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  "title": "Your space on the Web",
  "description": "Friends! Are you unsure how to make your own space on the web? I'm offering time, money &experience to help you build your online garden, away from the ads and head-hacking of the social media giants.",
  "publishedAt": "2024-05-17T11:04:51.000Z",
  "textContent": "Hello friends, I miss you! I'm barely on the giant social media sites any more, which means I don't get to interact with so many of you in the ways I used to. It sucks.\n\nSo I have a proposition for you: if you're feeling a little creative, if you'd like to _be_ the change bringing more personality and creativity to the internet, then I'll help you get there.\n\nI'll help you find your voice on the web — maybe a hobby, your thoughts, photography, art or poetry; I'll help you build your site (sharing what I already know and learning more together); I'll buy you a birthday present's worth of tools that suit you; and I'll help you find others doing the same.\n\nLeave the attention-seeking, profit-optimised, social media slop to wither and die — come and bring your creativity and joy to the IndieWeb community!\n\nInspiration & joy\n\nHere are some favourites of mine; some intimidatingly impressive, some simple and expressive:\n\n- This poetic ode to soft tech, and its author Helena's creativity.\n  - …and mmm.page, the gloriously expressive (free!) platform its made on.\n- The beautiful kinetic woodwork of David C. Roy — this piece in particular just mesmerises me.\n- Red Blob Games is Amit Patel writing explaining the super geeky world of game development in a way that's really accessible and engaging.\n- Neocities is the spiritual successor of the 1990s' \"GeoCities\" site that made \"having a website\" a possibility for everyday people. _This_ is an internet of creativity and passion — sometimes unfathomable, but always intriguing.\n- Low←Tech Magazine, an online publication powered by a solar-powered computer — sometimes, often at night, it won't be available, and that's totally fine.\n- This incredible interactive article on the physics of how how bikes work (with many other similarly fantastic articles along side)\n- Jennifer Mills News, a cute weekly one-page newspaper covering the everyday adventures of Jennifer Mills.\n- chia.earth, a deconstruction of a calm landscape, represented in text, that you can explore and change.\n- neal.fun, particularly the delightful Internet Artifacts, bringing the concept of an internet museum (about the internet to life.\n- A good old blogroll! A list of interesting blogs you might like to visit.\n\nI should stop there, or I'll never post this — the internet is so full of hidden creativity and joy, I hope you'll be a part of that!",
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