The DIY Web Where we are, how we got here and where we can go @brob bryanlrobinson.com

Who am I? • • Front-end Developer and Designer • Free-agent Dev advocate (CSS and JAMstack) • • • Host: That’s My JAMstack Been doing this web thing about 14 years Cloudinary MDE Egghead Instructor bryanlrobinson.com

Dirty Secret I have a degree in Philosophy bryanlrobinson.com

I LOVE bookstores bryanlrobinson.com

Here I am at a bookstore This is just a re-enactment bryanlrobinson.com

Where are the Web books? In Technology bryanlrobinson.com

By the Business books… And this makes me sad bryanlrobinson.com

Why so blue panda bear? Why the hell does this matter? bryanlrobinson.com

Here’s the problem: Language can affect perception bryanlrobinson.com

This is Linguistic Relativism bryanlrobinson.com

The Russian Blues • Goluboy (light blue) vs. Sinoy (dark blue) • First study (2007 by Lera Boroditsky) to determine differences between shades • Second study (2018 by Martin Maier and Rasha Rahman) to determine if these color words aided other perceptions Sources: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/our-language-affects-what-we-see/ https://www.pnas.org/content/104/19/7780 https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0956797618782181 bryanlrobinson.com

What does this categorization tell us? bryanlrobinson.com

Technology is only valuable in the sense of business bryanlrobinson.com

This is where we are. bryanlrobinson.com

How did we get here? bryanlrobinson.com

1990s • The Web is born. • Sir Tim Berners-Lee creates HTML, HTTP, and the World Wide Web Browser • Starts off for academics • Moves on to geeks of the world! bryanlrobinson.com

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Space Jam When no one cares, you can do amazing things bryanlrobinson.com

Where did we go “wrong?” bryanlrobinson.com

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  1. Surviving Dot-com companies bryanlrobinson.com

What can we do? Make things for ourselves; Encourage others; Change the narrative @brob bryanlrobinson.com

The dream of the 90s is alive on JAMstack bryanlrobinson.com

Apps, blogs, whatever bryanlrobinson.com

Build your own bookmarker https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2019/10/bookmarking-application-faunadb-netlify-11ty/ bryanlrobinson.com

It’s yours to customize bryanlrobinson.com

Personal weight loss app https://timbenniks.nl/writings/fatty-is-alive/ bryanlrobinson.com

Build your own weather checker https://dev.to/moigonzalez/show-dev-raspberrypi-weather-fuelled-by-netlify-functions-and-preact-bne bryanlrobinson.com

Own your resumé https://mxb.dev/blog/eleventy-resume-builder/ bryanlrobinson.com

Own your content https://personalsit.es/ bryanlrobinson.com

What’s the biggest issue? We’re missing voices. @brob bryanlrobinson.com

Teach someone! Help someone build a fan site even if it’s “just” HTML bryanlrobinson.com

Everyone has a passion https://bryanlrobinson.com/blog/bring-fansites-back-to-the-web/ bryanlrobinson.com

Let’s go forward in a DIY web • Build something not for 💰 • Own your personal brand 🤗 • Teach someone $ % bryanlrobinson.com

Want to argue? • • • Twitter: @brob Twitch: twitch.tv/bryanlrobinson Personal Site: bryanlrobinson.com bryanlrobinson.com