I'm very pleased to announce that Oxford #indiewebcamp is officially happening on the 22nd and 23rd of September! Thanks to sponsorship from @haybrookIT and @WhiteOctober. More details here: https://polytechnic.co.uk/blog/2018/08/oxford-indiewebcamp-is-go
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You're Invited to IndieWeb Summit!
IndieWeb Summit is soon, and is shaping up to be an exciting event! We're hosting IndieWeb Summit the same week as the (final) Open Source Bridge, in case you needed another reason to visit Portland! IndieWeb Summit will be Tuesday-Wednesday June 26-27th, with a pre-party the Monday evening before.
If you're at all interested in taking back ownership of your online data, decentralizing the web, independent blogging, or any aspect of having a website, you should consider joining us for this event!
It’s a really friendly, collaborative group of people and it is always inspiring to see what people are making.
You don’t need to be a programmer! In fact, I would love to see more non-programmers attending. We need writers, graphic artists, designers, UX engineers, and anybody that wants to reclaim some of their online presence with a personal website.
Keynotes
One of the distinguishing features of IndieWeb Summit compared to the IndieWebCamp events we run in many other cities throughout the year is we begin day 1 with a few keynote presentations to help set the stage for the two days. This year we're featuring a few special guests during the keynotes.
Manton Reece will give a talk about how Micro.blog works with open standards to encourage people to own their data while also making a service that is incredibly fun and easy to use.
William Hertling, the author of Kill Process, a book that features the IndieWeb, will talk about his inspiration for writing the book and where he sees the future of the IndieWeb heading.
We've been seeing some exciting progress with IndieWeb readers over the last few months, between my reader Monocle, Eddie's iOS app "Indigenous", and Jonathan and Grant's app "Together". We'll be sharing the latest developments along that front as well!
Related Events
In addition to IndieWeb Summit, the whole week will be a great lineup of events!
- Monday, June 25th 5:30pm - Pre-summit meetup at Pine Street Market
- Tuesday, June 26th 9am-5:30pm - IndieWeb Summit Day 1 - Keynotes and Discussions
- Tuesday evening 6:30pm - Donut.js
- Wednesday, June 27th 9am-5:30pm - IndieWeb Summit Day 2 - Create, Hack, Demos!
- Friday, June 29th - Open Source Bridge unconference and party
I hope to see you there! You can register now at 2018.indieweb.org!
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Pixel Art!
I just finished my IndieWebCamp hack day project, and I'm pretty excited about it!
A long time ago, my website used to have this 7x7 grid of pixels on the home page, which visitors could toggle between blue and green. It saved the state after you'd click them, so you could leave little pictures for the rest of my website visitors.
I eventually abandoned that version of my site, and that feature disappeared as well. I decided that it would be fun to add it back to my current website today!
So now, my home page has a similar section at the top with a little grid of pixels again!
There were a few differences in my approach this time around. I decided to make the grid 20 pixels wide by 3 pixels tall, in order to reduce the chances of people being able to spell things or draw anything inappropriate.
I wanted the grid to be responsive as well, so that the cells shrink appropriately when the width of the column shrinks. I found this nice answer on StackOverflow, "Grid of Responsive Squares", which pointed me at a technique I hadn't know about, which is to use a percentage for the padding-bottom property. Each cell in my grid is
calc(5% - 1px)wide, withpadding-bottom: calc(5% - 1px)as well. This makes the height match the width, which is based on the relative size of the container.I also made the grid realtime! If you open the home page in two browsers, you'll see one browser update when you click a pixel in the other! I was able to do this without any complicated server-side support thanks to the nginx push-stream module that I already have installed. It lets a browser subscribe to an endpoint using the EventSource API, and then from my server I can send a POST request to the nginx module to broadcast data to anyone listening.
Maybe my next project will be to get some Neopixels and make a little thing for my desk that always shows the current pattern!
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Baltimore, Maryland • Sun, January 21, 2018 8:29amSetting up for #indiewebcamp day 2! — with microformats
