2016/LA/Demos

Opening and closing demos for IndieWebCamp LA 2016.

Opening Demos

Opening demos took place 2016-11-05 (logs).

Chris Aldrich

as I mentioned earlier, having an identity, and having an h-card
(shows boffosocko.com)
it's a bit of variety slanguage
In Hollywood when someone says your movie did boffo, it means your movie did really well at the box office
In a muppets movie
and there's a scene where Kermit says it's going to be boffo, it's going to be socko, and so I went and got the domain name
I've got a PGP key, email address, even a few things hiding that don't show but if you have a tool that pulls it up you can see it
my favorite thing is, recently I went to an event
and a councilman of the city of LA gave me an honor
I do a lot of work for literacy in the city
and I posted up a photo of this to Instagram, and my site went out and posted it to my site
and my site automatically sent this post to FB, Twitter, G+, maybe LinkedIn
down here there's a syndicated to section
then it got the biggest response to anything that I got ever
I logged in the next morning
Bridgy sent webmentions for all these things back to my website
and not just seeing the messages, but every like had its own line-item
hundreds of people liked it on FB, dozens of people wrote short notes
and it had a visceral impact, more than just seeing the number 557 people liked this
to me this was way more personal, to see each individual one with a name and face
to me, part of that process would have been killed on Facebook, because it would have just showed a number, and I never would have seen the names and faces of the people that I know and love say hey I liked this
this is really a part of what I like about the IndieWeb
this site runs on WordPress
with the IndieWeb Plugin and 4-5 others
(showed http://boffosocko.com/2016/11/03/so-yeah-this-happened-today/ )

David Shanske

shows david.shanske.com
this is my website, it's barebones, the name of this theme is bearbones (with an ea)
there's very little in terms of style
so you'd focus on everything else
also a WordPress site
this is the last thing I posted
I went to Woodstock
there's a picture
One of the things that I've done for a long time in the community is work on IndieWeb plugins for WordPress
I do most of my testing on an alternate version of the site
I've added how to make different types or kinds of posts
If I went to my live site, you won't see as many choices because I don't use them all, but they're there
the other thing I added is a box so I can react to another article
any article I happen to be reading it will automatically pull in some data
when it was updated, summary, publication (if any), and the name
so I spend a lot of time building tools like that
when it's all done it shows up on my site
all the photos, etc. location
this is one of those link-previews that I have looks like
I guess that's it and we'll see if I what I build this weekend

Tantek Çelik

He's Tantek and this is his website, tantek.com
Chris has never heard his last name pronounced.
At the end of 2009, he became very frustrated with Twitter
He hated the fail whale.
He started with notes, then added photos, etc.
Anything he posted on his other sites, he now posts on his own.
He can do what he wants, he can keep it minimal
He won't worry if an update of someone else's will break his stuff as he controls it all.
Putting stuff on your own site may be more powerful than social media. You can push it whereever you want.
He was frustrated because he created a new Twitter account and followed three people and got locked
tantek: Mostly just posts to Twitter using Bridgy
It all started really simple
It started out as a response to frustration, but now he is FREE!!!
Free at last
Chris mentioned scientific papers, etc.
Chris bringds up Marginalia
Marginalia allows you to comment on specific paragraphs
tantek would like to allow people to link to specific paragraphs on his site as well
This weekend, he encourages people to start small and build
Everything here started small
aaronpk's website wasn't built in a day

Rachel

my domain name is being held hostage by google
mostly I want to listen and learn

Jocelyn

Jocelyn.inturnaround.com
Jocelyn is looking for a way to watch and get notified of when people post
Chris: (shows woodwind.xyz)
Internal Server error!
Demo failed
KevinMarks_: Woodwind.xyz was doing that to me yesterday too
The other is aaronpk
tantek demonstrates woodwind
We discover he only subscribes to aaronpk and himself
then I added boffosocko.com and adactio.com to show more stuff showing up in woodwind

Jeremy Keith

my name is Jeremy and my website is adactio.com
I've been blogging for ~15 years
when I write a blog post I syndicate out to Medium
a lot of people are blogging on Medium, but what I like to do is give Medium a copy
this is what we do on the indieweb - POSSE
I've got a links section also
I was syndicating it out to Delicious, are they still around?
I used to use link services, delicious, magnolia but they all end up getting shut down
GWG Pinboard is still doing well.
common theme, you put all this energy into another website, and then it gets shutdown
you spend all this time writing for other sites, only for the data to disappear
so that's kind of the thing we do, write on your own website, and just send copies to other sites
I have notes too
with photos
typically I POSSE out to places
e.g. here is a photo on my site, and on Twitter
and all the likes on my site from Twitter
thanks to Bridgy
GWG Everybody Loves Bridgy
not only do I syndicate out to these places
but when people comment, like etc. I get that back on my site
I like it when I post an article, and people post comments on their own sites
I have control over my data, and they have control over their data
I've been adding incrementally at indiewebcamps, photos, etc.
that's generally what happens at indiewebcamp, one day we discuss thigns, get ideas, and day 2 we hack things
like these sparklines, I think I built at IWC Nürnberg
got some ideas, and what I'm working and hacking

