Homebrew Website Club
Welcome to Homebrew Website Club
this last weekend was Indiewebcamp Nürnberg which had a good turnout http://indiewebcamp.com/2016/Nuremberg
A lot of the Nürnberg attendees had been to Indiewebcamp Dusseldorf last year, but about half were new
There were a lot of additions to people's websites and new code read the demos here: http://indiewebcamp.com/2016/Nuremberg/Demos
Pelle @voxpelli got a polyfill for web actions working so you can comment on other sites using your own
A lot of people got service workers and offline pages working for their own sites
We had a very good discussion about homepages and design, which inspired some changes
@adactio added sparklines to his homepage to show activity of different kinds of posts
a lot of homepages were a stream of recent posts; others were more of a bio
I changed my homepage so that when on a narrow screen it links down to the bio stuff at the bottom
there's a new site at webmention.rocks for testing webmention support on your site, as part of the @w3c webmention standards
webmention.rocks is a validator too as it it gives detailed debugging information in the http response
there are 12-13 implementations passing webmention.rocks from ~18 different peopl
There are great photos from IndieWebCamp Nürnberg at https://www.flickr.com/photos/tollwerk/sets/72157664909577964/ by @iwontsignuphere
Homebrew Website Club is a fortnightly catch-up where we talk about what we have done on our sites recently
Indiewebcamp is a 2 day long event wheer we talk about ideas and build new things, usually over a weekend
we just got a venue for a second Indiewebcamp NYC at the end of August http://indiewebcamp.com/2016/NYC2 - tell your NY friends
the co-organiser of IWC NYC , Emma Hodge set up her own site http://emmahodge.org at an indiewebcamp
I'm showing off Patchwork which is like peer-to-peer twitter - it's only on local machines, syncs when they're on
the only persistent identifier is your public key- you can change your name; people can change their name for you
this is built on top of another thing called Secure Scuttlebutt
when I follow a friend on Patchwork I see all the people they follow too
Next week: Internet Identity Workshop XXII #iiw if indieweb people want to come I'll help http://www.internetidentityworkshop.com/
Christopher Allen @christophera is organising Web of Trust 2 in NY on May 21-22 http://www.weboftrust.info/
the UN has a development goal that everyone should have a legal identity by 2020 http://id2020summit.org/
@BarnabyWalters sang a round with himself using his website as a looper https://waterpigs.co.uk/notes/4goFfB/
I am setting up a site at https://jfrndz.com/, but now it is just a denied page, so it is secure
I just updated my portfolio site at http://www.katiejohnson.me/ during quiet writing hour
I'm moving deckchairs around on the titanic on my site
I switched my site to Known in January, but i just switched my main site back to redwind, so known.kylewm.com
I accidentally sent out webmentions to a lot of people because I changed URLs, so now we're testing Delete on
Is anyone going to the Grey Area festival this weekend? it's about data visualisation and Art
One of the things going on at IWC Nuremberg was this Sparkline thing. @adactio was using a thing @sil wrote years ago
brilliant thing embeds a script inside of the svg tag; but generated numbers inside the tag weren't so pretty
So I changed it so the URL has the numbers in it, and the script draws it as a polyline
it's really nice if you're posting data on the web, for the data to still be there
(Q: why SVG instead of an regular image?) The nice thing about an SVG is it's really small but scales smoothly
I made svgur.com bc usually to share svgs you have to convert to png and then they'll convert it to a jpeg or something
the nice thing is if you share a link to svgur on Twitter, it generates a bitmap image for the preview
I also updated mention.tech to support the webmention.rocks stuff, which mostly involved simplifying my sending code
