2023/SD/intro-demos

Personal Website Demos was a session at IndieWebCamp San Diego 2023 with in-person and remote participants.

Joe Crawford

Al Abut, https://alabut.com
A "web dork" for over 20 years now
A blend of commercial and non-commercial web use
Moved to SF, worked in startups for years
Excited about the non-commercial web, playing with things
Forgot how much he loves web standards
Spent time on the CSS working group
There are things in the air with social / open standards, and people working on the web for fun
Exciting to see people work on new things on the web
Primarily bring a design eye; if there are things with which Al can help in terms of making microsites, making things easier, that's what he will dive into
Here to help!

First introduction to the IndieWeb
Full-stack web developer, moving to back-end development
[audio too hard to hear]
We (all participants) will encourage you to set up a website today and work on it tomorrow!

Angelo Gladding, https://ragt.ag
Just bought a new domain, says GWG :D
Currently posting high-frequency code commits to my home page
Beware of following me in a feed reader as a result
Plan to take the weekend on long-form writing
- James says "what!" (Sara joins James in showing surprise and encouragement) :D
Glad to be at his first in-person IndieWebCamp

Tantek Çelik, https://tantek.com
Most recent thing I did on my site was blog a brief summary of the Data Dialogues event at Meta's San Francisco office, which was invitation only but Chatham House rule applied; quote, but no attribution allowed.
My one hack there was at the end of the presentations I invited people to join me in a group photo which would be published publicly. Most people were happy with being in the photo!
My little way of nudging a private event to being more transparent; they were quite grateful that someone took the initiative to encourage that.
In the follow up email to attendees, they included the photo.
I have a longer blog post to write with my notes from the meeting.
Lot of things he wants to work on this weekend; site enhancements, library enhancements; figure out alternatives to Webfinger that we can use and share with AP implementers
Q: for Tantek: are you the main point of contact in the community? Governance structure in the IWC.
- We are roughly anarchistic in that regard; decentralized. Leave it up to every city to organize their own HWC / IWCs. A lot of people volunteer to provide support. Self-determined volunteers. Every city and community decides what is right for them.
- Very much encourage decentralized decision making. That's most sustainable. The spirit of the indie web. Nobody wants to be in charge; we want to start things and build communities!
Session idea from Al Abut sparked; a little intimidating about how you get started.

David Shanske, https://david.shanske.com
Shows his name tag
Tend to play with location-based features on my websites when traveling since it is designed for use when taking trips
https://david.shanske.com/2023/12/14/map/
Most recent example ^
Every time I go and do a lot of things in a short period of time, I want to improve my code
A lot of dots in a small space which means I need to fix my maps
Came from NY via Fort Lauderdale
A participant in all IWC WordPress plugins
Someone asks how many
Somewhere between 5-10 WordPress plugins

Peter Kaminski, https://peterkaminski.wiki/
Most recent website update was adding h-card to the home page (with `display:none`, so view source or indiewebify or whatever to see it)
Most recent project (non-IWC) is Pixie, CLI interface to GPT-4V, released this morning, https://github.com/peterkaminski/pixie
COVID-cautious, still wearing masks when near people, even outside like at IWC SD :-)
Long-time Internet and web tech, have known about IndieWeb and Microformats all along, but this is my first IWC
Have been to lots of BarCamps, including the first ones (special shout out to Recent Changes Camp, the wiki camps)
Participating in lots of small communities now, and working on intercommunity projects
- Massive Wiki, Collective Sense Commons, Open Global Mind, MeetingWords, etc.
Does a lot of internet stuff!

Chris Aldrich, https://boffosocko.com
Can't count how many IWCs he has visited now—would have to look up on his site
First was one he hosted in Los Angeles; group was supportive; took it over from someone else who moved away.
We are working on the next one. Late summer, maybe??
Lifted site name from The Muppets Take Manhattan
Used the early web but didn't have a domain to ~2003
Used boffosocko.com since ~2008.
One of the last things he did was a setup for hand-writing posts and publishing the text to his website
- Shows post about how that works that he wrote in 2021: https://boffosocko.com/2021/12/20/handwriting-my-website-with-a-digital-amanuensis/
Hoping to extend the feature to an old web thing called "typecasting" that works with analog typewriters
In one photo, a click (maybe two), take text from a typewriter, post on site, and make it available to everyone

Anthony Ciccarello, https://ciccarello.me
Got in the IndieWeb through having a blog
Super active in the IndieWeb Chat
Active in some JavaScript-focused projects like IndieKit, which he runs on his site
Has a static-hosted website
Getting involved with metaformats work with microformats parsers, mostly because IndieKit will use it for link previews, references, etc. Mapping existing meta tags to microformats is ideal for interoperability.

capjamesg, https://jamesg.blog/
likes to write about the web, coffee, and other things
top ten words on his site includes coffee
Thank you for taking notes for me :)
Things James worked on:
- Added HN orange boxes to my site category pages: https://jamesg.blog/category/post/?hn
- Wrote a blog post: https://jamesg.blog/2023/12/16/christmas-tree/
- Added Iowa State Fair to his website emoji register -- during the Fair, my site-wide emoji will turn to corn.

Pablo Morales https://lifeofpablo.com/
based out of Sacramento
Blogs a lot
Likes multi-media posts, anything from audio blog posts to video
Does a lot of photography
Currently working on year in review blog post, one for photography and one for a more general year end review
Almost done with the photography one, for those who want a quick preview it is being shown on the chat
- James loves the photography! :D

Sara Jakša, https://sarajaksa.eu/
Joining from Slovenia
Made website in 2016, mostly been writing a lot of words!
Also, I was working on something before I saw the link, so I am perfectly fine, if I am not involved with everything :)