events/2024-06-19-hwc-europe

Homebrew Website Club Europe/London was an IndieWeb meetup on Zoom held on 2024-06-19.

• Archived from: https://etherpad.indieweb.org/2024-06-19-hwc-europe

Participants

• Joe Crawford
• Sara Jakša
• gRegor Morrill
• Mark Sutherland
• Pablo Morales
• ... add names

Notes

• Welcome to HWC!
• discussion on refining, removing unused parts, simplifying parts of ones website
• discussion of what kind of env do we like for blogging and working on the website
  • home, planes, parks, coffee shops, trains were some of the examples
• https://github.com/Ionaru/easy-markdown-editor
• https://www.bbc.co.uk/rdnewslabs/
• https://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/internet

• indiebookclub year in review 2023: https://indiebookclub.biz/review/2023
• https://jamesg.blog/ink-and-quill/
  • Background can be smaller; typeface can use woff format

• https://lmnt.me/blog/womprat-part-1.html is a post about a "Star Wars" font, but it goes into features of OpenType that can create algorithmic variations. e.g. Titling Alternates, Default Ligatures, Contextual Alternates.

• Autofocus attribute for form elements:
  • https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Global_attributes/autofocus

• https://www.slanted.de/neither-confirm-nor-deny/

Pablo Morales 's last attempt at IWC Sacramento - https://lifeofpablo.com/blog/hosting-indiewebcamp-sacramento-and-calls-for-co-hosts

• gRegor Morrill: you should submit this to https://news.indieweb.org/ ! Joe Crawford: +1

gRegor Morrill: PHP programming question

• this syntax of wrapping a `new` object in parentheses, what's the reasoning for it?
• https://github.com/odan/slim4-skeleton/blob/master/config/bootstrap.php#L8
• I've seen it with `require` lines too like https://github.com/odan/slim4-skeleton/blob/master/public/index.php#L3
  • I might have figured it out myself: the required file returns a Container and the wrapped `()` lets you immediately call methods like `run` in this case.

Stopping the people from scraping:

• https://sarajaksa.eu/2024/02/how-to-stop-scrapers-based-on-user-agents-with-htaccess-file/
• https://sarajaksa.eu/2024/03/in-reply-to-tracys-information-parasites-a-possible-way-to-annoy-arc-browser-users/

• https://store.are.na/products/are-na-annual-2024?variant=43477982576791
• https://www.are.na/editorial/introducing-a-new-publication-from-naive-yearly-and-are-na

• https://multipa.ge/
• "Making websites lately feels like working at the Kirkland Signature version of an Apple Store, all cheap and anodyne, with the actual foundation of everything we build buried under a dozen layers of abstraction brought to you by five companies that sell ads."

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