2018/Berlin/Intros
Attendee Introductions at IndieWebCamp Berlin 2018 took place 2018-11-03.
- Chat logs, 10:48 CET
Tantek Çelik
- Tantek Çelik, http://tantek.com
- Been posting since 2010, mostly text, occasionally photos
- Many replies to places outside: Twitter, GitHub
- Trying to post more and more things to his own site
- Lots he could do better: e.g. there is no pagination
- To go back in time, go to the last post on the homepage, and then press the back button to go one by one
Jeremy Keith
- Jeremy Keith, https://adactio.com
- Used to use delicious, magnolia, etc, but now has his own link section after learning his lesson
- Notes get copied to his Twitter
- Got a lot of small things added at IndieWebCamps
- Shows his recent blogpost
- https://adactio.com/journal/14452
- It has the whole response from Peter (ruk.ca) under the article, made available by Webmentions
- First name-drop of Bridgy, which gives him webmentions from Twitter to display
- He still does replies on Twitter and other places, and would like to also start doing those from his own site
Aaron Parecki
- Aaron Parecki, https://aaronparecki.com
- Posts all sort of things
- Shows the litted “LED Display” on top of the site
- aaronpk, shows the blue dot on his latest checkin, which shows that he is still at the location he has checked in to
Martijn van der Ven
- Martijn van der Ven, https://vanderven.se/martijn/
- shows his homepage
- with all the information
- shows how it also can be parsed with microformats
- describes his approach of adding data: everything he has put or would put on other sites should also be on his own
Tiara Miller
- Tiara Miller
- restarted HWC in NYC
- after attending the IWC there
- Shows some posts on rootedfromnature.com
- Wants to work on a more personal site to have next to that more formal business site
Marty McGuire
- Marty McGuire
- Does a weekly podcast about the IndieWeb, TWIIW
- Trying to make audio more accessible when publishing his podcasts on the web
- Shows an MP3 file with subtitles attached on his site
- https://martymcgui.re/2017/10/17/205701/
- Odd bug: Chrome does not hide the audio controls and actually covers the subtitles
- Shows the indiewebring
Joschi Kuphal
- Joschi Kuphal, http://jkphl.is
- Started 2014-01-01 for writing blog posts, got 6 of them
- Shows webmentions creating comments on his articles
- Are also pulled from other places: G+, or just a comment form on his site
- Few weeks ago at IWC Nürnberg he built RSVP acceptance
Julie
- http://julieannenoying.com
- Displays a lot of photos, and puts a portfolio on top
- Shows how Instagram likes are pulled into her websites copy of the galleries
David Shanske
- David Shanske, https://david.shanske.com
- Was using Swarm randomly yesterday to make sure it would work well with WordPress, as he is one of the big WP plugin developers
- If you are already on WordPress, expect an update today
- Shows a lot of interactions that can show up on WordPress posts
- Syndication links. And recently: locations with maps
Ayden Férdeline
- http://ferdeline.com
- Ayden Férdeline, is here for policies. Intrigued by how much information some people are sharing on their pages
Jan Deppisch
- http://netzartist.de
- His impressum page is the most content he has on his website
- Found he did not have the time for blogging
- runs frontend-rheinmain.de
- Wants to bring front-enders together on a bimonthly meeting
Yulia
- http://hag.codes
- Started because she thought she should have a web presence
- Not sure she wants to have the site as the blog it is right now, so will look at having something “different”
Jan Dinter
- http://jandinter.net
- His page does not have a lot of links, he took them away when he noticed he really didn’t keep using those external services
- Wants to change away from the minimal content this weekend
Dylan Harris
- http://dylanharris.org
- Has an “old-school website”
- petermolnar: points out it isn’t old-school as it does not have an under construction sign
Sebastian Dümcke
- http://sam-d.com
- re-designed his website 2 days ago, inspired by this event
- Also noted that blogging is hard to keep up
Aleksandr
- Aleksandr, no own website but wants to show a project he is working on
- https://my.cloudron-dev.syn.im
- It is a service that will help you run your server and install “apps”
- But apps here are things like WordPress, Ghost, Wallabag, etc. Web platforms
- Showing a test install that is Mastodon, which is now packaged for the Cloudron platform
- And will hopefully soon be on the app store
Peter Molnar
- Peter Molnar, http://petermolnar.net
- 2 years ago his site was WordPress, and it is now semi-static
- Wrote about bringing things out of his website again, countering bloat: https://petermolnar.net/making-things-private/
- Then wrote https://petermolnar.net/running-a-static-indieweb-site/ about how he uses outside systems to keep everything together without having
