Taking some personal days to re-evaluate stuff and think about the future of Operation: Puppet.
The more time that passes, the more I want to invest my time in the #fediverse and the #indieweb. I have a tiny following here but the corpo web is such a dystopian steel wall that at least here there’s a path forward for regular folks.
As the #SlashPages are now the hot thing in #IndieWeb, I'd like to propose a /why page.
It could explain the site author's reasons for doing what they do, their values and philosophies. Mine is currently a redirect to a blog post but I've been meaning to rewrite it into a proper /why page in the near future.
"Random, scattered, diverse, subconscious, thoughts and feelings, swirling around, just waiting for the right moment to come along, and coalesce into a solution called creativity. And that eureka moment isn’t only a setting, a place, it’s also a time."
@disassociated wrote about how creative thoughts spark at various places at various times in this #IndieWeb Carnival entry.
after much configuration and long build times, I have managed to upload the 130+ albums from my :bandcamp: Bandcamp page to Faircamp, the amazing site generator by @freebliss for music catalogs by artists and/or labels.
Just turned off the world for a few hours, and tried my hand at a Laravel bookmarking app running in Herd. I think I melted my brain a little. https://git.abackstrom.com/annika/urlsnail
Wanted: personal websites (with curated collections of bookmarks/links to other websites) or link directories that are titled anything starting with the letters "W", "X" or "Z".
Why? To complete the alphabet, of course!
(in terms of the bukmark.club's directory index)
「 In the same time library books have seen a lot. They were touched by a lot of greasy fingers, seen a lot of toilets. Just look at those two. Both are still fully usable, despite the tired look. 」
If you have an opportunity to attend this #FrontEnd study hall hosted by @artlung , do it!
The first session was amazing and super informative. As a result, ended up refactoring and simplifying the chaotic mess that was my stylesheets😊 Was unable to attend the second, unfortunately, but looking forward to the third this Thursday.
I did a write up of setting up Webmentions on my site! I had mentioned it earlier, but there was one stumbling block that took me longer to figure out.
Webmentions let me get notified when people share my posts, respond to my comments on other sites, etc., and lets me use my site for a lot of the kinds of interactions I'd otherwise have to do on social media.
All my old slides contain dead links to my old Twitter account. To avoid that in the future I got myself a dedicated domain that points to whichever social media I'm using primarily at the moment.
Hey #indieweb friends... I've decided to let my registration of https://omnibear.com lapse (it's good til February).
If anybody is interested in taking over that project, I'm up for a domain transfer. @aciccarello has indicated some interest, so teaming up with him might be a possibility
Add an e-commerce section on top of it using WooCommerce.
Build an e-commerce section for my music on my current Jekyll website, using #Shopify.
Then I'll decide which one's best, and potentially move on from Bandcamp. I'm not going to leave the platform, however I want to act on the principle of #BeYourOwnPlatform