Homebrew Website Club SF!

17:30: Optional writing hour and quiet socializing 18:30: IndieWeb demos and hack night! Homebrew Website Club retro 1980s-style logo Topics for this week: Year-end hack projects 2018 IndieWeb Challenge starts Saturday! Demos of personal website breakthroughs Create or update your personal web site! Join a community with like-minded interests. Bring friends that want a personal site, or are interested in a healthy, independent web! Any questions? Ask in #indieweb Slack or IRC More information: IndieWeb Wiki Event Page RSVP: post an indie RSVP on your own site!

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Marty McGuire

HWC Baltimore 2018-11-27 Wrap-Up

#HWC #IndieWeb #Baltimore #wrap-up
Trying something different over the next few days. The Parkeology Disneyworld Challenge, to ride all open rides at 4 Disney World parks in one day. The challenge requires tweeting to @Parkeology with the tag #parkeologychallenge. Another team member will be keeping that record for official certification. I’ll be doing my Indieweb version when it won’t interfere. Only 1 rule for that. It must be posted to my website.
Marty McGuire
I'm going!

Put those Thanksgiving calories to good use and give yourself the gift of control over everything you post online by working on your own website!

What will you finish before 2019? Will you help the IndieWeb community post something every day in December?

Warp and Weft — Paul Robert Lloyd

Paul was at the Material conference in Iceland too, and we had some good chats. Here, he speaks his brains with Deep Thoughts prompted by the event.

I really get where he’s coming from when he says that “certain websites feel more ‘webby’ than others”, but it sure is tricky to nail down.

#webby #webiness #material #personal #publishing #projects #indieweb #craft #scale

Stats: Creating (Phil Gyford’s website)

I quite like Phil’s idea of having charts like this. It might be a fun project for Homebrew Website Club to do something like this for my site.

#charts #graphs #dataviz #data #visualisation #creating #consuming #archives #personal #publishing #blogging #indieweb #stats #statistics

PushAPI without Notifications | Seblog

Remember when I wrote about using push without notifications? Sebastiaan has written up the details of the experiment he conducted at Indie Web Camp Berlin.

#push #api #serviceworkers #notifications #caching #javascript #permissions #frontend #development #indiewebcamp #demo

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In den letzten 4…5 Jahren hab ich immer wieder mit dem Gedanken gespielt meinen facebook Account zu löschen. Mein Account hatte wirklich wenig persönliches und ich habe ihn fast ausschließlich dazu benutzt, meine Blogposts zu teilen. Der einzig plausible Grund der mich noch daraun gehindert hat ihn zu löschen, ist mein Beruf. Mittlerweile bin ich […]
Five years ago Homebrew Website Club (HWC) met for the first time: http://tantek.com/2013/332/b1/homebrew-website-club-newsletter

Since then:
* HWC has grown, meets in many cities^1
* Path (noted in linked post) shutdown^2

Next HWC meeting 2018-11-28^3
Join us, share, inspire, be inspired  

^1. https://indieweb.org/Homebrew_Website_Club#Regular_Meetings
^2. https://indieweb.org/Path
^3. https://indieweb.org/next-hwc

Indie WYSIWYG: How I Fixed My Instagram Problem

I talk about what-you-see-is-what-you-get posting system for my #indieweb site and how it improved my post quality.

Another year is wrapping up (how?!), so time for my #indieweb #newwwyear resolutions for my website.

By 2019-01-01 I would like to:

  • Update my archive pages to cover more post types, not just articles
  • Add back the next/previous article navigation. I lost those as part of updates to the footer

As a stretch goal, I would like to work on my channels more. I would like to set up one to feed into my micro.blog that excludes replies to non-micro.blog posts. I would like to start treating micro.blog as my primary, external social network instead of Twitter.

Previously: 2017, 2016, 2015

Thinking through planning the IndieWebCamp Online event. Right now, it looks like we might be scheduling it for the weekend of March 9 and 10, 2019. Anyone who is thinking about participating have any huge conflicts with that weekend? If so, let me know!
#indieweb #indiewebcamp #tech

XOXO: Yes, you do belong here

I think a read post primarily indicates an action related to reading it. “I want to read this,” “I am currently reading this,” or “I finished reading this.” I think any of those could include an optional comment. The Goodreads status update UI is a good example of this: you can update your reading progress and include a comment each time. Once you’ve marked a book as finished, you have a separate UI to enter a review and a rating, independent of your previous status updates and comments.

I think the general indieweb workflow for this would be several posts:

  1. A read post with status to-read
  2. read post(s) with status reading (one or more)
  3. A read post with status finished
  4. An h-review post

Personally I don't think updating existing posts is a great idea in this workflow, but I'm open to ideas. These are my suggestions based on experience with Goodreads.

IndieWebCamp Berlin 2018

Listen to a summary of all the sessions at IndieWebCamp Berlin 2018!
#indieweb #this-week #indiewebcamp #podcast

Monthly report: October 2018

Should I be beating myself up because we're more than halfway to the end of November? I don't think so. October was a good month, but not standout good. Maybe if it had been I would have written it up more rapidly. The high spot was definitely IndieWeb Camp in Nürnberg, and I did write that up reasonably quickly. No need to repeat here. More this way ...

New Podcast: Two Dads Talking

Just implemented a Siri Shortcut for IndieAuth! Now let’s see if I can integrate it with my Micropub shortcut.

I just added support for the Micropub Category List query to my website. Looking forward to adding support to Indigenous for iOS in the near future as well. This is the first of many goals completed for #newwwyear 2019.
#colophon #indieweb-goals #newwwyear