2018/Intros
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Attendee Introductions at IndieWeb Summit 2018.
- ▶️ YouTube video (1:25:57)
- Chat logs, starting with remote attendees, 11:45 PDT.
Remote Attendees
Remote attendees introduced themselves in chat and Marty McGuire showed their sites during his demo.
Martijn van der Ven
- Martijn van der Ven, https://vanderven.se/martijn/
- shows his massive h-card, including his Hogwart's house
Eddie Hinkle
- Eddie Hinkle, http://eddiehinkle.com
- Showing off his recent watch posts on the top of his site
- Nice horizontal scrolling view at the top of eddie's page.
Vanessa Hamshere
- http://blog.vanessahamshere.uk
- she's been quickly building a site over the past few months; started from zero
Attendees
Tantek Çelik
- Tantek Çelik, http://tantek.com
- coolest thing done is doing GitHub from his own website
- tantek also talks about adding reply context
- tantek shows a github response
- has a little link at the bottom to view on github
Aaron Parecki
- Aaron Parecki, https://aaronpk.com
- shows the pixel art on his homepage
- it live updates when people are clicking on it, someone is racing him to change right now
Jason McIntosh
- Jason McIntosh, http://jmac.org
- has IPA pronunciation of his name
- double checked Martijn van der Vens pronunciation to namedrop
- has been working on plerd, see fogknife website
- Version two of Plerd is “the indieweb branch”
- fogknife has backfeed via bridgy now, it has its own webmention endpoint
- sends webmentions to itself as well, which will show up
- has been releasing perl libraries for webmentions and microformats2, Web::Microformats2
Chris Aldrich
- Chris Aldrich, http://boffosocko.com/
- Wants to mention a thing he did this week
- He has been trying a new post type on his website: highlights
- “To solely capture highlights made on other website”
- Made something that should be easy to use. It uses fragmentions to link to the specific highlights on other websites
- On his site, links will scroll straight to the piece of text highlighted
- will work with hypothesis
Jared White
- https://jaredwhite.com/
- Has already been following indieweb principles, and has more recently started to also implement indieweb features
- I am trying to make the UI like social network. I guess you can call it Scaled UI morphism
- The website follows the design of a social website page: including follow (email list) and IM (email form) buttons
- Experimenting with different types of posts. Link posts feature an excerpt of the thing linked.
- Also note and photo posts
- Shows the backend, built in RoR
- Email newsletter is generated on his own system - sent out by campaign monitor
Jonathan LaCour
- Jonathan LaCour, https://cleverdevil.io
- Bottom right of his website shows the current status of his battery, his wifi, and wheter he is moving
- Clicking it will take you to his now page
- Showing a map
- If you are logged in you can view his location tracking data
- Currently only he has access to it
- Uses Overland for collection
AJ Jordan
- AJ Jordan, https://strugee.net
- When the webpage loads, it does a weird reflow, no idea why
- Hasn’t done user interface changes in the last year.
- But he likes retro, so there is a monospace font version
- Has been spending time developing lazymention
- There will be a page/UI for LazyMentions “real soon now”
gRegor Morrill
- gRegor Morrill https://gregorlove.com/
- Most recently (over the last year) working on read posts
- Launched indiebookclub: a micropub client that lets you post titles/authors/isbn/doi to create read posts on your own site
- It also offers feeds for all its users, so if your website doesn’t support micropub yet, you can still use it
Jamey Sharp
- https://jamey.thesharps.us
- Comic Rocket is an example of how not to follow indieweb principles. But he is thinking about it
- I want an Indieweb comic and long form example https://www.comic-rocket.com/explore/ is an example of how not to do this
Lillian Karabaic
- Lillian Karabaic, http://anomalily.net/
- Does not have a lot to demo
- But came up to create diversity: more short people!
- now has checkins
- showing http://anomalily.world
- Aaron Parecki built this to track a huge train trip
- A map showing all Swarm checkins during the trip
- Including a checkin at the Great Wall of China — with photo of course.
Malcolm Blaney
- Malcolm Blaney, https://unicyclic.com/mal/
- Malcolm brings the Australian accent to the diversity table
- His website has a built-in reader, and other people could log in to the site too: https://unicyclic.com/indieweb
- Has his identity and blog on separate paths on the domain: https://unicyclic.com/mal/blog
- My big thing this year was https://indiepay.me
- Project for tomorrow: making sure the error shown oin stream doesn’t happen
Jim Pick
- http://jimpick.com
- My name is Jim Pick. I haven't updated site in this year. This is my third IndieWebCamp. I am building on the DAT peer-to-peer protocol. Things like Beaker Browser are cool.
