For the fun of it! Personal Websites in a World of Commerce and AI

Duration
30 min
Format
Talk
Language
German, English
Audience
Beginners, Advanced

WordPress’s mission is to “democratize publishing”. But over the past few years, it has felt more like “democratize business websites”. That trend of personalisation is true for many CMS’. At the same time, AI tools – some more useful than others – are on the rise.

So how can we get back to our roots? How can we make the web a little smaller and more human again?

In this talk, we’ll look at the different facets of the open web, get to know examples from the IndieWeb, and explore how to put them into practice when building personal websites. All while rediscovering the fun of creating.

Speaker
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Simon Kraft
Product Person by day, WordPress vigilante by night
Simon has been an avid WordPress user since 2008. While working as a Product Manager in a Open Source security company, he also dabbles with writing blog posts and newsletters and talking in podcasts about WordPress. He is an active community member and spends quite some time organizing meetups and helping the community.