2019/Austin/howto

How To was a session at IndieWebcamp Austin 2019.

Notes archived from https://etherpad.indieweb.org/howto

IndieWebCamp Austin 2019
Session: How to link Instagram and Twitter to your site
When: 2019-02-23 13:00

Participants

Rayna Harris (facilitator)
Aneel Nazareth
David Shanske
gRegor Morrill
Aneel
Chris Aldrich
mt
Jack Jamieson
Rosemary Orchard
dougbeal
Stephen Bowling
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Notes

introductions, name + physical activity

hackysac, paddleboarding, rockclimbing, biking, swimming, sleeping, eating choclate in a park, canyon and waterfall hiking, taking photos, running

Brid.gy

https://brid.gy/

has publishing function as well for cross-posting
does backfeed - bringing responses from services back to your site

what is the oauth mechanism... indieauth
cross post to foursquare or Swarm
- ownyourgram
- ownyourswarm
Micro.blog to support twitter cross posting $2
what text stack are you using, to what extent do you want to write your own code or plug and play
mastadon pluggin makes things nice :)

what are our platforms
python
github pages

Check the IndieWeb wiki for platforms, projects, CMS, or even programming language to find pre-existing examples and methods. This can make getting up and running much faster and simpler and even provide design examples of how these things are commonly done or have been done in the past.

instagram for sharing photos, nice interface and social media. use POSSE

POSSE
PESOS

ownyourgram and ownyourswarm use micropub

indieweb.org/jekyll gitpub micropub-to-github

what is ? ask this on the chat or slack using Loqi

paste your favorite tutorial or howtos here

aaron at iwc baltimore 2018 2018/Baltimore/micropub +1 rose
aaron mediapub endpoint in NYC or Berlin with youtube video
Chris Aldrich has some documentation on his site at https://boffosocko.com/research/indieweb/ which includes links to some WordPress specific videos/tutorials
Greg McVerry has some tutorials for WordPress as well
read through the cross-posting page on the wiki. covers complicated and quick
ooh, a list of all indieweb videos https://indieweb.org/videos_about_the_indieweb

Pain points or barriers to entry

public by default if privacy is a concern
fragility if you integrate with a service you rely on that service
lack of guanunteed support
apis versus scrapping
need your own website. little of this stuff is free
nerdy and technical

if you have a index.html page is this a way to start? yes

"indie web is not a place, it's a state of mind "

-- David Shanske

Assistance

Of the people that want assitance, what tools are people using currently and what is there level of expertise?

MT

in the process of redoing it
uses wordpress but had someone else do the labor
usenet
blog spot
wants to use jango or possibly pelican and python
What people in the community are using python? Bundle uses python

Rayna

Using:

https://raynamharris.github.io/ -github pages jekll
https://raynamharris.github.io/i_can_science/ - github pages jekll
https://public.nihdatacommons.us/ - github pages mkdocs

intermediale level web dev coding skills

having a micropub client will allow you to leverage a lot of power including being able to use OwnYourGram and OwnYourSwarm
Micropub for Jekyll:
- https://indieweb.org/Micropub/Servers#Jekyll
- GitPub an experimental git based micropub client that works with jekyll.

What is micropub?

a form encoded request sent to your website to publish something. based on the microformats syntax. wrapped in a html form request
once implemented and working, lots of clients you can use to post things to your site. very powerful once implemented
Aaron's Quill lets you post notes and longer articles. reference implementation.

Search the indie web wiki for a project for keywords (language, hosting application) to view some examples that you can use those open source versions to create what you need "no one should start from ground zero scrath". see examples of how people did this in the past and share your examples so people can follow along.

About the community

concentrated activity on camp days
began in 2010 in portland
indie web movement and indie web camp are two forces that joined together
9th annual summit comming up, lots of in person and online
unsure about the census
bimonthly meetup is the homebrew website club. all you need is a coffee shop