Thanks to our guest Austin C. Thoms for reconnecting with the past (and with Jonathan Monroe) in this week’s We Have to Ask Podcast!
Decentralized Web Summit is here, a webring for microcasts, and what should happen to our data when we die? It’s the audio edition for This Week in the IndieWeb for July 21st - 27th, 2018.
You can find all of my audio editions and subscribe with your favorite podcast app here: martymcgui.re/podcasts/indieweb/.
Music from Aaron Parecki’s 100DaysOfMusic project: Day 85 - Suit, 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!
Baltimore's second Homebrew Website Club of July met at the Digital Harbor Foundation Tech Center on July 25th!
Here are some notes from the "broadcast" portion of the meetup:
derekfields.is — Derek wanted a couple new rules for sharing time, today. First, find and share a site with some cool tech that you like. Second, talk about why you're into web development. He showed off a demo of using the browser Gamepad API w/ a Playstation dual-shock 3 controller. It showed button state changes, including analog states for buttons and joysticks. Been thinking about lots of ideas lately but missing some focus. Looking at productivity hacks to focus more. Notices when he's not focusing, now trying prompts to figure out why he's distracted and get back on task. Derek is into web development because it changes rapidly and requires focus to keep learning. Been working on his VueJS class and it's been going well until today. His accountability buddy is on a trip.
jonathanprozzi.net — Been working on work stuff. Built a single-page app w/ Gatsby for deploys of some Digital Harbor Foundation content for use in remote schools with intermittent internet connections. Pulls course data from the central DHF WordPress and deploys it as a package on Netlify. Ran into his first deploy issues with Netlify due to case-sensitive filesystems (which he doesn't experience on his Mac dev machine). Been really inspired by the Susty WordPress theme which can deliver WordPress pages in ~6KB, compared with most themes, which are very bloated. Jonathan is into the web because of the problem-solving aspects of it, but also because it allows creative expression and productivity.
zach.oglesby.co — New! Welcome, Zach! Recently switched his Known-powered site to Jonathan LaCour's overview page (w/ location info and other nice things), but it doesn't have a representative h-card, yet, so working on that. Also working on making his read posts more compatible with IndieBookClub. In terms of "Cool Tech", just had occasion to use Bootstrap for the first time, which was interesting. Zach is into web development because there are so many ways to do things on the web, you can play and tinker with different things you might not have otherwise.
pulianas.com — New! Welcome, Alec! Has had this website for a while, originally as a portfolio, now as a WordPress site that powers his Micro.blog. Been working on a new site for a podcast, Overanalyzed, also WordPress. In terms of "Cool Tech" - likes Eddie Hinkle's website. Also, webrings "seem pretty cool". Isn't a web developer professionally, but likes how it makes publishing easy. Really also likes the concept of owning your own content, bringing his stuff in from Twitter. Sees his online identities as layers: website is most personal, Twitter next, and Facebook is sanitized.
martymcgui.re — Been working on the Baltimore Improv Festival website, a static site generator called Ruhoh that doesn't really "exist" as a project anymore, though the code and gems are still out there. Needs to spend time on the webrings site. In terms of "Cool Tech", likes this recent "Even More CSS Secrets" talk from Lea Verou. Marty is into web development because it is an amazing way to share content that anyone can access from anywhere in the world! "Can it be done on the web?" is an interesting, if sometimes difficult, lens to see the world through.
Other discussion:
Thanks to everybody who came out! We hope to see you all again at our next meeting on Wednesday August 8th at 6:30pm (quiet writing hour at 5:30pm)!
Photo for tonight’s HWC Baltimore
Please note: We are back to meeting on Wednesday and meeting at 6:30pm. Be sure to double-check your calendars!
Join us for an evening of quiet writing, IndieWeb demos, and discussions!
Any questions? Join the #indieweb chat!
Optional quiet writing hour starts at 5:30pm. Meetup begins at 6:30pm.
More information: https://indieweb.org/events/2018-07-25-homebrew-website-club
Facebook Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/506530919802285/
Thanks to Jonathan Monroe for listening to SO MANY past episodes, discovering SO MANY bookkeeping issues, editing down SO MANY clips, and bringing We Have to Ask Podcast one week closer to the inevitable.
OMG. Y’all. This is your last chance to see Hostel in our regular Friday night slot!
Get ready for improv that reaches the sky doesn’t stop! After this we’ll be slingshotting back past Earth for the Baltimore Improv Festival, but then our momentum will take us TO! THE! STAAAARS! 💫
Technology is terrible, Instapaper goes independent, and IndieWeb takes means. It’s the audio edition for This Week in the IndieWeb for July 14th - 20th, 2018.
