events/2025-01-22-hwc-pacific
Homebrew Website Club - Pacific was an IndieWeb meetup on Zoom held on 2025-01-22.
- Archived from: https://etherpad.indieweb.org/2025-01-22-hwc-pacific
Participants
David Shanske
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Joe Crawford
Anthony Ciccarello
Ross A. Baker
Reilly Spitzfaden
Pablo Morales
gRegor Morrill
Angelo Gladding
benji
Tracy Durnell
jo
- Add yourself here⦠(see this for more details)
Notes
- Vince is implementing webmentions
Ross A. Baker is handwringing about how to write a contact page for both techies and general Facebook contacts
Joe Crawford is considering migration options from WordPress, working on a number of website tools that are not public-facing the past few weeks. Tweaks and additions to https://lab.artlung.com/ https://smorgasborg.artlung.com/ and my own site https://artlung.com/
- Masto.host - https://masto.host/ (which is where I run https://thisbot.day/@affirmations on)
- David's goal is good conversations
Joe Crawford did a blog questions challenge:
- https://artlung.com/blog/2025/01/16/blog-questions-challenge/
- The questions prompted me to pick my favorite post, this one: https://artlung.com/blog/2005/08/02/mr-roth-caricature-1987/
David Shanske is assembling keyboards
- Domain hosting recommendations
- Three people like Namecheap as a registrar because it hasn't messed up
- https://github.com/octodns/octodns for managing DNS entries
- Vince's headset mic Steel Series Arctis top-of-the line from 5 years ago.
- Digression on Agile development processes
- Digression on expatriate, culture, social cohesion, immigration
Random link dump:
- https://www.spencerchang.me/window/ (love this one - Joe)
- https://leoneckert.com/ (ooh another example of showing others on a page by showing cursors!)
- https://brianfeeney.us/ - I like the color palettes on the writing page
- https://henry.codes/ - https://henry.codes/links/ is fun
- https://thehtml.review/03/ is really cool and linked from henry.codes (strong agreement - Joe)
- https://analog.melanie-richards.com/
A few more:
- https://lamaquinadeturing.su/en/
- Joe likes this post which rolls up several indieweb-adjacent posts: https://lamaquinadeturing.su/en/2024/08/the-case-for-a-better-web/
- https://blamensir.neocities.org/ this is amazing
- https://ellesho.me/page/ (isometric goodness!)
- IndieWeb_Movie_Club - this month it's "Ghost in the Shell" put on by
Al Abut
- Serial Experiments Lain - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial_Experiments_Lain (dense anime tv show)
- Mike's page of 100s of movie reviews (with a few TV series): https://michaelkupietz.com/?p=1956 - There's a favorites sections, for those wanting a quick list of my recommendations. Very heavy into horror flicks, but a little of a lot
- https://tracydurnell.com/2025/01/21/guiding-principles-for-my-website/
- https://tracydurnell.com/2025/01/09/sanding-off-friction-from-indie-web-connection/
- For the Friction IndieWeb Carnival (Jan 2025)
- Why city flags may be the worst-designed thing you've never noticed - Roman Mars
- Counterpoint: Indianapolis' is great: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Indianapolis
- https://www.citationneeded.news/i-am-my-own-legal-department/ by Molly White - on the perils of independent journalism and the risks of doing that
- Citizen Journalism - streaming information realtime during Occupy
- The shifting of credible truth from "papers of record" to "person with a blog"
- Walls between opinion and hard reporting
- Molly White has a newsletter while also having a personal site where she posse's content
- Newsletter started in 2022 under the name Whitespace newsletter
- "The TikTok ban, the Musk Twitter takeover, the Facebook moderation policy changes, the Republicansβ rapidly intensifying crackdowns on speech... let these be the proof you needed to move anything you care about online to a space you control.
Digital sovereignty is more important than ever." https://www.mollywhite.net/micro/entry/202501190959
- https://www.theverge.com/24312920/martial-law-south-korea-yoon-suk-yeol-protest-dispatch - by Sarah Jeong - journalism on Bluesky, by a journalist, but not on their beat
- Public Editor: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_editor "A public editor is a position existing at some news publications; the person holding this position is responsible for supervising the implementation of proper journalism ethics within that publication."
- another journalist publishing more personal-style reporting, crowd-funded - Anne Helen Petersen - https://annehelen.substack.com/
- https://zigzaggery.space/
- still listening but wont be able to talk -jo
- Who is this about? what guy in a coffeeshop? why did he get arrested???
- Silk Road founder - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ross_Ulbricht
- https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Popehat%27s%20Law%20of%20Goats
- https://futurism.com/trump-admin-accused-ai-executive-orders
- The LogOff https://www.vox.com/pages/logoff-newsletter-trump-administration-updates
- Re: 3 steps to cure cancer: 1. steal underpants. 2. ???? 3. profit
- "Neither Elon Musk Nor Anybody Else Will Ever Colonize Mars"
https://defector.com/neither-elon-musk-nor-anybody-else-will-ever-colonize-mars
- "Understanding DOGE as Procurement Capture" https://www.anildash.com/2025/01/04/DOGE-procurement-capture/
Re: star trek -- there is an episode of the orville where they go into how getting this technology that could eliminate hunger would not help a society that still operates on a system that benefits from people being poor
Side note from Jo: hate that theres a scifi discussion and i cant partake :^[ πΏ Sorry Jo!
- Michael's tool from years ago https://www.bsdetector.info/ - fact checking tool, searches reputable sites for information, and provides a bookmarklet to allow you to use it from any web page, plus the beginnings of a framework for independent distribution and self-hosting.
- Source https://github.com/kupietools/BS-Detector
- Note: Angelo asked about changing the search engines, and I just remembered, the search engines are not specified in the PHP code, but in the Google Custom Search Engine setup on Google. So to change the sites searched, you need to set up your own GCSE and replace it in the code.
- Erin Kissane's COVID Tracking Project mioght have been one of the entities calling Tracy at her public information role https://erinkissane.com/xoxo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FwM8HdOY-A