I’m not sure how many people will see this, as I didn’t actively post before, but I’ve started a blog named Subtle Echo and posted the first entry today!
It’s a place to share my personal interests with the internet. Video games and the indie web are two big examples :).
I am still planning to slightly tweak the theming and create a favicon, but in the meantime you can check out my inaugural post.
Emissary is a revolutionary next-gen Web platform that lets you tinker with every little bit of it. It works with the #Fediverse, is built on #IndieWeb principles, and looks incredible.
📝 Craft vs Industry: Separating Concerns
Reconciling the differences between the craft of making websites and the industry that has grown around it.
> Handcrafted websites are made by humans for humans. This is what differentiates our craftsperson from the factory worker—what the craftsperson does is valuable to people, not businesses.
@nazhamid I feel you on the slog with the 5, it’s absolutely mind-numbing. My cheat code was to take the coastal route and make pit stops at little beaches for my dogs.
By the way, your newsletter came up during the zoom call today for our little #indieweb group! A couple of people are making travelogues for local adventures like hiking Inspiration Point in LA, so I showed your latest issue as inspiration fuel.
"But I was very skeptical. The trailers seemed to indicate a train wreck. They were full of explosions, angry screaming guys and the taglines about war. Dune was never about war. War was in there, but it was never the point. But cinema, SciFi especially, loves special effects, and big-booms are amongst the most used. I dislike a lot of SciFi movies from the USA, as the (so called) spectacle is all there is."
I've only just discovered the #fediverse and found out #indieweb and #smallweb are what you call those cool, fun, real websites I've missed so badly.
I feel like I've just opened a door that I've only ever heard muffled crys of joy from the other side. It's completely bonkers in here. So much creativity. Am I late to the party or is it just getting started?
I think we're focused on the wrong thing when we look at what tech works for a company like Amazon or Facebook or Netflix.
We should be looking at what tech works when you don't have a small army of staff engineers optimizing it. I want to know what I can scale without paying someone a half million dollar salary to do it.
There should be more case studies on things that don't have a billion-dollar company propping them up, humming along quietly on a cheap-ass VPS somewhere.
Last week I participated @W3.org (@w3c) #W3CAC (W3C Advisory Committee¹), #W3CAB (W3C Advisory Board²@ab), and #W3CBoard (Board of the W3C Corporation³) meetings in Hiroshima, Japan.
The AC (Advisory Committee) meeting was two days, followed by two days of AB and Board meetings which started with a half-day joint session (including the #w3CTAG), then separate meetings to focus on their own tasks & discussions.
The W3C Process⁴ describes the twice a year AC (Advisory Committee) Meetings⁵. In addition to members of the AC (one primary and one alternate per W3C Member Organization), the meetings are open to the AB (Advisory Board), the W3C Board, the W3C TAG (W3C Technical Architecture Group⁶@tag), Working Group⁷ chairs, Chapter⁸ staff, and this time also a W3C Invited Expert designated observer⁹.
The AC currently meets in the Spring on its own and a shorter meeting in the Fall as part of the annual #W3CTPAC (W3C Technical Plenary and Advisory Committee¹⁰ meetings). The existence, dates, and location of the event are public¹¹, however the agenda, minutes, and registrants are generally Member-confidential. Since those individual links have their own access controls, I collected them on a publicly-viewable wiki page for easier discovery & navigation (if you work for a W3C Member Organization¹²):
Most of the W3C meeting materials and discussions were also W3C Member-confidential, however many of the presentations are publicly viewable, and a few more may be shared publicly after the fact.
Myself and others at #W3C who believe in pushing for more openness and transparency in standards work, even (or especially) governance of said work, will be doing our best to work with others at W3C to continue shifting our work accordingly.
Aside: I started the #OpenAB project when I was first elected to the AB (Advisory Board) in 2013, documenting it on the publicly viewable W3C Wiki, and updated it with the help of others since: https://www.w3.org/wiki/AB#Open_AB
Like most conferences, I got as much out of side conversations at breaks (AKA hallway track¹³) and meals as I did from scheduled talks and panels.
For now, here are the events, slides, and videos which are publicly viewable that provide an interesting glimpse into some of the topics discussed:
🖼 slides: https://w3c.github.io/adapt/presentations/ac2024/ Warning: the proposed use of .well-known therein is IMO a bad mistake. Unnecessary reinvention (most handled by existing rel values¹⁴), more complex to author (requires sidefiles¹⁵), harder to publish (requires site admin root access), likely to become inaccurate (Ruby’s postulate¹⁶), and fragile (site admins frequently break .well-known for individual pages). A full critique likely requires its own blog post.
I will probably need a larger VPS for my @cloudron instance shortly. Have been happy with Netcup and have no real plans to move elsewhere. But this is a good time to ask for suggestions.
I've just published another #indieweb-inspired post that I've been meaning to get out. It describes the various types of post content that I have on the site, e.g. notes, posts, logs, etc…
A. have a website, then…
B. publish writing on said website, &
C. have a "mixed content" strategy where you feel free to write in different forms for different reasons and different audiences.
I explain why in the shared post above. Happy bloggin’!
hey quick q whats the etiquette around web buttons can i just yoink someone's personal button and throw it on my site and link to them if i think they're cool person?? is permission link a thing here??idk how this works
Check it out! Introducing RPG Design Quest, an #IndieWeb & #Fediverse connected #TTRPG Design + Theory hangout! Modern version of old-school hobby portals. The platform includes forums, live chat, and more!
One of the things I love about #IndieWeb life is the global community. I live in a small city in the southern US where we have plenty of problems, but also a few bright spots. One of my goals is to be up front about all of that with the people I meet online. So I wrote about The Southern Problem https://louplummer.lol/post/the-southern-pronlem
One of the things I love about #IndieWeb life is the global community. I live in a small city in the southern US where we have plenty of problems, but also a few bright spots. One of my goals is to be up front about all of that with the people I meet online. So I wrote about The Southern Problem https://louplummer.lol/post/the-southern-pronlem
that you don't even have to sign in/sign up for! You can even read my innovative, revolutionary, disruptive, #RSS feed for free! https://robertkingett.com/
> A lot of people want to make a website but don’t know where to start or they get stuck. That’s in part because our perception of what websites should be has changed so dramatically over the last 20 years.
Creating simple websites does not have to be complicated…