2018/Berlin/Intros
Attendee Introductions at IndieWebCamp Berlin 2018 took place 2018-11-03.
- Chat logs, 10:48 CET
Tantek Çelik
Tantek Çelik, http://tantek.com
- Been posting since 2010, mostly text, occasionally photos
- Many replies to places outside: Twitter, GitHub
- Trying to post more and more things to his own site
- Lots he could do better: e.g. there is no pagination
- To go back in time, go to the last post on the homepage, and then press the back button to go one by one
Jeremy Keith
Jeremy Keith, https://adactio.com
- Used to use delicious, magnolia, etc, but now has his own link section after learning his lesson
- Notes get copied to his Twitter
- Got a lot of small things added at IndieWebCamps
- Shows his recent blogpost
- https://adactio.com/journal/14452
- It has the whole response from Peter (ruk.ca) under the article, made available by Webmentions
- First name-drop of Bridgy, which gives him webmentions from Twitter to display
- He still does replies on Twitter and other places, and would like to also start doing those from his own site
Aaron Parecki
Aaron Parecki, https://aaronparecki.com
- Posts all sort of things
- Shows the litted “LED Display” on top of the site
- aaronpk, shows the blue dot on his latest checkin, which shows that he is still at the location he has checked in to
Martijn van der Ven
Martijn van der Ven, https://vanderven.se/martijn/
- shows his homepage
- with all the information
- shows how it also can be parsed with microformats
- describes his approach of adding data: everything he has put or would put on other sites should also be on his own
Tiara Miller
Tiara Miller
- restarted HWC in NYC
- after attending the IWC there
- Shows some posts on rootedfromnature.com
- Wants to work on a more personal site to have next to that more formal business site
Marty McGuire
Marty McGuire
- Does a weekly podcast about the IndieWeb, TWIIW
- Trying to make audio more accessible when publishing his podcasts on the web
- Shows an MP3 file with subtitles attached on his site
- https://martymcgui.re/2017/10/17/205701/
- Odd bug: Chrome does not hide the audio controls and actually covers the subtitles
- Shows the indiewebring
Joschi Kuphal
Joschi Kuphal, http://jkphl.is
- Started 2014-01-01 for writing blog posts, got 6 of them
- Shows webmentions creating comments on his articles
- Are also pulled from other places: G+, or just a comment form on his site
- Few weeks ago at IWC Nürnberg he built RSVP acceptance
Julie
- http://julieannenoying.com
- Displays a lot of photos, and puts a portfolio on top
- Shows how Instagram likes are pulled into her websites copy of the galleries
David Shanske
David Shanske, https://david.shanske.com
- Was using Swarm randomly yesterday to make sure it would work well with WordPress, as he is one of the big WP plugin developers
- If you are already on WordPress, expect an update today
- Shows a lot of interactions that can show up on WordPress posts
- Syndication links. And recently: locations with maps
Ayden Férdeline
- http://ferdeline.com
- Ayden Férdeline, is here for policies. Intrigued by how much information some people are sharing on their pages
Jan Deppisch
- http://netzartist.de
- His impressum page is the most content he has on his website
- Found he did not have the time for blogging
- runs frontend-rheinmain.de
- Wants to bring front-enders together on a bimonthly meeting
Yulia
- http://hag.codes
- Started because she thought she should have a web presence
- Not sure she wants to have the site as the blog it is right now, so will look at having something “different”
Jan Dinter
- http://jandinter.net
- His page does not have a lot of links, he took them away when he noticed he really didn’t keep using those external services
- Wants to change away from the minimal content this weekend
Dylan Harris
- http://dylanharris.org
- Has an “old-school website”
- petermolnar: points out it isn’t old-school as it does not have an under construction sign
Sebastian Dümcke
- http://sam-d.com
- re-designed his website 2 days ago, inspired by this event
- Also noted that blogging is hard to keep up
Aleksandr
- Aleksandr, no own website but wants to show a project he is working on
- https://my.cloudron-dev.syn.im
- It is a service that will help you run your server and install “apps”
- But apps here are things like WordPress, Ghost, Wallabag, etc. Web platforms
- Showing a test install that is Mastodon, which is now packaged for the Cloudron platform
- And will hopefully soon be on the app store
Peter Molnar
Peter Molnar, http://petermolnar.net
- 2 years ago his site was WordPress, and it is now semi-static
- Wrote about bringing things out of his website again, countering bloat: https://petermolnar.net/making-things-private/
- Then wrote https://petermolnar.net/running-a-static-indieweb-site/ about how he uses outside systems to keep everything together without having
