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Climate Week NYC & Build a Website in an Hour

2023-10-03 by Pablo Morales

This post was written in en

Climate Week NYC & Build a Website in an Hour

Let's talk about climate change by building a Website.

Background Information

A few weeks ago I attended Climate Week NYC in New York City. It was such a great time listening to all the great talks and participating in different activities such as driving a Lucid electric car with my friends. It got to meet such amazing people (and networked) who are in the climate change space. It made me step back an realize how much time we have lost not fighting the environment and how we only have a limited time to speed up on our actions.

It was nice to be in a place full of public transportation and get my steps in. I was also wired on Matcha Lattes to keep up with the revolving door of events occuring all at once.

Getting Around to Building the Website

I've been meaning to build a website for a quick summary of my adventures in the city. I finally found the perfect day to do it. I finally was able attended a Build a Website in an Hour event. Thank you James G for hosting this event!

Just as the name of the event states, I built (most) of the website in an hour. It was fun and challenging because of the following:

  1. I didn't have a plan on how this site was going to look
  2. It was a challenge to get the site made in an hour. Talk about pressure
  3. I got to hangout with people in the IndieWeb.
  4. Show off the adventures I went on.

Where is this site located?

This website is located at https://climateweeknyc.lifeofpablo.com .

Technologies Used

This website was made using vanilla HTML & CSS. I used Tachyions CSS Framework for the CSS. I use it on my website, primarily on my blog, to change the appearance of my posts. I like this CSS framework because is it doesn't interfere with existing CSS frameworks or existing CSS stylesheets. The classes are easy to learn

A Breakdown of the Site

Hero Banner

Hero Banner Green

Description:
A green hero banner with a navigation. It says "NYC Climate Week 2023" and "A Wakeup Call About Climate Change"

Other Sections Include:

  • Introduction
  • Attendees
  • Events Attended
  • Photos

Webmentions

This site supports webmentions!

Closing

I hope you enjoy the website! Let me know if you have any comments, questions or concerns. Don't forget to say, "hello"!

IndieWeb Carnival October 2023 - Self Care and Routine

2023-10-01 by Pablo Morales

This post was written in en

IndieWeb Carnival October 2023 - Self-Care and Routine

Taking Care of Yourself is Important

This month I am hosting this month's IndieWeb Carnival on self-care and routine. Anyone and everyone is welcome to participate in the carnival.

What is self-care ?

"a multidimensional, multifaceted process of purposeful engagement in strategies that promote healthy functioning and enhance well-being." [1]

"Self-care means taking care of yourself so that you can be healthy, you can be well, you can do your job, you can help and care for others, and you can do all the things you need to and want to accomplish in a day." [2]

There is no one size fits all model for everyone. People's backgrounds such as culture, spiritual beliefs, life experiences, etc influence how self-care is practices. It could also be proactive or reactive. There is no right or wrong way of doing this.

Self-Care in the Digital Age

We live in age where we are always connected online. This also adds complexities balancing our lives. Setting boundaries isn't just limited to people. Being always connected to the web is also taxing on our mental health.

How Am I performing Self-Care ?

Learning self-care has been something I've been working on a lot this year. It has been something I neglected for many, many years. It has helped me be more aligned and be more connected with myself. Finding a self-care routine isn't exactly a straight line to follow. I'm still finding ways to better improve my routine. It's been important to adjust as I go because it's a continious learning process. Some things worked a few months ago and now it isn't working as well before.

  • Setting boundaries with myself and people
  • Actually find time for myself and appreciate alone time.
  • Actually address insecurities
  • Excercise such as running or biking.
  • Disconnect from digital devices as needed
  • Picking up new hobbies such as hacky sack.

I invite you to write a post on self-care.

Here are some prompts to help you get started or to build off of this post.

  • What type of self-care routines do partake in?
  • What are some hard realizations once you started to take care of yourself?
  • How do you incorporate self-care in difficult times?
  • What has been your journey in reaching self-care and your routines.
  • How does your self-care routine differ during the week vs the weekend/going on holiday?
  • How do you take care of yourself.
  • Do you check in with yourself too make sure your self-care routine is keeping up with your needs?

I will create a roundup post on the 1 November 2023 on all the responses I recieve. I will post on Indieweb News

Send me your responses via:

If you would like to host a future monthly IndieWeb Carnival, please check out the details on the IndieWeb Wiki.

This post has been syndicated to IndieWeb News.

IndieWeb Carnival September 2023: My Kind of Weather

2023-09-25 by Pablo Morales

This post was written in en

This post is in reponse to Jeremy Cherfas' IndieWeb Carnival September 2023: My Kind of Weather .

Thank you for hosting this month's carnival!

Snow Weather Thought #034

Growing up in the Midwest I used to complain about the snow. Now that I am far from it, I do realize it's my kind of weather.

Appreciating the things taken for granted

Growing up in the Midwestern region of the United States (or commonly known as the Midwest) I was so used to irritable weather. What I mean by irritable weather was facing, "four seasons in one week." You're probably thinking the following: "How is this possible?" It simply does! If you know, you know. Here are a few examples (No particular order)

One day it can be a nice spring day with all the flowers blooming being happy as can be.

The following day you could wake up to find out that there is a blizzard in effect.

A few days, it could be scorching hot and wondering how we got here?

The last few days of the week, it could be a beautiful, soothing fall day and you forget about the weather tragedies of earlier of the week.

As chaotic as it sounds, I do miss it. I do miss sometimes not knowing if I will melt one day or be trapped in my home for many days at a time. My favorite is knowing if my home would fly away in a tornado. As silly and boring the topic of weather is, it is also a bonding activity with people who live in this region. It's almost a pastime knowing we could just die at any minute.

If I were to pick a favorite season, it would be winter. Are you in shock? Even I don't believe it. I do miss dressing up all nice for the winter. Who doesn't like wearing cute winter outfits. If were going to suffer in the cold we might as well look our best!

I moved to California to live in a different place and subconsciously to escape the cold. In Northern California it is generally just hot here all the time. I do miss having season changes. Geography and location tends to influence the type of weather or climate one lives in.

You can take the person out of the midwest but you can't take the Midwestern out of the person.

Also posted on IndieNews

Solar Powered Water Heater

2023-08-02 by Pablo Morales

This post was written in en

A photo of a solar water heater with tubes

I was roaming around giving myself the tour of the house that we live in. I started at the bottom and made my way to the roof. I noticed something I wasn't expecting, a solar power water heater. I didn't know that solar water heater was installed. It works so nicely and it is environmentally friendly. I don't have to worry about using a liquid propane or gas heater to heat the water.

Go Green!