- Was contracted by code for sciences (runners of DAT project) to work on a web project
- worked on a collaborative pixel art editor! As well as a web-based collaborative shopping list on DAT.
Grand Richmond
- Grant Richmond, https://grant.codes
- Wants to work a little more on the theme switcher on his website
- You can pick any colour you want, just switch it up
- Last thing he did, inspired by Jonathan, fixed a bit of his map page
- Also has a page showing where he has been
- Slowly loads his trip throughout north america on the screen
- “You want light theme, dark theme, you can choose any color you want”
Matthew Lippincott
- http://headfullofair.com
- Third-gen user looking to connect with Four-gen users
- Put together as a Jekyll blog
- Converted to Jekyll to unite his old WordPress with things he made on other platforms
- Does a lot of documentation. Documentation internal to a project that then becomes external documentation.
- Interested in how we can integrate feedback into documentation
Emre Sokullu
- http://www.emresokullu.com/
- Emre has been working on an opensource JS library over the last year
- Lets you embed social functionality
- Emre showing off https://graphjs.com/
- Has IndieWeb compatibility, profiles with h-cards, streams using ActivityStreams
- Can be embedded to static websites
- Own personal page is static and hosted by GitHub, and uses a graphjs widget for contact
Michael Toomim
- https://invisible.college/@toomim
- just made this site this morning!
- Discovered IndieWeb this year
- Has been working with the same vision in the last 3-4 years
- working on HTTP synchronization
- Been excited to make a personal page within the IndieWeb principles
- Building a new version of the email protocol
- Lets you have “email” that is also a blog.
- Because the email is hosted on HTTP, you can mark them public
- Shows off a widget of faces that allows him to link people up
Ryan Barrett
- Ryan Barrett, https://snarfed.org/
- built https://brid.gy (among other tools)
- chant starts: "brid-gy, Brid-gy, BRID-GY" (not really, but it should have)
- Since Bridgy's launch there are almost 2,000 unique domains and over 1 millions webmentions sent
- snarfed.org runs on WordPress (thanking David Shanske and community)
- Has also started read posts, posted a book he read to his daughter
- indiemap, social graph of the IndieWeb launched last year at IWS
- Because his projects are linked into many of our websites, he gets to see statistics
- Does visualisations of stats crawled
indieweb.org/{$yourdomain}.json
will provide data on your interactions- Quick stats of Bridgy
- Big plunge in the end because of Facebook
- Green slither at the top of one of the stats is GitHub linking picking up
- Shows the million webmention mark once again, wow!
Jack Jamieson
- Jack Jamieson, http://jackjamieson.net
- This last year Jack built Yarns
- WhisperFollow and Woodwind name drop, examples of older readers
- His mistake was “not using Microsub”
- Would love to change that this weekend
- Wants to be taught how to do Microsub
Marty McGuire
- Marty McGuire, https://martymagui.re
- Has exported all his goodreads data onto his site
- Now has many read posts that need to look better
- He's also recently built Kapowski which uses Giphy to post gifs to one's site
- Kapowski can also give you HTML to copy and paste, without Micropub
- Marty shows demos for remote attendees
- By the end of the remote demos, we get to see the finished Kapowsky post on his site
Doug Beal
- dougbeal, http://dougbeal.com/
- He's in the process of migrating his site to linode and is using docker to get isolation
- Shows a live view of all the docker containers
- Doug is logging in on indielogin.com to get into his website
- showed the staging site with it setup
David Shanske
- David Shanske, http://david.shanske.com
- WordPress guru (as described by the community)
- He's been posting audio posts to create a podcast over the past several months
- Has been testing all he makes on his own website (selfdogfood)
- Shows the WP admin UI
- He's been adding titles to the admin UI of wordpress for notes that otherwise would indicate (no Title)
- Big yay from the room!
Eric Drexel
- https://edrex.pdxhub.org/
- has been running Known blog for a while
- has has “so many blogs over the years”
- his thing is more backend
- Works with an open-source project Perkeep
- Wants to create an indieweb app that will use that as its storage engine
- Has been POSSEing to Facebook, trying to draw them out