events/2020-08-26-hwc-west-coast
Homebrew Website Club West Coast 2020-08-26
Event: https://events.indieweb.org/2020/08/homebrew-website-club-west-coast-talIosGEv6Kx
Participants
- Tantek Γelik
- David Shanske
- Sue Hanen - heard Chris Aldrich speak at the meetup this past Saturday
- hibs
- Angelo Gladding - working on lahacker.net/indieweb to document all the IndieWeb specs/standards in one place
- Chaitanya - from India (early morning there), working on his WordPress site
- Maxwell Joslyn
- Chris Aldrich
- Kartik Prabhu
- Emma Humphries
- ... add names
Introductions and Demos
- Chris Aldrich working at creating a file based website as a zettelkasten or for public note taking
- set up a GitHub pages site to try to dovetail with Obsidian
- Emma Humphries
- added offline worker to her site
- writing a series of posts on bug handling based on her work at Mozilla
Notes
FYI:
- David Shanske's _s branch is github.com/dshanske/_s
- https://indieweb.org/2020/West/AutoAuth
There are no upcoming pop ups at the moment. Short discussion on adding a few as well as potentially organizing a fall IWC East. Chaitanya mentioned organizing an online HWC around an Indian timezone.
Topics
Does webspeed matter for personal websites
See: https://indieweb.org/performance
Multiple fonts? They load very slowly.
Bootstrap was 50x the size of the HTML he was trying to communicate
- Reasons why to have better speed
- Readers with poor bandwidth
- Saving website/server resources
Possibly related https://css-tricks.com/where-does-logic-go-on-jamstack-sites/
Scots Wikipedia fiasco
Scottish language version was written in "poor" grammar by one user over seven years https://www.reddit.com/r/Scotland/comments/ig9jia/ive_discovered_that_almost_every_single_article/
Archive
To ascend or to descend, that is the question. Whether 'tis nobler in the mind...
- archive page design
- chronological or reverse-chronological?
- see chat for more discussion early that day
Eric Meyer has an article referenced from Kartik Prabhu's article find them here: https://kartikprabhu.com/articles/webs-arrow-time#notes
Eric Meyer has written about this before in Weblog Weirdness and First-Order Solutions. Notice that those pages have posts in a proper chronological order though his homepage is in reverse-chronological order. He also uses the βolder to leftβ pattern on his archive pages.
Accessiblity and language/cultural preferences
From a UI perspective, language may affect how people perceive and think about time in various settings:
- Lancaster University. "Language shapes how the brain perceives time." ScienceDaily. ScienceDaily, 2 May 2017. www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/05/170502112607.htm
- Recap of journal article: Emanuel Bylund and Panos Athanasopoulos. The Whorfian Time Warp: Representing Duration Through the Language Hourglass. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 2017 DOI: 10.1037/xge0000314.supp
Archive navigation options...
- Pagination discussion, IWC Berlin 2018 https://indieweb.org/2018/Berlin/pagination
Example of Tumblr's UX treatment of archive navigation: http://tangledtriangles.tumblr.com/archive
Small Web
- See small web for origins, history, latest articles.
- See ind.ie for another manifesto.
- See also notes from chat over the last few days as well as conversation on those posts on HackerNews