HTML in the park 2025
2025-07-07
Welcome to my first actual blog post! On Saturday I went to an event called HTML in the Park with UofT's Weblogging and Homebrew Website Club. I got there fashionably late but on the wrong side of the park so I spent awhile sitting under a tree near a group of twenty somethings that I thought might be the HTML in the park people. A few of them had computers, so I was reasonably confident, but I didn't want to crash their picnic if I was wrong. I messaged the club discord, where one of the execs told me he would be arriving soon with a black shoulder bag. And what do you know, at that moment, someone arrived with a black shoulder bag. I figured it couldn't be a coincidence, so I went up to him and asked if he was there for HTML in the park. He just stared at me. Turns out it was a coincidence after all. The actual HTML in the park group turned out to be on the other side of a big baseball field, and I eventually found them with the help of another club member.
I'd assumed beforehand we'd just be working on whatever projects we had going at the time, but I hadn't had time to think of a project to work on, so I was relieved to find out that we were supposed to make stuff from scratch. There was a list of prompts, including "How can a website move like the wind?" and "Make a website that the wildlife in this park would want to read." I quickly settled on making a website for a worm. You can view the result here. (I recommend viewing it on a laptop or desktop rather than mobile.) It's obviously very rudimentary, but I'm hoping to add new features. I would welcome suggestions from any worm or worm-adjacent readers (maybe open an issue on the repo?). I've decided I'll only be working on it while outside, so when it's less humid and gross outside I'll try to make it more interesting. (I've already broken this rule multiple times to try to fix all of the bugs, because it turns out when you code outside, a lot of bugs get into your code.)
Some of the more seasoned web developers made some really cool stuff. All the websites aren't up yet, but when they are, they'll be available at html.green. I submitted mine for consideration, and the person running the email graciously said, "If I was a worm I would be all about this website."
2025-07-07
Welcome to my first actual blog post! On Saturday I went to an event called HTML in the Park with UofT's Weblogging and Homebrew Website Club. I got there fashionably late but on the wrong side of the park so I spent awhile sitting under a tree near a group of twenty somethings that I thought might be the HTML in the park people. A few of them had computers, so I was reasonably confident, but I didn't want to crash their picnic if I was wrong. I messaged the club discord, where one of the execs told me he would be arriving soon with a black shoulder bag. And what do you know, at that moment, someone arrived with a black shoulder bag. I figured it couldn't be a coincidence, so I went up to him and asked if he was there for HTML in the park. He just stared at me. Turns out it was a coincidence after all. The actual HTML in the park group turned out to be on the other side of a big baseball field, and I eventually found them with the help of another club member.
I'd assumed beforehand we'd just be working on whatever projects we had going at the time, but I hadn't had time to think of a project to work on, so I was relieved to find out that we were supposed to make stuff from scratch. There was a list of prompts, including "How can a website move like the wind?" and "Make a website that the wildlife in this park would want to read." I quickly settled on making a website for a worm. You can view the result here. (I recommend viewing it on a laptop or desktop rather than mobile.) It's obviously very rudimentary, but I'm hoping to add new features. I would welcome suggestions from any worm or worm-adjacent readers (maybe open an issue on the repo?). I've decided I'll only be working on it while outside, so when it's less humid and gross outside I'll try to make it more interesting. (I've already broken this rule multiple times to try to fix all of the bugs, because it turns out when you code outside, a lot of bugs get into your code.)
Some of the more seasoned web developers made some really cool stuff. All the websites aren't up yet, but when they are, they'll be available at html.green. I submitted mine for consideration, and the person running the email graciously said, "If I was a worm I would be all about this website."