October 31, 2024 Newsletter

The excitement for Halloween is infectious around this side of the web, and we're no exception in the 32-Bit Cafe. We're coming to your inbox with this special Spooky Edition of the 32-Bit Bytes.

 

The 32-Bit Cafe's Halloween event was a smashing success! With four different ways to participate, folks of all skill levels were able to submit an entry. View the participants below in the Community Bulletins.

 

Our next planned event is our annual year-end holidays event in December, so be sure to join in the festivities! Be sure to follow along on our Announcements forum (which also has an RSS feed!) for any community announcements.

 

This month, we also held our first Webweaving Workshop, a Zoom call made up of many webweavers, web design hobbyists, of all skill levels. Thank you again to Jay and James for running this one! Keep an eye out for the next workshop, which will be announced soon.

 

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.

Our Halloween event this year was organized by one of our Event Planners, Xo. Thank you so much to it for building the amazing page, the gazette, and wrangling all of the submissions. Amazing job to everyone!

Manuel asked the community to help brainstorm feature or experience ideas for something he's calling Blogkit as an easy starter kit for folks to set up self-hosted blogs. Have any ideas? He's all ears!

James and Jay hosted our first workshop on October 6. It lasted about an hour to talk all things personal websites. These notes were taken from that workshop, in case you're interested! There are links that were shared and discussed in the workshop.

 

In the future, we hope to have more of these at various time zones to accommodate others all over the globe with smaller groups.

Stickers are available to purchase in our Ko-fi shop, with more coming, as a way to raise funds for our self-hosted projects and services for our community and the personal web at large. We also have pins coming soon!

We want to raise money to be able to offer more services, do more projects, and give more things to this side of the web. Thanks to folks already donating, we've been able to prioritize some upcoming guides and services.

Moxie's personal site is a mix of Lisa Frank and Xena, both visually and characteristically. Her experience as a New Zealander in The Netherlands intersects with her identity as an outspoken bisexual and disabled woman to give a bit of personality and refreshing perspective in all she does. Moxie is unapologetically herself, and her rants are entertaining to read. Check out her Kvetch! section.

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?

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 hobbies and lives of our community members, a snapshot in time of them. These blog entries have been submitted to our community blogroll.

Emma shares her interest in birding with us to inspire others to take up the hobby.

Manu discusses the role of curation after a web promoting the act of creation for so long.

Courtney tells us what's in a name; how he's learned to accept and love himself.

Lucio dissects how modern filmmaking differs from older media, especially in length and narrative.

Yordi explains the concept of "rubber duck debugging," and how it. can help anyone learning something new.

Krish gives us a life update, detailing a recent diagnosis that has changed her perspective and how she looks at herself.

Accountability Club

xandra is looking for accountability buddies that can hold each other to tasks and hobby things we want to do!

Annual Halloween Art Collab

sunpop put out a call for collaborators in an artist-driven Halloween event that happens every year!

What feeling are you trying to evoke?

Xo's QOTW to the community was: "What feeling are you trying to evoke with your website?"

Publish Once, Syndicate Nowhere

manuelmorale shared a blog post discussing the often-repeated "POSSE" system within the indieweb.

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