events/2024-09-25-hwc-eastern
Homebrew Website Club - Eastern was an IndieWeb meetup on Zoom held on 2024-09-25.
- Archived from: https://etherpad.indieweb.org/2024-09-25-hwc-eastern
Homebrew Website Club - Eastern
September 25, 2024
Participants
Joe Crawford
pcarrier.com
Rosalina SaigeDavid Shanske
Dr. Matt Lee- Daniel from Brazil who is going to try and come to future meetings
Notes
- Shared some background on CSSBattle which beta tested a new feature 1:1 meetings.
- Conversation about timing of HWC events that make sense and work for event organizers
- libre.fm is mattl's service to allow scrobble saving and he's working on making it more robust and integrating it in an IndieWeb manner
- TikTok users hate TikTok or something
- https://theharrispoll.com/briefs/gen-z-social-media-smart-phones/
- "Perhaps the most surprising result was that in this generation, the first to grow up with social media woven into their lives, nearly half report that they wish that each of TikTok (47%), Snapchat (43%), and X (formerly Twitter, 50%) were never invented, while less than a quarter wish that YouTube (15%), Netflix (17%), the internet itself (17%), messaging apps (19%), and the smartphone (21%) were never invented."
- Remembering Philip Greenspun, early web development, WebObjects
- Matt also is testing using Amazon SES https://aws.amazon.com/ses/
- Support for private posts and their auth in IndieAuth Ticketing_for_IndieAuth
- https://freshrss.org/
- https://indiewebify.me/ a means to check to see what indieweb features a website supports
- Matt has added support for wordpress.com sites for his WP to Eleventy tool https://github.com/mattl/wordpress-to-eleventy
- Pierre has been blogging more regularly and added a head wobble https://pcarrier.com/
- needs @media (prefers-reduced-motion) { * { animation: none; } } ** https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/@media/prefers-reduced-motion
- https://web.dev/articles/content-visibility
- https://www.sitelint.com/blog/lazy-loading-css-background-images-for-better-website-loading-performance
- Helped Pierre with tuning the background of his blog - a color and an inline data svg to get a sense of the true background image