#dev 2025-06-24

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[morganm] https://web.archive.org/web/20220121094635/https://www.airbridge.ac.nz/story.html Amazed this this "AMP Story" captured by internet archive works
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[morganm] whoops copied the wrong thing
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[morganm] Does anyone have any experience with making Playdate console games? It seems very indie focused in terms of game development, seemed adjacent in spirit
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[morganm] Im making a game with Pulp
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[morganm] https://chat-uploads.indieweb.org/files/2025/06/dev-20250624-002451-screenshot_2025-06-21_at_3.40.27___pm.png
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[morganm] Just wondered if anyone has any experience with making games for the console, there are a few people who have said they have a Playdate here
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a_lamp so I was adding a webmention Link: and since I can do a <link> tag or <a> tag instead, I was wondering if I could use a <form> tag also.
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a_lamp oh. I'm wearing the wrong nick. >_>
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epoch I haven't seen <form action="/webmention.php" rel="webmention"> anywhere yet, but it seems like something that'd make sense
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epoch since people seem to already like to put a tiny form that you can use to manually submit webmentions
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[manton] [morganm] I’ve fiddled with the Playdate SDK a tiny bit… Not to make games, but now that they have networking I sort of want to build a fun blogging-related client for it. 🙂 Not sure I’ll ever get to it. Pulp is really cool too.
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[schmarty] oh, networking is available now? hmmm. HHMMMMM.
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[morganm] I'm on a positive energy mood about it. Really want to make something with it
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[morganm] Wish I could find some more free resources I even bought some stuff off http://itch.io
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[manton] [schmarty] Yeah! They added networking just a few months ago. Opens up a lot of new things.
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aaronpk omg a playdate blogging client would be hilarious
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aaronpk you have to turn the crank to cycle through the alphabet to type each letter
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aaronpk but for real, what I want right now is a camera that’s smaller than a credit card that will auto upload any photo taken to my website. like having a tiny digital camera with an eye-fi card.
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aaronpk i feel like the technology to build one out of a raspberry pi pico has gotten small enough that this is actually feasible
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aaronpk it would take a bit of work to get the upload logic to work, since i’d want to be able to program in a bunch of different wifi passwords and it would always try to autoconnect and upload whenever it can, but it has to assume it will also be offline for some time, and it also needs a realtime clock so the photos are timestamped correctly
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aaronpk bonus points would be for it to include a tiny screen to preview the photo and it gives you like 5 seconds after taking a photo to delete it so you can retake if you want
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aaronpk i think the only way to reasonably configure this would be for it to broadcast a wifi hotspot you can connect to from your phone so you can pull up a web interface to add wifi and micropub endpoint settings. I’ve seen that on esp32 devices before so it is totally doable
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[morganm] I want to be able type tiny tweet like text like max 20 characters and publish to the web from the playdate
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[morganm] 200* characters
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[schmarty] aaronpk: yep that all feels doable! lots of work to pull _all_ those features together, but feasible!
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[schmarty] i'd like to see a playdate as an indie _reader_
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aaronpk ooo
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[tantek]2 ^
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[artlung] Played around with doing 2 columns of a large set of form labels with checkboxes using columns, flex, and grid. Inspired by HTML markup of [social]++
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isaisaeatmypizza hey! My partner wanted to make a blog and I offered to help them build it.
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isaisaeatmypizza I made a static website last month and I've grown pretty comfortable with html, css and js. I'm confident I could easily make my partner's blog with this, but I'm curious about other kinds of approaches. Should I use wordpress? Blogger? Are there genuine advantages to those, or can I get away with writing the code like I did for mine?
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[snarfed] i​saisaeatmypizza lots of tradeoffs! your time and effort, maybe monetary cost, ecosystem support, hosting options, etc. no one size fits all advice, it's up to you
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[snarfed] some background on https://indieweb.org/web_hosting
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gRegor If your static site generator meets the needs, I'd suggest sticking with that to start since you're familiar and confident with it already. WordPress can add more dynamic features, like a local comment form, but also has more /admintax tradeoffs
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gRegor Like spam moderation, and security... having to keep WordPress core and the plugins up to date. It can definitely be a lot and take some of the joy out of running a site.
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isaisaeatmypizza God I feel really dumb, I've tried looking into this and understanding but at this point I am so confused like, I just wrote code on visual code studio. What's the benefit of using a static site generator like 11ty? Like what does it do??? I get the use of WordPress and other dynamic website services but like???
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isaisaeatmypizza They're like a whole coding language to replace html and css, right?
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isaisaeatmypizza I just don't get the benefits over writing the html and css yourself
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Kolev I went back to manual HTML and CSS. https://calebh.top/