IndieWeb on Bill Glover

HTML Day London

hello@bill.dev (Bill) — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 11:44:10 +0100

HTML Day London 2026 @ SET Social

Yesterday I attended HTML Day London 2026. I set myself the challenge of working entirely offline for the event. Other than offline documentation for HTML and CSS I was on my own. Unfortunately, I was unable to stay to the end to see what everyone else had created but here is what I managed: /html-day.

Build a 'shitty' web page

hello@bill.dev (Bill) — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 11:22:15 +0100

The web does not need a consistent look and feel. It never has and it never will. This quote from Adam sums it up.

“I’d rather someone make a ‘shitty’ web page for their thing than have a machine pump out a soulless plastic one”

– Adam, the builder of many wonderful web pages, including omg.lol

If you want to tell the world about something, make a page for it. The page you make is not shitty, it has character, personality, and authenticity. You cared enough to make it and that alone says a lot. Your page is never finished, that’s OK. let it grow, let it evolve, let it be messy. If you are pushed for time, give us plain, structured HTML. Don’t have your favourite language model spit out thousands of lines of CSS and JavaScript that looks the same as a growing portion of the web.

Intersecting Interests

hello@bill.dev (Bill) — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 09:05:47 +0000

Weird Web October - Transparency

When we decide you want to learn something new it can feel incredibly daunting. Regardless of starting point or motivation, we are embarking on a journey into the unknown. Questions are everywhere;

What should I learn?
Where do I start?
How should I learn?
How do I measure progress?
What if I give up?

Back in 2019, I gave a talk at the London Gophers meet-up. The talk was titled: Beyond the Tour. I can remember feeling like a fraud for giving the talk. I was well in to a career working with technology and here I was, using up a precious speaking slot, talking as if I was a complete beginner. I hadn’t achieved anything groundbreaking with Go. I had no new framework or product to promote. This was a talk about learning, an approach to learning that embraced the fact that I had other interests outside the world of Go. At the heart of my journey to learn Go, a series of intersecting interests.

The lost art of browsing

hello@bill.dev (Bill) — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 10:24:32 +0000

Browsing the web is a lost art. Where we once lost countless hours to browsing, we now consume the infinite feeds of content being fed to us. How much control we have over these feeds is debatable. It is a tired refrain to remind you that it is less than we think.

I remarked to a friend that I’d been enjoying browsing individual sites again, enjoying re-discovering the quirky web that I grew up with.