Trying out a new location for HWC NYC! Come work on your personal website and post silly things on the web together!
Trying out a new location for HWC NYC! Come work on your personal website and post silly things on the web together!
New York City's first Homebrew Website Club of 2019 met at Aroma Espresso Bar on February 6th.
Here are some notes from the "broadcast" portion of the meetup.
rootedfromnature.com β Was working on a Grav skeleton... thinking of throwing it out. Had a client site that received some praise, though! Spent some time this evening looking at flights to Germany
aaronparecki.com β Was working on fixing Quill's URL resolution for IndieAuth login (e.g. so you can login with a shortdomain like aaronpk.com and have it resolve to https://aaronparecki.com/). Got distracted by Marty showing an iOS Shortcut that works like Teacup to post ate/drank posts via Micropub. Made an iOS shortcut to allow him to upload videos to his site.
martymcgui.re β Spent quiet hour porting some old notes out of Evernote-like browser-based app Laverna into his personal notes site. Just housekeepin'. Current personal site project is probably getting event hosting up for his upcoming improv and livestreaming shows.
david.shanske.com β Wrote a post saying something is ready to test. Current project for his site: everything. Took a break for a few days and doesn't know what is next.
Other discussions:
Thanks to everyone who came out! We look forward to seeing you at our next meetup on Wednesday, February 20th at 6:30pm!
Missed the last one due to a gnarly cold. Excited for my first HWC NYC!
Reportedly we will have special guest aaronpk!
Looking forward to my first Homebrew Website Club since moving to NYC!
A new year is coming! What stuff do you want to finish for your website before then? What goals do you have for your personal site in the new year?
Baltimore's second Homebrew Website Club of November met at the Digital Harbor Foundation Tech Center on November 27th.
Here are some notes from the "broadcast" portion of the meetup:
jonathanprozzi.net β Spent quiet writing hour writing a post about his 2018 and 2019 commitments! He wants to finish some personal writing tasks, capture some of the things he's been working on recently, and do some development.
rhearamakrishnan.com β Edited a poem during our writing time. Nice! Been reflecting on HWC and how it allowed her to use the web and her website to focus and promote her work and writing. Has a lot of new material to edit together before publishing. Just went to an intensive writing workshop in New York and generated a lot of new writing to work through.
Rosco β Working on a browser-based game for students at DHF to learn programming concepts. Thinking about starting with physical versions of the game first, maybe translating to the web later.
ashturner.net β Also working the programming tutorials and experiences for teaching computing concepts. Arrays and for-loops are particularly tricky for beginners. Ash discussed some inspirational single-purpose websites for teaching concepts, like The BeΜzier Game, and KERNTYPE. Has a personal website built on Adobe Portfolio, but interested in moving off of that because she doesn't want to pay for Creative Cloud anymore.
martymcgui.re β Doing lots of unseen plumbing work on his site, nearly read to flip over from a Jekyll-powered site to a Hugo-powered site. It's likely that no one will notice the difference! Also been playing a lot with iOS Shortcuts (formerly Workflow) and built a Workflow to take an iOS Live Photo, turn it into an animated GIF, turn that into a looping video, and post the video to his site. Here's an example post. Being able to do this helps him feel less anxious about having Live Photos on his phone and feeling like they're inaccessible.
derekfields.is β Been going to conferences and talking to companies about jobs. Also working on his LED backpack for cyclists startup. Accelerometer detects braking, turning. Been playing with WebUSB a bit, like with gamepad controllers.
Other discussion:
Thanks to everyone who came out! We look forward to seeing you at our next meetup on Tuesday, December 11th at 7:30pm!
Put those Thanksgiving calories to good use and give yourself the gift of control over everything you post online by working on your own website!
What will you finish before 2019? Will you help the IndieWeb community post something every day in December?
Baltimore's first Homebrew Website Club of November met at the Digital Harbor Foundation Tech Center on November 13th.
Here are some notes from the "broadcast" portion of the meetup:
jonathanprozzi.net β Ran into an issue with his homepage. Some nginx rule was falling back to a default site. Got it fixed, though. Been doing lots of web dev for work, but none for his personal site.
martymcgui.re β Been traveling a lot! Went to IWC Berlin and Accessibility Club and had a great time! Grateful to catch up with and meet new people in the IndieWeb community. Worked on month/year archive navigation for the new Hugo version of his site, which is very close to being feature-complete compared to his Jekyll site.
Other discussion:
Thanks to everyone who came out! We look forward to seeing you at our next meetup on Tuesday, November 27th at 7:30pm!
Baltimore's second Homebrew Website Club of October met at the Digital Harbor Foundation Tech Center on October 16th.
Here are some notes from the "broadcast" portion of the meetup:
jonathanprozzi.net β Worked today on a post recapping our last HWC meeting, focusing on ideas to get more people involved. For work at DHF, still learning lots of NextJS and ExpressJS. Getting back into writing content!
derekfields.is β Been a while! Last week in Minnesota for some networking. Met some cool people and talked to some companies, including Socrata, which was part of Open Baltimore. Also got back into bullet journaling after being away for a while. Working on legal and client-finding stuff for his freelance work.
pulianas.com β Also been awhile since he's been to an HWC! Moved all his sites to HTTPS. His podcast (overanalyzed.fm) is now on iTunes, so he added that link to the site. Also tried to track down an official Overcast button but hasn't found it yet. Recently in San Jose for API World. Very little talk about building APIs and more about pitching specific products/services. Did learn a bit about microservices and case-studies of moving to them. Did some general maintenance on his WP site, and has been working on his own plugin for podcasting on WP.
martymcgui.re β Been heavily porting his site from Jekyll to Hugo. Has had some fun porting things that he did as Ruby plugins for Jekyll into crazy Go template logic, like generating permashortlinks in NewBase60. Also had some fun setting up a new CSS Grid display for photos in posts with lots of them (example which apparently only works in Firefox). Also, after some struggling with his image proxy setup (because Hugo templating doesn't support HMAC signatures) is trying out Cloudinary's free tier for his image-resizing needs.
Other discussion:
Thanks to everyone who came out! We look forward to seeing you at our next meetup on Tuesday, November 13th at 7:30pm!
Please note: We are meeting on Tuesday this week at 7:30pm. 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 6:30pm. Meetup begins at 7:30pm.
More information: https://indieweb.org/events/2018-10-16-homebrew-website-club
Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/2179812425573835/