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Archive for June 2017

Fri Jun 30
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πŸ“ Checked in at MAC Harbor East, Baltimore, MD.
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πŸ“— Want to read He, She and It by Marge Piercy ISBN: 9780449220603
Wed Jun 28

HWC Baltimore 2017-06-28 Wrap-Up

Baltimore's June 2017 meetup for Homebrew Website Club met at the Digital Harbor Foundation Tech Center on June 28th.

Below are notes from the "broadcast" portion of the meetup.

jonathanprozzi.net - Been very busy with work. Wrote a couple of posts since the last meeting. Tonight started a reflective post about his decision to use Hugo for his site vs Wordpress, which he already uses a lot for work. Feels like he has learned a little bit of Go (which Hugo is written in), but mostly has just learned Hugo and felt that's held him back. Interested in the Wordpress API and maybe move his site over because he wants to post more and still learn.

eddiehinkle.com - Been working on his site rewrite in Angular Universal. Today worked on micropub media endpoint. Is saving files successfully, now needs to add file extensions and return the Location URL. Also been working on Indigenous, his iOS micropub client. Been switching back and forth between the two as he makes progress or gets stuck on one or the other. Other stuff since last time: adding OwnYourSwarm, OwnYourGram. Having a micropub client on his phone has enabled him to send lots and lots of likes - enough that he decided to move likes out of his main social stream page and treat them as a reply.

djfalcon23 (domains currently expired) - been learning web development on and off for the last year. Now building a portfolio site using Bootstrap and trying out React, but it is a lot. Also trying to (re-)learn Android development.

martymcgui.re - Went to IndieWeb Summit and it was amazing! Added checkins to his site w/ OwnYourSwarm while there because of jealousy of seeing other folks checking in with Swarm. Really attracted to the gamification, but wants to make a checkin client so he doesn't have to give them his data. Also been cleaning up microformats on his site so that reply contexts on other site and in readers like Woodwind look better.

Chatted a bit about:

  • "Double-dipping" - choosing side projects that involve technology you already need to use (or learn) for work
  • Angular Universal, basically a server-side render of Angular which includes a static rendering of markup as well as all the scripts and data to "hydrate" the page
  • Saving posts on Facebook and trying to PESOS to a bookmark post, but the Facebook API seems to have those locked down.
  • Learning React is pretty overwhelming, lots of tooling and stuff up front that doesn't feel connected to a project.
  • Guided learning w/ online systems with guided courses like Pluralsight have been really helpful for Jonathan.
  • Gamification of Foursquare - coins for photos and random things, comparison with friends, weekly generated summaries with titles like "Weekend Getaways"
  • Talked about how some aspects of the "design language" of web sites have converged and solidified several years ago. djfalcon23 likes looking at the designs on the welovewebdesign Instagram page. Wants to see more like that in the world.
  • Talked about IndieWeb Summit and the videos available, particularly the Wordpress sessions.
  • Spent a lot of time on the Personal Web Sites examples.
    • Awesome suggestion by djfalcon23 to bring an inspirational website to the next meetings.
Left-to-right: jonathanprozzi.net, martymcgui.re, djfalcon23, eddiehinkle.com

We hope that you'll join us for the next HWC Baltimore, which will meet on July 12th and then again July 26th at the Digital Harbor Foundation Tech Center!

Photo for tonight’s Homebrew Website Club Baltimore

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πŸ“ Checked in at Digital Harbor Foundation Tech Center, Baltimore, MD.
Time for Homebrew Website Club!
Tue Jun 6

πŸ—“οΈ Homebrew Website Club Baltimore June 28, 2017

Digital Harbor Foundation Tech Center 1045 Light St. Baltimore MD 21230
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Join us for an evening of quiet writing, wiki editing, IndieWeb demos and discussions!

  • Create or update your personal web site!
  • Finish that blog post you’ve been writing, edit the wiki!
  • Demos of recent IndieWeb breakthroughs, share what you’ve gotten working!
  • Join a community with like-minded interests. Bring friends that want a personal site!

Any questions? Join the #indieweb chat!

