February 12-19, 2016

Upcoming Events

Homebrew Website Club Meetup
Wednesday, February 24 at 5:30pm
San Francisco, Portland
Homebrew Website Club Meetup
Homebrew Website Club Meetup
Wednesday, March 9 at 5:30pm
Portland, San Francisco
Homebrew Website Club Meetup
IndieWebCamp MIT
Monday, March 14 - March 15
MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts
W3C Social Web Working Group face-to-face meeting
Wednesday, March 16 - March 17
MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts
The Social Web Working Group's Fifth face to face meeting is in MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA on 2016-03-16 and 2016-03-17.
Homebrew Website Club Meetup
Wednesday, March 23 at 5:30pm
Portland, San Francisco
Homebrew Website Club Meetup
IndieWebCamp Nuremberg 2016
Saturday, April 16 - April 17

Posts from IndieNews

Going Silo-Private to Prefer the IndieWeb, Leave Silo Publics, and Pioneer Privacy on the Independent Web
by tantek.com on February 02, 6:36pm
Remember WordPress' Pingbacks? The W3C wants us to use them across the whole web
by www.theregister.co.uk on February 02, 5:07pm
Going all in on self-hosting my code
by aaronparecki.com on February 02, 5:50am
Taking part in the IndieWeb
by calumryan.com on February 02, 7:31pm
own your checkin
by wirres.net on February 02, 9:13am

New Wiki Pages

Skeleton

Skeleton is a lightweight set of CSS for making responsive sites.

Created by gRegorLove on Friday and edited 5 more times

Kindle

Kindle is Amazon's book silo service and hardware devices for viewing those books; devices which require software updates or else they block access to the books.

Created by tantek on Wednesday and edited 4 more times

Phoenix

Phoenix is a web framework written in Elixir, very similar to Ruby on Rails.

Created by cjk101010 on Friday with 3 more edits by tantek.com and wwwtech.de about

CSS Framework

A CSS Framework is a way to swap understanding the mysteries of CSS for a set of generic decisions made by someone else with its own set of mysteries that have been through less peer review.

Created by KevinMarks on Friday with 3 more edits by tantek.com and kevinmarks.com

snarkinition

A snarkinition is a snarky definition for a term, often used to start wikifying a technology or piece of jargon which is not necessarily well regarded, sometimes as an implicit challenge to advocates to step-up and say why otherwise.

Created by tantek on Friday with 3 more edits by kevinmarks.com and tantek.com

settings

settings are a common silo feature that allows users to edit various aspects of their profile, including security, privacy, blocking, language, notifications, etc.

Created by tantek on Saturday and edited 2 more times

Elixir

Elixir is a functional programming language that runs on the Erlang virtual machine.

Created by tantek on Friday and edited 2 more times

Genericons

Genericons is an icon font set created by Automattic and popular with WordPress themes.

Created by GWG on Sunday and edited 1 more time

warrant canary

warrant canary is a regularly published statement that the publisher has not received a legal request for private user information (often accompanied by a requirement not to disclose said request).

Created by kylewm on Wednesday and edited 1 more time

reading time

reading time is a feature of posts (usually articles) that indicates the expected amount of time (typically in minutes) that it would take to read the post.

Created by tantek on Friday and edited 1 more time

will.i.am problem

will.i.am problem was the problem of false positives when auto-linking plain domains on ccTLDs, exemplified by mentions of the musician will.i.am (actual spelling) who did not own the "i.am" short-domain until recently, and the likely reason why Twitter still does not autolink ccTLD domains.

Created by tantek on Sunday and edited 1 more time

semantic-ui

semantic-ui is a CSS framework.

Created by aaronpk on Friday and edited 1 more time

events/2016-02-18-homebrew-website-club

Created by Harryreeder.co.uk on Monday and edited 1 more time

web framework

A web framework is a software for handling routing, database access, template parsing, etc.

Created by cjk101010 on Friday and edited 1 more time

Template:martymcguire

Created by Martymcgui.re on Monday

fortnight

fortnight is two weeks, the term a shortening of fo(u)rt(een-)night(s); fortnightly means every fortnight, the typical frequency of Homebrew Website Club meetups.

Created by tantek on Saturday

Template:Jammy

Created by Jammy.co on Monday

DynamoDB

DynamoDB is a key/value database service provided by Amazon Web Services.

Created by aaronpk on Friday

reset

reset is a common feature of devices, and some silos, to reset your settings to factory / new account defaults.

Created by tantek on Friday

Tufte CSS

Created by KevinMarks on Friday

Giphy

Giphy is https://giphy.com/, a silo to search and share animated gifs.

Created by sknebel on Tuesday

User:Wwwtech.de about

Created by Wwwtech.de about on Tuesday

Changed Wiki Pages