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31-May-2024
Goodbye, FOAF
Wherein we say goodbye to foaf.rdf and acknowledge h-card and microformats
29-May-2024
The Web Is Better.
When we old heads talk about how the web is much better, I wonder sometimes how it lands on the ears of younger people. The cliché of a parent saying “I had to walk to school, both ways, in the snow.” Here’s a datapoint. Here’s a chunk of code: It’s not great code. I can...
17-May-2024
Molly White is optimistic about the #IndieWeb
Recent video interview between Flipboard CEO Mike McCue and Molly White is worth a watch for people interested in the IndieWeb: it relates directly to controlling what and where you write and having a better sense of where what you read comes from. Watch on Flipboard.Video. They also talk federated social media in terms of...
15-May-2024
BO-HWC: Social Norms in the IndieWeb:
upcoming event
Bonus Online Homebrew Website Club – Social Norms in the IndieWeb is an event this weekend organized by Sara Jakša. The description of the event includes: Let’s have a meeting connecting to the social norms on the internet. Bring any topic connected to the social norms in the internet there. If you want to interact...
08-May-2024
Front End Study Hall Continues!
The next Front End Study Hall (#003) will be on May 23, 2024. #002 was yesterday and was another solid get together. I learned bit of nuance around using grid-template-areas and understand what I’ve seen before when trying that, one really needs to have predictable markup to use it properly. Two different elements with the...
24-Apr-2024
Front End Study Hall #002: May 7, 2024
The next Front End Study Hall will be May 7, 2024 – come join, teach, and learn together! If you’re a maven of markup or stylesheet superstar, or a newbie novice with nth-of-type, all are welcome to learn together at Front End Study Hall. The foundation of a flexible, good IndieWeb website is markup (the...
23-Apr-2024
Tentative RSVP to a Tentative IndieWeb Event
I like the idea of this Zoom meeting Bonus Online Homebrew Website Club – Social Norms in the IndieWeb, it’s currently tentative, but is intentionally about the culture of the IndieWeb, and was created by Sara Jakša: Lets have a meeting connecting to the social norms on the internet. Bring any topic connected to the...
15-Apr-2024
Front End Study Hall
I’ve been attending great and inspirational IndieWeb events for several years now, have even helped co-organize a few. Sometimes CSS and HTML questions come up that seem to call for a deeper dive into those things and imply deeper questions. My idea for Front End Study Hall is an open hours / office hours type...
28-Feb-2024
Mistrust-Based Technology Choices
The latest news in tech has been excitement about reports that Automattic has the intent to sell Tumblr and WordPress.com website data (read that as “your blog posts”) to a Large Language Model-based company for big dollars. Putting your stuff on a companies servers usually means they get to do what they want to with...
16-Aug-2020
Instalooter to WordPress
I’ve been importing my Instagram posts for my @artlung account using IFTTT for 7 years with good results. But there was a set of several hundred posts from 2011 and 2012 that I never bothered with. To be honest looking back at the posts, and thinking of that time, those were the two years after...