events/2020-10-28-hwc-americas
Homebrew Website Club Americas 2020-10-28 was an IndieWeb meetup on Zoom.
- Archived from: https://etherpad.indieweb.org/2020-10-28-hwc-americas
Participants
David Shanske
- Maxwell Joslyn
gRegor Morrill
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Angelo Gladding
Tantek Γelik
Chris Aldrich joined late
Notes
- Introductions / Welcomes
- https://binyam.in/ new to indieweb
- Demos
- Propose Topics and Vote :^) [add +1 after each thing that interests you (INCLUDING ones you write); we will add up and proceed in order of total]
- Is there a false dichotomy between content creator and content hosts/creators? +3
- (based on this tweet & my response to it: https://twitter.com/emmalsalinas/status/1317017392816345088 )
- screenshotted quote is from this book: https://books.google.com/books?id=IzDQDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT27&lpg=PT27&dq=%22to+create+content+is+to+be+distracted.+to+create+the+platform+is+to+focus+on+the+true+structure+of+reality%22&source=bl&ots=bU853OQI0C&sig=ACfU3U0ifA8iP_RgosTylFfJnDalUXNPOw&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwio0KWu49jsAhVOop4KHTQpC6kQ6AEwAHoECAEQAg#v=onepage&q=%22to%20create%20content%20is%20to%20be%20distracted.%20to%20create%20the%20platform%20is%20to%20focus%20on%20the%20true%20structure%20of%20reality%22&f=false
- What can consume citations? +1
- Typography and fonts / web fonts+4
- examples: gwern.net
- Need help with the RamerβDouglasβPeucker algorithm for polyline simplification. +1
- Extra special bonus add-on...encoded polylines
- Relationship between fediverse and indieweb +3
- Read-status +1
- web goblins (creatures that live on and move between website) +3
- deploying a server -- how do you do it? +1
- Is there a false dichotomy between content creator and content hosts/creators? +3
Top Topics 1. Typography and fonts
- serifs are great for print ... not so much on screens
- some UIs give reader the option
- kindle
- fanfiction
- you _don't see it on news stories, encyclopedia
- serifs can be easier to read -> accessibility
- "fancy restaurants don't put salt on the table" ->
- don't forget monospace fonts, and display (e.g. fancy curly) fonts
- workhorse font for communicating info + fancy font for headlines, tab titles
- increasing the size of font for legibility
- browsers default to tiny, serifed fonts - way hard to read
- fonts to improve legibility for ppl with dyslexia, e.g. https://www.lexend.com/
- serif vs sans-serif may affect retention, difficulty of learning
- link to paper? "people retain significantly more if they learn in a font that's hard to read"
- supposedly Comic Sans -> more retention?
- practicaltypography.com/
- https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/font-variant-ligatures with a live demo!
- variable fonts let you do crazy stuff (like animation) with just css
- https://css-tricks.com/getting-the-most-out-of-variable-fonts-on-google-fonts/
- https://liebefonts.com/ and their IG: https://www.instagram.com/liebefonts/
- https://codepen.io/collection/XqRLMb/
- https://www.instagram.com/p/CCB2DxkCzui/
- https://codepen.io/mandymichael/pen/Mdoxpg
- https://liebefonts.com/fonts/liebeheide
- https://github.com/angelogladding/web/blob/main/mkdn/inline/__init__.py#L655
- web font generator: https://www.fontsquirrel.com/tools/webfont-generator
IndieWebCamp East!
- Grab a ticket: https://2020.indieweb.org/east
- More info: 2020/East
- See previous IndieWebCamps to get an idea!
2. a 3-way tie
- a. content creator vs. host
- b. relation of fediverse and indieweb
- c. web goblins