Thanks everyone for joining us today, in this XL edition of HWC Edinburgh: really close to double-digit attendance, and almost twice as long (because we forgot to look at the time...). I didn't take notes of all topic discussed, but I do remember the round of "what are you up to on your website?"
Alistair is deep in writing, but the Publish button has been a hard one to press. We chatted about strategies to publish (or almost publish) draft articles or notes, including:
- difficult to guess URLs
- visible categories
/drafts but don't tell anyone- just write "Draft" at the top
Rishav has been writing about GitHub actions and docker within docker. Yes, as part of the same (unholy) project, containers all the way down. Andy has rolled into the second year of single-file blogging, including a "Follow the money" series on how large corporations love your data. Colin has built ColinCad, showing how LLM can be used for extreme procrastination. Cicely has started expanding her website's CSS styles, and few more posts have popped up in her homepage. Paul has been experimenting with Astro, for a possible new website? and River gave us an introduction on his sprawly and long lived website!
I've been overhauling the books section on a website, because I had the bad idea of re-reading a novel and my data model could not encode that. So much work for a little detail, but a soothing activity when you have a bad cold.
There's a person missing if you've been counting, but I forgot to ask them if it was OK to mention them here. But great to see new folks around the ever growing table though!
I also saw a few post-its around the table, check this thread later, other notes might pop up!
Note: you can RSVP with a 👍 here on the forum, but there's a more solid method on the events pages. The events website uses IndieLogin for authentication, and all you need to get that to work for your domain / website is a rel="me" link on your home page. For example, I defer authentication to email or GitHub with two links in the main text:
<a rel="me" href="mailto:hello@fran.fi">hello@fran.fi</a>
<a rel="me" href="https://github.com/fran-f">GitHub</a>
And that's it!