2018/Baltimore/Demos
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Demos for IndieWebCamp Baltimore 2018 took place January 21, 2018.
gRegor Morrill
gRegor Morrill, https://gregorlove.com- fixed emoji reaction receiving on his site
- started working on an offline posting app
- an html + a javascript file
- allows him to create new drafts of posts
Josh Juran
Josh Juran, https://jjuran.org- worked on a webmention sender in his personal programming language V
- can parse html and microformats for an entry and mention targets
- ran out of time
Marty McGuire
Marty McGuire, https://martymcgui.re- worked on fork of audiogram
- takes audio files and text transcripts to create small preview videos to share on social media
- previously a complicated process [missed exact description]
- now uploads mp3, copies text of transcript, pastes it in, and it now automatically does what he used to do by hand
- crunches them to generate captions
- visually highlights words in the captions as the audio plays
- fork is up on github and he'll be posting about it
Adam Bachman
- https://adambachman.org
- wanted to take micropub demo from yesterday and build it in Glitch (similar to codepen, but for servers)
- showing the code for the micropub endpoint
- showing the rel tags in the HTML
- demos it with Quill
- anybody can go get this glitch app, copy it and point it at their own demo site [1]
- second thing, wanted to take this off glitch, put it on his personal server and host it
- set up domain name, Let's Encrypt, and the app
- uses Omnibear to micropub from Chrome
- and it shows up with mf2 on his site!
Russell Heimlich
- http://russellheimlich.com
- add mf2 to his daughter's site
- shows the parsed result
- he also cleaned up and prettified the Location metabox for WordPress Locations plugin
- demos the plugin filling in information (original plugin)
- activates another plugin live on WP
- Refreshes and it shows the new layout live in his WP admin
- forms layed out nicer, buttons, loading popover
- PR submitted to the original plugin
Matt Burley
- has no domain
- worked on a visual studio extension to give microformats snippets
- shortcuts like "h-en" generates HTML for h-entry. can tab through various properties to fill in the blank.
- next steps, construct those templates automatically from examples on the indieweb wiki
- will publish on github, maybe in visual studio marketplace
Artur Paikin
- http://arturpaikin.com
- built a static admin panel app for a site
- shows the version for his note-taking app
- added drag-and-drop area to upload files
- shows dropping an image file. generates markdown in the editor to display the image, live preview shows the image
- demos using a webcam to insert an image live from the camera
- used the uppy.io file uploader
David Shanske
David Shanske, https://david.shanske.com
- finished a token endpoint last night and wanted
Aaron Parecki to help validate it - shows logging into test site using Quill
- logs in with rel=me to test account's test twitter account
- logs in successfully (which means that the token endpoint issued a token)
- creates a note with location in quill and posts it
- demo gods are not kind, Unauthorized.
- "this just worked 5 minutes ago". was working on logging out.
- will fix on the train back to NYC
- Aaron Parecki and gRegor Morrill are witnesses that it worked
Matt Griffin
- completed his "cage match for domains". killed 16 domains he owned but didn't want anymore. Feels good/scary
- installed Hugo and mocked up site to put on one of his surviving domains
- played around with themes
Amy Hurst
- http://amyhurst.com
- site is on github pages
- got IndieAuth working
- logged in to the wiki and added her fave sushi restaurant which was missing from 2018/Baltimore
Jonathan Prozzi
- https://jonathanprozzi.net/
- extended notes from yesterday's Engaging Beginners session
- created a local Hugo site on his laptop to take notes, similar to Marty McGuire's
- wanted to set up an activity they can do at next Baltimore HWC
- set up a facilitator guide for setting up your domain
- will run it on tuesday at next HWC
- should have more updates after running this on tuesday
Lydia T
- doesn't have a website, yet
- built one for her younger sister
- set up the main pages for the site as well as nav
- to help her sister organize dinner parties
Derek Fields
- http://derekfields.is
- goal was to add animations to his site
- javascript issues with getting those animations to trigger
- demos homepage sections animating in from the left/right
- also worked on getting a microcontroller to serve an HTML page with A Frame for a VR world
- shows arduino code
Aaron Parecki
- Aaron Parecki, https://aaronparecki.com
- spent time helping
- other project added a grid of blue and green squares to his site
- people can click to change colors, updates live
- chose the grid size to prevent people from spelling "butt" and other bad things
- doesn't really stop "butt" though. ;)
- used to have this on his old site as a 10x10 grid
- server records each update
- used an nginx pub/sub module with browser eventsource API
- on update, PHP notifies nginx at internal route to push updates
- audience laughs as pixels are updated live
Tantek Çelik (remote)
Tantek Çelik, http://tantek.com- small demo - not built this weekend, but built since last IWC
- added pay
/nsupport for auto-filling $ amounts to all three payment providers at my site