events/2024-05-08-hwc-europe

Homebrew Website Club London / Europe 2024-05-08 was an IndieWeb meetup on Zoom held on 2024-05-08.

• Archived from: https://etherpad.indieweb.org/2024-05-08-hwc-europe

Participants

• Paul Watson
• Joe Crawford
• Pablo Morales
• Ros
• capjamesg
• benji
• Mark Sutherland

Notes

• CSS History: Acid1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acid1 "Acid Tests" -- "Box Acid Test" was the original name, in 1998.
  • A nice reminder of "interoperability" - on the IndieWeb wiki that word redirects to "specifications" specifications
• OSI Model https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OSI_model - Joe Crawford is usually content to operate at the presentation and application layer but knowing about the network layer - as in traceroute - can be instructive
• https://builtwith.com - See what technologies a business uses.
• https://www.dictionaryofobscuresorrows.com/
• Ros shared that she used the Crazy 8s technique to plan a website https://designsprintkit.withgoogle.com/methodology/phase3-sketch/crazy-8s " is a fast sketching exercise that challenges people to sketch eight distinct ideas in eight minutes. The goal is to push beyond your first idea, frequently the least innovative, and to generate a wide variety of solutions to your challenge."
• Scroll based animation site (mentioned in Front End Study Hall https://www.akaivyc.com/ )
• https://coolors.co/image-picker - a tool for uploading pictures and making colour palettes
• https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/mark
  • e.g. <blockquote>Hello <mark>world</mark></blockquote> which looks like:

    Hello world

  • by default Safari, Firefox and Chrome set a background color of yellow on the marked word.

Pablo Morales

• added city recommendations to his site.
• https://lifeofpablo.com/lists/#items
• updated vinyls page https://lifeofpablo.com/lists/vinyls
• posted finally first episode of new podcast (WIP to get on podcast on Apple Podcast, Google, etc )
  • https://personivebecome.com/

• https://edwardtufte.github.io/tufte-css/ a terrific starting point based on Edward Tufte's work on visual communication
• https://johnnydecimal.com/ is a mechanism for organizing digital files
• https://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AzbQhBj7MO0&t=6798s&ab_channel=DJTegoTypu
• https://aloneonahill.com/blog/if-php-were-british

• VSCode - Live Sass Compiler https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=glenn2223.live-sass

• Zoom world record
  • https://support.zoom.com/hc/en/article?id=zm_kb&sysparm_article=KB0067966
  • https://www.thehits.co.nz/shows/breakfast-with-jono-ben/zoom-a-thon-jono-and-ben-complete-the-worlds-longest-zoom-call/