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Naty S(she/her).A tech enthusiast who enjoys blogging with SSGs, tinkering on her computer, and promoting IndieWeb principles.
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This page is an archive of all my weeknotes. To see the general blog archive, visit the /blog page or for my shorter microblogs, see the /notes feed.
What Are Week Notes?
Weeknotes are personal, informal weekly reflections inspired by the IndieWeb community. In these spontaneous notes, I try to capture what I worked on, stuff I learnt, interesting links or writing about a topic that tickled me that week.
They’re less polished than regular blog posts (which is a challenge for a perfectionist like me), but they serve as a lightweight way to practice writing, record progress, and share small insights with you; my dear readers!
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Participating in blogging events, joining new forums, making 88x31 badges, and passing my driving test! Met a handful of cool bloggers too. A good week!
Update on driving, learning Discourse, discovering junk journaling and artist trading cards, and thinking about hosting my own Forgejo. Link Roundup is back!
Going to the annual book fair but got some cheese and juice instead. Bookwyrm data loss, building a book tracking plugin, and being part of a new writing group.
Missed two weeks but I’m back with links to share despite finishing Junited. Usual webdev tinkering, a childhood memory, hosting HWC, and IndieWebCamp thoughts.
Fixing stale site files on Bunny, working with Zensical for my secondary site, website readability issues. Driving an EV for the first time, and F1 updates.
Pokémon cards’ value, accidentally published a Hugo draft post and decided to leave WordPress for a new SSG. Considering a digital garden for my secondary blog.
Switching email providers (Tuta to Mailbox.org) meant setting up DNS and using new Android apps. Bitwarden is changing? Trying to update my CV with new tools.
Catching up on the /changelog page, trying to learn more Git to fix my Git mistakes, Mother’s Day, and XL link roundup for missing last week’s weeknote.
Inspired by IndieWebCamp, discovered loads of cool people and their websites. Site changes and added webmention digest section, and the usual link roundup.
Revamped Pi homelab was a success, deployed public-facing Indiekit Micropub Node.js server using Docker, Compose, Tailscale and Caddy; with new Kitty terminal!
Jumping down rabbit holes and troubleshooting: fixing Mermaid/D2 diagrams, Render and Codeberg problems, learning new tools, Pi home server refresh, and more!
Participating in Hyde’s Over/Under series, HK public library resources, new Fresh Tech Finds section exploring tools like CLI/IDE, and lots of IndieWeb links!
Tested new WP theme for my secondary blog with My WordPress. Learnt more about Git branches, merge/rebase, and cherry-pick. New router excitement becomes woes.
New tech stack curiosity, Hugo theme redesign demo, setting self-hosting goals amidst Hostinger’s WP expiry, and trying to meet the 100DaysToOffload challenge.
Loving Lewis’ P3 podium at Shanghai, exploring CryptPad as an open-source alternative to Google Drive, and online multiplayer games with the Nintendo Switch.
Became a Wikipedian, craving a split keyboard, doing trackball mouse switch repairs. F1 2026 fantasy season starts. Links on tech, security, and privacy topics.
Tried Nordic walking for the first time at a 5km walkathon and feeling a sense of accomplishment as I add another item to my plumbing DIY achievement list.
Happy Chinese New Year! I’m improving WCAG compliance and A11y as I learned how to use Git branches. Also, IndieWeb wiki, Nordic walking, and PGP experience.
IndieWeb web dev ventures on my site: new guestbook and likes page, improved Microformat2 markup, fixed h-card to support Webmentions. Also new /caw page.
Major blog version upgrade with refined Hugo templates for photos, locations, and notes sections; photo carousel 2.0 much improved, location features added.
Managing Hugo themes and sharing photo apps. Starting my first ever 100 Days To Offload writing challenge, hoping to fill this blog up with more content.
Big IndieWeb updates behind the scenes with Indiekit and joining Homebrew Website Club meets. Learnt Git redaction, PR merged and improve Mermaid diagrams.
Made my first contribution to Hugo Docs, installing Indiekit, testing Micropub content. New Hugo templates for IndieWeb posts. Plus a quick F1 Fantasy summary.
Improving website performance on my secondary WordPress blog. Made a new link-in-bio page gathering content from multiple blogs onto one central dashboard.
Created readership survey; installed upvote button, moved photography site code. New vocab section in weeknotes and plans on learning Darktable in 2026.
Learning more about the IndieWeb led me to setting up IRC, joining webrings, getting my first webmentions, and connecting with amiable fellow bloggers.
First week note: optimized Hugo page speed, got flu shot, posted about coffee, explored Gopher. Links on Spotify, agentic AI, Google’s sideloading saga.
