Naty S
(she/her).
A tech enthusiast who enjoys blogging with SSGs, tinkering on her computer, and promoting IndieWeb principles.
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This page is an archive of all my weeknotes. To see the general blog archive, visit the /blog page or for my shorter microblogs, see the /notes feed.
What Are Week Notes?
Weeknotes are personal, informal weekly reflections inspired by the IndieWeb community. In these spontaneous notes, I try to capture what I worked on, stuff I learnt, interesting links or writing about a topic that tickled me that week.
They’re less polished than regular blog posts (which is a challenge for a perfectionist like me), but they serve as a lightweight way to practice writing, record progress, and share small insights with you; my dear readers!
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2026
Weeknote 2026-W31: Blaugust 2026, 32-Bit Cafe & New Bloggers
Participating in blogging events, joining new forums, making 88x31 badges, and passing my driving test! Met a handful of cool bloggers too. A good week!
Weeknote 2026-W30: Driving, Discourse & Junk Journaling
Update on driving, learning Discourse, discovering junk journaling and artist trading cards, and thinking about hosting my own Forgejo. Link Roundup is back!
Weeknote 2026-W29: Book Fair, Writing Group & Indiekit Books
Going to the annual book fair but got some cheese and juice instead. Bookwyrm data loss, building a book tracking plugin, and being part of a new writing group.
Weeknote 2026-W28: MIA, IndieWeb Events & Small Web Links
Missed two weeks but I’m back with links to share despite finishing Junited. Usual webdev tinkering, a childhood memory, hosting HWC, and IndieWebCamp thoughts.
Weeknote 2026-W25: Pokémon TCG Card Show
Attending my first Trading Card Show and thinking about selling my vintage Pokémon card collection, and the usual link dump.
Weeknote 2026-W24: Digital Garden Confusion & Driving an EV
Fixing stale site files on Bunny, working with Zensical for my secondary site, website readability issues. Driving an EV for the first time, and F1 updates.
Weeknote 2026-W23: Cached Data, Styles & Deleting Accounts
Minor site updates, new style-guide, convoluted process of deleting old accounts, attending my first tech event, and link roundup as usual.
Weeknote 2026-W22: Bitwarden Alternatives & Links Roundup
Getting to meet Brennan, a blogger I followed for a long time via the IndieWeb, some new features on my site and considering leaving Bitwarden.
Weeknote 2026-W21: Pokémon, Digital Garden & Bye WordPress
Pokémon cards’ value, accidentally published a Hugo draft post and decided to leave WordPress for a new SSG. Considering a digital garden for my secondary blog.
Weeknote 2026-W20: Email Migration, Resumes & Android Apps
Switching email providers (Tuta to Mailbox.org) meant setting up DNS and using new Android apps. Bitwarden is changing? Trying to update my CV with new tools.
Weeknote 2026-W19: Catching Up, Git & Double Link Roundup
Catching up on the /changelog page, trying to learn more Git to fix my Git mistakes, Mother’s Day, and XL link roundup for missing last week’s weeknote.
Weeknote 2026-W17: My First IndieWebCamp & Link Roundup
Inspired by IndieWebCamp, discovered loads of cool people and their websites. Site changes and added webmention digest section, and the usual link roundup.
Weeknote 2026-W16: Self-hosting Breakthrough & Site Updates
Revamped Pi homelab was a success, deployed public-facing Indiekit Micropub Node.js server using Docker, Compose, Tailscale and Caddy; with new Kitty terminal!
Weeknote 2026-W15: Diagrams, Node.js, Pi Homelab & Link Dump
Jumping down rabbit holes and troubleshooting: fixing Mermaid/D2 diagrams, Render and Codeberg problems, learning new tools, Pi home server refresh, and more!
Weeknote 2026-W14: Interview, Reading, Tech Finds & IndieWeb
Participating in Hyde’s Over/Under series, HK public library resources, new Fresh Tech Finds section exploring tools like CLI/IDE, and lots of IndieWeb links!
Weeknote 2026-W13: WordPress Playground, New Router & Git
Tested new WP theme for my secondary blog with My WordPress. Learnt more about Git branches, merge/rebase, and cherry-pick. New router excitement becomes woes.
Weeknote 2026-W12: Blog Itches, Collabs & New Theme Progress
New tech stack curiosity, Hugo theme redesign demo, setting self-hosting goals amidst Hostinger’s WP expiry, and trying to meet the 100DaysToOffload challenge.
