It’s been a while, but here are some good bites collected from the ad-free, open-source social network known as the fediverse: You’d be surprised what a tool like 7zip can do, besides opening all possible types of archive files. Opening EXT partitions from USB drives on Windows, for example. Or reading VHDX files....

What do you do when you have neighbors in a heavy renovation, drilling walls and smacking things with hammers? You go slightly nuts and post something about it on social media. What do Bonk Wave people do when they see your video snippet with that renovation noise?They use the audio from that video, twist and bend...

NHAM Fest 2026 is up next week, and it’s full of indie musicians flexing their stuff online. It’s worth checking out if there’s a stream you’d like, or just pop in and see what’s happening. It’s all free, and you don’t have to chat if you don’t want to, and you might discover some great new music. Here’s the...

Photo by Tyler on Unsplash The small web and self-hosting are cool and all, but what if you want to deploy a homemade Node or .NET app in a Docker container somewhere? Pretty quickly, you end up needing (or wanting) something like: A Git repository. A CI/CD pipeline that builds your project’s Docker image. A Docker...

This time the theme is music & music production. Makes sense since I follow so many fedi musicians. You know who you are, Bonk Wave people. This project lets you turn any file into music using its binary data. A free and open source binary synth.I wonder if it’s good for Bonk Wave. Paul says this YouTube channel is...

Number 3 of the seasonal Bonk Wave releases is here, and it’s a biggy. This time the community collected 54 tracks in total, spread over 3 albums.The amount of tracks submitted are starting to make us think we’ll have to come up with some other way of managing this. At some point, that’s just too much music to...

But it was probably never gone. Small personal websites are starting to pop up again, and people are starting to see the value of hosting your own site or blog somewhere outside the big tech platforms. Excellent. There are some nice initiatives going around resurrecting the old RSS feeds, and aggregating those small...

It’s happening! Again! The 3rd album in the series of seasonal Bonk Wave releases is dropping soon, and you have the opportunity to join in the release parties on these dates: Friday the 10th of April at 21:00 GMT+1 Friday the 17th of April at 21:00 GMT+1 Friday the 24th of April at 21:00 GMT+1 Why 3 parties?...

Google announced it’s no longer going to allow people to develop apps for Android without registering centrally. The demanding registration process will probably mean a lot of open source developers will not bother and stop developing their apps. Hobbyists will not be able to easily write and install their own apps...

It’s time for a new installment of fun Fedi links! **Drumroll** Today we have a bit of everything as your doom-scrolling antidote. Let’s start with blogging. I heard it’s back, so if you feel like getting into it (again?) here’s a post with links to a ton of ways to host your own site, and some things to blog about....

KLITCH is my minimal electronic/glitch music project that came together during a road trip through South Korea. Now, it doesn’t sound Asian or Korean per se, but I bet the country had some influence on it. Right? It had to, with all the nice BBQ and kimchi. Yummy. The music is up on Bandcamp, so you can check it out...

Do you remember the days of watching cool and weird music videos on MTV, with the quirky commercials in-between? Would you like to have some of that again? Or maybe you don’t have any idea what that was all about, and you want to check it out? Well, here’s your chance. Tune into the Indie Beat Television broadcast...