events/2024-01-17-hwc-pacific

Homebrew Website Club - Pacific was an IndieWeb meetup on Zoom held on 2024-01-17.

• Archived from: https://etherpad.indieweb.org/2024-01-17-hwc-pacific

Participants

• Pablo Morales
• Joe Crawford https://artlung.com/
• benji https://benji.dog
• gRegor Morrill https://gregorlove.com
• reillypascal https://reillyspitzfaden.com/
• Nick Simson https://nicksimson.com
• Angelo Gladding https://ragt.ag
• Al Abut
• Add yourself here… (see this for more details)

Notes

For new members - https://indieweb.org

PESOS/POSSE/Syndicating to other platforms

• POSSE Publish (on your) Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere
• PESOS
• PESOS Publish Elsewhere, Syndicate (to your) Own Site.
• Substack

Bridgy Fed https://fed.brid.gy/

• gRegor Morrill has been using this pretty reliably the last 6-8 months, works well for me since I'm able to send webmentions already, which triggers federating one of my posts

Joe Crawford has found https://ifttt.com/instagram integrations on IFTTT useful - I have automations that pull content from my Ig account to my wordpress site as posts, and also to a flickr account. There are half-way measures to pull in accounts to a cloud storage or other places

Micropub

Page speed:

• Google_Lighthouse
• performance

Introductions

New member Reilly Spitzfaden, https://reillyspitzfaden.com/

• Comment system based on Supabase a version of Firebase: https://reillyspitzfaden.com/blogposts/01-14-2024
• code highlighting with highlight.js https://highlightjs.org/

Pablo Morales https://lifeofpablo.com/ tech, blog, journal

Joe Crawford artlung.com, been digging up https://lab.artlung.com/, removed Google Ads which were highly obnoxious. I posted my page on server side maps the other day in the chat and the ads took over. Now it's a bit better. https://lab.artlung.com/server-side-image-map/ ... post about the lab: Deprecations and Exhumations https://artlung.com/blog/2024/01/17/dee-and-eee/

Al Abut has started blogging again after decades of hiatus -- https://alabut.com/ -- https://alabut.com/writing/blog-relaunch/

benji https://benji.dog mostly has been posting read posts and watch posts, to move away from Letterboxd and Goodreads. Built Sparkles Micropub client, built in Eleventy

David Shanske is experiencing regret he's on a plane and can't join the Zoom.

(aside about RSS Club) - https://daverupert.com/rss-club/

• 1st rule of RSS Club is “Don’t Talk About RSS Club”.
• 2nd rule of RSS Club is “Don’t Share on Social Media”.
• 3rd rule of RSS Club is “Provide Value”.

• https://smolweb.org/
• https://potato.cheap/
• https://projects.kwon.nyc/internet-is-fun/

Obsidian

• https://dg-docs.ole.dev/
• https://hermitage.utsob.me/
• https://moseshng.com/

Long article in the New Yorker on the early web, from a millenial point of view: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-weekend-essay/coming-of-age-at-the-dawn-of-the-social-internet

RSS Feed Readers

• gRegor: Monocle: Monocle
• Nick: NetNewsWire: https://netnewswire.com/
• Benji: Miniflux /Fluent reader
• fever FeverAPI
• bunch of feed reader options on: feed_reader
  • and newer social readers: social_reader
• FreshRSS
  • h-feed support request: https://github.com/microformats/h-feed/issues/9

wed developer candle: https://www.etsy.com/listing/1554466180/web-developer-candles-waiting-for-the?gpla=1&gao=1&

Follow posts:

• gRegor Morrill's example, which triggers Bridgy Fed via webmention: https://gregorlove.com/2024/01/followed-reilly-spitzfaden/
• shows up in BF list of followings: https://fed.brid.gy/web/gregorlove.com/following

A good page for self-hosted services with reviews - https://noted.lol/

• https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted

Nick Simson mentioned this post helped setup activitypub for wordpress

• https://piperhaywood.com/adventures-in-setting-up-activitypub-webfinger-on-a-flywheel-hosted-wordpress-site/

nginx

• https://xkcd.com/2347/

https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/traveladvisories/traveladvisories/worldwide-caution.html

https://simtechdev.com/blog/good-and-bad-bots-to-control-to-save-server-resources-and-improve-performance/

https://github.com/wallarm/awesome-nginx-security

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