events/2024-05-22-hwc-europe
Homebrew Website Club Europe/London was an IndieWeb meetup on Zoom held on 2024-05-22.
- Archived from: https://etherpad.indieweb.org/2024-05-22-hwc-europe
Participants
Mark Sutherland
capjamesgJoe Crawford
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Reilly Spitzfaden https://reillyspitzfaden.com- Template:benjaminparry
jo- Template:Ros
benjiSara JakΕ‘a htpps://sarajaksa.eu
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Notes
- Introductions and what we're doing on our websites
- Mark: bug fixes and performance enhancements
- Alex's blog post on Obsidian: https://alexsirac.com/mon-experience-apres-4-ans-dobsidian/
- Front End Study Hall is tomorrow: https://events.indieweb.org/2024/05/front-end-study-hall-003-CHeoDn1hkrMq
- Using that made it trivial to make links on my home page to those with a nice collage background https://artlung.com/ ; other site updates recently are listed on https://artlung.com/blog/2024/05/22/j-p-u/
- capjamesg has been blogging with ideas folks might take on!
- Steven Feuerstein's essay from 2000 called "I don't like your examples" https://artlung.com/blog/2024/03/06/dont-like-your-examples/ The essay is at https://www.stevenfeuerstein.com/feuerthoughts/2020/8/25/i-dont-like-your-examples
- https://github.com/capjamesg/papers-with-code-rss
- Google search remove AI: https://tedium.co/2024/05/17/google-web-search-make-default/
- https://www.startpage.com/ (private/less spammy Google frontend), https://searx.space/ (metasearch engine - list of instances)
- Template:benjaminparry started using https://priv.au/ this week a version of SearXNG
- 3Blue1Brown: https://www.3blue1brown.com/topics/neural-networks
- Kagi (paid), SearchMySite is cute for small websites
- blogging or not blogging about politics
- what is politics?
- some topics are purely political, some people can't not be political (ie. identity questions like a trans person)
- some things are considered inherently political and others inherently apolitical
- it's not only Β« vote for X Β». trying to explain why i vote for someone / trying to get more general about the concepts and not that one candidate on a given day
- alex has 2 rules: 1/ don't write about Β« perishable Β» topics 2/ try to keep things general
- James: it's about optimism and hope, you're not a news organisation
- James: what do I do about a post from a year or so ago that is very dear to me and that people might never see because they're lost in the archives?
- Jo (garden): pinned posts, you could have a pinned post with your personal top 10
- example: https://jvns.ca/categories/favorite/
- Cory Doctorow had a great piece yesterday that speaks to the question of older posts. https://pluralistic.net/2024/05/21/noway-back-machine/#retro Rsurrecting posts from this day in history brings it to mind for Cory and also exposes it to everyone else.
I don't write every day, but whenever I post I look at the other posts from that day and sometimes I will either add a short note linking to that or even share the original socially even though it is not new.
- "Now" pages now
- WP/CP plugin to surface related posts using a flexible algorithm; I was impressed https://yarpp.com/
- Jeremy Keithβs website has a βPreviously on this dayβ on article pages So does mine π!
- Alex uses Tempus Fugit (used to use yarpp) on Wordpress to have a Β« on this day Β» box in the sidebar
- James also has his time machine: https://jamesg.blog/time-machine/
- I find on this day's personally delightful: I just had a nice memory by looking at my time machine.
- Ros is going to start writing about their web dev learning experience
- https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/curriculum/core/design-for-developers/
- Links to lots of books ^^^
- Don't Make Me Think https://sensible.com/dont-make-me-think/
- Elements of User Experience,The: User-Centered Design for the Web and Beyond by Jesse James Garrett
- The Design of Everyday Things by Don Norman
- Not a book but I really enjoyed this livestream with Andy Bell talking about fluid typography, Cube css and his Every Layout resource https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7X8R_KVB3uc
- Reilly's library:
** https://www.sitepoint.com/premium/books/the-principles-of-beautiful-web-design-4th-edition/ ** https://nostarch.com/hello-web-design
- Universal Principles of Design -- book recommended by several people in the meetup
- Dead Simple Sites - great site for nicely designed sites that keep design simple - https://deadsimplesites.com/
- Series of videos on typography: https://pimpmytype.com/articles/
- The author gave an amazing talk at btconf: https://beyondtellerrand.com/events/dusseldorf-2024/speakers/oliver-schondorfer#talk
https://theuserisdrunk.com/ Highlighting menu when on a page: https://www.kimgehrig.com/about TIL: Breadcrumbing is a thing that I had no idea about. And I'm not sure I want know more.: https://www.verywellmind.com/what-is-breadcrumbing-5220677
- Social norms session notes: events/2024-05-18-hwc-social-norms
- https://tantek.com/2024/035/t1/greshams-law-developers-users-jargon
- https://www.waterstones.com/book/coders/clive-thompson/9781529019001
- https://codepen.io/challenges
- Andy Bell sets some design challenges on his site but I thinkn theyβre pretty ambitions https://piccalil.li/blog/challenge-009-progress-indicator https://piccalil.li/category/front-end-challenges-club
<(thanks folks, have to dash π)
- https://www.ibiblio.org/harris/500milemail.html
- https://tjaart.substack.com/p/the-curious-case-of-the-missing-period
- https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/library/virtual-worlds-and-web-40-factsheet
- https://www.imdb.com/title/tt17076046/
- A.M. Radio song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxxLrWAtKTg
- https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/18/style/tiktok-tunnel-girl.html
- https://github.com/felixrieseberg/windows95
- https://oldweb.today
- https://zxnet.co.uk/teletext/viewer/
- https://www.theguardian.com/media/2022/jan/05/text-appeal-ceefax-recreated-by-20-year-old-northern-irish-man