Optional quiet writing hour starts at 6:30pm. Meetup begins at 7:30pm.

More information: https://indieweb.org/events/2017-06-28-homebrew-website-club

Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/191955804663668/

Wed Jun 28

This is quite an interesting re-framing of accountability issues in tech companies.

https://twitter.com/_danilo/status/880113154906312704

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I've written to you before on how startup founders and execs act as mine foremen for their venture capital sponsors
Tue Jun 27
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πŸ“ Checked in at 8 Ball Meatball, Baltimore, MD.
Settling back in to the Bmore life.

It’s been four weeks, but Homebrew Website Club Baltimore returns 6/28! Come work on your website and talk about all the cool new stuff to come out of the IndieWeb Summit this past weekend!

https://martymcgui.re/2017/06/06/135528/

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Digital Harbor Foundation Tech Center 1045 Light St. Baltimore MD 21230
Homebrew Website Club Baltimore June 28, 2017
Join us for an evening of quiet writing, wiki editing, IndieWeb demos and discussions!

A 360 performance review with our boss Joel Murphy of the Peak Sloth Podcast Network. We would like to thank you for giving us a home for this thing we do.

https://wehavetoask.com/episodes/2017-06-27/

Mon Jun 26
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HOME.

PDX ✈️ BWI

Nitro cold brew and a spinach+feta muffin at PDX. Traveling in luxury. πŸ™ƒ

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πŸ“ Checked in at Stumptown Coffee Roasters, Portland, OR.
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My personal karaoke take from last night. Thanks to the IndieWeb karaoke party team for helping me through it. πŸŽ€πŸ˜†

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πŸ“ Checked in at TriMet Old Town/Chinatown MAX Station, Portland, OR.
Leaving on that red line train to PDX. Thanks, Portland!
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πŸ“ Checked in at Loyal Legion, Portland, OR.
Sun Jun 25
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πŸ“ Checked in at Voicebox Southeast, Portland, OR.
IndieWeb Summit After Party 🎀
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πŸ“ Checked in at Mozilla Portland, Portland, OR.
IndieWeb Summit day two!!
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Fantastic group for IndieWeb Summit day 1! #iws2017
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πŸ“ Checked in at Ground Kontrol Classic Arcade, Portland, OR.
Sat Jun 24

Great first day of #IndieWeb Summit! Really enjoyed the opening talks by Aaron, Tantek, Lily, and Ryan.

Also really loved the discussions about special micropub clients, events, updating the IndieWeb site to be less dev-heavy, and especially the lovely tour of interesting personal pages on the web.

Now for dinner and socializing and sleep!

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πŸ“ Checked in at Queen of Sheba, Portland, OR.

Delicious Ethiopean food to beat the heat.

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πŸ“ Checked in at StreamPDX, Portland, OR.
Checking out the community podcast studio at StreamPDX!

Amazing #IndieWeb social graph project from @snarfed.org:

http://www.indiemap.org/

About to kick things off at #IndieWebSummit

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πŸ“ Checked in at Mozilla Portland, Portland, OR.
#IndieWeb Summit day 1! Excited to have some good discussions with some fun people!
Fri Jun 23
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πŸ“ Checked in at Pine Street Market, Portland, OR.
IndieWeb Summit Pre-Party, woo!
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πŸ“ Checked in at Mozilla Portland, Portland, OR.

This Week in the IndieWeb Audio Edition β€’ June 17th - 23rd, 2017

Audio edition for This Week in the IndieWeb forJune 17th - 23rd, 2017.

You can find all of my audio editions here.

You can subscribe with your favorite podcast app on huffduffer.

Music from Aaron Parecki’s 100DaysOfMusic project: Day 48 - Glitch, Day 49 - Floating, Day 9, and Day 11

Thanks to everyone in the IndieWeb chat for their feedback and suggestions. Please drop me a note if there are any changes you’d like to see for this audio edition!

