#indieweb 2021-12-03
2021-12-03 UTC
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tracydurnell[d] clarifies what it means to be indieweb, points to info about indieweb standards
# tracydurnell[d] while getting started is very literally a how to right now after the first two and a half blocks
# tracydurnell[d] I found it when I was looking for an "about" page 😉
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# tracydurnell[d] do pages ever get deleted on the wiki? I might nominate this page to go away and have anything pertinent pulled onto a different starting page https://indieweb.org/what
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# tracydurnell[d] seems like most of the info's covered elsewhere already, and may not be necessary to have mini definitions all on one page
# tracydurnell[d] good call 🙂
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@GretchenAMcC where is phonetify wrapped i just want to know what my most used phoneme of the year was (twitter.com/_/status/1466290127899140100)
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@glyph @eevee You should use social media as a mechanism to *point* at that stuff, make wacky things elsewhere, make *spaces* for other people to be wacky elsewhere, the tools for that are easier now too. And by you I mean me, I should do that, and also so should everyone else (twitter.com/_/status/1466607262223396865)
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capjamesg[d] Good find tracydurnell[d]!
# capjamesg[d] tracydurnell[d]++
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Loqi [indienews] New post: "Advent of Bloggers 2021" https://jamesg.blog/2021/12/01/advent-of-bloggers-1/
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@eevee this is so sad man. i miss when the internet was more playful. i think that's part of why discord took off, too, that they didn't take themselves too seriously... an aesthetic which is slowly fading https://twitter.com/leyawn/status/1466571846950789122 (twitter.com/_/status/1466589774467059712)
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sknebel https://twitter.com/eevee/status/1466591730581397513 - reminds me how I tried to make it possible to use winamp skins to theme a website. sadly they are a little bit too specific
# @eevee i can't even imagine something like winamp skins nowadays. discord won't even let you set a background and that's one line of css. everything is about homogeneity and branding and attention economy and manipulating us into staying longer and spending more money than we wanted (twitter.com/_/status/1466591730581397513)
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[chrisaldrich] definitely wants winamp skins to theme websites... that should be a thing.
# [tw2113_Slack_] [chrisaldrich] isn’t that just theme color toggles, but with more?
# [tw2113_Slack_] i’m starting to toy with CSS variables not scoped to ::root so that I can do quick class changes with javascript to change out entire color schemes
# [tw2113_Slack_] could do the same with background images specific to classes
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# [chrisaldrich] Doing a one-to-one, onto mapping of those designs to websites has to be a bear of a task.
# [tw2113_Slack_] potentially
# [tw2113_Slack_] `.version1
{ --red: #f00; } .version2 { --red: #a00; }`# [chrisaldrich] The WordPress theme archive isn't as fun looking as https://skins.webamp.org/ to be sure...
# [tw2113_Slack_] just need to adjust the definition values
# [tw2113_Slack_] and probably choose better css variable names than colors themselves. “--primary”
# [chrisaldrich] I sort of want winamp styles as overlays on common corporate social silos now... Twitter through the lens of the classic "Headspace" skin...
# [chrisaldrich] [tw2113_Slack_], maybe your gift at the end of the month??! 😁
# [tw2113_Slack_] i know i still have a draft post started about myspace being the last truly customizable social media site
# capjamesg[d] My site is definitely missing a retro Microsoft Excel theme 😂
# capjamesg[d] Great link [chrisaldrich]!
# [chrisaldrich] But you've got those lovely colored lights capjamesg[d]++
# [tw2113_Slack_] my toying around with color variables is stemming from a strange desire to make use of Scheele’s Green as a color
# [tw2113_Slack_] quick rundown of that, it was made with arsenic and became fashionable for a time back in the victorian era, including fabrics, toys, and wallpaper, and killed a lot of people
# [chrisaldrich] Hopefully the web version is safer... otherwise perhaps it could be the plotline for The Ring III?
# [tw2113_Slack_] both
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# [tw2113_Slack_] *shrug* AI is odd
# [tw2113_Slack_] maybe it *could* hapen
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@kevinmarks “So, Mark, what attracted you to the Metaverse?” “Well, I read this book about how the government secretly built a virus that takes over your brain when you look at a QR code, and makes you into a nonsense-babbling slave, and thought it was a logical extension of Facebook.” (twitter.com/_/status/1453810240328192000)
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petermolnar if one combines the winamp skins for websites idea with this idea: https://svija.love/ of making websites completely in svg, it might work.
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