Last year I started a webring like it was 1999 with the System Crafters community. And for its first anniversary I wrote a blog post about How I accidentally got better at self-hosting and FOSS contributing.

Sometimes you don’t have to wait for someone else, you can be a catalyst. Happy Birthday Craftering!

Thanks to @daviwil for fostering a great community and to @kern for building Ringfairy and being so encouraging.

Wochenrückblick, Ausgabe 85 (2025-13)

Themen:

Neues Feature für bikerouter.de: Kurzlinks und verbesserte QR Codes

Automatisch bei Blog-Updates den Uberblogr-Webring pingen

Neuer Schlauch für die Absaugung in der Werkstatt

Unbekannte Holzart entdeckt

snips.sh: SSH-basiertes Pastebin, Opengist als weitere Alternative für GitHub Gists

CLI-Tool der Woche: xsv

In dieser Woche gehört: SOS U-Ground B2B Tobias Sommer, Taberia

#Wochenrückblick #Bikerouter #QRCode #UberBlogr #Webring #Absaugschlauch #Werkstatt #Woodworking #Holz #Drechseln #snips.sh #Gist #Gitea #GitHub #Opengist #CLI #Shell #xsv #CSV #TSV #Techno

https://www.marcusjaschen.de/blog/2025/2025-13/

Sehr schön! Im @uberblogr Webring sind nun 200 Blogs eingetragen.
uberblogr.de/

So… is the “leaky homepage ring” affecting participating websites’ accessibility?

(I didn’t test, I kind of like the idea of the ring, and I hope if there are issues, we can help instead of castigate )

https://melonking.net/free/software/flood

"To join the webring create a pull request" -- And I'm out before I even got to think about if this is a webring I'd like to join. It's clearly not. And it's probably not meant to either. So all is good.

I would kind of like to join a webring, but so many I look into turn out to not be what I want (for a number and very different reasons) or my site is not eligible.
Which makes me think about starting my own webring. But why? And do I really want that work? And do I really want to join a webring? And so I close all the tabs and that's that.

#webring #smallWeb

I’d love to get a list of old school bloggers who are still at it. How would you go about that?

Building a list of old school bloggers

@davew After all these years, I think « webrings » and « blogrolls » is still the right answer to that question. Bloggers manually curating lists of other bloggers still feels like the most trustworthy source of inspiration for me.

Just like jumping from one Wikipedia article to another to learn new things can be fun, jumping from one site to another in a webring can be just as fun I think!

As an alternative, Kagi also recently created a « Small Web » list of active bloggers and content creators. I’ve been pretty happy with it. You can browse it here, and access the full list via RSS or an OPML file here.

haven't taken a scrot in ages. nothing really changed except the font

wallpaper: custom image
colours: oldriceputin
font: hack (nerdfont)
wm: herbstluftwm
terminal: urxvt
terminal multiplexer: tmux
irc client: irssi
text editor: neovim
web browser: qutebrowser
webring: pentaculum by @drkhsh
ascii font generator: toilet
music player: cmus

@kubikpixel Flashback to nineties "webrings" before there were good search engines and links from one website to another were often the best way to find new interesting sites. Even the use of badges are 100% in line with the 1990s esthetic. #1990s #webring #earlyInternet

Per Zufall die Blogosphäre entdecken

Es gibt offen­bar noch eine Men­ge Leu­te, die ihre unab­hän­gi­gen Blogs betrei­ben. Mit zwei Links kann man sich in einen zufäl­lig aus­ge­wähl­ten Blog-Arti­kel bea­men las­sen und so Din­ge ent­de­cken, die man gar nicht gesucht hat.

https://kaffeeringe.de/2025/03/07/per-zufall-die-blogosphaere-entdecken/

Goodbye Fediring.net
rausgerufen.de/goodbye-fedirin…

The blogging bug has taken hold, although I'm spending just as much time working on improving the blog itself as I am writing posts for it

https://liamsteckler.com/blog/ring-around-the-web/

As a rail against what “search” is becoming, I long more and more for the old ways of the web.

I want to have web rings again.

Does anyone know if there are any active webring services around? Searching of course displays me everything except what I want, with the exception of “history of webrings”.

Stumbled upon this great comics webring when I noticed the same logo on two of the comics that I follow. Nice! https://knifebeetle.neocities.org/ #webComics #webRing #indieComics

Hey hey, who wants to swap #88x31 #retro web buttons??

https://zelda.zone/fan-art/zelda-zone-88x31-blueylewis/

#webring time

I'm super pleased to announce that after months of on and off work, my #webring project, Polyring, is finally feature complete.

The entire project is about 6517 lines of code, mostly Go and HTML.
It's live on: https://polyring.club

It has been an absolute blast from start to finish and I'm super stoked that some people have already decided to join even before I was finished. To them, a big thank you. A webring is nothing without its members.

May the spirit of the fledgling internet live on! Cheers!

I am so old, that I can safely say that #webring [1] and #blogroll are the true origin of the #fediverse ;) A federated network that brought people together based on shared interests. #ActvityPub brings that approach back and allows us to leave the centralised networks behind. Things are getting better, IMHO :)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webring