candide

@candide@vis.social

✨ Multi-hyphenate doer of things ✨

Passionate about accessible and #OpenSource storytelling

Exploring themes of memory, identity, and virtually-mediated human connections between people of #African descent

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candide, to random

Today, I gave a workshop to 30+ people at the Open Hardware Summit @oshwassociation on captive portals, based on a remix of the @iffybooks's zine. 🎉

It was my first time building a zine, first time giving this workshop, and first time making kits of this kind.

Couldn't have asked for a more gracious and engaged crowd! ❤️ Kudos to Sid and Lee of the team, to Hillary, the volunteer who quite literally saved this workshop, and to everyone else involved in the Summit.

404mediaco, to random
@404mediaco@mastodon.social avatar

A spy site is scraping users' Discord messages and activity across servers and selling them to anyone with $5:

https://www.404media.co/a-spy-site-is-scraping-discord-and-selling-users-messages/

candide,

Interesting! I wonder how it compares to Matrix/Element... Down the rabbit hole I go lol

candide, to Logseq

Continuing my quest for a replacement following data loss: https://vis.social/@candide/112137525462200593

This week, I tried .

Pros:

  • Simple, easy to use interface
  • Transclusion / Block embed (one-way)
  • Backlinks
  • Open-source + can self-host
  • Hierarchy/Folders
  • Nice .md exports
  • Can publish notes online
  • Graph view
  • Stacked notes

Demo of Notabase note-taking app, taken from the project's github

candide, to Logseq

I've been using since 2021, have been an Open Collective supporter for almost 2 yrs, and even built my thesis project on top of the app.

Unfortunately, I think I've reached the end of the road with it. I've suffered some pretty massive because of the paid .

candide,

The past month of waiting for a response on my lost data has been stressful, and #Logseq's contradictory replies have been incredibly disappointing.

Unfortunately, this type of #dataloss due to #LogseqSync is pretty common, as I'm starting to find out.

It's heartbreaking to part ways with a tool and community that I've learned so much from, but I can no longer trust the software project, and regret recommending it.

I'm open to suggestions for other #PKM #digitalgarden tools (preferably #OSS).

candide,

@publicvoit @nickanderson Good to know, thank you @publicvoit @nickanderson!

stefan, to random
@stefan@stefanbohacek.online avatar

An idea I'm playing with: A tool that lets you build a basic HTML page, and shows you how to host it for free.

https://simplepagebuilder.app

#PersonalWebsite #indieweb #OpenWeb

candide,

@stefan I really love this concept, and it reminds me of a thread by @flamed on an "Easy Web": https://social.lol/@flamed/111730917308541254

I've been thinking about an easy way for people unfamiliar with HTML + CSS to easily create websites for an upcoming workshop (beyond a plain "Hello World"), and WYSIWYG Editors that bridge ease of use with visible code like the one you've shared are key! 🔑 Your implementation of GrapeJS is one of the less daunting ones I've encountered so far.

candide,

@stefan Another really fascinating example of easy WYSIWYG page creation to code is a demo of @penpot 2.0 (the open source Figma). In the upcoming release, users will be able to visually design flexbox and grid-like layouts, and then copy-paste the HTML and CSS into a code editor to build actual websites / web components.

Demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-USvt_p46g&t=317

Screen grab from a Penpot 2.0 demo video. An Untitled Codepen web page is visible, with a pasted HTML code snippet and CSS code snippet. Below the code panels: a preview of the web page. This preview is the same as the design created in the previous Penpot user interface.

candide,

@stefan Ultimately, though, my dream would be to have an open-source WYSIWYG editor/web page generator like Pagy: https://pagy.co/

What I find with GrapeJS is that creating nice layouts and translating an imagined layout to page is still a bit tricky for users who aren't familiar with CSS principles (even though you do a great job of demoing the margin trick in the docs).

Unfortunately, the dev of this app doesn't have plans to add an export function, so a girl can only dream...

Demo of the Pagy app, where a web page can be created by dragging and dropping components in like Notion: https://i.imgur.com/w5tOi6M.mp4

candide,

@stefan Maybe this is where a pre-made template/library of templates could come in (as @yianiris alludes to: https://kafeneio.social/@yianiris/112096847989482042).

Perhaps user-generated templates from existing sites?

https://stefanbohacek.online/@stefan/112101011731503904

Pre-built sections?

candide,

@stefan Ooooooh!!! ✨✨ This is lovely!

Also, I always love when walkthroughs have a "replay" function. It puts me at ease to know that I don't have to remember every single thing when I'm using a new tool.

For some reason, though, when I tried it on my end (using Firefox), it played in reverse? 😂

Walkthrough of the "A Simple Page Builder" app, with guided instructions on how to use the tool.

candide,

@stefan All good now!

candide, to random

An Invitation for Creators, Activists, and Stewards of the Open Movement

https://creativecommons.org/2024/02/11/an-invitation-for-creators-activists-and-stewards-of-the-open-movement/

molly0xfff, to RSS
@molly0xfff@hachyderm.io avatar

"RSS is dead"

#rss

Screenshot of an access log from citationneeded.news, showing that about a third of requests are to endpoints like /rss and /feed.xml

candide,

@molly0xfff This is interesting! How can these kinds of stats be pulled?

flamed, to web
@flamed@social.lol avatar

📝 New Post: An Easy Web.

Jumping on internet discourse again 🔥

https://flamedfury.com/posts/an-easy-web/

candide,

@sarajw The Drop page still exists! 😊

https://app.netlify.com/drop

I was just showing it to folks at a workshop I gave recently on .

Although these instructions are suited for that app, they're still relevant for other static sites: https://candideu.github.io/logseq-demo-graph-site-export/#/page/publishing%20your%20graph%20online/block/hosting%20your%20exported%20graph

video/mp4

mekkaokereke, to random
@mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io avatar

🤔The News is a strange industry.

If every auto company owner stopped buying newspapers, the newspapers wouldn't even notice. That's only like, 1000 people. But if every auto company employee stopped buying newspapers, the industry would feel significant pain. That's over 2 million people.

And yet, UAW stories are framed from the perspective of owners, not employees? Tik-Tok and other social media coverage frames it from the perspective of employees.

And we wonder why paper sales are down.

candide,

@mekkaokereke The YouTube video was geo-restricted for me (I'm in Canada), so I'm sharing an alt link for others in the same boat: https://invidious.fdn.fr/watch?v=eCg8OMVGeT4

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