events/2026-06-25-front-end-study-hall

Front End Study Hall #053 was an IndieWeb meetup on Zoom held on 2026-06-25.

• Archived from: https://etherpad.indieweb.org/2026-06-25-front-end-study-hall

Front End Study Hall #053

Jun 25, 2026

Participants

• Joe Crawford https://artlung.com/
• Marty McGuire https://martymcgui.re/
• Chris Burnell https://chrisburnell.com/
• Thomas Vander Wal https://vanderwal.net
• jo
• Tabitha https://tabitha.computer
• gRegor Morrill
• Eric M

Joe's Zoom Background

• Press Release from Sun and Netscape dated December 4, 1995 on the release of JavaScript as an adjunct to Java. It was pitched as a new language that is to be used on both front end and back end.
• https://web.archive.org/web/20070916144913/http://wp.netscape.com/newsref/pr/newsrelease67.html
• https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/12/in-1995-a-netscape-employee-wrote-a-hack-in-10-days-that-now-runs-the-internet/
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JavaScript#Creation_at_Netscape

What front end topics are on folks minds today?

• There's always a long list of interesting ideas and links at Front_End_Study_Hall under "To Study"

Getting fun domains!

• https://htmlday.joespartydepot.com/ - HTML Day is in August
• "Terrible events" as a fun domain

Space and Web Tech!

• Most of our spacecraft have JavaScript! - Eric Meyer
• DragonX Space capsule - has a touch screen interface in Chromium

- https://os-system.com/blog/javascript-in-space-spacex-devs-have-shared-crewdragons-tech-stack/

• James Hubble space telescope runs on an older version of JS

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Webb_Space_Telescope#Software

• Probes on Mars run curl

- https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2021/12/03/why-curl-is-used-everywhere-even-on-mars/

• "I know writers who use subtext and they're all cowards.” - Garth Marenghi’s Darkplace

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ViOqUak8-bI

SVG and gradients exploration

• Joe demoing an SVG visualizer
  • https://svg-path-visualizer.netlify.app/
  • https://css-generators.com/svg-to-css/
  • "Long line of vars" (not to be confused with https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D40ecd25KdM)

• https://codepen.io/artlung/pen/pvRwQao

• Radial UI CSS-framework https://github.com/zumerlab/orbit

• Apple Developer session for spatial web quick explanation and demo:
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AwAn6dgcq4c

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2022/05/designing-for-non-rectangular-browser-windows/

clip-path, shape-outside CD, draft preview: https://tabitha.computer/?p=146588795&post_type=weeknotes&preview=1&_ppp=222afabb39

• flood your webpage https://melonking.net/free/software/flood

itunes UI: https://mac.are.na/

Joe's mixtapes https://artlung.com/mixtapes/ (a mixtape is a mix whether on tape, or CD, or in iTunes, or anywhere! lots of meaning in collating our own mixes!)

• CodePen I used to create the fake old-school iTunes images https://codepen.io/artlung/pen/JoGGMEa

Other links https://svg-path-visualizer.netlify.app/#M140%2020C73%2020%2020%2074%2020%20140c0%20135%20136%20170%20228%20303%2088-132%20229-173%20229-303%200-66-54-120-120-120-48%200-90%2028-109%2069-19-41-60-69-108-69z

https://css-tip.com/bending-line/

https://css-tricks.com/svg-to-css-shape-converter/

https://github.com/zumerlab/orbit

https://zumerlab.com/orbit-docs/

https://codepen.io/benjamminf/pen/oZKBEw (you can see the continuous alteration of the underlying SVG to get the wavy effect when inspecting the page

Group Photo 2026-06-25