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zerojames··on Show HN: A website that gives voice to unfulfilled customer needs
A colleague worked on a similar project, but for detecting if there was a free court outside his house where he could play: https://blog.roboflow.com/computer-vision-twilio-notificatio...
zerojames··on Can’t send email more than 500 miles (2002)
Thank you for sharing, dang! Onward to find the next curiosity!
zerojames··on Homebrew Website Club
Your People and Blogs newsletter looks great. I just signed up!
zerojames··on Homebrew Website Club
The next meetups are:

    September 20, 2023 - Wed 7:00 - 9:00pm (Europe/London) 
    September 27, 2023 - Wed 6:00 - 8:00pm (America/Los_Angeles)
The individual event pages have timezone information (i.e. https://events.indieweb.org/2023/09/homebrew-website-club-eu...). I'm not sure why the homepage doesn't.
zerojames··on Homebrew Website Club
I love that you have written your own blog generator! I have, too, but it is in Python.

Our next meetup is online on Wednesday, with events on Europe and US timezones (https://events.indieweb.org). No need to RSVP; just show up!

zerojames··on Homebrew Website Club
Thank you!
zerojames··on Homebrew Website Club
You have made my day :)

Have you viewed source on my site? You'll see a few comments along the way. I wanted to write my site in such a way that someone new to the web could take a look and learn how the HTML works on the page.

All credit for the badge goes to the wonderful https://notbyai.fyi/.

zerojames··on Homebrew Website Club
I _love_ your site!

I have a question about https://wordsandbuttons.online/lexical_differential_highligh.... What does this part mean:

> Ideally, the smaller the lexical difference, the greater the color difference should be.

I am fascinated by different ways to represent code visually.

zerojames··on Homebrew Website Club
This is amazing! We talked about recipes at Homebrew Website Club a few weeks ago. We asked ourselves "how could we share our own recipes online?"

The layout of your recipes and the focus on the process without extraneous information makes me want to learn more about cooking. I have always been scared off by recipe sites. Your site looks like a great entry point for me.

zerojames··on Homebrew Website Club
The last border:none was 10 years ago IIRC. They are bringing all the same speakers back and some new ones.

A lot of IndieWeb events have been hosted in Germany.

There is an event called Beyond Tellerrand (btconf) hosted in Düsseldorf and Berlin every year, hosted by Marc and his amazing team (unaffiliated with Homebrew Website Club).

The IndieWeb sometimes hosts host events before or after Beyond Tellerrand conferences (I was at last year's Berlin btconf and IndieWeb event). I know it is a long journey from Nürnberg to those cities but both btconf and the IndieWeb events are both amazing ways to spend a few days if you love the web.

zerojames··on Homebrew Website Club
I love your site! One note: https://dusty.is/a/gamer doesn't return a page.
zerojames··on Homebrew Website Club
Wow! This is so cool.

P.S. I love Billions, which at the time of writing is highlighted on your homepage.

zerojames··on Homebrew Website Club
I get excited about all things web :D

> it was clear that social networks like Twitter and Facebook had taken over as our primary channel

There are a lot of people in the IndieWeb who care about, and are working toward, building different ways to interact on the web. I follow blogs and people with Monocle (https://monocle.p3k.io), a social reader powered by Microsub (draft spec) and Micropub (https://indieweb.org/Micropub)

I can like posts on websites in my feed then the likes show up on my bookmarks site (https://jamesg.coffee). If a site supports Webmention (https://indieweb.org/Webmention), the author will be notified that I liked their post.

I am always happy to talk about social interactions on the web -- there is so much work we can do!

> I spent time building a library of website 'cover art' too, which I cycle in periodically - typically when I post a new update to the blog. There's a lot more cleaning to do, but I'm happy to be actively iterating on the ol' website again.

I _love_ this!

> I don't think I could do a regular meetup

We have a lot of people who stop by for a meetup every month or two online. All interested in the web are welcome to come on whatever cadence suits you; whether you come once a week, month, or year! There is also a community chat if you prefer text at https://indieweb.org/discuss

(Apologies for all the links. As it may be noted, I get excited easily!)

zerojames··on Homebrew Website Club
Feel free to write one if you are interested! We're big advocates of POSSE (https://indieweb.org/POSSE): publish on your own site, syndicate elsewhere. If you write a guide, add it to the wiki so others can learn.

A community member wrote a guide on how to add different social web standards to a Hugo site (https://www.amitgawande.com/2018/02/10/204300.html).

zerojames··on Homebrew Website Club
Your website is delightful. I love the Recipe Creator feature on your projects page.

Your approach to using JS is like mine. I work with HTML and CSS first then sometimes add JS to progressively enhance a page (i.e. add dark mode, add hovercards on links, make emojis appear on different days of the year).

zerojames··on Homebrew Website Club
Absolutely! You can join no matter tool(s) what you use for your website, from WordPress to HTML sites to Notion sites! I'm now curious how Notion works as a back-end!
zerojames··on Homebrew Website Club
Your website is delightful. Please do!

