Weird Little Joy Machines
Small distractions for hard days. A collection of absurdist web toys.
The world is a lot right now, so I built dumb little web toys to make you smile.
Find out what your houseplant named itself. Get a compliment from a very specific person. Generate corporate excuses so jargon-filled they're meaningless.
joy.stackandsignal.com
#SmallJoys #IndieWeb #JustForFun
17.01.2026 04:49 — 👍 5 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0
Multi-column layout with date filter set to "All"
Filter set to "Today"
I've been watching lots of Downton Abbey... Lord Grantham's morning paper reading made me think of how nicely laid out newspapers are.
I'm playing around with multi-column layouts and date filters on a personal #RSS aggregator. I'm liking the UX so far!
13.01.2026 22:52 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
You Can Make A Website
If you have any doubts, then you're the target audience of this guide.
I love this guide to help new builders osteophage.neocities.org/essays/you-c...
and I have a few more resources at my links page too enocc.com/links
Have fun!!
27.12.2025 22:43 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
How do we fight alienation?
Pablo Enoc's weblog about people and technology.
We see a lot of discourse about the state of the web, stemming from the fact that we have built a digital infrastructure hostile to meaningful human development, resulting in alienation.
But what do we do about it?
enocc.com/2025/12/19/i...
19.12.2025 22:51 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The year 2025 for powRSS
Pablo Enoc's weblog about people and technology.
I've written about the year 2025 for powRSS.
It's a summary of the stats, milestones, costs, and history of this #indieweb project you have all helped me build.
enocc.com/2025/12/14/p...
#rss #blogs
14.12.2025 21:12 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
lettrss.com home page showing cover of A Christmas Carol
The next book on lettrss will be A Christmas Carol.
We will start reading tomorrow!
Follow along via your #RSS reader.
lettrss.com
09.12.2025 05:27 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Lo bueno de que ya sea diciembre es que me la pasaré viendo películas y series de Navidad todo este mes 🎄💜
02.12.2025 15:15 — 👍 30 🔁 3 💬 4 📌 0
Re: the overstated importance of connectivity
Pablo Enoc's weblog about people and technology.
Identifying how each of us inhabits cyberspace is the key to setting boundaries, managing expectations, and maintaining a good balance between the physical and digital world.
enocc.com/2025/12/01/p...
01.12.2025 20:13 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Personal blogs are back, should niche blogs be next?
« Les blogs de niche pourraient-ils sauver le web ? Face à l’IA et aux réseaux sociaux, et si on redécouvrait des contenus pointus, écrits par des passionnés, sans pubs intrusives ? 1 retour aux sources, mais en mieux ? #Blogging #IndieWeb #SmallWeb
disassociated.com/personal-blo...
28.11.2025 10:07 — 👍 6 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 1
YES! Please bring back personal websites I'd LOVE to read all your writing there.
29.11.2025 17:25 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
It's a myth that good ideas beat out bad ones in a capitalist market.
In reality the sunk-cost fallacy means tons of bad ideas survive due to the pouring of more money into originally bad investments.
That's how we get AI everywhere.
29.11.2025 16:43 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Naming blogs is a lost art form.
You talk about what you're reading at The Blorbo Review? Sign me up.
You review corn at Corn Corner? Hell yeah.
Star Wars analysis at The High Ground? You know it.
29.11.2025 16:33 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Karen – Manu
Let's start from the basics: can you introduce yourself? Hello! My name is Karen. I work in IT support for a large company’s legal department, and am …
I'm excited to announce that I'm the latest interview on Manu's People and Blogs today! manuelmoreale.com/interview/ka...
I've been reading these interviews for over a year now and I'm honored to be asked to participate. I hope whoever comes to visit likes my little wee corner of the web.
28.11.2025 15:07 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
This past weekend I saw a disheartening amount of shops using the "no more pennies" excuse to completely reject cash payments...
25.11.2025 04:38 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Agreed entirely. Mastodon always yields interesting finds, whereas Bluesky feels like more noise somehow
21.11.2025 08:38 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Hi! Filtering by category will be available soon (just finishing up internal testing). For returning to normal mode you can click “Home” on the top navbar but I agree I need to make that clearer haha I’m still thinking of a more handy design choice!
Thanks for checking out powRSS 😁
17.11.2025 18:04 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Read a chapter of a book daily in your RSS reader
It was so nice to see this post about my projects from John Lampard.
Thank you so much!!
disassociated.com/read-chapter...
16.11.2025 20:39 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Love this initiative. Great work!
16.11.2025 20:38 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
BurOak.Club
A webring for Ann Arbor, Ypsilanti, and other parts near or far.
I'm going to soft launch buroak.club and stop trying to put coats of paint on it or it will take forever to be "ready". BurOak Club is a #webring for south-east #Michigan. Contribute your personal site. Hoping for an official launch later in the year. Re-wild the internet. #indieweb
16.11.2025 19:53 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0
Since I quit most social media, I've been wanting to create a website from scratch, but I never got to finish it.
