Feeds from people participating at the IndieWebCamp Düsseldorf, May 2025.
@webrocker 😅🦅🖤
Sometimes when someone is talking I will hear a word and think I haven’t heard that one before! If I hear – or read – a word I haven’t heard before, I usually look it up. I wonder what this word means!, I think to myself. If I read a fun word, I used to make it my “word of the day” which I would share with friends. I don’t do this much anymore, although I had a lot of fun doing it – listening and spelunking for words in the veritable caverns of English to find a cool word. With that in mind, I have a word of the day for today! The word of the day is: haar. The Cambridge Dictionary defines haar as: a cold mist coming from the sea to the east of Scotland or northern England: Besides being a useful word to describe a weather condition common to Scotland – fog! – it is also fun to say. Haar. Said like a pirate would say arr, except with a “h” at the start.
And this is probably @matuzo‘s favorite slide… 🤫😉
(Once again, I’m sorry you had to see this, @jpamental! 😆)
Thanks to @florianziegler for taking so many amazing photos at @btconf last week! 📷🖤😍
Last week, I had the immense honor of speaking at one of my favorite events, @btconf. (🤯)
My talk “Painting With the Web” is now available on YouTube. I hope you like it! 🤗💚
And if you are a person who likes slides, here are the slides for the talk. 😁
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.)
the rhythm of writing.
Seeing someone wear an Eras Tour t-shirt (if you know you know). Writing with the glow of the sunset radiating through the window. The detail of the hand-painted illustration on the wall in a coffee shop. Saying something that makes someone laugh. A colleague leaving a sticker on my desk. Dream big., it read. Basking in the sun at lunchtime on a warm spring day. Sharing ideas with friends. Writing stories. Imagining.
“Semantics should be defined in HTML. And styles and visual affordances should follow from there.”
An incredibly thorough and important post by @SaraSoueidan about the current state of CSS carousel (in)accessibility. 👏
tl;dr – don’t use them (yet?)
#a11y #css
https://www.sarasoueidan.com/blog/css-carousels-accessibility/
“Do you think that’s funny?”
“Yes. 😁”
Good morning, @matuzo! I found a button for your collection. 😍 What do you think? 😁
[Hydrated]
Figma (Sites) creating inaccessible, non-semantic div soup? I’m not surprised at all. That’s basically the main point of the talk I just gave at #btconf. Figma is for painting beautiful pictures of websites. Not for making websites. We make websites with semantic HTML, declarative CSS, JavaScript for the things only JavaScript can do, and a bit of ARIA. That’s how this medium works. That’s the material.
