events/2024-08-11-hwc-eastern
Homebrew Website Club - Eastern was an IndieWeb meetup on Zoom held on 2024-09-11.
- Archived from: https://etherpad.indieweb.org/2024-09-11-hwc-eastern
Participants
- Marty McGuire
- Dr. Matt Lee
- dougbeal
- David Shanske
- Paul Watson (continuing from the London/Europe HWC)
- jo (continuing from the London/Europe HWC)
- capjamesg (continuing from the London/Europe HWC)
- Mark Sutherland (continuing from the London/Europe HWC)
- benji
- pcarrier.com
- Nick Simson
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Handed off from London/Europe! Their etherpad notes are here: https://etherpad.indieweb.org/2024-09-11-hwc-europe
Notes
- Our first hand-off between timezones like this?
- Will we make it to a handoff to HWC Pacific??
- how far can an HWC stretch?
- Dr. Matt Lee's Creative Commons hat. Yes, people have (tried to) appropriate it based on license!
- Staples has co-working spaces inside. At least in Boston.
- as a co-working member, get 10% off anything in the store!
- brother is a good printer
- audiobooks on tape
- GWG's keyboard wall is not in fact behind them
- 150gf activation force is "a workout"
- a split space bar is for layer-shifting, aka FN
- 40% keyboards with 2 function layers! https://pcarrier.com/planck
- Upcoming IWCs?
- 2024/Berlin Nov 9-10 adjacent to btconf
- Starbucks
- James lives in a small village but is a 20 minute walk to one!
- secret to success: the 2009 financial crash? (because people could afford _a_ coffee as a treat vs multiple beers)
- Coffee documentary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qY7_rNiz9BY
- GWG needs content inspo for more posts for his site
- Maybe join a blog carnival? blog_carnival#List_of_Blogging_Carnivals
- This month's IndieWeb Movie Club film is When Harry Met Sally
- Transit and public safety
- "See something? Say something." not quite as satisfying as "See it, Say it, Sorted."
- equal or better: the story of the Boston SIlver Line https://vimeo.com/40582561
- modern back to the future with a cybertruck?
- back to the future stage play
- mattl's wordpress to static tool https://github.com/mattl/wordpress-to-eleventy
- SiteSucker for Mac: https://ricks-apps.com/osx/sitesucker/index.html
- wordpress hosting challenges
- mattl has been merging multiple sites (as static sites, sometimes)
- WPEngine keeps WP up-to-date (nice!) but additional charges for everything (ouch!)
- Kirby (https://getkirby.com/)
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konami_Code
- https://marksuth.dev/ has the Konami code on their homepage
- mattl did this many years ago on https://en.windows7sins.org/
- live debugging for handling emoji in URLs
- https://neato.pub/
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