Had an immensely satisfying night tinkering with my website without publishing anything publicly, just some private experiments to test out a few ideas. Sometimes the #indieweb means being totally indie from everyone and satisfying an audience of exactly one, blowing on the little embers of your own intrinsic motivation.
While building my new site in #11ty, which is a new tool for me, I wonder if it’s time for me to learn #Git and #versioncontrol as well.
I notice that I over and over again make a backup copy of a Nunjucks partial or my eleventy.config.js before trying something (that more often than not breaks some things). And sometimes I lose track on where I’m in my dev process.
Would I benefit from version control? Any relevant tutorials to share?
I read that the idea of https://indieweb.org is to post on your personal site first then broadcast to everywhere else… but I want the reverse: post in communities where it makes sense (hobbies/circles) then aggregate everything on my site.
Exciting news! Launching the RPG Design Quest, an #IndieWeb & #Fediverse connected #RPGDesign + #TTRPGTheory hangout! Like a modern version of the old school forums/portals, based around groups. Complete with forums, live chat, and more!
So, say I wanted to move my site away from Wordpress to once again roll my own, is there a good guide for getting started with something more indie? I’m a bit lost now that Netscape Communicator isn’t around. #indieweb
Let’s see if I can turn the #indieweb into the lazyweb. Does anyone have any examples of blog posts that handle vertical video well?
Just embedded without the usual platform cruft would be great, but I’m also curious about reach goals for Instagram levels of polish, ideally with just plain HTML. Can you do things like auto-playing silently until you click on it to unmute, playing only the video that’s in the viewport, etc, without a bunch of javascript wizardry?
New blog post — I have a track coming out April 12! it's on a new album by the electroacoustic trio Apply Triangle with works by 33 composers, and it was recorded remotely during lockdown.
I talk about collecting amateur radio samples to use in the piece, the album project, and there's even a poem.
I really like @xor's Python script for generating domain names from public domain books, so I turned it, with permission, into a website, to make it easier to use.