2024/Portland/Intros

Personal Site Intros was a session at IndieWebCamp Portland 2024.

Archived from: https://chat.indieweb.org/meta/2024-08-25#t1724609443513000 — chat notes thanks to Marty McGuire!

Participants

Introduction

Tantek Çelik welcomes everyone. Impressive to have so many folks here after XOXO. Chill vibes today. Maybe informal breakout sessions. Hack + create + collaborate on your own site and/or indie social media.

We are following the IndieWeb and XOXO Codes of Conduct. XOXO mask policy. any questions or issues see Tantek Çelik or Kevin Marks or Ryan Barrett.

Ryan Barrett points out our Zoom link at https://events.indieweb.org (which we can use for remote attendees and screen sharing). Backchannel discussion in the indieweb IRC/web/slack/etc. discussion channels.

Tantek Çelik: We'll get an etherpad set up for the day (more later if needed).

Andy Baio at XOXO says to have a home on the web that's not controlled by a billionaire.

It's ok to keep posting there, they are tools, and it can be practical. But we encourage you to also have your own site.

Note on photo policy: we don't have nice lanyards to indicate preferences. Ask for consent before taking photos.

Tantek

Tantek Çelik demos https://tantek.com/: uses it to post notes, articles, GitHub issues & comments, and more on his own site, and POSSE to destinations selectively.

David Millar

🌮 Taco 🌮 Dave 🌮 at https://davegoesthedistance.com is up.

Links a bunch of projects from here, has new ones to add. "indicates the ADHD happening up in my noggin".

Publish puzzle books, community projects in DFW area.

Tasting tacos wherever he goes. Was on TV once walking a maze from memory. Mike Tyson was there (... physically).

Co-organizing Puzzle with Pride at https://pride.puz.fun/

Doug Beal

dougbeal @ https://dougbeal.com - WordPress site hasn't been updated for some years, but it was set up with WordPress IndieWeb plugins and more years ago, and still works receiving Swarm posts from OwnYourSwarm!

Ryan Barrett

Ryan Barrett @ https://snarfed.org - WordPress with note, pictures, blog posts, indieweb building blocks, Webmentions, likes, reposts, RSVPs.

Showed RSVP example for this event. microformats are here (shouts to Tantek Çelik and Kevin Marks for microformats2). Shows Webmention displayed on https://events.indieweb.org/ event page.

Ryan runs https://brid.gy/ and https://fed.brid.gy. Bridgy Fed is new since his last in-person IWC event, bridging federated protocols and sites like ActivityPub, Bluesky, Nostr, etc.

Some Bridgy Fed stats:

~20k users. (Bridgy classic ~7k.)
~300-400k events per day!
lots of signups (but a few people "turning it off").
lots of likes, then reposts, etc. ActivityPub is very chatty.
lots of repeat messages, but it's okay.

Bridgy Fed gets lots of Webfinger lookups... for some other instances (like mastodon.social). Seems like broken software. Mastodon most common software. then Misskey!

Joe Crawford

Joe Crawford @ https://artlung.com - makes header images periodically.

Been running Front End Study Hall (FrESH) in IndieWeb chat / Zoom for learning HTML/CSS etc. Folks have learned a lot!

Mentioned some career bits.

Helped organize an IWC San Diego. Inherited a site of the day site from Joe.

Loves owning your own data. mistrust-based decision making. He is having a brat summer.

Kevin Marks

Kevin Marks @ https://kevinmarks.com/ - looking at making posting easier.

Mostly hand-written HTML, long form, complicated posts with lots of little bits, like embeds, which can break over time. (looking at you, Twitter).

Working on porting his Noter Live tool, for taking notes live at events, from Twitter to Mastodon.

Showed demo of NoterLive Masto work in progress!

You can see demo toot now at `@kevinmarks@indieweb.social`

https://indieweb.social/@kevinmarks/113024077565625675

Removed old Bootstrap layout, so it's bare. Planning to toot notes as people go today!

Annika Backstrom

Annika @ https://sixohthree.com - area code for New Hampshire.

Admin for xoxo.zone mastodon server.

microformats + indieweb building blocks are new to her. Gonna carve out time to work on that w/ Pelican static site. Added h-card today!

gRegor

gRegor Morrill @ https://gregorlove.com - domain is a nickname from "gregor. greg-or what?"

Posts notes and more.

Shows example of a survey from Surveymonkey that he mirrored to his own site about COVID concerns.

gRegor runs https://indiebookclub.biz - a Micropub client for posting reading (want-to-read, finished, etc) to your site. Conceived at IWC Baltimore 2018.

indiebookclub sends reads to your website, but also keeps them on your profile on indiebookclub, so Micropub is optional. You can download all your posts in HTML format for portability!

Amy Hurst

Amy @ https://amyhurst.com - simple profile page, with contact info.

Finished her day project already! Removed Twitter + LinkedIn from her site. Dealing with academia pre-semester scaries.

Marty McGuire

Marty McGuire is https://martymcgui.re/ - based in NYC, posts a lot, including Caturday photos!

Likes making IndieWeb building blocks, e.g. a suite of Micropub clients and tools.

Newest project: https://banter.bayside.pub/ , for quick responses (replies, likes, reposts) via Micropub. Syndicates to Bridgy Fed, IndieNews, etc (and bookmarks and RSVPs!)

Uses Hugo, which is good but struggles with date parsing details, it's too strict.

Also made and runs the IndieWeb Webring! https://🕸.ws / https://xn--sr8hvo.ws/