2016/LA/Demos

 Opening and closing demos  for IndieWebCamp LA 2016.

Opening Demos
Opening demos took place 2016-11-05 (logs).


 * as I mentioned earlier, having an identity, and having an h-card
 * (shows boffosocko.com)
 * it's a bit of variety slanguage
 * In Hollywood when someone says your movie did boffo, it means your movie did really well at the box office
 * In a muppets movie
 * and there's a scene where Kermit says it's going to be boffo, it's going to be socko, and so I went and got the domain name
 * I've got a PGP key, email address, even a few things hiding that don't show but if you have a tool that pulls it up you can see it
 * my favorite thing is, recently I went to an event
 * and a councilman of the city of LA gave me an honor
 * I do a lot of work for literacy in the city
 * and I posted up a photo of this to Instagram, and my site went out and posted it to my site
 * and my site automatically sent this post to FB, Twitter, G+, maybe LinkedIn
 * down here there's a syndicated to section
 * then it got the biggest response to anything that I got ever
 * I logged in the next morning
 * Bridgy sent webmentions for all these things back to my website
 * and not just seeing the messages, but every like had its own line-item
 * hundreds of people liked it on FB, dozens of people wrote short notes
 * and it had a visceral impact, more than just seeing the number 557 people liked this
 * to me this was way more personal, to see each individual one with a name and face
 * to me, part of that process would have been killed on Facebook, because it would have just showed a number, and I never would have seen the names and faces of the people that I know and love say hey I liked this
 * this is really a part of what I like about the IndieWeb
 * this site runs on WordPress
 * with the IndieWeb Plugin and 4-5 others
 * (showed http://boffosocko.com/2016/11/03/so-yeah-this-happened-today/ )


 * shows david.shanske.com
 * this is my website, it's barebones, the name of this theme is bearbones (with an ea)
 * there's very little in terms of style
 * so you'd focus on everything else
 * also a WordPress site
 * this is the last thing I posted
 * I went to Woodstock
 * there's a picture
 * One of the things that I've done for a long time in the community is work on IndieWeb plugins for WordPress
 * I do most of my testing on an alternate version of the site
 * I've added how to make different types or kinds of posts
 * If I went to my live site, you won't see as many choices because I don't use them all, but they're there
 * the other thing I added is a box so I can react to another article
 * any article I happen to be reading it will automatically pull in some data
 * when it was updated, summary, publication (if any), and the name
 * so I spend a lot of time building tools like that
 * when it's all done it shows up on my site
 * all the photos, etc. location
 * this is one of those link-previews that I have looks like
 * I guess that's it and we'll see if I what I build this weekend


 * He's Tantek and this is his website, tantek.com
 * Chris has never heard his last name pronounced.
 * At the end of 2009, he became very frustrated with Twitter
 * He hated the fail whale.
 * He started with notes, then added photos, etc.
 * Anything he posted on his other sites, he now posts on his own.
 * He can do what he wants, he can keep it minimal
 * He won't worry if an update of someone else's will break his stuff as he controls it all.
 * Putting stuff on your own site may be more powerful than social media. You can push it whereever you want.
 * He was frustrated because he created a new Twitter account and followed three people and got locked
 * tantek: Mostly just posts to Twitter using Bridgy
 * It all started really simple
 * It started out as a response to frustration, but now he is FREE!!!
 * Free at last
 * Chris mentioned scientific papers, etc.
 * Chris bringds up Marginalia
 * Marginalia allows you to comment on specific paragraphs
 * tantek would like to allow people to link to specific paragraphs on his site as well
 * This weekend, he encourages people to start small and build
 * Everything here started small
 * aaronpk's website wasn't built in a day

Rachel

 * my domain name is being held hostage by google
 * mostly I want to listen and learn

Jocelyn

 * Jocelyn.inturnaround.com
 * Jocelyn is looking for a way to watch and get notified of when people post
 * Chris: (shows woodwind.xyz)
 * Internal Server error!
 * Demo failed
 * KevinMarks_: Woodwind.xyz was doing that to me yesterday too
 * The other is aaronpk
 * tantek demonstrates woodwind
 * We discover he only subscribes to aaronpk and himself
 * then I added boffosocko.com and adactio.com to show more stuff showing up in woodwind


 * my name is Jeremy and my website is adactio.com
 * I've been blogging for ~15 years
 * when I write a blog post I syndicate out to Medium
 * a lot of people are blogging on Medium, but what I like to do is give Medium a copy
 * this is what we do on the indieweb - POSSE
 * I've got a links section also
 * I was syndicating it out to Delicious, are they still around?
 * I used to use link services, delicious, magnolia but they all end up getting shut down
 * GWG Pinboard is still doing well.
 * common theme, you put all this energy into another website, and then it gets shutdown
 * you spend all this time writing for other sites, only for the data to disappear
 * so that's kind of the thing we do, write on your own website, and just send copies to other sites
 * I have notes too
 * with photos
 * typically I POSSE out to places
 * e.g. here is a photo on my site, and on Twitter
 * and all the likes on my site from Twitter
 * thanks to Bridgy
 * GWG Everybody Loves Bridgy
 * not only do I syndicate out to these places
 * but when people comment, like etc. I get that back on my site
 * I like it when I post an article, and people post comments on their own sites
 * I have control over my data, and they have control over their data
 * I've been adding incrementally at indiewebcamps, photos, etc.
 * that's generally what happens at indiewebcamp, one day we discuss thigns, get ideas, and day 2 we hack things
 * like these sparklines, I think I built at IWC Nürnberg
 * got some ideas, and what I'm working and hacking

