One big HWC, for anyone in the Americas(or who is just available) who wants to dial in. Let’s talk about what we would like to do in 2021 now that it is here. What’s Homebrew Website Club?
Homebrew Website Club is a meetup for anyone interested in personal websites and a distributed web. Whether you…
Angelo started throwing some more colors into the IndieWeb wiki’s custom.css and looks like the expanded palette needs some more expansion on the lighter side. To do item for me!
We checked out Kicks Condor‘s new project, the Multiverse, which feels like old web but new again, a mashup of forums/comment threads, blogging, MySpace, with a retro-modern neon pastel color palette and old-school Windows tiling patterns that somehow also feels very now. Because you can put text and graphics wherever the fuck you want within the post, they can be like collages and moodboards in a way Pinterest claimed to be except not commercialized because it’s not all focused on linking back to everything else (although could be bad for people stealing from artists and not giving credit).
I appreciate the way Kicks’ website asks more of the internet, doesn’t accept the usual as a limitation and goes all in on adding layers and interactivity and making it feel more organic and casual and conversational. Side-branching conversations inline with the text that’s being commented on in a way that still feels like conversations and not like a Word doc comments thread. TBH their homepage is so much and so different it’s almost hard to read but it’s still cool.
