events/2023-06-21-hwc-europe

Homebrew Website Club Europe/London - 2023 half year in review special was an IndieWeb meetup on Zoom held on 2023-06-21.

• Archived from: https://etherpad.indieweb.org/HWC_Europe_2023-06-21

Participants

• Mark Sutherland
• capjamesg
• jo
• Sara Jakša
• Yousef Amar
• David Somers [omz13]
• Tantek Çelik
• Pablo Morales
• Add yourself here… (see this for more details)

Notes

• KitKats: how much kitkat is a kitkat?
  • should we have "units of kitkat"
• Changes to our personal sites in the past 6 months
• Digital "garden": gemini://astrobotany.mozz.us
• lagrange app - beta https://testflight.apple.com/join/UjdtSEhu
• my plant: gemini://astrobotany.mozz.us/public/8a631bca81da453bb3fd8b88f39f5510
• my (jo's) plant gemini://astrobotany.mozz.us/public/471fb2d381454bdba0f3d57bcad70763/m1
• indieweb-carnival
  • Originally idea came from the: https://carnivalofaros.wordpress.com
  • Another example in the similar space, that is also active: https://asexualagenda.wordpress.com/a-carnival-of-aces-masterpost/
• Yousef workflow: Obsidian -> Syncthing -> Eleventy -> https://yousefamar.com/memo/log/

https://wordpress.com/dailypost/

• • https://wordpress.com/dailypost/postaday/
• https://xkcd.com/327/
• https://www.deedpoll.org.uk/are-there-any-restrictions-on-names/#four
• (number of) domains we own - winner is Tantek Çelik with 54
• http://netfilx.com, http://googel.com

• Major things in the past six months
  • Tantek Çelik: linked hashtags on my posts, e.g. https://tantek.com/2023/171/t1/anniversaries-microformats-posse
• coffee machines
• reverse osmosis water filtering machines
• getting started with / exploring the gemini protocol
  • gemini. start here: gemini://skyjake.fi/lagrange/getting_started.gmi
  • gemini "social media": gemini://station.martinrue.com/
  • gemini://zaibatsu.circumlunar.space/~solderpunk/gemlog/
  • zine of different sort of capsules to explore: gemini://gemini.cyberbot.space/smolzine/
• IndiePass goals

• Pablo Morales - Goals: Make site more interactive in the next six months Completely gut personal website
  • Write more posts in different languages and make sure h-entry uses multilingual tags
  • gRegor Morrill did mention in the Pacific meeting lastweek about hreflang events/2023-06-14-hwc-pacific
• Lemmy — federated alternative to Reddit (as Mastodon is to Twitter)
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemmy_(software)
  • contributing guidelines: https://join-lemmy.org/docs/contributors/01-overview.html
  • evidence of Webmention support: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/1982
• support of hreflang?
  • feature request: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=989321
• Mozilla Prism: https://web.archive.org/web/20110807212445/http://mozillalabs.com/prism
• Progressive Enhancement > PWA
• http://tantek.com/2013/338/b1/people-focused-mobile-communication-experience
  • needs http: for the cross-site embedded images to show-up, need to fix up the image embeds
  • Thank you Tantek Çelik :D Very helpful
• acquisition
• 20 y/o article "The Lure of data: is it addictive" as mentioned in Tanteks post https://web.archive.org/web/20140330140837/https://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/06/business/the-lure-of-data-is-it-addictive.html?pagewanted=all (archived version to avoid paywall)

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