events/2023-04-15-galactic-hwc
Galactic Bonus Homebrew Website Club was an IndieWeb meetup on Zoom held on 2023-04-15.
- Archived from: https://etherpad.indieweb.org/Galactic_Bonus_HWC_2023_04_15
Participants
- capjamesg
- lifeofpablo.com
- Jeremy Cherfas jeremycherfas.net and stream.jeremycherfas.net
- Tracy Durnell
Notes
- Anthony is working on search
- James has worked on search in the past, too!
- https://github.com/capjamesg/indieweb-search (it's down at the moment)
- lifeofpablo.com is adding indieauth login to the Flat-File CMS, Datenstrom Yellow. He is building an extension using the Datenstrom Extension
Jeremy is wondering and worrying about what to do about Twitter and WithKnown
- James noted there is an export option, but it might not work properly for bigger sites
- James noted he had to write a conversion script to deal with the RSS output, but it should work for RSS import (I haven't tested)
- Website wishlist "to do" - https://tracydurnell.com/website-wishlist/
- https://tracydurnell.com/questions/ - organize content (books, posts, etc) around themes
- Performance testing on personal websites
- Footnotes; I meant to share this a day or two ago with James: https://leancrew.com/all-this/2023/02/markdown-footnoting-in-bbedit/
- Side notes
- Hover bubble as render?
- Maybe tag?
- Use JavaScript to make them appear
- KevinMarks added sidenotes in his Memex piece: https://www.kevinmarks.com/memex.html
- Example James has seen recently: https://anhvn.com/posts/2022/bloop-aka-writing-for-chat/
- IndieWeb Dice
- Roll for site features: navigation bar, colour scheme, etc.
- James - is my homepage designed for people who haven't been there before?
- TODOs James wants to work on:
- Make text full width and remove default coffee image - Potentially move about section to /about/? - Add /about/ to navigation bar? - Maybe introduce a sidebar(!) on homepage
- What do you look for on personal websites?
- Philosophies
- Blogrolls
- Interesting pages
- About page
- add more!
- Visual post types
- https://distill.pub
- AI / ML focused
- Hiding posts you want to be public but not easily visible
- Restrict via IndieAuth
- Post content with an older date
- "Necroposting" (James doesn't like this name)
Ender I came across this site a week or so away and was blown away by it https://ciechanow.ski/bicycle/ Super interactive, super informative, and clearly takes an age to make.
- ender - yes I have seen this! they had an old blog post about bezier curves that was so good. I really admire blog posts that take this much time
Me too, which is why I was fascinated to see that you are a fan of Gwern
- various notetaking tools: https://www.notion.so/Artificial-Brain-Networked-notebook-a131b468fc6f43218fb8105430304709
- do you like this @james? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remarkable_(tablet)
- https://anniemurphypaul.com/books/the-extended-mind/
- https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/170465.Natural_Born_Cyborgs