events/2022-11-30-hwc-europe

Homebrew Website Club Europe/London was an IndieWeb meetup on Zoom held on 2022-11-30.

• Archived from: https://etherpad.indieweb.org/jmFQwdH5_aQnqjCso0RB

Participants

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• capjamesg
• William Kearney
• Mark Sutherland
• Add yourself here… (see this for more details)

Notes

• Using emacs lisp as a client for writing websites
  • Writing in the same interface as the code and all of the web admin work
• Creating posts in WordPress
  • IndieBlocks as a way to add blocks to WP (https://en-gb.wordpress.org/plugins/indieblocks/)
• Webmentions
  • Content presentation: https://breakfastand.coffee/200_Degrees_Coffee_(Leeds)_-_Leeds
• Semantic search on personal websites
  • https://radimrehurek.com/gensim/
• demo of word2vec + drawing: https://www.enderverse.org/notes/mathgarden.html (inspired by semantica)
  • Semantica by Paul Bricman: https://paulbricman.com/thoughtware/semantica
• Ben's blog: https://benatkin.com/
• Microformats validators
  • https://pin13.net/mf2
  • https://python.microformats.io/
• Embracing POSSE on one's personal websitet
  • You can host your site as a Mastodon server: https://fed.brid.gy/
• https://hazelweakly.me/blog/scaling-mastodon/
• web hosting where it is unlikely to get kicked out: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NearlyFreeSpeech
  • running your own website server: https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/ (i like this a lot - ender)
• I think https://runyourown.social/ is probably the future of social networking (small networks, less than 100 people)
  • I (James) _loves_ this!
• There's a lot of conflation between Mastodon, IndieWeb, the Fediverse
  • Is Mastodon a fad? It's the new thing.
• Low Tech Magazine's solar powered website: https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/

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