August 31, 2024 Newsletter

 Welcome!

Thanks for signing up to the 32-Bit Cafe newsletter, 32-Bit Cafe Bytes.

 

In our inaugural email, we're kicking things off with updates about the 32-Bit Cafe, the small web at large (get it?), and various ways to get involved with the community. If you've been unsure how to keep up with us, this is a great introduction!

 

This newsletter is meant to be helpful and engaging. If you think we're missing the mark, reach out to xandra@32bit.cafe. We'd love your feedback. The next newsletter might look a little different as we catch our stride!

 

Thank you for being here. Now that we're back in autumn, lots of our community members are going back to school for the semester, so good luck to those of you heading back to hit the books!

We have an awesome group of volunteers who organize our web events, and we're looking for some input on some ideas that have cropped up over the past year! Chime into the poll, make your  voice heard, and determine the future of 32-Bit Cafe events.

For a few months, we maintained the QOTW on the forum, but this has fallen by the wayside and could use some volunteers! If you have a discussion question centered around the personal web, post a new topic in the General forum on Discourse using the tag qotw. If someone's already posted that week, save it for the next week!

Folks have been asking for this since we opened the Discourse forum, and we've finally implemented it! An entire forum category is now dedicated to sharing links you think the community might be interested in. Just drop the link in the title of the new topic, and Discourse does the rest for you (if it has the metadata!).

Our last event in August was an awesome display with 30 participants: our biggest code jam yet! Check out all of the entries from community members and folks all over the web. There's so many topics that were covered, there's bound to be something you're interested in learning about.

In an effort to branch out of Big Tech platforms, we are now offering a Pixelfed instance. Pixelfed is an open-source, federated way of sharing photos, much like Instagram. Sign up with an account and start sharing your photos with us!

Project teams are a cool way to get involved in the community alongside other members, who are all working towards common goals to better this side of the web: Event Planners, Scribes, Technomancers, and Artists. Interested in helping out?

Every month, we'll showcase a few blog posts from members of the 32-Bit Cafe. Sometimes around a theme, sometimes not. This month, these posts are all talking about the independent web, the personal web, the small web—whatever you call it, we like to talk about it and what it means to us. These blog entries have been submitted to our community blogroll.

fLaMEd shares how we can "help rebuild the connections that made the web diverse and fun to surf again."

James discusses how optimistic he is about the future of the web, thanks to personal websites.

Rina makes the case for everyone to blog and bring back creativity and passion to the web.

Velvet gives their personal take on their relationship with the internet and how it's changed.

Leilukin channels their passion for her hobby into a career pivot after being inspired by others.

Fyr makes a case for joining the indie web without any of the technical know-how of protocols or standards.

32-Bit Cafe Joins the Fediverse!

we’re so stoked to announce that the 32-bit cafe is joining the fediverse with our own pixelfed instance!

The Importance of Inconvenience

The ritual of engaging with something is as important as the thing itself ...

microscopic graphics by ribose

hello! i have a lot of fun making very tiny graphics, so i’m taking requests!

Custom Startpage!!

I recommend everyone to make their own custom startpage ...

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