events/2025-06-17-front-end-study-hall
Front End Study Hall #030 was an IndieWeb meetup on Zoom held on 2025-06-17.
Front End Study Hall #030
June 17, 2025
Participants
Joe Crawford
- Eric M
- Emily N
Marty McGuire
Nick Simson
Kevin Marks
Thomas Vander Wal
Ross A. Baker, fashionably late
Tantek Γelik
Notes
Joe's Zoom Background
- Lissa Explains it all! https://lissaexplains.com/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lissa_Explains_it_All - which I vaguely remember from the 1990s but was reminded of it by https://jennschiffer.com/ who mentioned it on her livestreams of going through Glitch projects (Schiffer worked at Fogbugz/Glitch) to decide on what to do with them.
Scroll horizontally? Usability? Horizontal scroll is affected by scroll wheel? Good in timelines?
- flex-direction: row
- fulls creen with horizontal and vertical pagination in https://revealjs.com/ works meantly
- the horizontal scroll with paralax thta Zeldman pointed to - https://www.johnsonbanks.co.uk
- https://phanpy.social/ - shows edges of the content
- Mastodon scroling contexts - multiple on a page
- reminds artlung of old k10k of multiple scrolling iframes on a page
- Reveal.js slideshow type things
- css scroll snapping - how do we do it?
- https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/CSS_scroll_snap
- https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/scroll-snap-type
- Saturday - IndieWeb talk
- Beginner perspective: example topics
- http://blogroll.org/
- discovery
Nerding out movies
- Sneakers
- Revenge of the Nerds
- transform: too scale an object: overlaying the object
- https://revealjs.com/api/
Replacing JS with CSS!
What are notable places you've removed JavaScript from and replaced with native modern HTML and CSS replacements?
- scroll snap!
- CSS native smooth scrolling for jump links and works with prefers reduced animation
- accordions in JS (CSS purely CSS)
- Popover API
- :has()
Scraping Bot behaviors
- Scraping bots?
- performance problems
- throttling problems
- Charles
- Anubis JavaScript
- Remove Javascript to speed things up
- Add JavaScript to inhibit scrapers
- Static website?
- Fail2Ban
- Classifying bad user-agents with Caddy: https://pages.madhouse-project.org/algernon/infrastructure.org/services_caddy_snippets_classify_sketchy_agents
- proxies hidden in android apps to bypass rate limits / subnet blocks: https://maldbg.com/packed-android-proxy-framework
- https://www.404media.co/ai-scraping-bots-are-breaking-open-libraries-archives-and-museums/
- Cloudflare has been useful to
Tantek Γelik to avoid bot traffic, Marty has
- Dutch Telecom? OBH France
- Many conversations go toward AI and toward politics these days but these are nonetheless
- Multiple points about Cloudflare and
- Impulses to rely on American companies
Other notable links
Front End Study Hall (FrESH) | |
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Find upcoming Front End Study Hall Events on events.indieweb.org/tag/frontend | |
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