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
  • https://github.com/pmoralesgarcia/indieauth-datenstrom.git

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
  • https://www.webpagetest.org/
• 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)
  • https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2023/02/necroposting-blogging-from-before-you-started-blogging/

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

• https://computationalcreativity.net/iccc22/
• https://andymatuschak.org/
• https://roam.garden/

• 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