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November 30, 2024 Newsletter
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Reporting live from the inside of a blanket!
November is cooling us down here in the Northern Hemisphere, but those of you in the community going into summer in the Southern Hemisphere are definitely envied. Despite the temperatures, it feels so nice to cozy up in front of a computer, coding away on a cold day.
It turns out November is a wonderful time to work on your website. It's the perfect time to reflect at the end of the year, finishing up projects or putting more yearly wrap-ups and other content on your website centered around 2024. What was a big theme for you? How can you incorporate that into your personal website?
December will include the annual end-of-year event, so stay tuned for that. We also have members around the Cafe participating in the Advent of Code 2024, starting December 1st. You can always catch any announcements on the Discourse forum or subscribe via RSS.
This newsletter is meant to be helpful and engaging. If you think we're missing the mark, reach out to xandra@32bit.cafe. We'd love your feedback.
Thank you for being here. The world is better with you in it.
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In an effort to get more things done, an Accountability Club has been started to help us keep track of tasks, projects, and allow each other to hold one another accountable. The club is open to anyone as long as you continue to post in the thread.
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Every third Sunday, James, Jay, or both of them, are hosting our Webweaving Workshops. You can always take a look at our Events Calendar to see the specific date of upcoming events. Our next workshop will be December 22. See you there!
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If you haven't seen our Ko-Fi yet, be sure to check out the cool stickers and pins we have available to purchase. Your support means so much to us, and we can only continue to expand and add services for the personal web thanks to your donations!
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In an effort to do effective outreach, we've made a Bluesky account at @32bit.cafe.bsky.social.
We'll be moving over to our domain name soon, but until then, feel free to follow our account for community updates and sharing more information about the personal web.
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Xo's website is a case study in using code to express yourself. There's so much to click around, explore, and discover on Xo's site. Use the star to navigate to different "realms" and then travel through the door to visit that page!
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Project Teams are open for sign-ups
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Project teams are a cool way to get involved in the community alongside other members, who are all working towards common goals to better this side of the web: Event Planners, Scribes, Technomancers, and Artists. Interested in helping out?
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Blog Posts Around the Cafe
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Every month, we showcase a few blog posts from members of the 32-Bit Cafe. Sometimes around a theme, sometimes not. This month, these posts give us a glimpse into the lives of our community members, a snapshot in time of them. These blog entries have been submitted to our community blogroll.
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Loren gives an overview of how their October went creatively, making quirky web projects to submit for the community project Weird Web October.
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Lars-Christian reflects on the web's ability to surface inspiring people when browsing this side of the web, people who are on similar journeys as him.
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Matthew discusses community blogs and blogging with others, including drawing boundaries for how his own writing is shared.
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In Manatee's very first blog post, she relates how a My Little Pony concept aptly described parts of her in finding direction in her life.
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str六tch has a virtual conversation with himself in the wake of meeting someone new, a person reaching out via email.
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Alberto contemplates how Poe's four conditions for happiness coincides with his innate beliefs about how to live life.
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Popular Forum Topics of the Month
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Some community members are playing a browser-based virtual pet site. Velvet started this post. Nostalgic!
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starbreaker shared this blog entry that discussed the difficulty of finding this side of the web.
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n3verm0re asked for folks' perspectives on what happened to a former retroweb/web revival community no longer around.
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Manu shared an article making the rounds online about overpopulation.
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