events/2020-08-26-hwc-west-coast

Homebrew Website Club West Coast 2020-08-26

Event: https://events.indieweb.org/2020/08/homebrew-website-club-west-coast-talIosGEv6Kx

Participants

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 * Sue Hanen - heard speak at the meetup this past Saturday
 * - working on lahacker.net/indieweb to document all the IndieWeb specs/standards in one place
 * - from India (early morning there), working on his WordPress site
 * Emma Humphries
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Introductions and Demos

 * working at creating a file based website as a zettelkasten or for public note taking
 * set up a GitHub pages site to try to dovetail with Obsidian
 * Emma Humphries
 * added offline worker to her site
 * writing a series of posts on bug handling based on her work at Mozilla

Does webspeed matter for personal websites
See: https://indieweb.org/performance

Multiple fonts? They load very slowly.

Bootstrap was 50x the size of the HTML he was trying to communicate


 * Reasons why to have better speed
 * Readers with poor bandwidth
 * Saving website/server resources

Possibly related https://css-tricks.com/where-does-logic-go-on-jamstack-sites/

Scots Wikipedia fiasco
Scottish language version was written in "poor" grammar by one user over seven years https://www.reddit.com/r/Scotland/comments/ig9jia/ive_discovered_that_almost_every_single_article/

Archive
To ascend or to descend, that is the question. Whether 'tis nobler in the mind...


 * archive page design
 * chronological or reverse-chronological?
 * see chat for more discussion early that day

Eric Meyer has an article referenced from 's article find them here: https://kartikprabhu.com/articles/webs-arrow-time#notes "Eric Meyer has written about this before in Weblog Weirdness and First-Order Solutions. Notice that those pages have posts in a proper chronological order though his homepage is in reverse-chronological order. He also uses the “older to left” pattern on his archive pages."

Accessiblity and language/cultural preferences

From a UI perspective, language may affect how people perceive and think about time in various settings:
 * Lancaster University. "Language shapes how the brain perceives time." ScienceDaily. ScienceDaily, 2 May 2017. www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/05/170502112607.htm
 * Recap of journal article: Emanuel Bylund and Panos Athanasopoulos. The Whorfian Time Warp: Representing Duration Through the Language Hourglass. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 2017 DOI: 10.1037/xge0000314.supp

Archive navigation options...


 * Pagination discussion, IWC Berlin 2018 https://indieweb.org/2018/Berlin/pagination

Example of Tumblr's UX treatment of archive navigation: http://tangledtriangles.tumblr.com/archive

Small Web

 * See small web for origins, history, latest articles.
 * See ind.ie for another manifesto.
 * See also notes from chat over the last few days as well as conversation on those posts on HackerNews