events/2024-07-10-hwc-europe

Homebrew Website Club Europe/London was an IndieWeb meetup on Zoom held on 2024-07-10.

• Archived from: https://etherpad.indieweb.org/2024-07-10-hwc-europe

Participants

• Joe Crawford
• capjamesg
• Mark Sutherland
• Tantek Çelik
• Pablo Morales
• Paul Watson
• ... add names

Notes

• It's a night of football in the UK tonight
• What we're doing on our websites this week
  • Mark changed the fonts on his website
  • Joe is thinking about colour schemes
  • Joe Crawford also added the WordPress plugin https://wordpress.org/plugins/index-wp-mysql-for-speed/ which provided some increased database performance and doublechecked some indices which were missing
• What is Webmention and how it works
  • Webmention
• Design, look and feel, typography
  • Trains in UK use a particular font
    • http://www.doublearrow.co.uk/manual.htm
    • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rail_Alphabet (British Rail font)
    • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnston_(typeface) (London Underground Font)
    • Joe Crawford bought a copy of the font at the Transport museum in London 20 years ago and incorporated it into some headers on his site https://artlung.com/headers/-20040103
    • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transport_(typeface) (UK Road signs & UK Government font)
• Tantek has been enhancing how he displays explicitly curated comments imported from webmentions and Bridgy Fed and documenting them in comments

• aside: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_of_a_function

• Tantek is considering writing a post on More Thoughtful Curated Comments regarding his thinking and process how he added comments to his "Responsible Inventing" post, as a bit of a follow-on from his prior article on "More Thoughtful Reading & Writing on the Web"

• Paul Watson is in the (difficult) middle of implementing ActivityPub for his website, including the profile page, and is working on mapping his content types to their Fediverse equivalents
• Quality no quantity; Infrequent vs Frequent
  • e.g.: A Life Well Wasted https://alifewellwasted.com/ -- a no-ads podcast -- had a decade-long hiatus https://www.vice.com/en/article/akemag/robert-ashley-on-the-return-of-a-life-well-wasted
• James' new table styles reminds me that centering column headers is something Joel Spolsky does in his talk "

You Suck at Excel " https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JxBg4sMusIg

• Typography expert Richard Rutter https://book.webtypography.net/ "The Web Typography Book"

https://24ways.org/2006/compose-to-a-vertical-rhythm

• "So many feed readers, so many bizarre behaviors" by https://rachelbythebay.com/ https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2024/05/27/feed/

• https://gusbus.space/smallweb-subway/