Revision 200: The Indie Web

Published: Dec. 14, 2014, 11:58 a.m.

Zum 200. Jubil\xe4um luden Schepp, Anselm und Stefan niemand geringeren als Jeremy\nKeith ein. Viel Spa\xdf bei unserer ausgiebigen Plauderei zum \u201eIndie Web\u201c. Die\nEpisode und alle Shownotes sind dieses Mal auf Englisch!\n\nFor our 200th anniversay Schepp, Anselm and Stefan invited Jeremy Keith. Enjoy\nour excessive talk about the Indie Web!\n\n\nSCHAUNOTIZEN\n\n[00:00:39] THE INDIE WEB BUILDING BLOCKS\n\nJeremy explains what\u2019s the meaning behind the whole indie web term and why it\nexists. He continues to explain the technical basics: Decentralizing sources,\nauthenticate on websites using your very own website and a social network of\nchoice, sharing links to your blog posts to the social networks and getting\nmentions from twitter etc on your website and store them there. You can do this\nwith just one requirement: if you have your own domain. It even can work on\nstatic sites and there are open source services like Bridgy that help you with\nconcatenating the external sources.\n\n[00:22:57] INDIEWEBCAMPS\n\nWe talk about the people who are part of the indiewebcamp thing and how it\u2019s\nbeen created. It was created to create solutions and not only discuss stuff. We\nalso speak about how to teach people about indie technology, how to learn to\nintegrate it and where you can do so. Finally we talk about content ownership\nand the problem with external services who own your content and do what they\nwant with it (like deleting it even if you don\u2019t want to, thanks archive.org for\nstoring things anyways). And Jeremy shares his first website version. If you are\nconsidering going to the upcoming beyond tellerand in D\xfcsseldorf (which you\nshould), be aware that there\u2019s an accompanying IndieWebCamp happening.\n\n[00:48:23] USELESS DESIGN PATTERNS\n\nWe\u2019re talking about false assumptions of security which often have heavy impact\non usability. Like on login screens when there\u2019s only a generic error message\nnot saying if username or password is wrong. We speak about if passwords should\nbe shown by default to avoid the \u201aconfirm password\u2018 fields and typing errors and\nmost of the time people are in private and if not, they should be able to switch\nto hidden type mode. We also talk about captchas which are non-sense. In fact we\nshould always ask ourselves why are we doing this or wait a minute, is this\nreally a good idea? And test with real users to figure out what works and what\ndoesn\u2019t. Because assumptions by us is often simply wrong..\n\n\n[01:13:15] KEINE SCHAUNOTIZEN\n\nRESPONSIBLE WEB COMPONENTS\n\nIn another brilliant article by Jeremy we learn how web components can be used\nas a means of extending existing elements rather than replacing them. See web\ncomponents as an enhancement!\n\nMULTIPLEXING WITH SPDY AND HTTP/2\n\n\nGuy Bedford talks about multiplexing with SPDY and HTTP/2 in his talk.\n\nFIYMYJS FOR SUBLIME\n\nCan\u2019t remember your team\u2019s coding guidelines? Use them automaticlaly with Addy\nOsmani\u2019s Sublime plugin.\n\nHTTPS AND WEB PERFORMANCE\n\nDean Hume explains how HTTPS influences the performance of your website.\n\nITERATORS GONNA ITERATE\n\nIterators are a new JS language feature which appear in the recent Chrome\nreleases. Jake Archibald describes how they work.\n\n24 WAYS\n\nIn its tenth year 24 ways is till one of the online christmas calendars which\nyou have to visit.