Neal

 * this is my website: http://wiki-njnm.rhcloud.com/view/welcome-visitors/
 * the unfortunately named . wiki-...
 * it's a fedwiki, supposed to be like github for notes
 * it's an old version, you can copy paste script tags and such
 * it's gotten to a point where it takes like 3 seconds to load
 * as far as I know it's the longest fedwiki page ever
 * today I want to figure out what to do about this
 * I can paste javascript straight into the page
 * It's kind of nice, you can drag & drop stuff
 * gRegorLove: That's Smallest Federated Wiki?
 * this is my personal replacement to Delicious getting shutdown
 * (discussion about is delicious being resurrected or not)

Michael Kirk

 * this is a wordpress site, mostly a premium theme: mikirk.com
 * my name is Michael Kirk so it's a condensed form
 * I'm a graphic artist and designer
 * I used to use uber.com which was a place to do personal art sites and one month it was gone. that's what brings me here

Jeffrey

 * Hi I'm Jeffrey, an indiewebcamp newbie. I'm an artist and a web developer too.
 * all my pages are built with a static site generator, called nana (sp?) in Ruby I think
 * I have many domain names
 * like this is my personal backup/archive of everything
 * like this is my database of drawings
 * it's a ruby on rails app
 * it makes thumbnails, I can tag them, how large they are, they are location based. this database has about 4000 records in it
 * plenty of ways to navigate it, autopilot features
 * nothing being posted to other sites, I don't trust them.
 * the other thing I make is a lot of drawing tools
 * like this is a drawing tool, it draws automatically and you can click No or Paint
 * I have too many domains and want to figure out a way to do that better
 * I'm trying to figure out a way to bring my own community into an actual place where people own their information but can still talk to each other
 * "I am my own silo"

Closing Demos
Closing demos took place 2016-11-06 (logs).

Michael Kirk

 * I'm Michael Kirk of http://www.mikirk.com.
 * Today I hooked up Brid.gy and got Flickr, G+, Twitter, and Facebook
 * My first POSSEd post: http://mikirk.com/gettin-all-bridgy-widget/


 * I'm Jeremy Keith, my site is adactio.com
 * At the last IWC, I had tags for different sections and created a view
 * This camp I created different archives by months, days, and for links
 * See: http://adactio.com/archive/
 * I added in sparklines for month views
 * the sparklines for day views were pretty sparse and looked rubbish
 * I left everything as reverse chronological, though I may decide to switch that

Jocelyn Simpson

 * Hi I'm Jocelyn Simpson and my site is http://jocelyn.inturnaround.com
 * I figured out how to put some categories into my menu via tags/categories
 * I don't have actual content in them yet, but there there
 * I also set up to capture emails for my (pending) email newsletter.
 * I used mailchimp because it was free and included a simple plugin.

Jesus Noland

 * My website is http://www.JesusNoland.com
 * This is my first IndieWeb experience.
 * I got h-card working
 * I also learned about web sign in and managed to log into the wiki and make edits
 * I used a tag on my website so it's hidden

Sevil Turner

 * My name is Sevil Turner and my website is at http://www.sevilturner.com
 * I managed to log into the wiki and RSVP to camp this weekend.
 * I also created an h-card for my site
 * I'm also planning on moving my site to Jekyll soon

Rachel Upshaw

 * I'm Rachel Upshaw and I'm waiting for my new domain name to propagate so it's live on the internet
 * I did start hacking on my site which I'll move to it's final location, but I got most of a representative h-card


 * using android
 * opened @t
 * wants to own his likes
 * shows his Android viewing twitter.com/t (in Twitter app)
 * clicks to "share" icon for that tweet
 * it goes to a "URL Forwarder" Android App
 * it goes to creating a like on his Known
 * his Known automatically POSSEs to Twitter
 * so now his like shows up on Twitter as well
 * the amounts of likes and such I do since this has tripled


 * I'm Tantek and my site is Tantek.com
 * I got one thing done which has been bothering me for a while
 * I had been using google search on my website
 * I wanted to see search results in date order, but google seems to have broken this feature.
 * for a search box to show 0 results was just awful
 * I've been using Duck duck Go as my default in my browser
 * I switched to it for my site search now
 * Google used to be fast for search and it seems like they backslid
 * duckduck go shows emoji in search results
 * and google doesn't
 * duck duck go also shows author icons in search while google doesn't
 * overall it's a better user experience
 * google wants to add a lot of javascript just to do a google search
 * (gRegorLove: Also in general search, if you click on that icon it changes it to a site-specific search)
 * Google search doesn't do timebased search for the past few months
 * google doesn't support iso dates either
 * Duckduckgo also has an html version of their search and the search result goes directly to the page
 * Something has gone wrong with web development engineering compared to 15 years ago and there's no real excuse for it.
 * We all benefit for faster websites.

Asher Silberman

 * Hi I'm Asher Silberman and my site is localhost:8000 (now live on my site http://www.ashersilberman.com)
 * I've built in flask using flat files
 * I based it on the Jekyll-indieweb template I got on the wiki
 * I created a sample post and have some links with rel-me


 * Hi I'm aaronpk (remote via hangouts) and my site is https://aaronparecki.com/
 * worked on pubsub.rocks
 * I'm going to use the publisher test
 * http://pubsub.rocks/publisher
 * It delivered the latest version of my homepage though I haven't done anything pretty with it.
 * Showing Test your subscriber functionality
 * Woodwind.xyz wasn't quite as real-time as I wanted.
 * I'm going to use this website to test itself.
 * It's nearly instantaneous
 * That's the beginning of testing publishers and subscribers.
 * aaronpk gets a major round of applause
 * aaronpk: it's pretty crazy! I hope that made sense! it's a little hard to wrap your head around