💬 Responses
Social interactions on the (open) (Indie) Web.
❤ Liked: WordPress IndieWeb setup with a block theme
I’ve been tinkering around with IndieWeb integration on this site and wanted to document some notes getting all this running with a block theme. Theme I’m running a mildly customized version of Pulitzer. I’ve used the Create Block Theme plugin to export my changes and have published it as a standalone child theme here. Changes are mainly typography and header/footer changes. I’ve raised the font sizes across the board and switched to using system fonts to avoid shipping font files. Modern Fon…
❤ Liked: IndieWeb Movie Club
During last week’s HWC Europe/London, there was a decent chat about the films people have or haven’t watched and sharing film recommendations between us all. Film suggestions and recommendations are a common theme in the IndieWeb chat, so hopefully there’ll be some new and varied reccomendations from the IndieWeb community. Out of this chat, spawned the idea of having an IndieWeb Movie Club, working in a similar fashion to the highly successful IndieWeb Carnival, where someone selects a film …
❤ Liked: Leaving the web industry
I accepted an offer for a permanent job in one of the most prestigious British institutes. To get there, I had to first understand I'm not cut for the web industry anymore.
❤ Liked: Redesigning James' Coffee Blog
My blog has used the same design – except for a few changes, like adding a background image or changing spacing here and there – for the last year or two. After a conversation with a designer, I have been increasingly thinking about what I like and do not like in web design. This encouraged me to take a fresh pair of eyes to my site, and ask: how do I want my blog to feel? Like all parts of my website – from the stories I tell to the blog posts I write to the HTML on the page – the design of …
