2018/NYC/Demos

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Demos for IndieWebCamp NYC 2018 took place September 29, 2018.

• ▶️ YouTube video (27:50)
• Chat logs, 15:00 EDT.

Marty McGuire

• Marty McGuire, https://martymcgui.re
• shows that indiewebring will no longer put flags in there

Aaron Parecki

• Aaron Parecki, https://aaronparecki.com
• Had lots of goals.
• Based on the badge / Pokémon session yesterday.
• Worked on https://monster.space, shows off what he built.
• Browser checks your location and if you are at the right venue ... Something is supposed to happen.
• Then switched to doing something else: emulate Facebook's coloured background posts
• He can tag any post with a colour code and it is supposed to render a background colour.
• Broke for unknown reasons, showing on dev version.
• A close colour is picked aswell to generate a gradient, like Facebook
• Post stays square no matter browser viewport, text colour is white or black depending on contrast

Davis Shanske

• David Shanske, https://david.shanske.com
• switching to using the WordPress media picker for photo, audio, video posts instead of the URL
• did WordPress work on the editor

Greg McVerry

• Greg McVerry,
• as a thank you to David Shanske and all his WordPress work, set up an indie t-shirt design factory with some of David's quotes
• "javascript is like sugar; only good in small doses."
• also requests feedback on badge markup

Tantek

• Tantek Çelik, http://tantek.com
• worked on the wiki
• especially the undo page (see also yesterday’s session)
• if you undo something, it should not look like anything has ever happened at all. Thus not a delete, which first publishes a thing that publishing may not be undoable without special functionality
• lots of inspiration from gmail

Dmitri Shuralyov

• Dmitri Shuralyov
• been talking about Go a lot under the event
• has been showing that basic principles of hello world can easily go into running a simple web server

Martijn van der Ven

• Martijn van der Ven
• set up a background service to send async webmentions
• shows a demo with https://webmention.rocks

Jack Jamieson

• Jack Jamieson
• set up an admin UI in Yarns to subscribe to feeds
• can also filter by post types.
• shows adding checkins back to the stream.

Tiara Miller

• Tiara Miller
• Worked on the website of her business
• Decided to go with Known as a system, rather than writing HTML from scratch
• integrate several social silos
• Really showing the beginning of a website