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Next #pdx Web Day is Sat March 7th, 12:30-5:30pm More info at https://reeds.website/2026/webday

When you sit down next to a stranger or a friend, and explore open, free websites built by human hands, you directly combat the fascist forces which would prefer we stayed separated.

It's real connection to each other and The World Wide Web.

So, come play a Flash game. Or click around a web ring. Dream of a future where this doesn't feel so weird, and make that future a reality with us.

#portland #web

Web Day!

In 2020, students of Melanie Hoff's Digital Love Languages wrote these. In the top right, the text "Playing two player browser games on the same keyboard." The only co-located one, which made sense in 2020's lock downs.

But how often do you share good screen and keyboard alongside a human today? That's the goal of Web Day.

Sat Jan 24th 2pm in #pdx https://reeds.website/2026/webday

Image from https://lovelanguages.melaniehoff.com/week-1-%e2%97%8c-orientation-2024/ surfed from one of @TodePond 's writings.

#portland #oregon #web #goodweb #SmallWeb

@absulit That's so slick! I wonder how much of CSS would work with your method without more special code like you did for fonts. Thanks for sharing your cleverness

For the new version of POINTS I'm adding a way to load an HTMLElement as a texture. I think it's a simple way to load a weird font asset without an atlas/spritesheet. Or basically anything in the DOM.

Top Left: HTML
Below: texture in the canvas.

https://github.com/Absulit/points

#webgpu #javascript #webdevelopment #webdev #gamedev #screenshotSaturday

@absulit 😮 So cool! How does this work? I'm totally stumped on how you'd get an image of an element like that. And it seems to have some transparency?

WEB DAY! A week from Saturday, on Jan 24th, 2-5pm, Albina Library Rm 2A.

Last time, we discovered how to play ANY Flash game from our childhoods and shared our nostalgic 2 player experiences together on one keyboard. Magical.

Then we surfed web rings, fed digital pets, and explored historic Portland data maps. What will we do this time at WEB DAY? Come find out!

#pdx #portland #www #event #indieweb #smolweb #web #adobeflash #FlashGames

@asci @elk Ah I see, yes those would all be better options than my idea of manually using the "Share" button. Thank you for the brainstorm!
@asci I was thinking simpler. I see links to other instances posted all the time. I want to open them on my home instance (or other instance of my choosing) immediately. Maybe there's a right way to do this, but everytime I click one of these links, it opens in their instance where I'm not logged in
@asci Really cool! I wonder if you could go the other way. Make this a PWA so I can "Share" any URL I find in the wild to it, and then it gives me a button to open this in my home instance? I don't know if that's possible, but I'd find that incredibly useful.

@pasimako Thank you! Reading said dissertation now and this is a perfect complement.

> state transitions must be driven by client selection of server-provided choices that are ... implied by the user’s manipulation of those representations.

I wonder what does it mean to be "implied by manipulation" of representations? Maybe e.g. filling out a form? I wonder what other ways that might happen.

This is an alternative to just selecting a provided choice e.g. clicking a link, I think