- his site is open source
- PASTA
- https://github.com/petermolnar/silo.pasta
- A project for saving images and content from external places
- Showing brid.gy, that he also uses
- Does track his location but doesn’t do checkins, probably wants to do something in that area this weekend
- Shows the build process of his website
Calum Ryan
- Calum Ryan, http://calumryan.com
- Coming up to its 10 year anniversary
- Recently upgraded the CSS
- Was trying to pull in content from other places, but tries to get away from that so it goes the other way: from his website to other places
- Recently updated checkin display because everyone keeps checking him in during events
- Shows the different sections of his website for content creation, outside his homepage
Sven Knebel
- Sven Knebel, http://svenknebel.de
- Also been building the website mostly during IndieWebCamp events
- 7th IWC, still some things he needs to work on
- Using Micropub to his site, showing quill as a posting interface
- Uses GitHub to login through IndieAuth.com
- Fills in Quill, creates a demo post
- This is how you can use external pieces without building everything yourself
Toni Mattis
- http://toni.mattis.berlin
- currently hosts his photos on Flickr, would like to start hosting that himself
- Automatically deploys the website from git
- Tries to do some URL hacking to show the markdown files behind the pages, but the Chromebook does not want to cooperate
Sebastian Greger
- Sebastian Greger, http://sebastiangreger.net
- Had the domain for 15 years
- Site runs on WordPress
- Thanks to GWG and pfefferle for the plugins
- Focusing on workflow: want to encourage himself to collect things on his site
- Shows his privacy challenge post which has many replies
- Shows the reply-to-the-reply
Joel Purra
- http://joelpurra.com
- Several years ago he started pulling in data, wanted his site to be a “professional portal”
- Pulls in all his programming projects from GitHub onto his site, with the number of stars they have, the programming language it uses, etc
- Currently renders just the project README. But would like a way to have content around these projects
- Turned away from blogging to code, but might be returning to blogging to give context to the code he is writing
David Rosson
- http://rosson.com.au
- There are really well-hidden links around there, not sure he remembers what exactly is on his page!
- Ended up here by saying yes to things! :D
Ana
- http://ohhelloana.blog
- Been trying to blog more
- Also does not have pagination (because does not have enough posts) but that could change!
- Technical dificulties she wants to address this weekend
Charlie
- https://sonniesedge.co.uk
- Was relying on many external services but wanted to bring them inhouse.
- Changed from a static site generator that used those things to a Craft CMS based website
- Used to have webmentions and likes on the page, but it is gone now that she deployed CraftCMS 3. The plugins aren’t there
- Would be very happy with a PHP programmer that could help port over from the old version
- Trying to post photos
- Bringing her talks pages to Craft was a challenge, MarkDown didn’t do it for those long pages
Mike Riethmuller
- http://madebymike.com.au
- Been trying many SSGs, but not all his content feels like “pages” and all the SSGs seem to want a page per content thing
Amber Wilson
- http://amberwilson.co.uk
- Likes blogging, interested in pagination
- Got IndieAuth going at her first IWC, and would now like to look at some other building blocks
seb
- Sebastiaan Andeweg, http://seblog.nl
- Posted more new content between last IWC and now
- Shows checkins up top
- Has an issue with caching on his profile picture
BJ
- http://bjvicks.com
- Project he wants to show: independent-collectors.com
- Another project: stilinberlin.de
- He worked on the stilinberlin.de/map
- Gets a newsletter popup: “I didn’t do that”
Axel
- http://axel.nennker.de -> redirect to ignisvulpis.blogspot.com
- Community member on OpenID
- Did Firefox addons for OpenID
- And wonders about IndieAuth and why the community here decided to go with something new like that
- New Firefox WebExtensions framework makes it hard to do some of the identity stuff he would like to do
- Looking at DID Auth
- From the “Rebooting the Web of Trust”
- Also looking at WebAuthn for authentication, as it is build into browsers with an API
Bruna
- No website
- Shows http://fuzzify.me
- Browser addon for tracking trackers/ads
- https://radarlegislativo.org/
- Tracking governments through APIs and rating them with sad/neutral/happy faces
Dietrich Ayala
- https://metafluff.com
- Did a really nice letter effect, considers writing a blog post about how it works
- https://metafluff.com/author/ for posts
- Showing https://metafluff.com/2017/12/13/2017-summary/ ; living in Asia fulltime for a while made him realise how much the governments there affect the web