events/2024-01-13-galactic-hwc
Galactic Bonus Homebrew Website Club was an IndieWeb meetup on Zoom held on 2024-01-13.
- Archived from: https://etherpad.indieweb.org/2024-01-13-galactic-hwc
Participants
- Anthony Ciccarello - www.ciccarello.me
- capjamesg - jamesg.blog
- Nick Simson - nicksimson.com
- Sven Knebel - https://www.svenknebel.de
- Al Abut
- Pablo Morales - lifeofpablo.com
- Template:cidney - http://cidney.org
- Joe Crawford - https://artlung.com/
- Tracy Durnell - tracydurnell.com
- Angelo Gladding - ragt.ag
- jo - https://dead.garden
Notes
- The weather
- Introductions
- MTA
- https://campegg.com/2024/01/13/theres-a-really.html
- MTA app video James watched: https://work.co/clients/mta/
- Post types on personal websites
- WordPress Post Formats: https://wordpress.org/documentation/article/post-formats/
- Use IndieBlocks to add different post types for use with the WordPress block editor (https://indieblocks.xyz/)
- note
- article
- like
- Post Kinds WP Plugin: Post_Kinds_Plugin
- people surf all year all over the world wherever waves break. if you want to learn check out the series Weird Waves from Vans and Dylan Graves on YouTube:. You could start with the one on Great Lakes surfers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8DmoQ-ziT38
- https://jamesg.blog/2024/01/12/information-coding/ - Club Penguin theme
- Al just launched his RSS feed in advance of our event - please subscribe! https://alabut.com/rss.xml (thank you capjamesg for the autodiscovery tip and Feedly debugging)
- Joe Crawford was able to subscribe and I see 14 entries and they look good (oh whew, thank you Joe!)
- Working on the next iteration of improving the look of Never Mind The Bollocks in CSS https://codepen.io/artlung/pen/qBvaePM Joe Crawford - and I managed to rework it and add a resized up version that looks good. it uses CSS vars to make the individually distressed letters work
- Related to committees that lose sight of pragmatic solutions is a famous speech by programming pioneer Niklaus Wirth (who sadly just passed away at age 89) before creating the Pascal programming language: https://archive.computerhistory.org/resources/text/algol/algol_bulletin/A29/P32.HTM
- Also related context and more links from John Gruber: https://daringfireball.net/linked/2024/01/11/niklaus-wirth-rip
- Post types: posts vs. notes
- Should you have a separate feed for notes, likes, etc.?
- Professional vs. personal websites
- federating our websites, POSSE-ing in from Mastodon / other social media -- perspective of meeting readers where they are and letting people consume in the place / way they want
- read-only feed readers vs the new breed of social readers (positive = two-way interactive, cons = might be complicated to set up, can be overwhelming to see an endless stream of a single feed of things without read/unread states)
- more potential / appeal when private posts become easier to do and more common
- Peter Molnar has written a little about accessing feeds and landing on email: https://petermolnar.net/article/turn-your-mailbox-into-an-archieving-rss-reader/
- challenge: IndieWeb moved towards a single feed for people on the presumption that social readers would allow intelligent user control to filter out only the parts they want to read, but aren't quite there yet
- distinguishing: collapsing all of a single person's content into a single feed, and collapsing all the people you follow into a single feed (a la classic social media feed)
- https://xoxo.zone/@fraying/111734924727494794 -- discussion re: federating WordPress comments
- sidenotes
- https://gwern.net/sidenote -- compares implementations and pros & cons
- Tracy Durnell has CSS-only sidenotes -- used https://www.kooslooijesteijn.net/blog/sidenotes-without-js with <aside>
- two distinct types of algorithm we're discussing: 1) filter from a large pool and surface recommendations of people / posts you aren't following 2) filter within your own pool of feeds (especially with a large number of feeds, or feeds with high volume mixed with low volume feeds)
- NewsBlur -- train your feed reader
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOGdb1CTu5c
- capjamesg pointed out that reading my website https://artlung.com/ with a microformats-based reader (rather than RSS) showed entries with just a tiny bit of metadata - thanks James for the heads up! https://artlung.com/blog/2024/01/13/galactic-notes-from-the-indieweb/ - and I added to this post to include notes about the CSS work I've done on the album cover which has been so gratifying to work on
- what are the possible emotional repercussions when a blog post finds an audience that you didn't necessarily intend?