2024/Düsseldorf/Intros
Personal Site Intros was a session at IndieWebCamp Düsseldorf 2024.
- Archived from: https://etherpad.indieweb.org/DusseldorfSiteIntros2024
- Watch: ▶️ 35:27s
Participants
capjamesg - https://jamesg.blogDavid Shanske
pcarrier.comDave Letorey - https://letorey.co.uk (on my way from London be there in afternoon)
- https://wingpang.com/
Matthias Pfefferle - https://notiz.blogPaul Robert Lloyd
- ... add names
Introduction
- Tantek: Introduction to the event
Joschi
- Launched in 2014 with intent of writing lots of blog posts, later decided to change website from a blog to a simpler website; older blog posts are still available; homepage switched
- Doesn't want to break links
- At Brighton, was working on a concept with a URL graph showing how different pages should connect
- Project: not about growing website, but to reduce features (while not breaking links)
Sonja
- Launched website in spring last year
- Documents hiking trips on personal website
James
https://jamesg.blog (he/him)
- Likes to write about things that make him happy (which requires clicking on a picture of Taylor Swift)
Paul
- Slowly grown over the years; used to be lots of blogging; most of the activity now is in notes and posting photos
- This year, added a new section of songs he likes at /jams
- Older jams were copied from those originally posted to This Is My Jam
- Parses events he is attending from iCalendar to his personal website
- Working on Indiekit, a CMS for publishing content to your personal website. Indiekit is available as a web application. If anyone has any questions about it, ask Paul!
Dominik
- Had a personal website for 20 years
- Hosted on WordPress using IndieWeb plugins
- One day, may move content from WordPress to a new system; at the moment, everything works well.
Nikkin
- Came across IndieWebCamp through the People and Blogs series
- Started with WordPress then Jekyll and other tools
- Decided to focus on writing; uses markdown to write blog posts, then pandoc to convert content to HTML. This is done with the aid of a bash script, available on nikkin.dev.
- Generates RSS feed using bash
- Started writing a newsletter, hosted on a Raspberry Pi
Smi
(they/them)
- PhD student in Human Computer Interaction
- Volunteers at the btconf conference
- Studies media bias detection in online news, using machine learning
- Focuses on the psychology / design / ethical components of research
- Wants to start a website!
Stefan
- First came acrosss microformats in Copenhagen, was really interested by the concept
- Planning to build a website this weekend; has a domain and something running locally, wants to make progress this week!
David
- Tracks travel on his personal website, with metadata like temperature
- Has an query string that changes Fahrenheit to Celsius on his personal website
- Travel pages have venue and region pages, which let you see all posts in a region or location (i.e. Germany, a specific hotel)
- Has a list of all locations visited at https://david.shanske.com/location/
- Most recent photos are at https://david.shanske.com/photos/
- Joined the IndieWeb community ten years ago
- Has a section on his website for This Week in Personal History; shows what David was doing a year ago on this day.
- A year ago, attended Düsseldorf IndieWebCamp remotely
Matthias
- Uses WordPress since forever
- Trying to avoid social media as best as possible and trying to implement every nearly every open standard that allows one to be decentralized on his personal website
- There are quite a few open social plugins on WP
- Started blogging about everything, but lately has been about being decentralized and IndieWeb
Tantek
https://tantek.com (he/him)
- Posts notes and replies to GitHub
- Tries to post on personal website instead of on social media; all contents are in one stream on homepage
- Some posts are long, some are shorter
- Thumbs up to GitHub issues are posted on personal website
- Uses Brid.gy Publish to send likes to GitHub
- Uses fed.brid.gy to federate content from personal website to the Fediverse; does not require using a separate Mastodon account
- https://fed.brid.gy/web/tantek.com/notifications
- Brid.gy dashboard shows what was seen on Tantek's website and sent out to the Fediverse; last post was sent to 271 servers, 33 processing, 72 failed (unknown why)
- Can also see notifications from Brid.gy, including replies
- From @tantek.com@tantek.com
- Doing best to live the goal of posting on website rather than on other social media
Ekinsu
- Working as a UX/UI designer for two years, doing international design masters degree
- Interested in graphic design
- Personal website is a portfolio that shows different projects worked on; shwos project briefs, role in project, and more.
- Walking through an example project
Pierre
- Has projects on home page, links to social networks