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.
We've started a new project which requires heavy, creative theming, so I made a prototype to test some ideas out.
I really like this article as it breaks down the reasoning of why they are doing what they are doing. It has some examples that you can follow along with and leaves me thinking about how I can take this knowledge into my own development.
Mandaris