events/2024-06-12-hwc-europe
Homebrew Website Club Europe/London was an IndieWeb meetup on Zoom held on 2024-06-12.
- Archived from: https://etherpad.indieweb.org/2024-06-12-hwc-europe
Participants
Paul WatsonJoe Crawford
Reilly Spitzfaden https://reillyspitzfaden.com/
Mark Sutherland- Template:Ros
Niko Abeler https://blog.libove.org
jo
benji
capjamesg
Tantek Γelik
Notes
- capjamesg's throat is recovering, so he will likely not talk too much :D - James ππΌ
- Diff for Mark's changes: https://github.com/marksuth/marksuth.dev/compare/4825c99..77b94b3
- Mark's tile grid codepen: https://codepen.io/marksuth/pen/KKLwXdO
- Autogenerated thumbnails https://blog.libove.org/posts/thumbnails-for-owl-blogs/
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moir%C3%A9_pattern
- Wisdom from Mark Sutherland on image compression for the web: "compress as much as possible until just before it looks shit"
- Image formats: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Media/Formats/Image_types on MDN
- Squoosh: https://squoosh.app/ - play with an image in a web app for size
- Speculation Rules API https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Speculation_Rules_API
- https://adactio.com/journal/21139
- Ostriches are not llamas [citation needed]
- old websites from early 2000s/90s
- https://www.lazaruscorporation.co.uk/info/history
- Retro Webdesign on this Band promo website: https://www.mercurialworld.com/
- The Oldest Blogger https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morrie_Markoff
- https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/11/us/morrie-markoff-dead.html
- https://rebeccatoh.co/small/
- Camden TV show: https://www.disneyplus.com/en-gb/series/camden/2Q0ekpLufO9e
- Brother printer: https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/2/24117976/best-printer-2024-home-use-office-use-labels-school-homework
- Typography:
- A cool font James likes: https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Source+Serif+4
- Typography and accessibility: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQkCBdEEWCE
- Type history: Not (yet) on YouTube, but check out https://beyondtellerrand.com/events/dusseldorf-2024/speakers/ferdinand-ulrich <- i saw this live on the stream it was great!
- Typography story from Bell Labs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CVxeuwlvf8w
- Taylor Swift fonts: https://maketypework.com/taylor-swift-fonts-through-the-eras/
- Typewritten post by Jo
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypDwh2ShJ6A
- https://www.lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/artists-notebook/posts/letterpress-video
- https://news.artnet.com/art-world/doves-typeface-2454807
- Why is this font everywhere? (short doc about Cooper Black) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zu91meda2I8
- https://www.youtube.com/@LinusBoman/videos
- Book: Universal Principles of Design, Revised and Updated https://www.amazon.co.uk/Universal-Principles-Design-Revised-Updated/dp/1592535879
- https://universalprinciplesofdesign.com/books
- https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Zwiebelfisch "A character that is by mistake printed in a font different from the rest."
https://www.raspberrypi.com/products/raspberry-pi-5/
- 11ty starter projects: https://www.11ty.dev/docs/starter/
- Make and re-make cheatsheets!
- https://www.amazon.co.uk/Coders-Making-Tribe-Remaking-World/dp/0735220565
- Ada Lovelace story: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wnHHzBY1SPQ
- Handy mini reference book for editing writing for clarity: The Writer's Diet by Helen Sword
- ... add notes
VSCode plugins
- https://github.com/hoovercj/vscode-power-mode
- https://saekiraku.github.io/vscode-rainbow-fart/#/en/
- i saw this one on instagram xd https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=jirkavrba.subway-surfers
Book recommendations:
- Broad Band: The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the Internet
https://amazon.com/dp/0735211752
- (fiction) The Difference Engine (Wm Gibson, B Sterling) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Difference_Engine which imagines a world in which Ada Lovelace and Charles Babbage succeeded and mechanical computers and networking begin 1824
- The Code of Conduct code-of-conduct
- San Diego based youth rugby https://www.ombacwallabies.com/
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELIZA
- Loqi
- ommWriter https://ommwriter.com/ - a distraction free editor for the Mac