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February 28, 2025 Newsletter
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Can you believe it's already almost spring? It's around this time that we start to see activity pick back up on websites after the holidays as folks begin to see the sun peeking out once more and seasonal sadness falls away.
In case you missed it, our Valentine's Day event had 25 submissions of expressing self-love, which was the theme this year. Seeing everyone take the time out to give themselves some love was so inspiring and lovely to read. I hope you'll take the time out to go through the entries and reflect on what folks wrote!
We had quite a few community projects kick off in February, so this is a pretty project-heavy newsletter. Amazing! We'll be announcing an upcoming code jam and event soon, so keep an eye out on the Announcements forum.
Have a great March, y'all!
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KingPoss has a software solution for folks who are trying to make galleries on Neocities! This has been a big ask from many artists and photographers on different forums and communities. KP's NeoGallery manages image uploads, thumbnail generation, tagging, and synchronizing these assets to your Neocities site via the Neocities API.
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After the Google announcement that they were removing inclusive holidays from Google Calendar's default settings, Stefan leapt into action and created a crowdsourced list that can be implemented into most calendar software.
Anyone can contribute to increase the scope of the calendar.
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Good Internet Magazine, born from a 32-Bit Cafe Discourse thread, will be launching in May 2025. With a professional printer set up and articles being laid into the magazine layout, this magazine will be a culmination of journalism, personal essays, and personal web-related hobby celebration.
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Some progress has been made on the fundraising zine, but Eladnarra is still looking for volunteers to help.
If you enjoy the Internet Archive, this would be a good chance to get involved for a good cause. Otherwise, hold on to your wallets for April!
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Divergent Rays' website is a nostalgic bomb with so much soul. Between her adorable pixel clubs Kitty Friends as well as a Pocket Town revival and wide swath of feel-good content, visiting Divergent Rays' website is like a cozy hug. Give her a visit!
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Every third Sunday, James, Jay, or both of them, are hosting our Webweaving Workshops. You can always take a look at our Events Calendar to see the specific date of upcoming events. Our next workshop will be March 16. See you there!
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Blog Posts Around the Cafe
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Every month, we showcase a few blog posts from members of the 32-Bit Cafe. Sometimes around a theme, sometimes not. This month, these posts give us a glimpse into the lives of our community members, a snapshot in time of them. These blog entries have been submitted to our community blogroll.
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ConcreteLunch's blog normally talks about skateboarding, coding, and slices of life, but couldn't help but include this adorable post in which he gushes about his beautiful Sheltie, Riley.
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After another 32-Bit Cafe member inspired him to do so, fLaMEd discusses what it feels like to blog just because rather than blogging with expectations of long essays or specific theming.
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Frankie vents about the hold that computers have over his life and how he wants to incorporate more nature and meaningful work into his life as a regular occurrence.
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Dr. Molly Tov talks about how, after writing professionally and personally for 25 years, the personal web has changed her writing.
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Rosaria celebrates their acceptance into grad school and reflects on therapy, their brother's traumatic injury, and faith.
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Cassiterite has a new favorite food and she is obsessed! They center around understanding herself better while light-heartedly raving about ramen.
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Popular Forum Topics of the Month
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xixxii poses a question that helped kick off a better understanding around social media and platform silos.
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Grubdog poses a question that centers around the use of JavaScript, often discouraged in "old web" circles.
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Shannon writes honest reviews about all of the free web hosts out there so folks can properly recommend platforms.
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Molly asks the community for weird internet radio stations that are still around these days.
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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.
Thank you for being here. The world is better with you in it.
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