I recently stumbled upon the #smallweb or #indieweb movement, and it felt like finding my people!
The web feels exciting again!
16.11.2025 12:19 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
This is so exciting to read! When you get your site up and running, feel free to submit it to powRSS. It's an aggregator for the indie web. There's like 270+ of us right now and it would be amazing to have blogs from scientists like you. Welcome!!
16.11.2025 20:37 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
YouTube video by ENOCC
Read a book via RSS with lettrss.com
Read books in the public domain via #RSS feed with lettrss.
Walkthrough in <1 minute:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FIGO...
14.11.2025 20:38 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
powRSS Inline Reading
Pro Tip: If you use Safari, you can select File > Add to Dock to read powRSS from your desktop.
14.11.2025 07:15 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Check out powRSS, it’s an aggregator of blogs but all the content is on people’s websites. Great way to discover independent blogs.
powrss.com
14.11.2025 10:26 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Haha exactly!! I’m never gonna stop using RSS I love it
14.11.2025 10:24 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
I think you’d really like powRSS. It takes people’s personal blogs and makes a feed of their posts from RSS. Like a community RSS feed.
powrss.com
14.11.2025 10:21 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
need to kill the recurring thought of "no I can't replay/reread that, I have other stuff to check out"
no. I am a poor little peasant living just after the advent of the printing press. I have five books at most and I will reread them so much they will know the death of the author was caused by me
14.11.2025 02:56 — 👍 3670 🔁 255 💬 72 📌 21
Reminder: A lot of great books published this year during absolutely bonkers news & world event times. That squashes people talking about them. Keep buying books please, keep borrowing them from libraries, and for the love of all that's good, talk about them. Post about them. 📚
13.11.2025 14:15 — 👍 379 🔁 156 💬 6 📌 10
Blogs with categories on powRSS
#powRSS now shows categories for all blogs!
13.11.2025 21:28 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Professional Game Artist✏️
Creating Cozy Mini Games, Game Assets, Streaming Assets, and Cozy Art
Commissions: Open 🌸
Vgen: https://vgen.co/CozyBritt
Ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/cozybritt
Portfolio: https://cozybritt.com/links
Composer & programmer who likes noise, obsolete media, electronics, and nostalgia
Website: https://reillyspitzfaden.com
Mastodon: https://hachyderm.io/@reillypascal
Mastodon (follow from Bsky): https://bsky.app/profile/reillypascal.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy
Coder, Pixel Pusher, Blogger, Runner, Student.
Crafting billow.software @ trueform.agency at day.
Building morgen.blue and tinkering with my personal website at night.
🔗 https://dominikhofer.me
🦋 at://dominik.social
📌 Switzerland
Using computers to better understand languages, texts, and music.
Web, Python, DH, Corpus Linguistics, Computational Literary Studies, Data Visualization, Philology, Ancient Greek, Music Theory, Tolkien, Space.
PhD candidate @dhssfau.bsky.social
writes, bikes, makes val.town, writes macwright.com, open source, geo, music, sewing and other stuff.
twitter archive: https://bsky.app/profile/archive.macwright.com
Writer, music and other things
http://blissout.blogspot.com/
A journalist in Amsterdam via NYC. https://dfg.im
A survivor who's done & been a lot of things. Quick intro pinned below; more @ https://manmadeghost.com/about/ on my dormant site. All photos & art I post are by me. He/they.
Financially desperate. Donations @ https://paypal.me/manmadeghost very welcome.
Contains multitudes.
Author of Radical Focus and many more.
Lecturer at Stanford.
Often somewhere with a beach and ruins.
👨🏽🍼 Father
🇧🇷 Senior developer @ thoughtbot.
📝 Blogging @ https://tbot.io/blog/matheus
💎 Organizer of http://rubydf.com
GP&CTO @blueyard.com
Author, musician, speaker, developer
https://chadfowler.com/
I'm on Germ DM 🔑
anchr://ger.mx/A4ThL8vo6C6uygkNTQKyjHTSc9ZUaQWU0s5aVU3Io2s4#did:plc:4qsyxmnsblo4luuycm3572bq
Software developer, RubyZG organizer, Author of http://masterhotwire.com, Runner, Dog Owner, Father (in increasing order of importance). Website: https://radanskoric.com/
@rustlang and stuff. Managing Director at Ferrous Systems
CEO @ Tilde, previous organizer of EmberConf, RailsConf, RustConf and more. Ember,js core team, jQuery core alum. Not super active on social media, but still doing all the things!
Modularity @ Gusto, Rubyist
Author of BrutRB, our last best hope for Rubykind (https://brutrb.com) - former Mood Health, Stitch Fix, LivingSocial, Opower. I play bass and love to scuba dive.
Senior Software Developer @Zivio 👾 Rails Documentation Writer 📚 #Rails #Ruby 💎 musical comedian 🎵 teacher 🍏 hockey player 🏑 dog-lover 🐾
