Homebrew Website Club Baltimore is back! Join us May 31 @ 7:30pm @DHFBaltimore and learn how to take charge of what you post on the web!
Baltimore's April 2017 meetup for Homebrew Website Club met at the Digital Harbor Foundation Tech Center on April 19th.
Below are notes from the "broadcast" portion of the meetup.
jonathanprozzi.net - not been making his weekly posts in challenges with Marty. Inspired by a nearby bookstore closing, realized he had done lots of learning in bookstores over the last ~15 years. New idea for a series of posts cataloging all the things learned in a specific place over the years. Wants to journal the things he is learning on a weekly(ish) basis to build an archive.
brianey.com - been writing up lots of ideas for his blog but not finishing them. Based on that unfinished work, started writing about some new topics on creativity. For example, writing about starting things vs. achieving them. Looking forward to writing those including cute graphics of badgers, (em)barkers, etc. and being inspired by those posts to take on other unfinished posts.
amyhurst.com - working on an FAQ page for all the questions she gets from students seeking to get into the grad programs that she manages. It should be a useful resource for students, but also for her to copy and paste into emails from students who don't or won't read it.
martymcgui.re - brought a bunch of posts from an old blog into his site, including old comments from disqus. Did updates to site plumbing so he can add syndication to his posts after the fact with micropub updates, allowing him to get webmentions and notifications of interactions on Twitter, FB, etc via brid.gy without pulling out a laptop.
We talked about the upcoming 2017 IndieWeb Summit June 24th-25th in Portland, Oregon and discussed the indie RSVPs on the site. From there we ended up on Aaron Parecki's site and chatted about the amount of information that is collected and shared, what things we'd like to be collecting for review about ourselves, what things we're comfortable publishing.
We hope that you'll join us for the next HWC Baltimore on May 31st at the Digital Harbor Foundation Tech Center!
Homebrew Website Club Baltimore returns this Wednesday! Spend some time on your website instead of the Twitters and FBs and Instas.
Celebrating the Baltimore Kinetic Sculpture Race with the special two-day-only beer! Yes, it is 9am, why do you ask?
Super jazzed to be doing a LIVE We Have to Ask Podcast on Friday May 19th as part of the 2nd Annual Baltimore Podcast Festival!
Come tell Jonathan and I what our podcast should be about as we interview special guest Caroline Yates!
Baltimore's April 2017 meetup for Homebrew Website Club met at the Digital Harbor Foundation Tech Center on April 19th.
Notes from the "broadcast" portion of the meetup.
brianey.com – Been working on some content based on personal notes, which he takes all the time, about things like stuff he's read, etc. Thought about turning ~5 of his notes at a time into monthly lists, but has been writing a lot. Might be more like each note becomes a paragraph-long post. He also manages a newsletter that usually covers one topic, but might automate these new "listy" posts into a collection for the newsletter.
jonathanprozzi.net – Been working on a longer content post, part two of a series that started in March about creativity and code and his personal learning journey. Wants to keep up with post-a-week challenge. Started capturing ideas because he tends to forget topics if he doesn't get started on them. Doesn't want to have long spans of time between posts, so needs a system to keep track of posting as he gets too busy to take big chunks of time.
martymcgui.re – Been working on cleaning up cruft in his site implementation, not a lot of publicly visible stuff. Also been thinking a lot about things that stop him from posting, like not being able to easily syndicate posts while on mobile, and thinking of plans to make it easier. Tonight worked on the first part of supporting micropub edits for his site by working on source queries.
We also had a good discussion about how folks track their projects, keep ongoing notes, nudge themselves to make progress, and more. We talked about tools like Google Calendar and Tasks, laverna.cc, "GTD", and more that I forgot to write down.
We hope that you'll join us for the next HWC Baltimore on May 10th back here at the Digital Harbor Foundation Tech Center! It's an "Off-Week" for the usual HWC schedule. After that we're back on track with another "On-Week" HWC on May 31st!
Homebrew Website Club Baltimore on April 19, 2017 at Digital Harbor Foundation from 6:30pm to 8:30pm! Come on out and work on your website!
Group photo for HWC Baltimore 10/19!
Enjoying the Baltimore Book Festival with Amy and Kim. Taking a rest next to Seuss’s Monster. (Seuss was the Dr.)
Baltimore's first Homebrew Website Club met up at the Digital Harbor Foundation Tech Center on 9/21/2016. We had a nice quiet writing hour followed by some quick introductions (since we already knew one another) and lots of chatting about projects, first steps, and indieweb in general.
Notes from the "broadcast" portion of the meetup:
Marty McGuire (co-organizer)
Jonathan Prozzi (co-organizer)
Shawn Grimes (Executive Director of DHF)
It wouldn't be an HWC without a photo, so here is our selfie!
We had a great chat and look forward to more progress on projects, more good discussion, and more interested folks at the next one. We hope you'll join us next month on 10/19!
