events/2024-01-31-hwc-pacific
Homebrew Website Club - Pacific was an IndieWeb meetup on Zoom held on 2024-01-31.
- Archived from: https://etherpad.indieweb.org/2024-01-31-hwc-pacific
Participants
David Shanske
gRegor Morrill https://gregorlove.com
Pablo Morales- reillypascal https://reillyspitzfaden.com
- charlesbeadle https://charlesbeadle.tech
Hanse00 https://philip.mallegolhansen.com
Joe Crawford https://artlung.com/
Nick Simson https://nicksimson.com- btrem https://btrem.com
benji https://benji.dog
Tracy Durnell https://tracydurnell.com/
Angelo Gladding https://ragt.ag
Al Abut
Anthony Ciccarello
Notes
Let's talk about what we did on our site recently!
gRegor Morrill I found a dependency conflict in some of my custom plugins that broke my IndieAuth, wee! Currently working on fixing it by scoping dependencies to each plugin.
- I think I got it fixed!
Nick Simson Since two weeks ago, I figured out how I broke ActivityPub on my site: https://nicksimson.com/posts/i-broke-activitypub/ and in response to starrwulfe, shared my plugin settings: https://nicksimson.com/posts/my-activitypub-settings/
Template:btrem I published a "own your wordles" page on my site https://btrem.com/feed/wordle And I'm currently trying to make an 11ty plugin to allow others to post wordle scores on their own site.
Al Abut is bone tired from a weekly blogging cadence... and another post is due tonight! This is only Week 3 and already forcing me to think about the underlying habits and tools it takes for publishing consistency.
Also I tried to reboot my CSS layout by transitioning from an old version of Bootstrap to newer modern CSS Grid techniques and used the same strategy as
Angelo Gladding I've been working on analyzing the code hosted on my website -- https://ragt.ag/code/projects -- now each project displays the various types of lines of code found and calculates ratios between them to represent documentation coverage and whitespace utilization.
I've also experimented with a gather.town-esque 2d tiled environment to move from one video chat room to another.
More Notes
- gRegor Morrill: I don't know if anyone came across this when I set up indiebookclub year in review: https://indiebookclub.biz/review/2023 but if you try to time travel to the future you get some random messages, e.g. https://indiebookclub.biz/review/2024. Refresh, there's a few of them.
An internet acquaintance of mine changes the background color of the site based on current temperature: https://joeldueck.com/
- https://gail.com/
- http://www.skagitriverjournal.com/
- "HTML 4.01 Transitional" and "charset=windows-1252"
Joe, you could participate in https://css-naked-day.github.io/ while updating your CSS - intriguing. I remember seeing this in the past. And it's April 9. I do have some CSS that's inline in style attributes but this could be fun. adding it to my calendar for my consideration.
Zegnat at the last IWC removed most of the CSS from his page: https://vanderven.se/martijn/ - still works ok
https://btrem.com/2021/11-people-funny-boy a comparison of several early reggae records, including lyrical differences
http://backyard.fragmentscenario.com/
This was the band website link with the rabbit hole, but unfortunately you can no longer trim the URL to get to other parts: http://enon.tv/hocus/vt.none/pocus.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Xanadu
- https://www.wired.com/1995/06/xanadu/
- Short overview of Ted Nelson's bidirectional links: https://readwrite.com/ted_nelsons_two/
- https://www.jwz.org/blog/2024/01/hypertext-emerges-from-his-well-to-shame-the-tech-industry/ jwz posted this week and mentioned that Ted Nelson visited Netscape and chewed them out for doing Hypertext wrong.
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial_Experiments_Lain - an episode includes Memex and Ted Nelson
- Clay Shirky's talk at Long Now from 2005 "Making the Digital Durable" talks about the overall brittleness of retaining data over time. It's a talk I listen to periodically. https://longnow.org/seminars/02005/nov/14/making-digital-durable-what-time-does-to-categories/
https://sarajaksa.eu/2024/01/becoming-popular-on-the-internet-without-wanting-to/
- has some examples of triggering archives with a cURL command
https://wordpress.com/100-year/ the wordpress 100 year plan on the topic of web "legacy"
C2PA - Camera cryptography: https://c2pa.org/
AI poisoning: "This new data poisoning tool lets artists fight back against generative AI" https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/10/23/1082189/data-poisoning-artists-fight-generative-ai/
@al - https://tracydurnell.com/2022/10/27/deciding-what-belongs-on-my-website/ - I wrote about my thinking about this a while back (thank you Tracy!)
Johannes Ernst's annotation component: https://github.com/jernst/annost/blob/main/annost.js- https://aframe.io/
- This site helped me understand web components: https://htmlwithsuperpowers.netlify.app/
Fun discussion about using web components to create 3D content for different types of devices, whether using headsets or not.
This discussion has me curious about the state of Second Life
Angelo Gladding demoed his kinda https://gather.town thing on his own site, proximity-based video chat based on a 2D map, can move your character around.
Anthony Ciccarello has also played around with Gather with some coworkers.
https://workadventu.re/ almost (weird license) open source version
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VRChat
IndieWebCamps
- Anthony Ciccarello is still looking to post about IWC SD
- ...so is Al Abut and would love to share a draft for feedback when it's ready, before sharing with the larger web
- Need to pick a location for IWC Sacramento Planning#Sacramento,_CA
- Train from San Diego to LA is currently closed for track repair. Would be fun to do another IndieWebTrain.
I think 2019/SF was the last Bay Area IWC
TODO lists https://ragt.ag/todo
- Anthony Ciccarello has a list of draft posts which are explicitly not permalinks https://www.ciccarello.me/drafts/ and sometimes creates github issues. Considering listing potential ideas on the draft page too.
- https://garrit.xyz/todo