Weeknote 2026-W11: CryptPad, Switch Games, VPS & F1 Podium
Loving Lewis’ P3 podium at Shanghai, exploring CryptPad as an open-source alternative to Google Drive, and online multiplayer games with the Nintendo Switch.
Weeknote 2026-W10: Wikipedia, Trackball Repair, F1 & Links
Became a Wikipedian, craving a split keyboard, doing trackball mouse switch repairs. F1 2026 fantasy season starts. Links on tech, security, and privacy topics.
Weeknote 2026-W09: 5km Nordic Walkathon & DIY Plumbing
Tried Nordic walking for the first time at a 5km walkathon and feeling a sense of accomplishment as I add another item to my plumbing DIY achievement list.
Weeknote 2026-W08: A11y, WCAG & KeepAndroidOpen
Happy Chinese New Year! I’m improving WCAG compliance and A11y as I learned how to use Git branches. Also, IndieWeb wiki, Nordic walking, and PGP experience.
Weeknote 2026-W07: MF2 Replies/Likes, H-Card, Webmentions
IndieWeb web dev ventures on my site: new guestbook and likes page, improved Microformat2 markup, fixed h-card to support Webmentions. Also new /caw page.
Weeknote 2026-W06: Bookwyrm, CNY, NB 2002R & AI
Book tracking with Fediverse Bookwyrm, CNY and New Balance sneakers. Some IndieWeb themes, agentic AI security concerns, and other curated links.
Weeknote 2026-W05: Hugo Micropub Integration & Web Dev
Major blog version upgrade with refined Hugo templates for photos, locations, and notes sections; photo carousel 2.0 much improved, location features added.
Weeknote 2026-W04: Maps with GPX, DNS & Photo Posts
Pass step count goals, mapping trails with GPX, fixing expired mac profiles, and creating a simple CSS carousel for multiple photo posts.
Weeknote 2026-W03: Hugo Themes, Photos & Blogging Challenge
Managing Hugo themes and sharing photo apps. Starting my first ever 100 Days To Offload writing challenge, hoping to fill this blog up with more content.
Weeknote 2026-W02: IndieWeb Honeymoon Phase & HWC Events
Big IndieWeb updates behind the scenes with Indiekit and joining Homebrew Website Club meets. Learnt Git redaction, PR merged and improve Mermaid diagrams.
2025
Weeknote 2025-W52: Micropub with Indiekit & F1 Fantasy
Made my first contribution to Hugo Docs, installing Indiekit, testing Micropub content. New Hugo templates for IndieWeb posts. Plus a quick F1 Fantasy summary.
Weeknote 2025-W51: Winter Solstice & Validating My Blog
Attending my first IndieWeb event, fixing Hugo HTML validation errors, and insights about the traditional Chinese holiday—Winter Solstice.
Weeknote 2025-W50: New Link-In-Bio & WordPress Performance
Improving website performance on my secondary WordPress blog. Made a new link-in-bio page gathering content from multiple blogs onto one central dashboard.
Weeknote 2025-W49: Webdev Tasks, Photography & Vocabulary
Created readership survey; installed upvote button, moved photography site code. New vocab section in weeknotes and plans on learning Darktable in 2026.
Weeknote 2025-W48: CLI usage & Hong Kong Tai Po Fire
Switching from WeeChat to Senpai for IRC bouncer, Mac CLI tools, links page on Black Friday Create Day, Hong Kong fire and bamboo scaffolding.
Weeknote 2025-W47: Diverse Discoveries via the IndieWeb
Learning more about the IndieWeb led me to setting up IRC, joining webrings, getting my first webmentions, and connecting with amiable fellow bloggers.
Weeknote 2025-W46: HK Hiking & Digital Omnibus Threats
Hiking in Hong Kong at the Wilson Trail (Section 2). Also, Men’s table tennis final, EU Digital Omnibus wrecking ball, and Android sideloading update.
Weeknote 2025-W45: Software freedom, caches & XML feeds
FOSS freedom at risk, Meta AI data scraping, Hugo updates, F1 Fantasy at Brazil, shout out to my new fans, and getting a driving licence.
Weeknote 2025-W44: Firsts, Fate & Fresh Ideas
First week note: optimized Hugo page speed, got flu shot, posted about coffee, explored Gopher. Links on Spotify, agentic AI, Google’s sideloading saga.
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