Week of 5/15/17 Edit: (5/31/17) I’m falling slightly behind in my weekly post-pact with Marty, so I made a dedicated goal to jump back in! This week I participated in the 3rd Maker Educator Convening as well as the Leadership Summit. Monday and Thursday were almost entirely devoted to travel, as the convening was in San Francisco. The Leadership Summit was on Tuesday and then the Convening was on Wednesday....
Week of 5/8/17 This week I’ve really committed to diving deeply into Python. I’ve been writing the Programming Minecraft youth course for Digital Harbor Foundation and I’ve become extremely inspired to level up my own Python knowledge. The core of our youth course is writing Python to interact and hack the Minecraft environment. The inspiration for this was based on some Minecraft hacking we did during the Picademy training session last August....
Week of 5/1/17 During this week I set the goal to dive deeper into some of the programming languages that I already know. One way that I decided to do this was to dive in to some programming podcasts for JavaScript. This is where I came across the above suggestion about keeping a programming diary/log. New Language Exploration I’m a bit obsessive when it comes to online courses. I’m enrolled in several free and paid courses that I work through whenever I have free time....
A Learning Log? Over the weekend I found out that the Towson Barnes & Noble is closing. This is due to the construction going on in the area, not due to sales. I was actually quite upset about this! Not simply because of any reasons having to do with the loss of a bricks and mortar store, but because of past associations I have… Ever since high school autodidactism has played a massive role in my personal development....
Learning Through Play, Continued It feels nice to start writing again! The last month has been pretty busy, and I’ve unfortunately fallen behind on my posts. Despite the best efforts of Marty and his gentle reminders of our OATH OF WEEKLY POSTS (emphasis and dramatics: mine), I’ve not made an update since the end of March. This isn’t to say that I haven’t had ideas - I’ve had several ideas - where I’ve slipped is in the transferring thoughts to the web aspect....
Creativity and Technology Marty gave me my weekly dose of motivation / gentle reminder to do my weekly post, and I wanted to use this opportunity to reflect on a topic that I’ve been thinking a lot about lately: the relationship between creativity and technology and the role that the two have played in my life. This past Tuesday and Wednesday I lead the Making for Educators workshop at the Digital Harbor Foundation....
Goals for April 2017 I wanted to take a moment to write a quick post since I had to miss our March Baltimore Homebrew Website Club meeting. I’ve been admittedly slipping about keeping up with my posts and general website upkeep and improvement, and so I want to take a moment to write do some goal setting. Some of these immediate goals were from a brief conversation with Marty tonight....
Enter CryptoParty Baltimore …realize that I forgot to actually post this! - jp, 3/15/17 Tonight (Saturday Feb. 4, 2017) is CryptoParty Baltimore! I’m very excited to be part of this event and a huge thanks to Marty for including me in the organization of this! As I sit drinking some cold brew and listening to Xanopticon’s Meme Mage EP, I wanted to write a quick reflection post about the upcoming CryptoParty that we’re hosting tonight....
Active Documentation of Modularity Abstract: This is reserved space for documenting my process of segmenting my current theme into IndieWeb friendly partials. Created a partial called “includes.html” and moved all IndieWeb endpoints and other markup to this section. It previously was all contained in “head.html” Why: head.html was getting too cluttered and I wanted to make the data sections more easily distinguishable. As of now, the includes.html partial also contains stylesheet and fonts, but will likely be split into an IndieWeb partial and a styles/fonts partial....
Roadmap Part 0: Who Needs Maps? As I’m typing this first sentence I’m struck by how much easier this process would be if Micropub and Quill worked for my site. I started on that task but didn’t quite get it working yet, and in the spirit of “start where you are” I decided to write this post with my good friend Markdown. Anyway, this will be relatively short and perhaps concluded by the time I finish my nitro cold brew....
Homebrew Website Club 2016 This is our final meeting of the year! Even though this is only our fourth meeting we’ve all accomplished so much! Logistic Information Where: Digital Harbor Foundation When: Wednesday December 14, 2016, 6:30 - 8:30pm Co-Organizers: Marty McGuire and Jonathan Prozzi More information: http://indieweb.org/events/2016-12-14-homebrew-website-club Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/230344914069104/ What Will We Be Doing? (Optional) Quiet writing hour is 6:30 - 7:30. Come write some content - finish that blog post or knock out a feature on your site you’ve been wanting to do....
Homebrew Website Club Baltimore Reflection Last week we held our third meeting of the Baltimore Homebrew Website Club at the Digital Harbor Foundation. This month we had more new faces - We’re growing! Originally this was going to be a reflection post about our November meetup, but as I wrote I ended up going in a completely different direction. For me, one of the most important parts of our monthly meetings is the reflection process: whether this is reflection on upcoming goals or objectives or looking back at what’s been accomplished or learned in the last month....
Goals and Commitments Greetings! I’m writing these commitments during our quiet writing hour at the Baltimore Homebrew Website Club at the Digital Harbor Foundation. I’m very excited to announce that our numbers have grown! We’re glad to welcome new faces to the Homebrew Website Club. Alright, one (immediate and pressing!) goal is to write a post about my IndieWeb 01-01-2017 Commitments. One thing I love about the IndieWeb principles and the Homebrew Website Club is that the creation and moderation of time-sensitive goals galvanizes me to action....
Current Goals Now that I’ve accomplished my main goal of getting my site created (and deployed!) it’s time to set a series of new goals. I’ve found that I work best by having a set list of things I want to accomplish and then tackling the list one by one when I have a chunk of free time. Quick Recap Just for peace of mind, here’s what I’ve currently accomplished regarding the deployment of this site: - Set up Hugo to power the generation of my page content - Configured my DigitalOcean droplet for Hugo deployment - Passed the IndieWeb relMe Test for my site markup - Launched my personal site and started creating content...
Greetings! This is the first post for my new site. This site (and this post) are currently powered by Hugo, a static site generator written in Go. This site (and post) represent the culmination of a journey and process that I want to share with others. But first… some background! Some Backstory I’ve always intended to re-build and host my own site but never set a dedicated amount of time to the actual build process....