2019/Austin/intro-demos

 Attendee Introductions  at IndieWebCamp Austin 2019.


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 * Chat logs starting at 10:26 CST

Manton Reece

 * https://manton.org
 * blogging for about 17 years
 * used a few things over the years. Userland, Movable Type, WordPress, then last year switched to micro.blog
 * tries to keep short posts under 280 characters so they look good on Twitter
 * doesn't have any major things he wants to do. Added categories to micro.blog recently, so might work on categorizing posts
 * documenting his travel budgets
 * posts photos, has done some 30-day projects - new coffee shop every day and libraries (book libraries. Like paper.) https://manton.org/30-days/
 * posts photos, has done some 30-day projects - new coffee shop every day and libraries (book libraries. Like paper.) https://manton.org/30-days/

Stephen Bowling

 * https://stephenbowling.com
 * connected to micro.blog to cross post to Twitter
 * likes to have the content on his site bc services go away
 * uses CraftCMS
 * writes long-form posts on technical topics
 * brings in photos from Instagram, scraping their JSON feed
 * interested in location tracking. Has 8 years of data via the Moves app
 * site was set up to import from Moves, but that app is shutdown now
 * using aaronpk's app, Overland
 * has a micropub plugin for CraftCMS

Aneel Nazareth

 * http://navelgazing.omphaloskeptic.net
 * posts maps and annotates them for road trips and other location tracking
 * looking into Leaflet JS

Tara Vancil

 * https://taravancil.com/
 * posts nail photos
 * site lags behind Instagram because IG UI is so nice
 * manually scraping images and putting in blog

David Millar

 * http://davegoesthedistance.com
 * "I have sort of a million and a half domain names"
 * oldest is http://thegriddle.net, 13 years old. posts puzzles like Sudoku
 * redesigning the site, wants to add more indieweb building blocks like webmention
 * thinking about a webmention-based puzzle answer verification process
 * also has http://allthetacos.com to track tacos he eats
 * hosted on Tumblr with custom domain. Another goal is to move it off tumblr
 * hosted on Tumblr with custom domain. Another goal is to move it off tumblr

Rayna Harris

 * http://raynamharris.github.io
 * uses Jekyll theme
 * links to social sites, CV, uses Markdown to build whole site
 * she's a scientist, has publications and a blog on her site
 * I Can Science project https://raynamharris.github.io/i_can_science/

David Shanske

 * https://david.shanske.com
 * showing Indigenous for Android
 * it auto-suggests tags from your site
 * has location, can query your site for location info. make location public or private
 * posts a test post from the app, shows the post on his dev site with: map and weather
 * posts a test post from the app, shows the post on his dev site with: map and weather

Aaron Parecki

 * https://aaronparecki.com
 * has a "currently in" bar at the top of his site, showing "Austin, TX" currently, via Overland
 * shows his photos page, describes OwnYourGram
 * count is up to 20k+ photos "rescued from instagram" for OwnYourGram as a whole
 * added his photo on his reply posts so it's clearer it's something he wrote
 * added his photo on his reply posts so it's clearer it's something he wrote

MT

 * Didn't want to go into much detail on the stream, willing to offline
 * Would like to see a curation layer on top of all this stuff, so good stuff rises to the top in public conversations online
 * would prefer people pay a penny for content rather than advertising.

John

 * has about 50 domains which he hasn't been doing much with
 * working on a way to deploy kubernetes stats easily if you're not familiar
 * kubash.org
 * texasnorml.org
 * conversations this site posts on Facebook are being filtered, hidden due to political nature

gRegor Morrill

 * https://gregorlove.com
 * has been blogging for a long time
 * working on a CSS Grid version of my articles archive page
 * working on a CSS Grid version of my articles archive page

Tom Brown

 * https://herestomwiththeweather.com
 * shows https://effaustin.org with webmentions on posts. Uses 's fork of WordPress twentysixteen theme
 * had to install the WordPress Classic editor to keep Post Kinds working

Constantine

 * http://constantine.su
 * has media queries so when you zoom in the layout changes
 * mdoc.su url shortener

Tantek

 * http://tantek.com
 * tries really hard to post almost all his content there
 * all his own notes there since 2010, photos since ?, and github issue comments since last year
 * has had the left/right navigation arrows on posts for quite a while.
 * recently added navigation between days (not exposed in UI yet)
 * trim the URL to the day path and the arrows change to navigate by day (I think?)
 * trim the URL to the day path and the arrows change to navigate by day (I think?)

Collin

 * introduced himself. No website, will be photographing and videoing this weekend.

Chris Aldrich (remote)

 * As a remote participant, I'm Chris Aldrich and my site is at https://boffosocko.com. The last thing I added to my site is a Followers Page at https://boffosocko.com/about/followers/. It accepts webmentions from people who indicate they follow my site online.
 * Chris posts a lot of stuff
 * Chris posts a lot of stuff