New field notes from E.L. Guerrero.
Updates to Hello Navi collective: Pushed knights.sh , my digital garden/memex. Currently have an HTML journal , Now page, and a list of mixes I’ve made over the years. Working on using Eleventy as static site generator for this site and knights.sh , particularly using this multi-site template , because I’ve been doing it manual until it hurts (and it’s starting to hurt). My friend Jason recently…
It’s International Zine Month this July! It’s already halfway through, but it can be zine month every month if you really want it to be! I love paper zines, but webzines are a lot of fun, too. I was reminded of a couple of talks/workshops I gave, mainly Parallel Play , “How can a zine look like on the web?”, and Weaving Webzines of Care , a crash course to basic semantic HTML. I really admire Dan…
(Originally given as a talk for Global Accessibility Awareness Day) People are scared to do Accessibility because they’re afraid they’ll do it wrong, and that is precisely the point. Accessibility should be done imperfectly rather than not at all. We’ll never get it right every single time, but we need to move beyond the bare minimum: a shift in our collective mindset. We will all make mistakes,…
Inspired by Sara Joy’s Weak Notes since I can’t commit to consistently writing regular weeknotes (because I’m weak ). In my depressed but hyperfocus state these past few days, I pushed a lot of changes, and cleaned up my git repositories, even going so far as to implementing submodules (i.e. nesting git repos)— chaos has not yet ensued, but if the sites get too big I might run into trouble. As…
Everything starts with a hello. Like a chick breaking out of its shell, 1 declaring “Hello, World!” in of itself. It’s the programming world’s sound check— mic test, mic test, testing, 1-2-3. Is this thing on? The first appearance of “Hello, World!” might have been in The C Programming Language book written by Brian Kernighan (also arguably as a catchphrase of a disc jockey in the 1950s), but what…