2025/Create/July
IndieWeb Create Day was an IndieWeb meetup on Zoom held on 2025-07-05.
- Archived from: https://etherpad.indieweb.org/IWCCreateDay-2025-07-05
When: 2025-07-05
Chat: https://chat.indieweb.org/events/2025-07-05#bottom
Participants
zacharykaiwrites - https://zacharykai.net/
capjamesg - https://jamesg.blog/
lqdev.me - https://www.lqdev.meJoe Crawford https://artlung.com/
mossymaker - https://mossymaker.com
Mark Sutherland - https://marksuth.dev/
Ross A. Baker - https://rossabaker.com/
Mike Kupietz - https://michaelkupietz.com
perryflynn - https://serverless.industries- https://slysalamander.com
Thomas Vander Wal - https://vanderwal.net & https://personalinfocloud.com
David Shanske - https://davd.shanske.com
Angelo Gladding
pcarrier.com- {{morganwebdev.org} - https://www.morganwebdev.org/
- Template:helpdeskaleer
Notes
Introductions and Rough Plans
- zacharykaiwrites Just dropping in and out - my microphone/video is off. I'm in Albania right now!
- get sitewide search working for myself
- site is half wordpress / half php & static site with thousands of posts and files?
- blog post trade with zacharykaiwrites https://artlung.com/blog/2025/07/05/bodysurfing-taught/
- lqdev.me - I have a few things in mind that I want to make, but still haven't decided. Ideas include:
- Markdown extensions to author and render different post types on my website per posts#Types_of_Posts
- Success rendering media posts 🎉
- TIL there's an aspect-ratio CSS property - https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/aspect-ratio
- Markdown extensions to author and render different post types on my website per posts#Types_of_Posts
COOL! TIL as well about that -- Template:morganwebdev.org
- Continue building more starter types and sharing them on my website. https://www.lqdev.me/feed/starter
- IndieWeb version of Reels / Stories. OPML / RSS driven for feeds.
- Repo: https://github.com/lqdev/indieweb-create-day-2025-07
- capjamesg plans to work on a few features for his web reader, Artemis. And maybe clean some code too! He also has an idea in the back of his mind to make a retro-like web page.
- zacharykaiwrites Finishing up a few blog posts, getting that ridiculous RSS feed fixed, hopefully a webring??
- Progress updates:
- Published: https://zacharykai.net/notes/place
- Published: https://zacharykai.net/notes/syzygy
- Published: https://zacharykai.net/notes/writingengine
- Progress updates:
- Ross A. Baker is trying to reform his Hugo list pages, particularly the / page
- Mark Sutherland refactor - https://marksuth.dev/
- lqdev.me - adding post types - in frontmatter? or do it as a custom markdown extension?
- Patrick and
SaiCy -- recipes page
- webmention display
- Ross - front page display
- Michael - wordpress plugin finalization? frontend things on website?
- Thomas - build out the blog edit after 25 years rather than edit directly in the database, category edit and add
- Success on the blog edit form and in production - Also category editor and new category management in production too
- perryflynn works on https://svr.ls/term
- - disable dragging on mobile view
- - resize terminal on window resize
- Mike Kupietz putting some finish work on my Draggable Elements wordpress plugin https://michaelkupietz.com/draggable-elements-wordpress-plugin/
Template:Morganwebdev.org - Working on website header and some basic design things
PLAY DATE GAMES! -- ANYONE INTERESTED OR HAVE A PLAYDATE? - Morganwebdev
Bragging rights -- I own every zine from wizardzines.com and have them all handy. Love it.
On Stories:
- GWG (David) - conversation with
Yes there’s some IWC merch —https://shop.indieweb.org
- XPath in JavaScript: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/XML/XPath/Guides/Introduction_to_using_XPath_in_JavaScript
- document.evaluate() generally available
- Base64 vs. binary: base64 uses 4 bytes per 3 bytes of binary.
- Border-Image + Gradient: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/border-image
- 6 minute demo - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezP4kbOvs_E - by Coding2GO
- Yes a terrific and well explained demo! Thankd for sharing that Thomas!
- SVG Editor is one Angelo
- https://www.nan.fyi/svg-paths
- https://svgomg.net/
- third party free SVG editor Kupietz used today https://freesvgeditor.com/en and compressor https://www.iloveimg.com/compress-image. Used these today to make the svg arrow overlays used on https://michaelkupietz.com/draggable-elements-wordpress-plugin/ when an element is dragged
https://wizardzines.com/comics/media-queries/ - MEDIA QUERIES LINK (not really specificity)
Pierre troubleshooting a perf issue. https://found.as/r shows long max frames frequently. Wondering why the browser stales?
- https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/WebGL_API/WebGL_best_practices
- Curious to know if there's some kind of WebGL linter to validate pitfalls of any particular WebGL code
- Conversation was quickly diverted away but Angelo Gladding may be interested to know he is not the first scyther Mike Kupietz has known. I have known another scyther.
- Conversation was quickly diverted away but
Final Presentations
- https://found.as/createday - Test Create Day page on found.as
- MORGAN's Project; https://www.morganwebdev.org/posts/wsg-o-matic/ - WSG-o-matic program
- THANK YOU everyone for feedback :)
- Ross made many great markup and style changes to his site and even more updates from feedback
- Planning breakout from Joe and David around an IWC Online for August 2025
- Thomas made updates to his blog post editor and category editor on his longtime blog
- Andrew has gotten https://tiddlywiki.com/ working locally
- Luis rolled a markdown extension for content types for his website
- Sy made a recipe page, extricated the prior page from Glitch, learned about the emmet markup expander
- Mike added to his plugin which allows moving around parts on a webpage to make them draggable
- Pierre had a WebGL page which was testing of performance and added more stable stats for testing users; he sped up the deployment of redirects added to config - TOML file - https://toml.io/en/