We host a Europe and US meetup online every week and every two weeks, respectively, in addition to in person events. If there isn't an in-person event near you, reach out in https://indieweb.org/discuss to see if anyone would be interested in hosting one.

zerojames··on Homebrew Website Club
I love all the little details on your site. The sound effects on your post list made me startled me at first then made me laugh :)
zerojames··on Homebrew Website Club
I love https://catgirlin.space/posts/building-an-image-splitter/! I saw a piece of art in a gallery that was a photo, divided into pieces like this. Then, all the pieces were shuffled. It made for a really cool effect.
zerojames··on Homebrew Website Club
Oooh! I love the cloud animation on your website!
zerojames··on Homebrew Website Club
Why thank you! I am using https://www.kryogenix.org/days/2012/12/30/simple-svg-sparkli... for the sparklines. All credit goes to Stuart who made the SVG!

The MediaWiki sparkline is powered by the same thing and https://sparkline.jamesg.blog (open source link in site footer).

zerojames··on Homebrew Website Club
We also have a chat at https://indieweb.org/discuss that you can join if you prefer text.

h-cards are still alive and well, and are used by technologies Webmention [1] (decentralized likes, comments, bookmarks, RSVPs, and more) as a profile! My site has one :)

[1]: https://indieweb.org/Webmention

zerojames··on Homebrew Website Club
You can join irrespsective of where your site is hosted or what technologies you use! We have people who use static sites (like me!), WordPress, dynamic sites, micro.blog, and so much more in the community.

I'm not sure why the Brighton one has that link. I'll take a look. The challenge you mentioned -- build (or add to) a site in an hour -- will be hosted in two weeks (see events.indieweb.org for more); last time we had someone make a bookmarks page, a PNG header reader, a game with computer vision (this one was me!), a site on the Gemini protocol, and more.

Etherpad is where we take notes during sessions. It is a collaborative, open source editor.

zerojames··on Homebrew Website Club
Homebrew Website Club is 10 years old now! (I have been going for ~2 years, and hosting for 1.5 years)

Most of our meetings are online now, but we have a longer, two-day in-person event coming up in Nürnberg at the end of October (https://events.indieweb.org/2023/10/indiewebcamp-nuremberg-2...).

zerojames··on Homebrew Website Club
Hello everyone! I have been co-hosting the Europe Homebrew Website Club for the last year and a half.

During the calls we come together to chat about websites: what you are building, what you want to build, and how you can build it! If you are interested in the web, I (and the rest of community!) would love to see you!

P.S. My site is https://jamesg.blog -- what's your domain name?

zerojames··on Show HN: A better way to read blogs
I like the design of this site! The icons and typography are especially cool! There is a neat idea in here. I already use an RSS social reader (https://monocle.p3k.io/), but I can see this being a cool firehose to skim that I can curate. Do you offer RSS feeds of feeds on the site?

I would love if there was a "simple mode" that let you only see the titles, just like the HN homepage. There is a lot of information on the feed pages and I find it a bit overwhelming.

Also, it would be great if I didn't need an account to see the blogs, curators, and popular pages.

zerojames··on Ask HN: Computing Side Project Ideas?
Some more ideas in the "programming languages" category:

    - Build a package manager
    - Create a linter
    - Build a static code analyzer / function call graph generation tool
zerojames··on Vale.sh – A Linter for Prose
I saw Vale earlier today. The tool helps you comply with technical style guides like those by Microsoft and Google, and the out-of-the-box Vale rules (the extent of the Vale rules I am unsure; I got way more suggestions when installing the Microsoft and Google extensions).

A few notes while getting it set up for macOS:

    1. brew install vale
    2. Create .vale.ini (in root dir, I think)
    3. A minimal setup that lets you lint with Microsoft and Google style guides:

        MinAlertLevel = suggestion
        StylesPath = styles

        Packages = Google, Microsoft

        [*]
        BasedOnStyles = Vale,  Google, Microsoft

    4. Run `vale sync` to install the Google and Microsoft style guide extensions.
    5. Run 'vale {file}.md` to run the linter.
zerojames··on Show HN: I automated half of my typing
By the way, this project is _awesome_! My programming language [1] does OCR correction via heuristics (possible because there is a restricted grammar) but this project looks like it could help _a lot_ with improving the accuracy of the OCR output. Thank you!

[1] https://visionscript.dev/paper/

zerojames··on Show HN: I automated half of my typing
I definitely need to write more docs on this project! I will share them when I'm done. It looks like SymSpell is doing spelling correction, which is part of what my code does.

The "surprisal" (information theory: Shannon information) component is doing statistical next word prediction. For example, given a corpus of data in which "data augmentation" is a common phrase, "da" could complete to "data augmentation".

"data augmentation" starts with "da", and would be determined as a likely candidate for the next word because it was common in the dataset on which the statistical model was "fine-tuned".

This Wikipedia page covers the concept in more depth: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_content

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