- his site is open source
- PASTA
- https://github.com/petermolnar/silo.pasta
- A project for saving images and content from external places
- Showing brid.gy, that he also uses
- Does track his location but doesn’t do checkins, probably wants to do something in that area this weekend
- Shows the build process of his website
Calum Ryan
Calum Ryan, http://calumryan.com
- Coming up to its 10 year anniversary
- Recently upgraded the CSS
- Was trying to pull in content from other places, but tries to get away from that so it goes the other way: from his website to other places
- Recently updated checkin display because everyone keeps checking him in during events
- Shows the different sections of his website for content creation, outside his homepage
Sven Knebel
- Sven Knebel, http://svenknebel.de
- Also been building the website mostly during IndieWebCamp events
- 7th IWC, still some things he needs to work on
- Using Micropub to his site, showing quill as a posting interface
- Uses GitHub to login through IndieAuth.com
- Fills in Quill, creates a demo post
- This is how you can use external pieces without building everything yourself
Toni Mattis
- http://toni.mattis.berlin
- currently hosts his photos on Flickr, would like to start hosting that himself
- Automatically deploys the website from git
- Tries to do some URL hacking to show the markdown files behind the pages, but the Chromebook does not want to cooperate
Sebastian Greger
Sebastian Greger, http://sebastiangreger.net
- Had the domain for 15 years
- Site runs on WordPress
- Thanks to GWG and pfefferle for the plugins
- Focusing on workflow: want to encourage himself to collect things on his site
- Shows his privacy challenge post which has many replies
- Shows the reply-to-the-reply
Joel Purra
- http://joelpurra.com
- Several years ago he started pulling in data, wanted his site to be a “professional portal”
- Pulls in all his programming projects from GitHub onto his site, with the number of stars they have, the programming language it uses, etc
- Currently renders just the project README. But would like a way to have content around these projects
- Turned away from blogging to code, but might be returning to blogging to give context to the code he is writing
David Rosson
- http://rosson.com.au
- There are really well-hidden links around there, not sure he remembers what exactly is on his page!
- Ended up here by saying yes to things! :D
Ana
- http://ohhelloana.blog
- Been trying to blog more
- Also does not have pagination (because does not have enough posts) but that could change!
- Technical dificulties she wants to address this weekend
Charlie
- https://sonniesedge.co.uk
- Was relying on many external services but wanted to bring them inhouse.
- Changed from a static site generator that used those things to a Craft CMS based website
- Used to have webmentions and likes on the page, but it is gone now that she deployed CraftCMS 3. The plugins aren’t there
- Would be very happy with a PHP programmer that could help port over from the old version
- Trying to post photos
- Bringing her talks pages to Craft was a challenge, MarkDown didn’t do it for those long pages
Mike Riethmuller
- http://madebymike.com.au
- Been trying many SSGs, but not all his content feels like “pages” and all the SSGs seem to want a page per content thing
Amber Wilson
- http://amberwilson.co.uk
- Likes blogging, interested in pagination
- Got IndieAuth going at her first IWC, and would now like to look at some other building blocks
seb
Sebastiaan Andeweg, http://seblog.nl
- Posted more new content between last IWC and now
- Shows checkins up top
- Has an issue with caching on his profile picture
BJ
- http://bjvicks.com
- Project he wants to show: independent-collectors.com
- Another project: stilinberlin.de
- He worked on the stilinberlin.de/map
- Gets a newsletter popup: “I didn’t do that”
Axel
- http://axel.nennker.de -> redirect to ignisvulpis.blogspot.com
- Community member on OpenID
- Did Firefox addons for OpenID
- And wonders about IndieAuth and why the community here decided to go with something new like that
- New Firefox WebExtensions framework makes it hard to do some of the identity stuff he would like to do
- Looking at DID Auth
- From the “Rebooting the Web of Trust”
- Also looking at WebAuthn for authentication, as it is build into browsers with an API
Bruna
- No website
- Shows http://fuzzify.me
- Browser addon for tracking trackers/ads
- https://radarlegislativo.org/
- Tracking governments through APIs and rating them with sad/neutral/happy faces
Dietrich Ayala
- https://metafluff.com
- Did a really nice letter effect, considers writing a blog post about how it works
- https://metafluff.com/author/ for posts
- Showing https://metafluff.com/2017/12/13/2017-summary/ ; living in Asia fulltime for a while made him realise how much the governments there affect the web