events/2025-03-05-hwc-europe
Homebrew Website Club Europe/London was an IndieWeb meetup on Zoom held on 2025-03-05.
- Archived from: https://etherpad.indieweb.org/2025-03-05-hwc-europe
Participants
capjamesg: https://jamesg.blogJoe Crawford
zacharykai
Paul Watson
Mark Sutherland
mandaris- Template:pjg1
- Template:carrvo
benji
joBrandon Pugh
- ... add names
Notes
- Welcome to HWC!
- This month: IndieWeb Movie Club https://artlung.com/whatsupdoc-imc/
- IndieWeb Carnival March: https://lifeofpablo.com/blog/self-expression-indieweb-carnival-march-2025
- "Meow-tml"
- James once wrote a programming language called "Kittyscript"
- "More opportunities for feline programming opportunities."
- https://github.com/cdiggins/cat-language
- https://www.99-bottles-of-beer.net/language-cat-1983.html
- Topic of discussion: cats
- Neighbourhood cats
- Feeling more inspired - https://www.lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/artists-notebook/posts/some-notes-on-recent-in-activity
- Spring is here!
- What we are doing on our website
- Michael: Writing blog posts
- Manny: Removing analytics from website
- Brandon: Looking into Webmentions.
- Blogging is self-expression
- A potential topic to explore for: https://lifeofpablo.com/blog/self-expression-indieweb-carnival-march-2025
- "Writing into the void"
- Articulating your thoughts is always useful
- It can be nice to have readers who give feedback / start conversations
- https://tracydurnell.com/2024/12/01/gift-to-the-indie-web-i-will-edit-your-blog-post/
- There are services for authors of books to get reviews and feedback
- https://www.netgalley.com/
- https://booksirens.com/
- In the event I attended today they described writers exchanging manuscripts for feedback as "beta readers"
- https://turner.enemyterritory.org/user/carrvo/index
- could use comparisons for workflow: https://turner.enemyterritory.org/shared/repo/user/carrvo/webpages/Journey-to-MIndie.html
- (sign in as anonymous and the link will explain more as to why that limitation is there)
- James note: I really should get back to my HTML element of the day project.
- Being open to edit others' blog posts?
- James has found it helpful to share blog posts with people to build confidence that something is worth publishing.
- James has https://jamesg.blog/starbucks too!
- People offering feedback
- You can email any of the people below to ask for feedback on a blog post (if you attended the meeting):
- Zachary - https://zacharykai.net
- James - https://jamesg.blog
- Manny - https://mandarismoore.com
- Mike spotted something on his walk yester that reminded him of James: https://imgur.com/a/MC2W9uK Zoom in.
- Oat review blog - "oat-vote.com"
- Dual language websites
- Brandon has English and Spanish on his website
- Some browers have automatic translation features that users can enable
- Q: When you translate posts, does it make you think more about the post contents?
Thinking about removing box shadow filters
- https://dgerrells.com/blog/how-not-to-use-box-shadows
- https://css-tricks.com/breaking-css-box-shadow-vs-drop-shadow/
- https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/box-shadow
- inset came up
- The web is viewed in all kinds of different ways; by people in light mode, dark mode; people with full vision, partially sighted, blind; people on a train, people at home.
- It is unlikely your website will be seen by everyone exactly in the way you design.
- Cookies, bread rolls, and regional understandings of concepts
- Jaffa Cakes were determined to be a cake in the eyes of the US authorities by proving that the food went hard when stale rather than soft.
- https://myanimelist.net/anime/28/Yakitate_Japan
- Challenge: come up with a song that embodies your favourite web browser.
- "Surfin' Safari" Beach Boys (Joe in California)
- Front End Study Hall Front_End_Study_Hall
- Next event next week https://events.indieweb.org/2025/03/front-end-study-hall-023-WmHNZ7nKEp1Z
- Michael demo'd a Star Trek cup where the characters fade/show as warm water is added / water cools.
- The first webcam was of a coffee pot https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trojan_Room_coffee_pot
- https://benji.dog/wikipedia
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Getting_to_Philosophy
- Does the IndieWeb wiki have an equivalent? Webmention page?
- https://www.sixdegreesofwikipedia.com/
- https://www.sixdegreesofwikipedia.com/?source=kevin+bacon&target=Philosophy
- https://www.sixdegreesofwikipedia.com/?source=coffee&target=IndieWebCamp
- "Found 189 paths with 4 degrees of separation from Coffee to IndieWebCamp in 4.14 seconds!"
- You can, for example, get from IWC to Coffee by: IndieWebCamp -> Lightning talk -> Aristotle -> Europe -> Coffee
- "plonk"
- https://github.com/crgimenes/neko
- "cat" google easter egg
- James' equivalent would be clicking and leaving a coffee stain
- "cat" google easter egg
- plonk http://catb.org/jargon/html/P/plonk.html
- It's still in Wiktionary! https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/plonk
- Internet Archive last copy before deletion: https://web.archive.org/web/20210804203828/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plonk_(Usenet)
- Interestingly, Etherpad doesn't include the last ) in the link, so you have to add it manually.
- Auto-linker bug. Classic.
- Interestingly, Etherpad doesn't include the last ) in the link, so you have to add it manually.
- Book that uses "plonk" in prose without defining it: https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Rough_Guide_to_the_Internet/umvBESswHH8C?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=plonk+usenet&pg=PA242&printsec=frontcover
- Letterboxd imports into our websites
- You can parse the RSS and upload to your website
- If you follow an RSS feed and a Mastodon feed, you may see the contents twice.
- Do we have a wiki page on solving this problem?
- Related to responses but same idea applies to a feed: deduplication
- Do we have a wiki page on solving this problem?
- I posted a round up from the "Gardening" a few weeks ago IndieWeb Carnival prompt https://artlung.com/gardening-ic/
- Working on a round up from "Affirmations" carnival https://artlung.com/affirmations-ic/
- Trakt https://trakt.tv/
- Roman Numerals https://smorgasborg.artlung.com/roman-numerals/
- https://github.com/catleeball/tmnt_wikipedia_bot/
- I have to go but delightful to see you all! - Joe
- Tantek's blog post on cybersecurity tips is a great read: https://tantek.com/2025/052/b1/steps-indieweb-cybersecurity
- ActivityPub Docs for James
https://www.gov.uk/guidance/government-design-principles
- GDS blog: https://gds.blog.gov.uk/
- https://www.oregonlive.com/life-and-culture/g66l-2019/04/1f917301014453/short-beach-is-a-hidden-slice-of-paradise-on-the-oregon-coast.html
- IndieWebCamp on a beach
- IndieWeb-themed kite
- IndieWeb Bat Signal
- Nananananananananananananananana IndieWeb
- Re: Cricket and Raffles https://www.rafflesredux.com/ <- very great annotated Raffles
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