User:Tracydurnell.com

__NOTITLE__ = Tracy Durnell =

Intro
I'm a graphic designer and writer in the Seattle area. I blogged through college, took a few years off in the 2000s, and have been blogging at Cascadia Inspired since 2012.

Websites
My main blog is Cascadia Inspired, where I write about creative work and finding inspiration in nature. In 2021 I ran a short-term art project on a subdomain as a pandemic project.

I use tracydurnell.com as a mind garden to track articles I've read and shows and videos I've watched. I'm tracking books I read there too.

Blog Posts Related to the IndieWeb
 * Joining the Indie Web, One Step at a Time - August 2020
 * What I’m Excited About with Joining the Indie Web - August 2020
 * Musing on an Indie Web Patreon - quick brain dump on combining Indie Web tools with discoverability - June 2021
 * Mushroom Mascot on IndieWeb Create Day - July 2021
 * Getting More Women Involved in the IndieWeb - September 2021
 * Mushroom Mascot Illustrated at IndieWeb Create Day - October 2021
 * Overcoming the societal expectations making it hard for women to leave social media - March 2022

Blog Posts Related to Blogging / Having Websites
 * Thinking Better with My Mind Garden - October 2020
 * Living in the Internet I Choose: A Blog Manifesto - June 2019
 * Personal Websites are the Best - November 2021
 * Personal Website Aesthetics - December 2021

Notes and Ideas from IndieWeb Popups and Events
 * Sensitive Data on Your Personal Website - June 2021
 * Gardens and Streams II - September 2021
 * A New WordPress Theme at Create Day - December 2021
 * Analog Meets Online: Session Thoughts - January 2022
 * Connecting with other readers through our websites - February 2022
 * Watched Photo Posting And Presentation - May 2022

Notes and Ideas from Homebrew Website Club
 * May 19, 2021 - visualizing threads and connected content (for comments or mind garden posts), local community-run web hosting as public service, collating self-quantified data into easy-to-analyze databases on our own websites to spot patterns and make suggestions to yourself
 * May 26, 2021 - "low impact" websites and the overlap with streamlined code, mini computer interactive art project
 * June 9, 2021 - teaming up with a webhost to create a one-click Indie Web website install, celebrating birthdays on your website, audiences to invite to Indie Web events
 * June 30, 2021 - feedback and further musings about how to improve the 2021/homepage proposal I'm chipping away at
 * July 21, 2021 - future wiki improvement projects, discussion about the philosophy of subscribing to feeds versus things or people
 * August 4, 2021 - Kicks Condor and the potential of website weirdness, a different format for conversation threading
 * August 11, 2021 - discussion about making friends and meeting people online through your website - idea of a community challenge to interact with people you don't know in the IndieWeb
 * August 18, 2021 - what could in-person IndieWebCamp look like in 2022? identified the need for an IndieWeb icon (16px)
 * August 28, 2021 - hydroponics website, troubleshooting my reading list filter
 * September 8, 2021 - Self-Sufficient Hosting and the Literacy of the Future
 * December 1, 2021 - Dystopia and IndieWeb Gifts and Commitments

Working On

 * mascot
 * 2021/homepage

Personal Websites

 * Figure out a good way to track "to read" books, and include a note about why I want to read it to make it better than Goodreads - use tags in place of shelves?
 * May 2022 - trying out a simpler format "want to read" webpage to track my progress reading books I pick out at the start of the year
 * Figure out a homepage layout for my mind garden that makes it feel like less of a feed - I'm thinking something like a "magazine" layout with blocks for each either category or post type - potentially displaying some random posts as well
 * Would love to figure out how to somehow display a visual web of articles linked by tags but I think that's way outside my skillset - instead maybe adding links to other articles with similar tags on post pages?
 * Ideally would love a dynamic visualization similar to this suggestion for threaded convos
 * Could probably use a suggested posts plugin to do similar
 * A simpler visualization method could be kind of Venn diagram-ish representations by category or tag, showing how other tags overlap with the selected category or tag - e.g. for books would be interesting to see relative prevalence of overlapping tags like novella, non-fiction, etc.
 * Adding a visual representation of how much of a numeric goal I accomplished in my quarterly personal reviews
 * Creating a Photos page that displays all photos in a grid / stream format
 * Adding a recipe page to save go-to recipes (and notes?)

IndieWeb Projects

 * create an IndieWeb mascot
 * Mushroom mascot illustrated
 * update color palette and incorporate into the wiki CSS
 * IndieWeb (versus IndieWebCamp) logo and icon
 * cleanup of key IndieWeb wiki pages for improved readability for new folks
 * organizers maps for use on who page
 * active community members opt-in map?

Done

 * Set up SSL on both websites
 * 2021 - ok this took 15 minutes
 * Redesign my author website (under a pen name) which is using a generic template
 * Created a new WordPress child theme at December 2021 Create Day
 * Adding an index of tags
 * May 2022 - have created an index page to show tags, categories and post kinds