User Experience Designer Matthias Ott encouraging a return to personal websites:
There is one alternative to social media sites and publishing platforms that has been around since the early, innocent days of the web. It is an alternative that provides immense freedom and control: The personal website.
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Jotting down some very specific technical notes to Future Me.
This is the IndieWeb Directory. It is a directory of people with personal websites on the IndieWeb. As well as being a list of wonderful people it also serves as a API in order to help you build nickname caches or other cool tools.
Built by Grant and running on Glitch with a design aesthetic straight out of the nineties.
IndieWebCamp Baltimore 2018 is a gathering for independent web creators of all kinds, from graphic artists, to designers, UX engineers, coders, hackers, to share ideas, actively work on creating for their own personal websites, and build upon each others creations.
I’m hoping to make it out for this event next month. If you’re in the DC/Baltimore area and interested in the IndieWeb movement, I recommend you consider signing up!
Are you building your own website? Indie reader? Personal publishing web app? Some other digital magic-cloud proxy? If so, come by and join a gathering of people with like-minded interests. Bring your friends that want to start a personal web site. Exchange information, swap ideas, talk shop, or help work on a project.
After a brief hiatus, Homebrew Website Club returns to LivingSocial next week. Come on by, share what you’re doing with your personal website, and learn about what others are doing with theirs.
Are you building your own website? Indie reader? Personal publishing web app? Some other digital magic-cloud proxy? If so, come by and join a gathering of people with like-minded interests. Bring your friends that want to start a personal web site. Exchange information, swap ideas, talk shop, or help work on a project.
We’ll be back at LivingSocial this week for another edition of Homebrew Website Club. Come on by, share what you’re doing with your personal website, and learn about what others are doing with theirs.
Are you building your own website? Indie reader? Personal publishing web app? Some other digital magic-cloud proxy? If so, come by and join a gathering of people with like-minded interests. Bring your friends that want to start a personal web site. Exchange information, swap ideas, talk shop, or help work on a project.
Next week’s Homebrew Website Club will be downtown at LivingSocial’s offices near the White House! Come by, share what you’re working on, and hack away at your personal website.
About a month ago, I quietly launched a new version of this site. It’s been in the works for quite some time.
Are you building your own website? Indie reader? Personal publishing web app? Some other digital magic-cloud proxy? If so, come by and join a gathering of people with like-minded interests. Bring your friends that want to start a personal web site. Exchange information, swap ideas, talk shop, or help work on a project.
I’m organizing the first of what I hope to be many Homebrew Website Club meetups here in DC. I want to encourage anyone interested in building their own website to attend, regardless of skill level.
Hope to see you out at Busboys and Poets next Wednesday night!
It may have taken five months, but I finally published the code behind webmention.sixtwothree.org.
You may have heard someone say, "The Internet never forgets." This couldn't be further from the truth.
You can now let me know when you publish responses to any of my posts.
My first Craft plugin sends webmentions to supported websites.