Discord Gems in Emergent Tech 🔗
Examples of emergent tech servers managed by larger companies and smaller communities worth checking out [...]
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Github Universe 2024: Open Source Fundraising Notes 🔗
I went to github universe 2024 [...]
List of Community Podcasts 🔗
A list of Community Podcasts that you can check out [...]
Advanced Discord Tactics 🔗
Discord is a powerful tool for community building and collaboration. Here are some advanced tactics to consider for your own use. [...]
Running Llamafile on RP5 🔗
experiment running Llamafile on Raspberry Pi 5 [...]
Cards Prototyping buildspace s5 🔗
first passes at prototyping card interactions for buildspace s5 nights and weekends [...]
Member Organized Events in Discord 🔗
How can you make the most out of your server's built in events calendar and empower members to get together in a scalable way? [...]
Community Programming Mini Case Study: Build Space 🔗
Learning through a participants eyes to step up my community programming game with build space. [...]
Build Space S5 Nights and Weekends 🔗
decided to challenge myself to create more in my free time [...]
Managing Discord Events 🔗
Quick walk through for managing events in Discord [...]
Escaping the App Store with Progressive Web Apps 🔗
App stores deliver a ton of value to developers but there are many circumstances where they fail to serve the needs of people and technologist. Progre [...]
Wordcamp Asia 2024 🔗
Notes on my experience at Wordcamp Asia 2024 [...]
Looking Back on My Work with Hubs 🔗
Reflections on contributions to the Hubs project and my work with Hubs [...]
Making Snippets in VSCode 🔗
Why did I wait so long to automate a lot of the things I commonly do in my blog? I don't know. Hopefully this quick post will help some people not mak [...]
Internet Safety Test 🔗
How savvy are you at navigating the complexities of Internet safety? Here is a quick AI generated quiz to go over some basics [...]
Creating a More Immersive Spatial Web 🔗
How can the user experience improve for websites that support spatial elements? [...]
You Can Have an Open Source Personal Assistant in 2024 🔗
Smart assistants should be more than just heavily commercialized products, we need private, conversational assistants that can genuinely help us get t [...]
Internet Marketing Jargon Genius: Digital Marketing Badge 🔗
Test your knowledge of digital marketing terms in a light-hearted quiz. Sign in or play for fun, and see if you can earn a whimsical badge! [...]
Top Spatial Web Posts of 2023 🔗
a collection of my most viewed posts related to the spatial web for 2023 [...]
Building Collaborative Products with Community 🔗
Tips for your collaborative community projects [...]
Paths to Augmented Reality on the Web 🔗
Want to start building AR on the web? There are many nuanced tools, frameworks, and libraries to consider. Here are my notes on them for you to save t [...]
We are Legally Required to Store Your Home Address 🔗
Shouldn't we have a right to privacy of our personal information when we explicity ask for it? [...]
Default Apps 2023 🔗
List of the apps I'm using at the moment [...]
Introducing Badges 🔗
Adding a new features for people who sign up to support the blog [...]
Adding Web Mentions 🔗
adding web mentions, a standard to integrate social media interactions into this blog [...]
Ai Horizons Meetup 🔗
Santa Cruz Works Event Notes [...]
5 Ways Online Communities Fail and What We Can Do About It 🔗
Let's try to understand what makes communities fail and what we can do to help prevent failure [...]
Getting Started with Open Source 🔗
Finding a way into open source: sometimes the best project is the one that you start yourself [...]
CMX 2023 BreadCrumbs 🔗
A collection of bite-sized tactics and tips for community managers from CMX speakers [...]
Skool Explainer: Community Platform for Paid and Free Communities 🔗
Quick description of Skool with a few observations [...]
Plant Biology Website Part One 🔗
How can we supplement educational websites with interactive immersive AR? [...]
Make Remote Fun with these Web Tools 🔗
Remote tools to make remote fun. [...]
Spinning Cubes 🔗
practice creating interactive immersive AR [...]
GPT 4 vs Claude 2 🔗
What are you? I asked ChatGPT and Claude 2 to define themselves [...]
Growing Contributions through Community 🔗
Discover strategies to foster a vibrant community and boost contributions to your open-source initiative. [...]
Exploring Natuerlich: A Revolutionary Interaction Library for the Spatial Web 🔗
Trying out Natuerlich, a webAR interaction kit from coconut-xr [...]
Building with People: Talk by Katie O'Connell and Bailey Richardson 🔗
Notes from a presentation by Katie O'Connell and Bailey Richardson [...]
Our Inaugural Meetup: Monterey Bay Tech Meetup 🔗
Notes and links from our first Monterey Bay Tech Meetup [...]
Building Community with Discord 🔗
Getting started with building communities with Discord [...]
A World of Possibilities and Perils 🔗
recap of things I learned from the panel [...]
Why WebXR: A Web Dev Niche that Could Explode 🔗
What are the advantages of building VR/AR/MixedReality on the web? [...]
Announcing the Monterey Bay Tech Meetup 🔗
Creating a new space for tech professionals and enthusiasts [...]
Southwest Florida VR AR Meetup 🔗
Presentation: The Immersive Web and Building 3d Social Spaces with Hubs. Slides and info from Southwest Florida AR/VR meetup [...]
Building a Web Aquarium Part One 🔗
I want an aquarium in real life but don't have the space so I'm building one for my blog instead. [...]
Sam's Chilli 🔗
AR enabled Chilli recipe from VR vetern Sam Watts [...]
AR Recipe Example 🔗
Example of what pass-through could enable on simple recipe sites [...]
360 Videos in Hubs 🔗
Discover how to use 360 videos in Mozilla Hubs and explore the potential of Spoke and the Blender Add-on. [...]
Taipei XR Meetup 2023 🔗
Presentation: Immersive Web and Mozilla Hubs. Slides and info from the Taipei XR meetup [...]
Celebrating the Immersive Web in 2023 🔗
Taking a look at a few of the entries for this years Poly Awards, an award show for webXR and considering the future of the immersive web [...]
Introducing the Clapper Feature 🔗
The first special feature I built for this blog: The Clapper! [...]
Hubs Hacks 🔗
A collection of features and hacks I built with Mozilla Hubs [...]
Van Gogh AR Gallery Fundraiser 🔗
Using AR.js to create a novelty AR gallery experience for fundraiser dinner guests. [...]
UX Design Podcasts to Get You Thinking 🔗
There are a ton of UX design-related podcasts out there but these three consistently have stayed in my playlist throughout the past few years. [...]