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Pixel Shannon
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Testing Bluesky domain handles and encouraging people to make websites.
https://www.pixelshannon.com
Main: @shannonkay.com
Make Your Own Website: https://make.yourownwebsite.org
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Some of my favorite TLDs are going up in price at every registrar on October 6.
This includes domain extensions like .coffee and .pink and .cafe! If you have a domain name with one of these TLDs, you can renew now for multiple years to get the lower price. #DomainNames

porkbun.com/blog/domain-...
Domain Name Price Increases October 6, 2025 - Porkbun.com
Did you hear about the domain name price increases happening October 6, 2025? This article lists all 233 affected domain extensions.
porkbun.com
October 1, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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Me: Today has been the birthday of the World Wide Web. 34 years old today!

Kid: The world is 34 years old?!

#WorldWideWeb
August 7, 2025 at 6:09 AM
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To celebrate HTML Day #htmlday I added a link page on my awesome Neocities website and illustrated it quickly with a scanned pencil drawing that I doodled on the back of an envelope.

maijanlainen.neocities.org/mustikka
August 2, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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Just in time for #htmlday I have a new way to write HTML, dancing! Feeling the @htmlenergy.bsky.social 🪩

doodles.patrickweaver.net/dancing-html/
August 1, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Happy HTML Day!

In honor of #HTMLDay I've got a new URL and printable cheat sheet for Make Your Own Website.

make.yourownwebsite.org

yourownwebsite.org#printables

#HTMLDay2025 #HTML #SmallWeb #MakeYourOwnWebsite #PersonalSites #PersonalWebsite #WebWeaving #IndieWeb
August 2, 2025 at 9:19 PM
New emoji for Unicode 17! I'm excited about the ballet dancer, as a ballet mom. #Emoji
🥳 Say Hello to the New Emoji Coming in Unicode 17.0 This Fall! ✨
From 🥹 to 🦖 to 🎸, emoji have become the world's favorite way to say anything—without saying a word. Whether you're texting your best frie...
blog.unicode.org
July 17, 2025 at 10:02 PM
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Defragmenting
May 21, 2025 at 5:15 PM
"Now through April 6, all omg.lol signups, renewals, and gift codes are 25% off with the promo code KINDNESS. And during this same period, I’m donating 25% of all sales to Best Buddies International"
omglol.news/2025/03/29/c...
omg.lol
March 31, 2025 at 8:22 PM
I've installed Readeck on my server for saving and reading articles from the web, and I really like it. It has highlighting!

https://readeck.org

#SelfHosting
Home
Save interesting articles, long read, pictures, videos. Read or revisit them later.
readeck.org
March 26, 2025 at 10:33 PM
I'm checking out free web hosting providers that can be used for fun and personal websites.
I wanted to know what to recommend to people who want to make their own website, so I decided to try things out for myself!
#WebHost #PersonalSites

Testing Free Website Hosts
web.pixelshannon.com/freehosts
Testing Free Website Hosts (Pixel Shannon)
I'm checking out free hosting providers that can be used for fun and personal websites. I test free web hosts and document my results, often with mini tutorials. I wanted to know what to recommend to ...
web.pixelshannon.com
March 12, 2025 at 7:09 PM
No Web Without Women
"A collection of innovations by women in the fields of computer science and technology."

https://nowebwithoutwomen.com
#WomenInTech
No Web Without Women
An educational website featuring a collection of innovations by women in the fields of computer science and technology.
nowebwithoutwomen.com
March 8, 2025 at 10:55 PM
Here's a roundup of some great indie/small web newsletters this week. Most of these were delivered to my RSS reader.

Scrolls by Shellsharks: https://shellsharks.com/scrolls/scroll/2025-03-07
People and Blogs: https://manuelmoreale.com/pb-james
This Week in Self-Hosted: https://selfh.st/newsletter/2
Scroll sextus
Arcane curation from the IndieWeb, Fediverse and Cybersecurity realms
shellsharks.com
March 8, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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Do you want more pink in your RSS feed?

