Words are very necessary. Notes on building a dictionary

Never again.

«That’s what I would like to say to my daughter, my granddaughter, peers of my daughter and granddaughter: Do not be indifferent.» ☞ Marian Turski, Auschwitz Survivor

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Agenda Intro Tech & Code Feature Outlook

Disclaimer While I am working on this project it is not a project that is made for a privileged white dude. I just lent my expertise

What is Self-Defined?

Words about people

«Self-Defined seeks to provide more inclusive, holistic, and fluid definitions to reflect the diverse perspectives of the modern world.» ☞ Tatiana Mac www.selfdefined.app

www.selfdefined.app

Building Blocks

A dictionary is more than words 🙀

index.html 963 lines of code

Let humans focus on the definitions

Eleventy A simpler static site generator Invented by Zach Leatherman

Collections Automated collections by tags

Filtered by glob: filters getAll()

Filters & Shortcodes Thats it for Eleventy Link to courses and docs in the slides

Basic Definition Content

There are some things we haven’t yet covered

Advanced Definition Content Front Matter

Flags Visual clues helping to categorise words

Alternative words

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Table of Content

«this will not be remembered as the best code i’ve written.» ☞ Me github.com/tatianamac/selfdefined/blob/master/.eleventy.js#L80 It’s liberating that users won’t suffer from it

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Skip in ToC

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Feature Outlook

Self-Definitions Add your definition of you

API

Twitter Bot Slack-Bot …

Inclusive Contribution Workflow Lowering the barriers to entry

Outro

Ways to help Contribute

Ways to help Sponsor Tatiana

Ways to help Volunteer writing, design, dev help

Re-define the world Speak up. Act up. Dict just a small part

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Danke. Oscar Braunert Thank you. www.ovl.design o@ovl.design @_ovlb Merci. code & design спасибо. ♡