be h-entry markup for my blog articles and hopefully Webmentions.