events/2026-02-12-front-end-study-hall
Front End Study Hall #046 was an IndieWeb meetup on Zoom held on 2026-02-12.
Front End Study Hall #046
Feb 12, 2026
Participants
Joe Crawford https://artlung.com/
- Template:btrem https://btrem.com/
capjamesg https://jamesg.blogThomas Vander Wal https://vanderwal.net
benji https://benji.dog
Tantek Çelik (site still down during this call :/ )- Loke https://loke-artemis.neocities.org/
jo- Emily N
- Eric M
Joe's Background
- https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-talk/1991SepOct/0001.html is the first (non-test) email from the original "www-interest" mailing list, a "Listserv"
Links for discussion culled from. Front_End_Study_Hall
- https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Reference/Global_attributes/autocapitalize
- https://ericwbailey.website/published/how-an-accessibility-designer-adds-keyboard-shortcuts-to-a-web-app/
- https://www.projectwallace.com/the-css-selection/2026
- https://frontendmasters.com/blog/performance-optimized-video-embeds-with-zero-javascript/
- https://css-tricks.com/how-to-style-the-new-search-text-and-other-highlight-pseudo-elements/
- https://stackoverflow.com/questions/8318911/why-does-html-think-chucknorris-is-a-color
- https://www.joshtumath.uk/posts/2026-01-27-try-text-scaling-support-in-chrome-canary/
- https://paulmakeswebsites.com/writing/shadcn-radio-button/
- https://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk/blog/Creating+Accessible+Flowcharts
- https://bkardell.com/blog/SecretLifeOfCustomElements.html
- https://css-tricks.com/that-time-i-tried-explaining-html-and-css-to-my-5-year-old-niece/
- https://cassidoo.co/post/pause-css-animation/
- https://www.nicchan.me/
- https://artlung.com/blog/2026/02/09/mildly-dynamic/
- https://frontendmasters.com/blog/how-to-create-a-css-only-elastic-text-effect/
- https://matuzo.at/blog/2026/geolocation-element
Interop 2026 came out!
- https://foolip.github.io/interop-reactions/
- https://wpt.fyi/interop-2026
- container queries
- attr() - advanced usage of data points
- public part github, decision making process is a weekly video call
- needs a spec, and needs a test
- then, each issue group is asked to championed the list
- MathML is perenially not making the cut, due to resources needed to addresse it
- SVG should have a POSSE, says Joe
- Accessibility testing is an active investigation
- JPEG XL
- Come to consensus
- James: Custom highlights - text input - add a input color - boolean operators
- CSS Custom Highlight API: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/CSS_Custom_Highlight_API
- Bad Apple!! in CSS custom highlights (BlinkOn 17): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qWTHxQWUreo
- https://llmstxt.org/
- James: Custom highlights - text input - add a input color - boolean operators
- https://indieweb.org/large_language_model_traffic
- Cloudflare block training crawlers
- https://developers.cloudflare.com/bots/concepts/bot/#ai-bots
- https://aphyr.com/posts/403-blocking-claude
- More info about bots / ai crawlers and a robots.txt example: https://github.com/ai-robots-txt/ai.robots.txt
- Show scrobbles of songs? Pulling data from last.fm and libre.fm
- Mildly interactive
- Emily - not a listserv person - early blog follower, listserv intermediary - to flickr in 2004 - flickr was a game and a chat app - early adopter - Milwaukee - throwing a photo into a chat and tagging - influence and affect in m life - photo nerds and digital photo nerds, and compuer nerds - art exhibits - the social aspect of the tag -
- hashtags turned evil?
- Phil Gyford's weeknote - craigslist broken mower was the way to meet folks
- newsweeklies used to be the way to find people - missed connections
- Upcoming.org
- Lanyrd.org
- replacement https://noti.st/
- has a "Pro" model: https://noti.st/pro - only has free and pro ($14/mo), no middle "I just want to support you a bit" level, like a Patron, $1/mo. Also $14/mo seems a bit pricy in contrast to say $5/mo for micro.blog for example.
- replacement https://noti.st/
- How to create a sustainable community service online?
- Needs to be more mechanisms to do support
- Bridgy
- Artemis
- sorting out a dollar a month - funding models
- Funding models for the independent web
- Sustainable business, "lifestyle company" / "lifestyle service"
- Are there lifestyle businesses?
- Echofeed - Robb Knight's service - a poster - xpost to Mastodn and Bluesky ($5/month)
- https://echofeed.app/ (I was wrong. Free or $25/year)
- OMG.LOL Microservice
- https://www.openstreetmap.org/
- Last.fm / Audioscrobbler was used for music discovery / central capture for music
- Tidal music discovery
- https://bearblog.dev/discover/
- https://openheart.fyi/
- https://interconnected.org
- Matt Webb has other people's cursors on his page and their country flag
- Other people exist! Ajax updates! WebSockets!
- https://xn--gckvb8fzb.com/
- Favicon changes when inactive
- https://github.com/cloudflare/partykit
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