In 2016, I decided to leave WordPress behind. Some of their philosophy, mostly the “decisions, not options” started to leave the trail I thought to be the right one, but on it’s own, that wouldn’t have been enough: I had a painful experience with media handling hooks, which were …
The new Gatsby website has been soft launched for a couple weeks now and seems to be working pretty well so far, so I’m now moving on from building out the site to building out a bunch of tools for sending out notifications of new content. My hypothesis here is that if I can make …
Last week I added a new archive page to Micro.blog-hosted sites. It includes dates and the first part of each post, marked up with Microformats. Jonathan LaCour used this to write a script that parses the HTML looking for posts on today’s date in previous years, then pulls the …
This is part 1 of at least a 4 part series about the IndieWeb and my involvement with it so far. I hope it presents both some technical aspects of the IndieWeb but more so introduces how the IndieWeb experience is personal and is shaped by each individual.
Me, February 2001I’ve owned my own personal domain since 2001, though it’s a different domain name now than it was then. For the past year or so I’ve been trying to remember how I internetted in 2001, because I’m super nostalgic and think that was my favorite Internet time, and …
A while back, I wrote up a design for bridging Microsub clients to traditional feed reader backends. Fast forward to a few weeks ago: I hacked together a bare bones prototype at IndieWebCamp 2018. Fast forward to now: I’m launching Baffle!
Last week was the 8th annual IndieWeb Summit held in Portland, Oregon. While IndieWeb Camps and Summits have traditionally been held on weekends during people’s free time, this one held in the middle of the week was a roaring success. With well over 50 people in attendance, this …
One reason that IndieWeb Summit was such a success was the range of projects to come out of the second day as attendees worked on their own projects. There were new tools and features of existing platforms, but also personal site updates and just fun stuff. And web rings are fun!
[Ed. it is rare that anyone gets to see the thought processes that go into reinventing in robotics. Here, Adafruit founder and engineer Limor “Ladyada” Fried goes into the process she went through to introduce a new kind of inexpensive robotics controller to the Maker community: …
Quill's event creation UI now has venue autocomplete and a map preview, and sends the full venue information to your Micropub endpoint as an h-card! Selecting a location also sets the timezone offset of the event start/end date properly too!
Because of the #IndiewebRing I discovered @schmarty’s, whose hacking away at the tech for #IndieWeb WebRings Podcast We Have to Ask Podcast , Funny stuff. Nice concise format…that gets derailed nicely.Looks like I am going in deep? By Design? This ring a trap?
This week I spoke at NextDoor. I don’t have a verbatim record, but this is what I said, as close as I can recall. I spoke about Thinking like a Tester and being strategic about where we look for bugs. I was wrapping up by pointing out that our biases create blind spots that we …
Eli Mellen, an art historian and printmaker turned web developer, talks to Jean about how he went from his “angsty LiveJournal” to being a proponent of the IndieWeb, and why he likes the new IndieWeb Ring. Eli is also the maintainer of Micro.wiki: Community resources for the avid …
OAuth has become the de facto standard for authorization and authentication on the web. Nearly every company with an API used by third party developers has implemented OAuth to enable people to build apps on top of it.
Was involved in a pretty dispiriting discourse on the indieweb irc channels earlier in the week. The specific issue of contention was the use of .io domains, and why you really shouldn’t do that, but the terms and process of the debate (such as it was) followed the standard path …
There may be a webring revival afoot. Webrings had their heyday back in the 1990’s. Good search engines, like Google helped make them redundant. Fear of Google, the decline and fall of free hosted websites like Geocities helped kill them off. Yahoo ruining Webring.org didn’t …