If, like me, you are in the Venn diagram of people that read #RSS feeds with the #NetNewsWire client and also want their News to be pink, I have the perfect theme for you!

You can get my #pink themes for NetNewsWire here: https://www.shannonkay.com/themes/
March 3, 2025 at 9:39 AM
Here's what I use for internet basics.
- Email: iCloud Mail with Custom Domains (https://support.apple.com/en-us/102540)
- Browser: Safari or Firefox; Opera or Vivaldi if I need something Chromium-based
- Search Engine: DuckDuckGo (https://duckduckgo.com)
- Domain Registration: Porkbun.com
Use Custom Email Domain with iCloud Mail - Apple Support
When you subscribe to iCloud+, you can use a custom domain name that you already own to personalize your iCloud email address, or you can purchase a new domain.
support.apple.com
February 24, 2025 at 10:18 AM
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Having your own website is not going to fix democracy, or capitalism, but it makes a political statement. It says "I want to carve my own space on the web" and I think this is a radical act. It was when I originally said this in 2022, and I mean it even more today.

localghost.dev/blog/this-pa...
This page is under construction - localghost
If you take just one thing away from this article, I want it to be this: please build your own website.
localghost.dev
February 22, 2025 at 12:37 PM
How do I change my Bluesky username to my domain name?
www.pixelshannon.com/bluesky/hand...
Verify your Bluesky account, Bluesky domain handles, and testing free web hosts that you can use to make a Bluesky handle to match your website address.
Bluesky Handle Tests by Pixel Shannon
I test Bluesky domain handles, especially subdomains with free web hosts. The best custom domain Bluesky handles aren't just vanity usernames. They tell you about the user if you check out the website...
www.pixelshannon.com
February 20, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Bluesky Domain handle test:
GitHub Pages - ✅ verified
This one is great because it verifies you with your GitHub username.

Details of how I set up the GitHub Bluesky Handle: www.pixelshannon.com/bluesky/hand...
February 20, 2025 at 8:35 AM
Bluesky Handles I've Tested So Far
- Domain with DNS method- ✅ verified
- Subdomain with DNS and *No DNS Panel method* - ✅ verified
- Emoji Subdomain - ❌ Emoji subdomain Bluesky handles do not verify with either method.
February 14, 2025 at 12:44 AM
I just took this fun quiz, Which HTML Element are you?

I'm the

element, and my nested element is



Take the quiz at https://jamesg.blog/2025/02/13/html-quiz

February 13, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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The Birth of the Web: How One Site Changed Everything
On Aug 6, 1991, Tim Berners-Lee launched the first-ever website at CERN: info.cern.ch. Using HTML, HTTP & URLs, he built the foundation of the Web. Instead of patenting it, he made it free for all—shaping the internet as we know it. 🌐
#webdev
February 11, 2025 at 3:27 AM
Make Your Own Website
https://web.pixelshannon.com/make

This guide is intended to help beginners make their first website with HTML/CSS.

Let me know what you think!

#MakeYourOwnWebsite #PersonalSites #PersonalWeb #SmallWeb #HTML #CSS #IndieWeb #WebDev #homepage #SmolWeb
Make Your Own Website
web.pixelshannon.com
February 10, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Omg.lol gives you a domain name, profile page/web page, and a bunch of other things.
"Toward a more diverse social web: omglol.news/2025/02/01/t...

This month, omg.lol is putting intention into action and offering a free year membership to anyone in a racial or ethnic minority group."
The Omg Lol Times · Toward a more diverse social web
omglol.news
February 5, 2025 at 6:15 AM
Bluesky domain handle
Where to get a domain name? I suggest porkbun.com
How do I change my username to my domain name?
- Official doc: bsky.social/about/blog/4...
- Tutorial about using the "No DNS panel" method. For Neocities, but the method works elsewhere.
www.bobdraws.com/neocities-bl...
February 3, 2025 at 6:37 PM