A fresh month, another Homebrew Website Club Meetup!
Tonight, starting at and going to at least , there will be a virtual meetup taking place on an IndieWeb Mumble server. For more details, please see the wiki.
Of course you can just drop in whenever you feel like it, but if you want to RSVP, you can send a webmention to this post or add your name on the wiki.
Hope to hear you all tonight!
One thing I hadn’t gotten around to yesterday was setting up email for this domain. I just finished setting it up, and put in a request with Uberspace to remove the old hosting instance. Fingers crossed I got everything right, no more going back now.
Welcome to the new licit.li!
What changed?
You might ask. Well… nothing? Everything? The website has now been moved from Uberspace to a VPS at Hetzner. This should allow me slightly more granular (and also easier) control over the technology stack I am running.
Big thanks to sknebel for walking me through setting up my first server! It might still not be optimal in places, but at least I have more control now.
Just added a new bookmarklet: Flip Video.
I have started using certain ASMR channels as an alternative to static white noise. Some videos however do not match with the output, e.g. they will do something on the left and it’ll sound on the right. The bookmarklet will take the first VIDEO element on the page and flip it horizontally, fixing the problem. Even works on YouTube.
Not completely content with it yet, but as of today, my homepage should also render fine on smaller screens. I wonder if Flexbox can help me out…
Tantek pointed me to an article by Rob on looking at the IndieWeb from an end-user perspective. Originally this was because of comments made about the IRC channel, but something that stood out to me way more was the following:
I’d also like to mention Homebrew Website Clubs. I was really attracted to these when I first knew about the IndieWeb, but have never actually been to one. The impression I got is that they were more for coding and developing than helping end-users to improve their own websites, incorporate blogging, etc. I think I’m wrong (and am very glad to be!), but do we always present an inclusive ‘all levels of experience welcome’ approach?
I have attended a few different HWCs, in 3 different countries, and am currently the main organiser for the Virtual Homebrew Website Club in Europe. In my personal experience, people haven’t shown up to them because they had a minor interest in IndieWeb, or had questions. People mostly show up because they were personally invited, or because they were actively taking part in the community and want to see some friendly faces to go with people’s names.
This may be a problem, and may make the “club” meetings too exclusive.
For vHWC we are still discovering what a good planning for the meeting is. I have already removed the “quite writing hour” from the agenda and exchanged it for something that specifically says it is OK to ask questions. So far this has been working pretty well, and last time we ended up going over the merit of adding meta data (in the form of microformats) to your HTML.
I would love to hear people’s thoughts on how to make the vHWC even more approachable!
On the 23rd, the Virtual Homebrew Website Club will become a regular meet-up! 🎉 We’ll have been going for 3 months straight, fortnightly, without any interruptions. Hopefully you will join us for an evening of IndieWeb and socialising.
This virtual event is for all of us who find themselves in a time zone close to central Europe and with no physical Homebrew Website Club to visit.
To join, use a modern browser and go to appear.in/hwc. This is an open channel for anyone who wishes to participate.
We will try to roughly stay on the following schedule:
If you want the latest news on organisation of HWC, join the IndieWeb discussion channels!
On the 9th, I will once again be hosting a Virtual Homebrew Website Club for all of us who find themselves in a time zone close to central Europe and with no physical Homebrew Website Club to visit.
To join, use a modern browser and go to appear.in/hwc. This is an open channel for anyone who wishes to participate.
We will try to roughly stay on the following schedule:
If you want the latest news on organisation of HWC, join the IndieWeb discussion channels!
When I take ice cubes from the tray I make sure overall rotational symmetry is kept in regard to what cubes I take out. I may have a problem.
I thought Ignite brought us the twenty 15 second slides presentation system. Last week I was pointed at a very similar format that was around for a little longer: PechaKucha’s twenty 20 second slides. Are there any more of these lightning talk formats?