{"version":"https://jsonfeed.org/version/1.1","title":"Jeremy Nelson — Notes from the open web","home_page_url":"https://jdnlsn.com/","feed_url":"https://jdnlsn.com/feed.json","description":"A personal archive of things I’m making, learning, reading, and noticing.","authors":[{"name":"Jeremy Nelson","url":"https://jdnlsn.com/"}],"items":[{"id":"https://jdnlsn.com/notes/welcome-to-jdnlsn","url":"https://jdnlsn.com/notes/welcome-to-jdnlsn","title":"Welcome to jdnlsn.com","summary":"A new home for notes, experiments, and things worth keeping.","date_published":"2026-07-19T12:00:00-05:00","tags":["indieweb","meta"],"content_text":"This is the first note from jdnlsn.com: a durable place for work in progress, useful links, longer arguments, and the small observations that rarely survive in a private notebook.\n\nThe site begins deliberately small. It uses ordinary URLs, semantic HTML, RSS, and a design that is comfortable to read without asking a platform for permission.\n\nWhat belongs here\n\nShort notes while an idea is still forming.\n\nArticles once the idea earns a fuller treatment.\n\nProjects, experiments, and what they teach.\n\nBookmarks worth returning to.\n\nThe useful part of owning a website is not that it launches finished. It is that it can keep becoming more itself."},{"id":"https://jdnlsn.com/articles/why-build-on-your-own-domain","url":"https://jdnlsn.com/articles/why-build-on-your-own-domain","title":"Why build on your own domain?","summary":"A durable address, a public notebook, and fewer borrowed identities.","date_published":"2026-07-18T09:30:00-05:00","tags":["indieweb","ownership","publishing"],"content_text":"A domain is a small piece of continuity. Tools change, companies close, and feeds fall out of fashion, but a URL can keep pointing to the work.\n\nAn address instead of an account\n\nMost online identity is rented from a platform. A personal domain reverses that relationship: services can become destinations or distribution channels, while the domain remains the canonical home.\n\nPublish once at the address you control; send copies wherever they are useful.\n\nA public notebook\n\nWriting in public creates a useful pressure toward clarity, but a personal site does not need to behave like a publication. Notes can be provisional, articles can be revised, and projects can show their unfinished edges.\n\nThe practical minimum\n\nStable permalinks for every entry.\n\nAn RSS feed that does not depend on an algorithm.\n\nPortable, readable source content.\n\nA clear path to move hosts without moving identity.\n\nThe goal is not to abandon the larger web. It is to meet it from a place that is yours."},{"id":"https://jdnlsn.com/notes/web-sign-in-arrives-here","url":"https://jdnlsn.com/notes/web-sign-in-arrives-here","title":"Web Sign-In arrives here","summary":"Using a personal web address as an identity through IndieAuth.","date_published":"2026-07-17T16:10:00-05:00","tags":["indieweb","indieauth","identity"],"content_text":"The sign-in form on this site asks for a website rather than an email address. That URL is the identity; IndieAuth handles the proof that the person signing in controls it.\n\nWhat the site receives\n\nAfter a successful exchange, jdnlsn.com stores the verified profile URL in a signed, secure session cookie. It does not receive a password and does not create a conventional local account.\n\nWhy include it now\n\nWeb Sign-In makes room for future features—private posts, reactions, or attributed replies—without making the public reading experience depend on authentication."},{"id":"https://jdnlsn.com/articles/a-small-web-is-a-good-web","url":"https://jdnlsn.com/articles/a-small-web-is-a-good-web","title":"A small web is a good web","summary":"Personal sites feel alive when they optimize for attention rather than reach.","date_published":"2026-07-15T08:00:00-05:00","tags":["indieweb","design","publishing"],"content_text":"The small web is not defined by traffic. It is defined by authorship: pages made by people with specific interests, uneven archives, and reasons to keep tinkering.\n\nSpecific beats universal\n\nA personal site can be opinionated about typography, navigation, and what deserves a permanent URL. It does not have to flatten itself into a template that serves every possible visitor.\n\nUseful signs of life\n\nA Now page with a recent date.\n\nAn archive that rewards wandering.\n\nLinks to other independent sites.\n\nA colophon that explains how the place works.\n\nThe result may reach fewer people than a platform post. It may also remain useful for much longer."},{"id":"https://jdnlsn.com/notes/building-the-foundation","url":"https://jdnlsn.com/notes/building-the-foundation","title":"Building the foundation","summary":"Routes, feeds, metadata, and the unglamorous parts that make a site durable.","date_published":"2026-07-13T18:20:00-05:00","tags":["devlog","indieweb"],"content_text":"A homepage can look complete while the site behind it is still empty. The real foundation is less visible: permanent post routes, useful archives, feeds, metadata, error pages, and navigation that never ends in a placeholder.\n\nThis pass turns those pieces into first-class parts of jdnlsn.com. The visual system stays restrained; the information architecture does the new work.\n\nThe checklist\n\nEvery entry has a permalink.\n\nTypes and tags have browsable index pages.\n\nSearch works without a separate service.\n\nRSS, JSON Feed, sitemap, and robots metadata stay in sync with the content.\n\nA health endpoint makes the Mac-hosted origin observable."},{"id":"https://jdnlsn.com/bookmarks/open-web-reading-list","url":"https://jdnlsn.com/bookmarks/open-web-reading-list","title":"Open-web reading list","summary":"The specifications and community notes behind this site’s IndieWeb features.","date_published":"2026-07-11T11:45:00-05:00","tags":["bookmarks","indieweb","standards"],"content_text":"A small starting shelf for the protocols and practices used here.\n\nIndieWeb principles and building blocks.\n\nThe IndieAuth living standard.\n\nMicroformats for people and posts.\n\nRSS and JSON Feed for portable subscriptions.\n\nThe bookmark points to the IndieWeb community wiki, which is the best map to the rest of this territory."}]}