I stopped by the European chapter of the IndieWeb group during my lunch and I feel that I got a lot of out it. We went over a lot of different things but here are some of my favorite highlights.
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I joined the meeting late and caught the tail end of discussions about what other people do when someone tries to go to a URL that doesn’t exist under their domain. I remember seeing some sites redirecting the user to the home page after a minute or two or showing links to other pages that match some kind of pattern within the url.
I started working on my theme for Micro.blog in the hopes that it was accessible and could be parsed using schema and microformats. It was spurred by the feeling that I wanted my posts to be shared to as many people as possible. I’m not saying that I’m a literary genius or have something deep or profound to say, but I do have some really cool pictures of my dog as well.
I took fLaMEd’s idea of adding my XMPP handle to my about page. It’s part of the omg.log service that I signed up for a while ago.
I’ve got two people that I chat with using it. It reminds me of when I was in high school and instant messaging was the thing to do in my social group. It makes me feel a little nostalgic.
Well, we’re at the end of the month and I did not meet my goal of having a post every day about mental health as I had set out to do. If anything, I probably posted less this month than at other times this year.
Apparently, I need to take the break from posting.
Still, there were a lot of great posts that came from this and would like to thank everyone who wrote or read a blog to think about joining communities like indieweb.org or adding themselves to Blog of the Day.
Here is the schedule for Friday, May 17. (All times are Pacific.) Details on the chat channel and door prizes to come! Follow [@camp](https://micro.blog/camp) for updates. 🏕️
11:45 Welcome to Micro Camp and overview of the schedule
12:00 Conversation about blogging and social media with Christina Warren (find her on Mastodon and Bluesky)
1:30 State of the Micro.blog with Manton, Jean, and Vincent; Q&A
3:00 Community happy hour on Zoom and announcement of door prize winners
Unfortunately, I might not be able to attend this year as I’m supposed to be in the office and it lands on the end of a sprint.
I’ve recently read this article by Leon Mika on his MicroBlog. It goes a little bit into the details of where he wants his writing to go. I’ve met people through the Micro.blog and it is notable when I see them post about other blog services that they are trying out.
I’ve been ask why I’m using Scribbles given that I’m here on Micro.blog. Honestly I wish I could say I’ve got a great answer.
Leon starts his piece with honesty and follows it with thoughtful reasons.
I've seen Joe a couple times in some of the IndieWeb meet ups and he always seemed like a cool person to me.
The description of the meet up is as follows:
Joe Crawford
If you're a maven of markup or stylesheet superstar, or a newbie novice with nth-of-type, all are welcome to learn together at Front End Study Hall
The foundation of a flexible, good IndieWeb website is markup (the “M” in HTML!") that doesn’t drive you batty to debug and CSS that works with it to have it look, sound, and interact how you want, whatever device or format the website is displayed on.
I thought what better way to learn more about using Mermaid than to make a chart that shows how I decide what coffee to drink!
I haven’t really used Mermaid since I included the renderhooks it for the theme that I use for my blog. So, I was excited to have an opportunity to use it.
I’ve been ask why I’m using Scribbles given that I’m here on Micro.blog. Honestly I wish I could say I’ve got a great answer.
