Homebrew Website Club

Stacey DePolo:

what is the difference between a static site and a dynamic site?

Kevin Marks:

I'd say that a dynamic site runs code on the server, but a static site doesn't

Johannes Ernst:

from the user's point of view, a site that is the same every time you go there is static

Stacey DePolo:

I'm Stacey, I'm with GoDaddy, and I've been building websites in San Francisco for 23 years

My site is at http://staceydepolo.com/ and it is a minimal as can be, but I got rel="me" working

I used to hate GoDaddy, so they hired people like me to tell them how to behave better

Johannes Ernst:

Every business knows they want to be on the web, but nobody has the slightest idea how to do this

Stacey DePolo:

If you can see the info from other companies like you, we can advise people on what to do - we want to connect that

Dan Lyke:

I wrote my first HTML browser in 1993 - I blogged before it was called blogging.

I have 20,000 outbound links from my blog and most of them are dead and I want to fix that

Kevin Marks:

this is where my hashing stuff at http://svgur.com/dweb?url=http%3A%2F%2Fsvgur.com%2Fi%2F80.svg comes in

Dan Lyke:

we are no longer in place where we have self contained documents

Kevin Marks:

I helped Christopher Allen set up a static old site at http://www.lifewithalacrity.com/previous/ and a new one at http://www.lifewithalacrity.com/

I also helped Dan Gillmor get his old sites static and working again http://citmedia.org/ and

Stacey DePolo:

how many people here have been twitter verified? (only @film_girl) - who else wants it?

Kevin Marks:

I also made a distributed verification tool to show rel-me links on my site kevinmarks.com it shows ticks

I also made a browser plugin to do this everywhere

Christina Warren:

verification was a media outreach thing or a celebrity thing, now anyone can ask for it

you used to have to lock your profile once verified and reverify if you changed it, but you could change emails

I wouldn't put a brand in my twitter handle - I know better

Kevin Marks:

the point of rel="me" is saying that you have control over both websites and can point both ways

Christina Warren:

someone created a public page for me, and people followed it; facebook even made pages from wikipedia

Johannes Ernst:

I'm building a linux distribution called UBOS - which is also Ugandan Bureau Of Statistics and I get their likes

Kevin Marks:

ReadWriteWeb accidentally became the top link for "Facebook Login" and people tried to log into facebook and comment

Johannes Ernst:

we write a lot of stuff and explain why we believe things- no-one gets to the conclusion.

what if I just wrote the conclusion first and make the arguments in smaller type - can we do that?

Kevin Marks:

in effect you have the Inverted Pyramid structure that a classic New York Times article would use

Dan Lyke:

If I were going to enable transclusion, you need to link to posts or paragraphs

the problem with semantic markup is that as no-one can see it so it gets broken

what if I put sha1 of every paragraph

Kevin Marks:

that's why we use fragmention to link to the text we are quoting instead - see https://indieweb.org/fragmention

Stacey DePolo:

are you using 2 factor auth for your accounts?

Kevin Marks:

the problem is that you may not have your phone number any more -it happened to my son today: https://twitter.com/kevinmarks/status/773676072869040128

Christina Warren:

the other challenge is that your SMS can be sent to all your devices, and I've seen it hit the relay first

Johannes Ernst:

if GPG didn't exist I wouldn't be married - I had to talk to my future wife in DC from Germany via encryption

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