Posts Tagged "indieweb" from 2021

Welcome, each and every drongo, to The Drongo's first interview since our summer hiatus. We've got a real rock star for our guest today!

The Drongo: Our guest for this round of The Drongo is Jacob Hall. He's provided us the following third-person biography.

Jacob Hall: "You'd likely recognize Jacob Hall pretty quickly if you ran into him on the street: he's always barefoot, he's either wearing his pants or either of his two shorts, and his hair keeps changing colors.

He currently lives in Williamsburg, VA, studying geology at William & Mary, producing educational media for the on-campus Studio for Teaching and Learning Innovation, and co-managing a student-run house/venue/coffee shop called The Meridian. In his free time (read: procrastinatory sprees) he develops websites for himself and friends, cooks for anyone in earshot, and goes on very long walks."

I hear tell that Jacob Hall has implemented whostyles on his website ... let's see how he handles mine.

Dave is a pillar of the IndieWeb community. Most notably, he's helped organize several of our largest in-person social events, including our yearly IndieWeb Summit conferences, and he's always willing to help run A/V or monitor the chat for attendee questions.

Whereas he has ceaselessly displayed the virtues of camaraderie, wisdom, and piety befitting those of noble rank,

Whereas he and I agreed it was a good idea,

Whereas those parties assembled at HWC Americas made no objection,

By the powers invested in me according to the ancient and noble constitution of maxwelljoslyn.com,

I hereby crown

Prince of this website,

at 12 PM, 49 minutes and 24 seconds past the hour, on May 28th, in the 31st year since the Web began.

HWC Americas is on again tonight. Some potential topics:

1. Drumming up one last spurt of interest in Saturday's event, Webmentions Beyond Webmention.io
2. Private Webmentions
3. Building chat and other real-time features into one's website

Here comes another Homebrew Website Club. Join us for discussion of websites, blogging, owning your personal data, open protocols, and more!

EDIT: An after-action report.

HWC is always scheduled to run for 90 minutes; in practice, we typically run to about two hours of discussion.

Tonight, though? We broke two hours. We broke three hours. We broke four hours.

By the time Angelo, Kartik, Ben, and I called it quits -- the last four stragglers from a peak of 11 participants -- this evening's club ran to five hours and forty-five minutes. Surely that's a record! And we loved every bit of it.

In preparation for Homebrew Website Club.

1. How can we encourage tool/solution reuse between individual IndieWeb sites, without building more hosted services?

   It seems to me that many IndieWeb participants, especially those starting out, end up either (a) relying on Single Point of Aaron services or (b) building their own solutions for every aspect of the IndieWeb "stack" (Webmention, Micropub, a posting interface, etc.) This problem could be addressed with a stronger culture of developing reusable libraries for IW tasks, but turning your own code into a library usable by others isn't always easy.

2. What are the pros, cons, use cases, and UX considerations of doing real-time chat on your web site (such as communicating with visitors) or via your web site (such as with a hypothetical "chat-message" post type that syndicates to IRC or Discord?)