* 8 yrs #openweb #standards @Mozilla[1]
* may know me from: #CSS[2] #microformats[3] #indieweb[4]
* recently: Standards Outreach w @david_bryant
* editing: CSS2.2, CSS scrollbars
* interesting: Vouch[5]
* controversial opinion: technical contributors @Mozilla should be actively using their own website, even if just one blog post a year
[1] https://wiki.mozilla.org/Standards
[2] https://wiki.mozilla.org/CSS
[3] microformats.org
[4] https://indieweb.org/
[5] https://indieweb.org/Vouch - vouching as a practical decentralized solution to commenting, with some trust without requiring a hard-identity, designed to reduce abuse etc. as we have seen in centralized social media, but distributed across the web peer-to-peer
CSS as an AI-like language? Prolog? #indieweb
Now that indiebookclub is launched, I am cleaning up some things and wanted to make some notes.
My previous work on the fork of Quill is no longer under development. I’ve put a message to that effect on https://bkpub.gregoreatworld.com, turned off the login, and cleared out the micropub information in the database. Eventually I will redirect that URL.
The microformats for read posts has evolved since I started that project and the micropub syntax has changed as well. In particular, previously I was building the full HTML for the post in the content property. At the time this was a “fallback” since my own micropub endpoint didn’t know how to process the root h-cite. I didn’t fully understand that the micropub client should not be constructing HTML. Instead the summary property should be used for fallback.
Thanks for trying it out, Kim! The micropub syntax for read posts is still pretty new so I don’t think micro.blog understands how to process them currently. I will check into it further and touch base with Manton to see if we can get it working. You can always find your posts on your indiebookclub profile page as well: https://indiebookclub.biz/users/kimlosey.me.
June
13th: #DecentralizedWeb Meetup @InternetArchive
18th: Re-Decentralising The Web, London @WebStandards
26-27 @IndieWebSummit, Portland OR
29th: @OSBridge, Portland OR
Links & tickets: https://indieweb.org/Events#Upcoming
Two of my favorites are:
@aaronpk: https://aaronparecki.com/
@adactio: https://adactio.com/
Not just for their content, but how they use them and the fantastic functionality they provide.
#IndieWeb #commonplacebook
About to try and sync all my browser bookmarks to my #indieweb site. Let's see if this works...
I love this!
There’s one thing I disagree with in your list, and one from the original, that I think is worth unpicking:
1. “Learn a bit of HTML.” I don’t think that should be necessary; a world where anyone who publishes is using HTML isn’t achievable or even necessarily desirable. And it creates a situation where people with technical skills have elite status over people that don’t.
2. “Make tools for yourself.” The premise is flawed. Made-up personas are certainly a bad idea, and creating software without having a user in mind is also terrible. But if we all just build for ourselves, the result is software for technical people. That’s kind of boring, but also counter to the mission of the indieweb as I see it. Instead, I’d propose: “Make tools for real people you care about.” That could be you; it could be your partner, or your family, or a community you want to support. It turns indieweb into an outward-facing, open endeavor instead of an introverted one, while staying true to the ideal of building for real people.
Thanks for sharing indieweb.org. We have the IndieWeb Summit coming up June 26-27 in Portland if you'd like to join! https://2018.indieweb.org
I have been to quite a few IndieWeb events and I’ve not witnessed any corporate direction or intervention. It’s a legit BarCamp-style event. Check out the community principles, which I think you’ll find agreeable: https://indieweb.org/principles
Brendan Dawes - Holding the Door Open for Others
I continue to write stuff down on my little corner of the Web (does it have corners?) and I encourage you to do the same, as all these little bits of flotsam and jetsam become something a lot lot bigger.