Looking forward to another great Homebrew Website Club Baltimore!
Join us at the Digital Harbor Foundation this Wednesday and take control of your identity and data on the web!
Looking forward to another great Homebrew Website Club Baltimore!
Join us at the Digital Harbor Foundation this Wednesday and take control of your identity and data on the web!
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)!
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/
Homebrew Website Club returns! Come on out and work on your personal website, or learn more about how to escape the social media silos by building something of your own!
We’ll have updates about the recent IndieWeb Summit, a return of webrings, and much more!
Baltimore's first Homebrew Website Club of June met at the Digital Harbor Foundation Tech Center on June 13th!
Here are some notes from the "broadcast" portion of the meetup:
derekfields.is — Thinking about ESP8266 + WebAR to make, e.g. a painting with AR overlays in mobile browsers. Working on CSS Grid stuff for his site, now. Trying to be consistent.
jonathanprozzi.net — Mainly been working on stuff for DHF, but it overlaps w/ personal projects. Working on a "headless WordPress" setup as a data source for a Gatsby or Next static site that can be taken to schools w/ super slow internet. Been learning how to use Gatsby – the GraphQL queries for WordPress have been tricky. Got it working on his own site first, then managed to get a handle on how to pull lessons for specific courses from the set of all courses. Now digging into more GraphQL (like debugging w/ GraphiQL) and issues like differences in how WordPress handles whitespace (processing newlines into paragraph and break tags) vs stuffing the content into a React component (no special whitespace processing by default). For personal stuff, feels like Gatsby + headless WP is too heavy. Interested in an IndieWeb-starter version of the Gatsby starter site, which doesn't even have semantic HTML at the moment. Also looking into WordPress + Next... next, because it seems simpler.
dariusmccoy.com — Went to NOMCON and helped build the We the Rosies sculpture. Will be working on a new project for DHF for managing 3D Print Shop.
martymcgui.re — Installed grant.codes' PostrChild plugin for Chrome. It shows Edit Post buttons on his posts and makes the content there editable via Micropub and it is very neat! Also showed off his indiebookclub.biz profile. Added support for read posts to his site to support it and is now converting old read posts (which were just notes of the form "📕 Finished Reading: ...") into this new form. Has ideas for additions to indiebookclub like URLs for books and authors, tags, text content, and backfeeding entries from his site to complete his profile. Will be dropping in his Goodreads data next.
bouhmad.com — Been implementing a speedtest-like app on a new site for Baltimore City to gather data by census block and compare. Part of his new(ish) project to establish a mesh network for the city!
Other discussion:
Thanks to everybody who came out! We hope to see you all again at our next meeting on Wednesday June 27th at 6:30pm (quiet writing hour at 5:30pm)!
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/2018-06-13-homebrew-website-club
Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/986296074882365/
It's been a while! Again! We cancelled our previous meetup due to weather.
Baltimore's second Homebrew Website Club of May met at the Digital Harbor Foundation Tech Center on May 29th!
Here are some notes from the "broadcast" portion of the meetup:
dariusmccoy.com – Playing with Squarespace because he expects to have youth using it for the upcoming Web Shop launch at DHF. In ~3 weeks! He's trying to clone the existing DHF 3D Print Shop website in it, but finding it a bit restricting. Playing w/ some CodePens for nice animations/transitions but having trouble getting those into the Squarespace editing tools. Wants to use them for within-page links.
derekfields.is – Been struggling w/ goals on personal website stuff. Has been applying for webdev jobs, though! Waiting to hear back. Has been working on his startup idea - an LED backpack for biking. It's controlled by a microcontroller and he wants it to serve a webpage over WiFi so you can control it from your phone without installing anything.
jonathanprozzi.net – Spent time tonight writing a post because he hasn't in a long time. The post includes shaming himself for not writing posts. Writing up his experiences from a recent conference where DHF was receiving an award. Building apps with GatsbyJS which are PWAs that work offline, so the content he writes for DHF can work for people who have viewed them even if the internet goes down.
martymcgui.re – "Launched" his GIPHY-backed GIF posting app Kapowski. After feedback from last time, made it work without requiring logins (making it usable by people who aren't all wired up with IndieAuth on their sites). Thinking about ways to progressively enhance Kapowski, such as saving favorites that can be viewed offline, offline sending with posts going out when the internet comes back, etc. Been going all in on micropub for his personal notes that exist on a private site. Used selfauth, mintoken, skippy's micropub server, spano for media, and built a new nginx auth_request service that uses IndieAuth and an access control list to allow only him to view the private posts. Hoping to clean that up and release it someday soon. Also started first steps for another long-term micropub-related project to assist sites that support micropub for creating and editing posts but don't want to build their own infrastructure for syndication. It's called "POSSE Party", and currently it's a manual-til-it-hurts Micropub editor that lets you manage mp-syndicate-to and syndication properties for posts. Someday he hopes to make something that can use bridgy or silo.pub to automate syndication for people whose sites don't do that.
Other discussion:
Thanks to everybody who came out! We hope to see you all again at our next meeting on Wednesday June 13th at 6:30pm (quiet writing hour at 5:30pm)!
Reminder: We are meeting on Tuesday this week instead of the usual Wednesdays. 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/2018-05-29-homebrew-website-club
Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/972150109606246/
Update! Due to an internet outage at the venue, and an active Flash Flood Watch with thunderstorms slated to start right around our meeting time, this HWC has been cancelled.
See you again on May 29th!
Reminder: We are now meeting on Tuesdays instead of the usual Wednesdays. 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/2018-05-15-homebrew-website-club
Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/1854066014893223/
Update! Due to thunderstorms and internet storms, tonight’s HWC has been cancelled. See you next on May 29th!
Excited for the return of Homebrew Website Club Baltimore, tonight! See you at Digital Harbor Foundation at 6:30pm for quiet writing hour, 7:30pm for the meetup!
Let’s make the web stupid and fun again, together!