events/2025-02-05-hwc-pacific
Homebrew Website Club - Pacific was an IndieWeb meetup on Zoom held on 2025-02-05.
- Archived from: https://etherpad.indieweb.org/2025-02-05-hwc-pacific
Participants
David Shanske
Reilly Spitzfaden https://reillyspitzfaden.com/- Template:VinceAggrippino
Anthony Ciccarello https://www.ciccarello.me
Ross A. Baker https://rossabaker.com/
pcarrier.com https://pcarrier.com
lqdev.me https://www.lqdev.me
benji https://benji.dog
Pablo Morales
Tracy Durnell- Add yourself here⦠(see this for more details)
Notes
Joe Crawford: unable to join but encourages all to consider a submission to this month's indieweb carnival https://artlung.com/affirmations-ic/ and prior carnival listings and Roundup posts have been reformatted IndieWeb_Carnival#List_Of_Past_IndieWeb_Carnivals_&_Hosts
Omnibear Demo
Anthony Ciccarello demonstrated progress on Omnibear
- Domain and GitHub repo have been transferred
- Now able to login to the extension
- Posting partially works though there are lots of bugs
- micropub Is the API that powers posting
Eleventy Code Demo
Reilly demod code for displaying webmentions in Eleventy as well as some issues that were debugged in the group.
- https://reillyspitzfaden.com/posts/2025/01/databending-part-1/
- https://github.com/CodeFoodPixels/eleventy-plugin-webmentions
- https://reillyspitzfaden.com/posts/2025/01/displaying-webmentions/
- https://www.11ty.dev/docs/plugins/fetch/
for eleventy 3, move to ES modules:
const foo = require("bar") β import foo from "bar";
module.exports = function() β¦ β export default function() β¦
had to also change to .mjs to get it to work with Eleventy
Owncast livestream
lqdev.me: Shared self-hosted livestream set up with Owncast
- Live stream page: https://www.lqdev.me/live
- Recordings page: https://www.lqdev.me/streams
- Deployment writeup: https://www.lqdev.me/posts/deploy-owncast-azure/
Owncast is intended mainly for live streaming. PeerTube is intended to be a YouTube alternative and includes some live stream capabilities. PeerTube.tv instance quotas - https://peertube.tv/about/instance Is PeerTube a service or software? The answer is yes. There are instances run by other folks you can join but you can also self-host. Owncast for music collective that Meljoann is a member of: https://stream.gravitons.org/
Validating Links
- Hyperlink: command-line link checker
- https://crates.io/crates/hyperlink
- Tastes great in CI
- Comes with a GitHub Action
- I run it in Nix: http://rossabaker.com/configs/website/build/#nix-derivation
- Pairs nicely with html5validator: https://github.com/svenkreiss/html5validator/
Git
- git-lfs: Git Large File Storage
- Git hosting alternatives:
- Self-hosted
- Gitea: https://about.gitea.com/
- Forgejo: https://forgejo.org/
- is a fork of Gitea
- Public
- Codeberg: https://codeberg.org/
- runs Forgejo!
- Sourcehut: https://sourcehut.org/
- Codeberg: https://codeberg.org/
- The future
- Federation! https://forgefed.org/
- Self-hosted
Creative Websites
- Sophia Wood's sites
- https://annoying.one/ - It's not annoying
- https://www.streamof.me/birds/
- https://sluggly.art/
- https://bobbles.art/
- Fontself - Font maker app for iPad https://www.fontself.com/
- Netlify just sent me a $104k bill for a simple static site
RSS Feeds
- RSS ideas - https://daverupert.com/2018/01/welcome-to-rss-club/
- Converting Latex to images: https://www.noamross.net/archives/2012-04-04-math-in-rss-feeds/
- Converting between feed formats https://granary.io/
- RSS reader stats: https://darekkay.com/blog/rss-subscriber-count/
- Is it okay to request that a site enable RSS?
- Anthony Ciccarello has done it before
- Some don't like RSS for privacy or monetization reasons, but it's okay to ask
Tools for Micropub
- https://github.com/benjifs/micropub
- Can be deployed to netlify to create markdown files for posts on a static website
- Anthony Ciccarello uses this config to write the file format for his indiekit micropub endpoint https://github.com/aciccarello/ciccarello-indiekit/blob/main/lib/formatFile.js
- Decap CMS is a web app that can create github PRs
- Anthony Ciccarello uses a fork of a netlify plugin to send webmentions https://github.com/aciccarello/netlify-plugin-webmentions
- Anthony Ciccarello used Sparkles tonight to post a reply to David's site
Designs for Lists
- Anthony Ciccarello list pages
- Similar map view on his site listing points https://www.ciccarello.me/travel/2024/mexico/
- Post lists could be inspiration e.g. https://www.ciccarello.me/posts/ https://denver.ciccarello.me/posts/
- benji examples
- Other inspiration
- https://kevquirk.com/watches
- https://d.rsms.me/stuff/
- https://www.trovster.com/photos
- https://midcenturyclassical.com/
- https://littapes.melanie-richards.com/
- https://dominikhofer.me/posts -- very simple list of posts, but styled nicely
- https://penguinseriesdesign.com/ -- I like the block hover effect
- https://www.booksabout.food/ -- this presents a bunch of "lists" in visually different ways
- https://www.susanjeanrobertson.com/photos/ -- grid of photos with titles and dates
Music recommendations
- Share your song recs with Pablo Morales - https://lifeofpablo.com/lists/song-recommendations
- Apple Music does not have good recommendations compared to Spotify
- Record club is a new site for sharing music recs
- benji has invite codes (please remove if used)
Social Book and Movie Clubs
- Run your own social
- https://marksuth.dev/posts/2025/02/indieweb-movie-club-feb-2025-romeo-juliet
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_films_based_on_Romeo_and_Juliet
- https://www.losfrikismovie.com/
Other
- https://tracydurnell.com/ -- updated all my typography
- Pablo Morales 's bus ride is getting weiirddd