Neal

this is my website: http://wiki-njnm.rhcloud.com/view/welcome-visitors/
the unfortunately named . wiki-...
it's a fedwiki, supposed to be like github for notes
it's an old version, you can copy paste script tags and such
it's gotten to a point where it takes like 3 seconds to load
as far as I know it's the longest fedwiki page ever
today I want to figure out what to do about this
I can paste javascript straight into the page
It's kind of nice, you can drag & drop stuff
gRegorLove: That's Smallest Federated Wiki?
this is my personal replacement to Delicious getting shutdown
(discussion about is delicious being resurrected or not)

Michael Kirk

this is a wordpress site, mostly a premium theme: mikirk.com
my name is Michael Kirk so it's a condensed form
I'm a graphic artist and designer
I used to use uber.com which was a place to do personal art sites and one month it was gone. that's what brings me here

Jeffrey

Hi I'm Jeffrey, an indiewebcamp newbie. I'm an artist and a web developer too.
all my pages are built with a static site generator, called nana (sp?) in Ruby I think
I have many domain names
like this is my personal backup/archive of everything
like this is my database of drawings
it's a ruby on rails app
it makes thumbnails, I can tag them, how large they are, they are location based. this database has about 4000 records in it
plenty of ways to navigate it, autopilot features
nothing being posted to other sites, I don't trust them.
the other thing I make is a lot of drawing tools
like this is a drawing tool, it draws automatically and you can click No or Paint
I have too many domains and want to figure out a way to do that better
I'm trying to figure out a way to bring my own community into an actual place where people own their information but can still talk to each other
"I am my own silo"

Closing Demos

Closing demos took place 2016-11-06 (logs).

Michael Kirk

I'm Michael Kirk of http://www.mikirk.com.
Today I hooked up Brid.gy and got Flickr, G+, Twitter, and Facebook
My first POSSEd post: http://mikirk.com/gettin-all-bridgy-widget/

Jeremy Keith

I'm Jeremy Keith, my site is adactio.com
At the last IWC, I had tags for different sections and created a view
This camp I created different archives by months, days, and for links
See: http://adactio.com/archive/
I added in sparklines for month views
the sparklines for day views were pretty sparse and looked rubbish
I left everything as reverse chronological, though I may decide to switch that

Jocelyn Simpson

Hi I'm Jocelyn Simpson and my site is http://jocelyn.inturnaround.com
I figured out how to put some categories into my menu via tags/categories
I don't have actual content in them yet, but there there
I also set up to capture emails for my (pending) email newsletter.
I used mailchimp because it was free and included a simple plugin.

Jesus Noland

My website is http://www.JesusNoland.com
This is my first IndieWeb experience.
I got h-card working
I also learned about web sign in and managed to log into the wiki and make edits
I used a <link> tag on my website so it's hidden

Sevil Turner

My name is Sevil Turner and my website is at http://www.sevilturner.com
I managed to log into the wiki and RSVP to camp this weekend.
I also created an h-card for my site
I'm also planning on moving my site to Jekyll soon

Rachel Upshaw

I'm Rachel Upshaw and I'm waiting for my new domain name to propagate so it's live on the internet
I did start hacking on my site which I'll move to it's final location, but I got most of a representative h-card

Chris Aldrich

using android
opened @t
wants to own his likes
shows his Android viewing twitter.com/t (in Twitter app)
clicks to "share" icon for that tweet
it goes to a "URL Forwarder" Android App
it goes to creating a like on his Known
his Known automatically POSSEs to Twitter
so now his like shows up on Twitter as well
the amounts of likes and such I do since this has tripled

Tantek Çelik

I'm Tantek and my site is Tantek.com
I got one thing done which has been bothering me for a while
I had been using google search on my website
I wanted to see search results in date order, but google seems to have broken this feature.
for a search box to show 0 results was just awful
I've been using Duck duck Go as my default in my browser
I switched to it for my site search now
Google used to be fast for search and it seems like they backslid
duckduck go shows emoji in search results
and google doesn't
duck duck go also shows author icons in search while google doesn't
overall it's a better user experience
google wants to add a lot of javascript just to do a google search
(gRegorLove: Also in general search, if you click on that icon it changes it to a site-specific search)
Google search doesn't do timebased search for the past few months
google doesn't support iso dates either
Duckduckgo also has an html version of their search and the search result goes directly to the page
Something has gone wrong with web development engineering compared to 15 years ago and there's no real excuse for it.
We all benefit for faster websites.

Asher Silberman

Hi I'm Asher Silberman and my site is localhost:8000 (now live on my site http://www.ashersilberman.com)
I've built in flask using flat files
I based it on the Jekyll-indieweb template I got on the wiki
I created a sample post and have some links with rel-me

Aaron Parecki

Hi I'm aaronpk (remote via hangouts) and my site is https://aaronparecki.com/
worked on pubsub.rocks
I'm going to use the publisher test
http://pubsub.rocks/publisher
It delivered the latest version of my homepage though I haven't done anything pretty with it.
Showing Test your subscriber functionality
Woodwind.xyz wasn't quite as real-time as I wanted.
I'm going to use this website to test itself.
It's nearly instantaneous
That's the beginning of testing publishers and subscribers.
aaronpk gets a major round of applause
aaronpk: it's pretty crazy! I hope that made sense! it's a little hard to wrap your head around