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smallwebSomehow it's September already and the kick-off point for Small Web September has arrived! \o/
As a reminder, this is the first of five ‘check-in’/comment points that will be published during the event – you can check out the schedule and dates of these posts over on the event intro. There’s no cut-off point for commenting on these, so you can add something at any time – you also don’t need to comment on them all or do them in order! The themes are a loose guide, but all discussion is welcome.
This first post will be for introducing yourself and your project(s) and talking about what you’re planning to do during the month. Of course, there’s no obligation to stick to what you’ve set down and no-one will be checking up xD But it can be a nice thought exercise! You’re free to make the goal(s) as broad or as specific as you like – it’s totally up to you.
There’s no set format for this check-in, but here’s one you can use if you’d like (just copy-paste and replace the placeholders with your own answers in the comments):
Also, if anyone would like to answer it, here’s a discussion starter: What interests you about the small/indie web, and how did you learn about or get into it?
As a reminder, this is the first of five ‘check-in’/comment points that will be published during the event – you can check out the schedule and dates of these posts over on the event intro. There’s no cut-off point for commenting on these, so you can add something at any time – you also don’t need to comment on them all or do them in order! The themes are a loose guide, but all discussion is welcome.
This first post will be for introducing yourself and your project(s) and talking about what you’re planning to do during the month. Of course, there’s no obligation to stick to what you’ve set down and no-one will be checking up xD But it can be a nice thought exercise! You’re free to make the goal(s) as broad or as specific as you like – it’s totally up to you.
There’s no set format for this check-in, but here’s one you can use if you’d like (just copy-paste and replace the placeholders with your own answers in the comments):
<strong>Name:</strong> (Username, nickname, whatever you like to go by)
<strong>Project(s):</strong> (Share a link to your project(s) if you’d like to, and/or describe what you’re making or would like to make!)
<strong>What are you hoping to work on for SWS?</strong> (This can be as general as “add to my site”, or as specific as “archive X fanworks” or “implement a responsive layout”. You could even include ‘bonus goals’ – more ambitious things you’d like to get to if you have time!)Also, if anyone would like to answer it, here’s a discussion starter: What interests you about the small/indie web, and how did you learn about or get into it?
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Date: 2024-09-03 05:24 pm (UTC)Project(s):
What are you hoping to work on for SWS?
https://kirk.is/polling/ - yet another quick and dirty "do an online poll for a group", but catered to my peculiar preferences (in terms of ease of setting up and admin stuff etc - it has an admin password but no sense of user accounts...)
What are you hoping to work on for SWS?
I already made up a front end (declarative vanilla js) for the editor, and now I just need to make up the other parts - show the poll, record the response, view the responses, remove errant/duplicate responses...
I've been doing indie web for a loooooong time - since the mid-90s when that was all there was on the web, more or less. I pivoted from Perl CGI to PHP so PHP still feels new to me :-D my blog https://kirk.is, I've updated daily for over 20 years, and its CMS is all handrolled PHP. I've made tools for managing my band's sheet music library ( https://chart-o-tron.org ) and I have a small side hustle of websites for "porchfest" (about a dozen of the ones I list on https://porchfest.info/ I do with online signups, admin, and maps) . I also use to make a lot of toys in Process/p5: https://toys.alienbill.com - see especialy https://animals.alienbill.com/
My day job is as a "UI" guy and I'm hopeful people are coming around to how much unneccesary complexity there is in the frontend these days. PHP + vanilla JS or JQuery answer SO many of the questions that you need to code up these days - even without a furtther framework. My sites last for decades and when I go to fix 'em up there's no build process or upgrade that's broken down... things just work
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Date: 2024-09-08 02:30 am (UTC)I enjoyed reading the Lex Friedman podcast transcript on your site that also goes into this and how Pieter sort of accidentally built 'old-skool' sites that kept doing their thing xD I'm very far from being a web developer although I learned PHP around 12 years ago to achieve what I wanted to do with a site I was running, and it worked well for me back then! If it ain't broke (and it does what you need to)...
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Date: 2024-09-24 07:36 pm (UTC)