Had a great time at #IndieWebCamp Berlin this weekend. Actually spent much more time thinking about dark/light mode than I thought I ever would

I believe I have understood two patterns to do that in #CSS.

@krosylight demoed their page and is using `html { color-scheme: light dark }` which then allows you to supply colors for links like `a { color: light-dark(darkblue, cyan) }`.

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New blog post: “Updated Scroll Markers in the Table of Contents”

https://blog.kizu.dev/toc-scroll-markers/

I’ve spent most of the day inside the delayed and cancelled trains (thanks, Deutsche Bahn). I did not have an opportunity to come up with a good post for today, but both yesterday (and a bit today) I hacked on my blog, as a part of the #IndieWebCamp.

I did the thing I wanted to do during this weekend: update my blog’s Table of Contents to be similar to what I have on my main site.

had a great weekend at the #indiewebcamp in berlin. besides hacking on my personal webspace on https://gglnx.space, i discussed some ideas on (fedi) alternatives for foursquare/swarm (and generally on location history tracking). wrote some notes on getting started with data from openstreetmap.

#indiewebcamp berlin @ mozilla berlin

European friends!

I am going to Beyond Tellerand (@btconf@mastodon.social) Berlin next week 7-8 November and you should too!

BTconf is the best independent web design, development, and inspiration conference in Europe.

Everything from the speakers to the talks to the side events are a labor of love by @MarcThiele.com (@marcthiele@mastodon.social) and his crew, and it shows in the #btconf community he has gathered over the years.

If you’re in #Berlin, or can hop on a train and join us, you should.

Grab a ticket: https://btco.nf/t

And while you’re there, consider joining us at #IndieWebCamp Berlin right afterwards on 9-10 November (complimentary camp tickets at the same link), for #barcamp style discussions sessions and an #indieweb Create Day, writing, styling, designing, coding, hacking on our personal sites for a better web for ourselves and everyone else.

The #indiewebcamp is back in Berlin and You can be part of two exciting days right after #btconf! @tantek.com, James and @jkphl are teaming up to meet you in the Mozilla Office in Berlin. All information and registration here: https://beyondtellerrand.com/events/berlin-2024/side-events#indiewebcamp

I want the Read Write Suggest-Edit Accept-Edit Update Web. The consumer Infinite Scroll Web leaves us feeling empty. Too few of us participate in the Read Write Web, whether with personal sites or Wikipedia. A week ago when we wrapped up #IndieWebCamp Portland and I was reading Kevin Marks (@kevinmarks) live-tooting of the demos^1, I noticed a few errors, typos or miscaptures, and pointed them out in-person. Kevin was able to quickly edit his toots and update them for anyone reading, thanks to #Mastodon’s post editing feature and its support of #ActivityPub Updates. But this shouldn’t require being in the same room, whether IRL or chat. We should be able to suggest edits to each other’s posts, as easily as we can reply and add a comment. 13 years ago I wrote^2: “The Read Write Web is no longer sufficient. I want the Read Fork Write Merge Web.” Now I want the Read Write Suggest-Edit Accept-Edit Update Web. The Reply button is fairly ubiquitous in modern post user in https://tantek.com/2024/245/t1/read-write-suggest-edit-update-web

This week seemed to have been the week where the northern lights weren’t all that northern anymore. There were about a million photos of them – and I managed to sleep through the whole spectacle. Well done, Dominik.

Meanwhile it has been one of those short weeks with a public holiday on a Thursday which I spend watching my cousin kick a ball around, followed by cake at a birthday garden party. Good times.

Afterwards it was time to head north to Düsseldorf for the double-whammy of the IndieWebCamp and the beyond Tellerrand convention.
The IWC was good fun, it sure was interesting to meet a whole bunch of people who I’ve only met online up until that point and talk about personal websites. Quite quaint in a way, but it is nice to hang out with people with similar interests.
And of course it was great to have dinner with Ben, Martin and Teymur afterwards. Lovely weekend, indeed.

Meanwhile on the internet and related to the topic of websites: The Revenge of the Homepage – someone at the New Yorker realized that there’s more to the internet than just Social Networks.

Oh deere: (sorry) The solar storms that gave us (well, not me, see above) northern lights also managed to disable farming equipment: Solar Storms are disrupting farmer GPS systems during critical planting time. Apparently tractors are so high-tech now that they can’t work without very precise GPS. Who knew?

Meanwhile this speaks to me: I want it all but, it is impossible – filtering and prioritizing people, knowledge, creation, consumption and off-time is really hard with all the limited time we have. So I’m even more flattered that you decided to spend some time and attention around here. Thank you very much!

And with that I’m done for the week – the sun is rising over Düsseldorf and I’m ready to go to beyond Tellerrand.

Ich bin am IndieWebCamp CreateDay.
#IndieWebCamp #CreateDay

Some people were confused by the fact that I used the same picture for my Mastodon account (@dominik@nona.social) and the ActivityPub representation of this blog (@dominik@lostfocus.de) so for quite a while I had the inclination to change the avatar here to this very artistic image:

The IndieWebCamp hack day create day was a good occasion to do just that. I didn’t want to change the image for all calls to the get_avatar function, so that’s what I came up with after Matthias told me about the Activitypub\is_activitypub_request function:

if ( function_exists( 'Activitypub\is_activitypub_request' ) ) {    add_filter( 'pre_get_avatar_data', static function ( $args, $id_or_email ) {        if ( $id_or_email !== 1 || ! \Activitypub\is_activitypub_request() ) {            return $args;        }        $args['url'] = plugin_dir_url( __FILE__ ) . 'blog-squared.jpg';        return $args;    }, 10, 2 );}

Now let me be the first to say this: this is very hacky and the values for the user id and the image url are hard coded. But it works for me and if you need it, you’re probably able to find a way to adjust the values to your use case.

end of day one #indiewebcamp #düsseldorf

#Blogging #Indieweb #IndiewebCamp