Random notes from today's meetup!
You read it here first: IndieWebCamp Edinburgh, 7-8 June 2025, more details coming soon
Websites where the main content is hidden in a PDF file: often restaurants and their menues, but sometimes it's just someone who paid for a website, but doesn't have the knowledge to keep it up to date — block editors are not that easy! Alternatives: simpler, turn key solutions or long-term freelance support?
What is your personal website for? Just putting thoughts out there, or for reaching a specific audience? Is there a continuum from personal to business? Have more than one website! One for self-expression, one for the business side, something in the middle to show what you can do, or make a statement.
Make whatever makes you happy
A topic that came up again and again during the session: connections between ideas. Own ideas, others' ideas. Grayson is interested in a structure for unstructured data and ideas, and is considering how to build a website that exposes these connections, more than something like blog. Mind-map like, although it might contain summary articles. Cherry blossoms falling will be included, a little animation to delight without impeding the reader. And maybe seasonal themes.
James is working on a dark theme, and plans to open up his feed reader which, slow-web like, only updates once a day. He's also thinking about way to connect ideas on his website: to learning by association, or by accident. See chemistry scientists licking everything! — Although creativity cannot be computed.
Does Kirby have a moral compass?
Not-entirely solved problems:
- Discovering connections between websites: we've been to a few iterations, e.g., referrals, pingbacks, webmentions. ( Mastodon does not send referrals by design, the origin is hidden)
- Finding old ideas and reconnecting them. James' had forgotten about his own "on this day" / time machine page
What's on the roadmap for 2025?
- Grayson: watch 52 movies, building a web page with the list and reviews
- Fran: will he finally put some pictures online?
- James: more making things that are interesting to him, and adding more structure to his website; also: one idea a week
- Alistair: rebuild his webside, all new concept and design!
- Colin: practice writing and building confidence
That was it for December's HWC Edinburgh, and for 2024. Thank you all for making this happen in the past months, see you in 2025! (last Tuesday of January)