You can find all of my audio editions and subscribe with your favorite podcast app here: martymcgui.re/podcasts/indieweb/.
Music from Aaron Parecki’s 100DaysOfMusic project: Day 85 - Suit, 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!
Looks like Aaron Parecki is up to something fun with his new microcast.club podcast directory-slash-webring.
I went ahead and added This Week in the IndieWeb Audio Edition! Looking forward to seeing more webrings like this bloom throughout the web as a means of discovery.
(and, yes, I very much need to add a few features and post about 🕸💍.ws here!)
Thanks to our guest Timotheus German for giving us a higher perspective in this week’s We Have to Ask Podcast!
Nostalgia for homepages, IndieAuth gets an explainer, and lots of new events. It’s the audio edition for This Week in the IndieWeb for July 7th - 13th, 2018.
You can find all of my audio editions and subscribe with your favorite podcast app here: martymcgui.re/podcasts/indieweb/.
Music from Aaron Parecki’s 100DaysOfMusic project: Day 85 - Suit, 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!
Watching a show with my friend Mr. Trash Wheel. Acceptable free seats at Pier 6.5!
Here are some notes from the "broadcast" portion of the meetup:
jonathanprozzi.net — Been building static HTML/CSS layouts for fun! Some examples. Also started practicing turning those designs into layouts in Figma. Had a usability testing call w/ the folks from Gatsby that turned into a great discussion about how to better build community starters.
dariusmccoy.com — Was having some issues w/ his site, which is hosted on AWS. He is thinking about wiping his instance and starting a new one, since he has lost track of some of his passwords. In a tricky spot because AWS doesn't offer any tech support for free tier users. Talked about switching to Digital Ocean or something simpler but will have to balance his budgets to justify the costs.derekfields.is — Been taking a Udemy course on VueJS. Before that has been working on a schedule for developing his website. Has a friend doing the same and they mutually keep each other on track to spend a certain amount of time on developing their skills and sites. It's kind of working!
martymcgui.re — Brought a bunch of stickers and other fun things home from IndieWeb Summit! Had a great time seeing folks he met last year and meeting new folks. Lots of great discussion sessions, hacking projects, wild ideas, and more. He really needs to write it up on his site! His hack day project also desperately needs to be written up – it's an IndieWeb-style web ring, available at 🕸💍.ws ! This week he added support for indielogin.com, which lets people sign in using their own websites by setting up only a couple of links.
Thanks to everybody who came out! We hope to see you all again at our next meeting on Wednesday July 25th at 6:30pm (quiet writing hour at 5:30pm)!
Photo for tonight’s HWC Baltimore
Please note: We are back to meeting on Wednesday and meeting at 6:30pm. Be sure to double-check your calendars!
Join us for an evening of quiet writing, IndieWeb demos, and discussions!
Any questions? Join the #indieweb chat!
Optional quiet writing hour starts at 5:30pm. Meetup begins at 6:30pm.
More information: https://indieweb.org/events/2018-07-11-homebrew-website-club
Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/2131315447143424/
Thanks to our guest Ash(er) for his well-honed training in this week’s We Have to Ask Podcast.
And special thanks to Jāsön Herbert for the incredible 8-bit art of our heads! 😍
Reddit-but-IndieWeb, Facebook’s socialized risks, and you got your ActivityPub in my Webmention. It’s the audio edition for This Week in the IndieWeb for June 30th - July 6th, 2018.
You can find all of my audio editions and subscribe with your favorite podcast app here: martymcgui.re/podcasts/indieweb/.
Music from Aaron Parecki’s 100DaysOfMusic project: Day 85 - Suit, 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!
Thanks to our wonderful guests Kelly Buttermore and Justin Peters for keeping this light on this week’s [We Have to Ask Podcast](https://wehavetoask.com/!
Recaps from the 8th annual IndieWeb Summit, Indigenous and Aperture open to the public, and announcing IndieWebCamp Berlin 2018. It’s the audio edition for This Week in the IndieWeb for June 23rd - 29th, 2018.
You can find all of my audio editions and subscribe with your favorite podcast app here: martymcgui.re/podcasts/indieweb/.
Music from Aaron Parecki’s 100DaysOfMusic project: Day 85 - Suit, 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!
I use the ISBNs on my site to generate links to WorldCat, which lets you search library catalogs for local copies of books you can check out!
