Ben Werdmuller

Tag: indieweb

  • Engine attribution

    This site is (right now) powered by the WordPress open source blogging engine. If you hit “view source” in your browser, somewhere near the top, this is what you’ll see: <meta name=”generator” content=”WordPress x.x.x” /> (Where x.x.x is the current version.) I’m in the process of moving away from WordPress. More about that another time. […]

  • Silos, the open web, and selfdogfooding

    Tantek Çelik has written an important post about silos vs an open, social web: The answer is not to not “only [be] relevant to geeks”, but rather, reframe it as a positive, and be relevant to yourself. That is, design, architect, create, and build for yourself first, others second. If you’re not willing to run […]

  • Why I wrote my own CMS so I could write a novel in a month

    Growing up, I always wanted to be a professional writer. It’s still something I aspire to, but I get just as many creative kicks out of building software – and the pleasure is even greater when, just occasionally, I get to combine the two. I’ve tried to participate in NaNoWriMo, the National Novel Writing Month, […]