Homebrew Website Club

Kevin Marks:

getting ready for Homebrew Website Club - our video link is too hard to configure

Tantek Çelik:

we should spend our time talking rather than doing IT

Brian:

I'm Brian, I worked for USGS, got bored. now I'm building my own site, because making HTML from FORTRAN got old

Jonathan Dahan:

I work at the Museum of Art, and I have an image for every object in the collection

I found it easier to scrape our own website to get the images than to work on internal politics

I have a little box called "Occupy Here" which creates a local network to upload and share

Occupy Here will connect to an uplink if there is one, if not it works locally as a host

Alan Kay started a new research lab with Vi Hart and some other interesting people

Brian:

there was a Stanford vis group site based on census data that you could visualize. I want to do this with seismic data

Maps are what I'm most interested in; I want very specific comments with permalinks

After an earthquake the USGS updates the event

there a projects looking at getting reports form twitter- I'd like to mesh them all together

I'm just glad to not be using FORTRAN

Ryan Barrett:

I run a service called brid,gy check it out. I switched my personal site to SSL for everyone

mainly people who use privacy tools are a minority. We should make encryption the default

the more people using SSL, the less suspicious it is by default

for whatever stack you use, there is a write-up. You can get free certs for open source projects

Tantek Çelik:

there are good write-ups on the indiewebcamp wiki for Apache and nginx for SSL

Ryan Barrett:

turning on SSL is an hour to a half day of work, but it's a break from coding

Josh Juran:

I am intrigued by everything being a file, and how far I could push that

FreeMount https://github.com/jjuran/freemount is my codebase for distributing apps in file-based way

the bytecode I have selected is the Motorola 68K machine [sounds like QTOS - @peterkinoma]

Jonathan Dahan:

they redefined the syllables to be pronounced by runes, and they built a system based on that

Josh Juran:

more of my code is up at http://www.metamage.com/ I plan to merge this into a useful git repo

Zack:

I've been doing contract work at a law firm, and I need to find people who speak my language a bit more

Zack Pierry:

It's been a culture shock moving here from Dallas, especially living in Marin County

Tantek Çelik:

I'd like to bring up webmentions of homepages

webmention is simplified pingback where you can tell if there is post, a reply, an RSVP etc.

webmentions have mostly been used for permalink to permalink, but we do mention people by name

on Twitter and Facebook you have mentions pages for when people refer to you

Invitations are interesting for this too - you can webmention their homepage to invite them

Kevin Marks:

inviting people to a chatroom - mentioning them so they come to a place. would a webmention work?

Ryan Barrett:

would a webmention per message work, or is this for inviting them into a conversation?

Ben Werdmüller:

webmention may be a bit heavyweight - it would work for starting a conversation

Tantek Çelik:

@aaronpk has built a model for keeping conversations live over websockets using replies

Jonathan Dahan:

webmentions work as conversations between client and host? 2 hosts are involved

Ryan Barrett:

using webmention for email-like conversations could work, with address by url not email

Ben Werdmüller:

what we're looking at with idno is that there are keys embedded in the page that can be used to sign

Tantek Çelik:

on the receiving side, none of us know what to do with homepage mentions

Ben Werdmüller:

I have the backend for homepage mentions, but not the frontpage yet Sochi is keeping me busy

Kevin Marks:

Happy 10th Birthday to microformats!

Tantek Çelik:

the problem with search engines is they have secret sauce and we don't know how it got there.

I've seen images show up from indieweb pages that are form other pages entirely

Jonathan Dahan:

you can't run the silo's crawlers is the problem - adding Twitter cards to the Gallery is tricky

If you use a CDN, the tools don't always reflect your site well

we now have a lot of redundant data on our site fro twitter, facebook and google

Brian:

how do you extend microformats? What if I want geopoints? - you can use gel lat long, structured address.

Tantek Çelik:

if we don't know how to do something, we look at published examples in the wold

Kevin Marks:

a point with #microformats is that they are composable - you can add new elements