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Aaron Crowder

Hi, I'm Aaron Crowder. Or—if you know me online—CrowderSoup.

Father of two, Software developer, and lover of the open web. I like to take things apart (and sometimes even put them back together). I can frequently be found tinkering with some bit of code in my spare time.

Pronouns: He/Him, They/Them

Building all my own tools for posting to my website and sharing content on the internet was easily the best thing I've done in years. #IndieWeb all the things!!

Gardn'ing on the IndieWeb

Check out my Gardn page! It's a fun new website that let's you log in with your website! Very IndieWeb, lol. Each plant is unique based on your domain. I'm hoping to figure out how to give the plants more variety (and let users re-generate if they already signed up!), but who knows when lol. If you sign up (I can see a couple of you already!) please send me links to your Gardn page on your own websites!

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PADD Updates (last for a while!): Managing Channels and Feeds

Updates have been coming fast lately with PADD but that's just a function of the fact that everyone on the #IndieWeb seems to be obsessed with documentation. The wiki itself is a testament to that. I can almost always read a spec and translate that directly into features. That's what led to today's update, in fact! Updates Manage Channels Next to channels and at the bottom of the sidebar you'll spot some new buttons. These allow you to manage existing channels or add new channels. Manage Feed...

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HWC: Thoughts going in, and how I feel it went

I'm going to Homebrew Website Club Pacific in about 30 minutes. By the time you're reading this it will already be over though. I wanted to sit down before and write about how I think or hope it will go. Then I can write about how it actually went before I post. But Aaaron, how will we know you didn't just write this all after the fact to make yourself look good? Honestly, if this post ends up being anything but slighly cringe I'll be shocked. Nevertheless, here I sit to write. How will it...

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