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πŸ“ Checked in at Prasad Cuisine, Portland, OR.
IndieWeb Leaders meeting over. Time for lunch!
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πŸ“ Checked in at Los Gorditos, Portland, OR.
IndieWeb Leaders meeting over. Time for lunch!
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πŸ“ Checked in at Mozilla Portland, Portland, OR.
#IndieWeb Summit

Blue Star Donuts knows that silos are gonna silo. #IndieWeb

Good morning, Portland! I’m still on east coast time, apparently!

Thu Jun 22

JFK ✈️ PDX

LIRR πŸš† to Jamaica Stn. en route to JFK. Excited to be on my way to IndieWeb Summit!

Wed Jun 21
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Excited to have our @NSF funded work with @DHFBaltimore on #maker jobs featured during the #weekofmaking @umbc https://www.nsf.gov/news/special_reports/science_nation/makerjobs.jsp?WT.mc_id=USNSF_51
Tue Jun 20

Thanks to guests Heidi Dworin and [Max Fineblum](Max Fineblum) for building to last in this week’s We Have to Ask Podcast!

https://wehavetoask.com/episodes/2017-06-20/

So excited for #IndieWeb Summit this weekend! Two tickets remain, if you want to join us in Portland, OR to build a web for you!

https://2017.indieweb.org/

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The seventh annual gathering for independent web creators of all kinds, from graphic artists, to designers, UX engineers, coders, hackers, to share ideas, actively work on creating for their own personal websites, and build upon each others creations.
Fri Jun 16

This Week in the IndieWeb Audio Edition β€’ June 10th - 16th, 2017

Audio edition for This Week in the IndieWeb for June 10th - 16th, 2017.

You can find all of my audio editions here.

You can subscribe with your favorite podcast app on huffduffer.

Music from Aaron Parecki’s 100DaysOfMusic project: Day 48 - Glitch, Day 49 - Floating, Day 9, and Day 11

Thanks to everyone in the IndieWeb chat for their feedback and suggestions. Please drop me a note if there are any changes you’d like to see for this audio edition!

Tue Jun 13

Thanks to our guest Jeffrey Toppe for showing us the money in this week’s We Have to Ask Podcast!

https://wehavetoask.com/episodes/2017-06-13/

πŸ”– Bookmarked Feed reader revolution: it’s time to embrace open & disrupt social media – AltPlatform http://altplatform.org/2017/06/09/feed-reader-revolution/

“Ideally the increased competition will prod current social silos to open up and compete on a more even playing field in which they’re supporting these open protocols as well. Then anyone with a web presence can use it to communicate from one website to another (or one permalink URL to any other permalink URL) on the internet, inΒ a way that’s as simple and easy as any of the methods that’s currently available in the closed social spectrum.”

Sat Jun 10
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1 yr ago today: #DWebSummit @InternetArchive
Fri Jun 9

This Week in the IndieWeb Audio Edition β€’ June 3rd - 9th, 2017

Audio edition for This Week in the IndieWeb for June 3rd - 9th, 2017.

You can find all of my audio editions here.

You can subscribe with your favorite podcast app on huffduffer.

Music from Aaron Parecki’s 100DaysOfMusic project: Day 48 - Glitch, Day 49 - Floating, Day 9, and Day 11

Thanks to everyone in the IndieWeb chat for their feedback and suggestions. Please drop me a note if there are any changes you’d like to see for this audio edition!

Wed Jun 7

Hostel returns to the Single Carrot Theatre

This Friday, June 9th, at 9pm. And every Friday at 9pm, thereafter!

Tickets available now!

Thanks to our guest Kerri Shannon for classing up the place in this week’s We Have to Ask Podcast!

https://wehavetoask.com/episodes/2017-06-07/

Fri Jun 2

This Week in the IndieWeb Audio Edition β€’ May 27th - June 2nd, 2017

Audio edition for This Week in the IndieWeb for May 27th - June 2nd, 2017.

You can find all of my audio editions here.

You can subscribe with your favorite podcast app on huffduffer.

Music from Aaron Parecki’s 100DaysOfMusic project: Day 48 - Glitch, Day 49 - Floating, Day 9, and Day 11

Thanks to everyone in the IndieWeb chat for their feedback and suggestions. Please drop me a note if there are any changes you’d like to see for this audio edition!

Thu Jun 1
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