32-Bit Cafe: Personal Website Ideas

Jan 31st, 2024

Here’s a truly inspirational list of things to do from the 32-Bit Cafe, “a community of like-minded website hobbyists and professionals helping to make the personal web fruitful and bountiful again”. It covers these topics:

Page Ideas
Potential Website Topics
CSS & Page Design
Art & Graphic Design
Technical Tasks
Accessibility
Interactivity
Social

It’s a refreshing read (and brings up a lot of nostalgia)!

—via Jack Baty

h-now Aggregator Live Demo on Heroku

Jun 4th, 2020

Last week, I proposed the h-now microformat and whipped up a crappy PHP demo app to show what it’s about. Big thanks now go to Roman Veselý (@crazko) who put this up on Heroku. You can viewand use the aggregator live here: https://hnow.herokuapp.com/

Proposing the h-now Microformat to Mark-Up All Our /now Pages

May 28th, 2020

Today, I propose a microformat for the open web: the /now Page. Let’s call it h-now. A microformat is a convention to markup your content in a way that helps software to identify content. Like addresses for navigation, contact cards for quick import into contact files via browser extensions, or events for calendar integration.