JUnited 2026

In recent weeks, I have been talking with a lot of people about personal websites. In so many of my discussions, I mention that one of the reasons I love coming back to my personal website is the community around the indie web: people all over the world sharing what interests them: slices of life, hopes and dreams, tutorials on how to do something, and more. Websites aren’t islands. Websites are houses in a town.

That brings me to JUnited. I first participated in JUnited, a challenge that invites participants to share links to “blog posts or blogs you think deserve more love,” in 2024. I found out about the challenge via JCProbably. I missed last year – I think I forgot the challenge was going on! – but I was delighted this morning to wake up to a post by Kristof that mentioned the challenge. Inviting people to share links to blog posts they enjoy, JUnited so wonderfully embodies the essence of the indie web community.

With that in mind, I am excited to participate again in the challenge.

For each day in the month of June, I will update this post with a link to a blog post I really enjoyed reading. I invite you to peruse the links and see what interests you. And, if you have a website, I invite you to participate in the challenge, too.

• A Love Letter To Creative Spaces by Britt
• "there’s a sort of Gresham's Law of developers (vs users): developers are willing to use a forum with a lot of users in it, but users aren’t willing to use a forum with a lot of developer-speak. [...]" by Tantek
• To have a moral stance on AI is to be an outcast, and it sucks. by Martyn
• A note on note-taking by Bojidar
• Tantek on improving focus
• To my students by Brent
• I want my friends to have blogs too by Daniel
  • My note: If you start a website, let me know! I'll read it!
• The joy of (sort of) missing out by wombat
• In Praise of Links by Coyote
• 001: sun bubbles (2011) by wavelight
• The unreasonable effectiveness of simple HTML by Terence
• "When we prioritize, remember to keep asking questions like “Is this fun?”, “Does this help?”, “Is this kind?”" - Danielle
• I made a thing by Kedara
• "Let us forgive ourselves for writing poems that aren't better than every other poem that has ever been written." – Dean Young "The Art of Recklessness", via the Reading Room blog to which I am now subscribed.
• let's talk about your digital remains! by Ava
• The Archivist In Me Turned This Blog Into a Book by Wouter
• A future fable: how American tech workers went union by Tracy
• Writing about it - approach to writer’s block by Juhis
• in the knick of time by yours, tiramisu
• learning to code like it's the '90s by kat
• I was one of the MCs for CSS Day! by Ana R.
• It is time to revive the humanities by V.H.
• Sheep by Rachel
• Digital minimalism versus staying connected by Frances
• found page by wavelight
• am i just making excuses or does life sometimes get in the way? by midnight
• the sunset in your eyes by to ground
• Notes from Bryan Cantrill’s “Intelligence is not Enough” by Jim
• Create Day by Tabitha
• Broad Band: The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the Internet: IndieWeb Book Club June 2026 by Ana O.