http://www.altsalt.net/Salthttp://www.altsalt.net/http://www.altsalt.net/favicon.ico2016-06-13T21:35:11-07:00http://www.altsalt.net/blog/indieweb-summit-2016-rsvp/Salthttp://www.altsalt.net/<p>Welcome to my first microformat h-entry post…</p> <p>Why? Well, a couple months ago I was introduced to the IndieWeb concept. Basically, you should maintain a web presence and post all content under that before publishing to other services. Which is exactly why I built this website!</p> <p>Now there is a decent amount of work that will go into bringing things up to standards. A variety of h-entries need to be merged in, content needs to be easier to add from mobile, and Middleman needs to be modified to publish to 3rd parties automagically.</p> <p>How with my busy schedule will this ever be accomplished? It turns out there is a conference in Portland in the very near future to discuss and spend time on just these sorts of things.</p> <p>Therefore, I am RSVP’ing <span class="p-rsvp">yes</span> to the <a href="http://2016.indieweb.org/" class="u-in-reply-to">2016 IndieWeb Summit</a>!</p> <p>Hope to see some familiar faces and become a solid node of the IndieWeb in the very near future.</p> 2016-05-25T00:00:00+00:002016-06-13T21:35:11-07:00http://www.altsalt.net/blog/hello-world-redux/Salthttp://www.altsalt.net/<p>Hi, Hello, Welcome!<br> Ciao, Pronto, Benvenuto!<br> <span class="chinese">喂, 您好, 欢迎!</span></p> <p>It has been a while hasn’t it?</p> <p>Let’s start with a little history. This domain was purchased over five years after I began using the handle Salt. Initially it contained a Wordpress install running on a Debian server at home. Eventually my interest waned and everything was moved to a landing page on an AWS S3 instance.</p> <p>After returning to and graduating from university, the itch to maintain a web presence returned. Development creeped along as I spent time preparing for, and and then leaving on, a circumnavigation. All of a sudden the New Year had come and gone, my compulsion to release on a specific date had kicked in. However, I forced myself to continue and have finally produced something I am willing to put my name on. This version was built upon Middleman, a ruby static site generator and is still hosted on S3. It has been based on the blog codebase of my very old friend, <a href="https://andrew.kvalhe.im/">Andrew Kvalheim</a>.</p> <p>Certain decisions were made to keep things minimalistic and libre. One of these was to completely avoid JavaScript, which means no comments or analytics. This may not last as I have future expansion plans which include: more pages, tagged posts, hidden directories, and more. That being said, with my current travel plans and upcoming conference presentations, development may be slow.</p> <p>Finally, I am launching the site with only this article, but don’t expect that to last long. In the near future I will be posting about conferences, conventions, events, and festivals I attend. Also, I will be uploading previous works which should have been made public long ago such as my LFNW, SeaGL, and Toorcamp talks.</p> <p>Feel free to look around, send feedback, and share with those who may be interested.</p> 2016-01-26T00:00:00+00:002016-06-13T21:35:11-07:00