Websites and blogs of people that attended a Homebrew Website Club Düsseldorf.
Amenra does an acoustic guitar cover version of maybe my favourite Portishead song. So good! Love how the guitar is recorded and you hear all sorts of background sounds, as well as the player doing the percussion probably live while playing guitar.
Only thing I am bummed about going to #WCEU is the Switch 2 getting delivered later today and I won’t be there to set it up with my daughter. We’ll make good on that on Sunday (or Monday).
The journey to #WCEU starts now! My train has an on-time rate of 35%. 😬 Let’s hope for the best. 🤞
I started the FeedCity blog with a first blog post.
Well, good luck debugging something in production, when your logging statements put out to debug, but your Rails.logger.level is set to info. Thanks for nothing, past-Daniel.
Had a handful of new FeedCity signups in the last 24 hours. Need to fix some code for the OPML imports (and still need to fix some bugs related to this). But from what I can see, it worked for most people. And they seemed to have tolerated my still very basic onboarding.
Lots more feeds in the DB now. For now, the feed-fetching still seems to cope.
But I need to adjust the workflow for validating feeds: I use the W3C Feed Validation Service, but you only get a very limited amount of validation requests (per day, I believe). I ran way past this limit in the last 24 hours, and - rightfully - get a lot of 429 responses. Really need to behave better, or run the validation process myself.
My friend Daniel is running FeedCity, a feed reader I have been using for a couple of months now. (I’ll write a post about it sooner or later.)
When using FeedCity, you get all kinds of information about a feed, e.g., whether they are valid (many are not, strangely enough). Naturally I wanted all these icons to turn green/be active for my own feeds as well.
The most recent icon he added was WebSub.
I had heard about it, but never really looked into it. Thankfully Daniel puplished a post about how he implemented it on his site.
While working on it for my photo blog I thought, why not build it as a plugin from the start? So I did.
Here it is on GitHub: WebSub Plugin for Kirby
It is very straightforward and lightweight. I hope it is useful for some of you Kirby users out there.
Let me know if you find any issues – or if you have suggestions on how to improve on it.
WebSub test.
During IndieWebCamp Düsseldorf this year, I implemented sending WebSub notifications, to immediately notify potential subscribers, whenever my feeds update. Here's how I implemented this.
The first Homebrew Website Club Düsseldorf Schepp and I co-organised turned out well. We gathered at Düsseldorf’s central library inside its “Xafé” café. We had 7 participating adults and 2 children. ;)
The meetup was more exchange and discussions than actual work on one’s websites. Discussed topics included:
Very enjoyable evening!
I am with Daniel on this: The new Fujifilm X half looks quite interesting, concept-wise. I love that Fuji is making these quirky cameras that allow you to just be creative and where specs are not the main reason for buying it.
Honestly, the new Fujifilm X half looks really appealing. I think there should be way more playful digital cameras, too - like this one.
Florian made a public “Photography Channels” list on FeedCity. Already (re-)discovered some great YouTube channels and bookmarked a bunch of videos.
Next Thursday, May 22nd at 6 pm, there’s going to be a Homebrew Website Club Düsseldorf. Co-organised by Schepp and myself, we plan this to be the first HWC event in a series of regular events.
I quote from the IndieWeb wiki page to explain what an HWC is:
Homebrew Website Club is a growing world-wide network of meetups for everyone who wants to take back their web experience from social media silos, and own their online identities & content, or just want support with blogging!
So, if you’re interested in this sort of thing, and can make it to Düsseldorf, you’d be very welcome to join. (We still have to confirm the location, and will update the event page as soon as possible.)
Here it is, the full gallery of my #BTConf coverage, 152 images in glorious monochrome. It is truly a special event and I can’t wait for the next one in Berlin in November!
