2025/SD/intro-demos
Personal Website Demos was a session at IndieWebCamp San Diego 2025.
Watch: ▶️ 45:57s
Notes archived from: https://etherpad.indieweb.org/2025-12-13-iwc-sd
Participants
Joe Crawford our gracious host, ty!
Tantek Çelik
Anthony Ciccarello
gRegor Morrill
Al Abut- Mike Waggoner
Chris AldrichDavid Shanske
Thomas Vander Wal - https://vanderwal.net - remote
- Morgan - https://morganwebdev.org - Remote
Create Day Ideas
- Tantek Çelik iterate on Falcon#named_pages
- Book catalogs
- Photo microformats
- Visual guide to microformats (possibly not this weekend, but been wanting this and to create it for a while)
- ...
Notes
- Welcome to San Diego!
- Today's rough schedule:
- "Reset" room until 12PM
- Pizzeria for lunch and until 3pm (shall we leave ~2:45 to make it to the library by 3? how frequent is tram?)
- Mission Valley library 3pm - 6pm (library closes at 6PM, so plan on 5:45PM)
Intro
- space setup has changed, see above.
- welcome to all here and online
- https://indieweb.org/2025/SD is the URL for this event
- IndieWeb code of conduct coc
- Health and safety policy
- publishing is vital
- the indieweb and independent websites are a force for good
Demos
Joe Crawford
- likes to post on his personal site and silos
Al Abut
- Al Abut, https://alabut.com
- has a portfolio site on his home page with links to more places
- his writing archives: https://alabut.com/writing/
- enjoys writing and doing things
- latest thing he added was photo stuff: https://alabut.com/photos/
- list of experiments: https://alabut.com/projects/
Tantek
- Tantek Çelik, https://tantek.com/
- Based in San Francisco, post on many different things
- bursty posting, syndicates content to other sites, "blogging and posting"
- emphasis on html that is simple! a new page https://tantek.com/daylists which is also a simple demo of an h-feed that is
- it helps to have a partner that is Aaron Pareki https://aaronparecki.com/
Sidebar about appreciating how indieweb events pop up and empowering people to start their own thing, not a centralized effort.
If you're interested in setting up an HWC in your area, see notes on Homebrew_Website_Club
Mike
- Mike Waggoner, https://herebox.org
- Spreadsheet Party! collaborative fiction - Wonderville
- Basedin the L.A. area and travels elsewhere into British Columbia, including network technologies involved
- mobility and transit data!
- open data standards for Curbed
- "hey make it kinder" "let's make it more available" - nontechnical people wish for values that are in alignment with core indieweb principles
- "what is the concrete of indieweb?"
- IndieWeb movie Club was a positive experience out of this year - making connections
gRegor
- gRegor Morrill, https://gregorlove.com/
- https://gregorlove.com/stream/
- new candy cane theme for December using a CSS linear-gradient (and shows based on server time) https://gregorlove.com/2025/12/i-added-a-candy/
- makes memes! without JS https://gregorlove.com/2025/11/go-google/
Anthony
- Anthony Ciccarello, https://www.ciccarello.me
- web developer! photos! recipes! maps of travel!
- working on more post-types "watches" and "reads" of content
- fun Windows 7 theme for a web page like https://www.ciccarello.me/sites/
- Integrates with fediverse, replies with Mastodon post
- Omnibear is an extension that was started and Anthony is trying to get the Firefox extension and Chrome soon ~ publishing silos; Safari is harder; web extensions;
Chris
- Chris Aldrich, https://boffosocko.com/
- Does not like a keyboard with an exclamation point!
- "That one has an exclmation point. if it has an exclamation point, it's not for me." -- Chris Aldrich on keyboards
- has a business card which matches the header of his website
- 2 blocks away from Eaton fire https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eaton_Fire
- Has been continuing to work on his process of publishing with a process that goes from typewriter -> posting on the web
- 1958 Olympia SM3
- He's been participating in the typosphere
Vaughn
- most online stuff is not public
- would like to highlight https://notpurple.com
- you may join the not purple network
- a bit of an ironic take - join the color universe✨!
David Shanske
- has attended 100% of indiewebcamps in san diego!
- https://david.shanske.com
- Locative data is shared on posted, and crossposted to blusky and micro.blog
- hotel wifi is a gating factor (only Bulgarian hotel wifi) and only for uploading my photos from the last two trips
- https://www.mechdreams.com/ keyboard enthusiast(and salesperson)
Thomas
Thomas Vander Wal, https://vanderwal.net since 1997
- shows the links page, started with a few and now many. uses it as his browser start page)
- 2000: started using Blogger, started building a CMS.
- upgraded earlier this year from PHP 5.6 to 8.3, which took quite a bit of work
- rebuilt the admin pgae, so can edit posts now
- started a "lab" section in last 6 months
- experimenting with blockquotes
- updated search to use 3 characters or more
Morgan
- Been on the web a large chunk of my life, making websites also!
- Too long to tell the whole story
- Maintains a bunch of small websites