events/2024-08-11-hwc-eastern

Homebrew Website Club - Eastern was an IndieWeb meetup on Zoom held on 2024-09-11.

• Archived from: https://etherpad.indieweb.org/2024-09-11-hwc-eastern

Participants

• Marty McGuire
• Dr. Matt Lee
• dougbeal
• David Shanske
• Paul Watson (continuing from the London/Europe HWC)
• jo (continuing from the London/Europe HWC)
• capjamesg (continuing from the London/Europe HWC)
• Mark Sutherland (continuing from the London/Europe HWC)
• benji
• pcarrier.com
• Nick Simson
• ... add names

Handed off from London/Europe! Their etherpad notes are here: https://etherpad.indieweb.org/2024-09-11-hwc-europe

Notes

• Our first hand-off between timezones like this?
  • Will we make it to a handoff to HWC Pacific??
  • how far can an HWC stretch?
• Dr. Matt Lee's Creative Commons hat. Yes, people have (tried to) appropriate it based on license!
• Staples has co-working spaces inside. At least in Boston.
  • as a co-working member, get 10% off anything in the store!
• brother is a good printer
• audiobooks on tape
• GWG's keyboard wall is not in fact behind them
  • 150gf activation force is "a workout"
• a split space bar is for layer-shifting, aka FN
• 40% keyboards with 2 function layers! https://pcarrier.com/planck
• Upcoming IWCs?
  • 2024/Berlin Nov 9-10 adjacent to btconf
• Starbucks
  • James lives in a small village but is a 20 minute walk to one!
  • secret to success: the 2009 financial crash? (because people could afford _a_ coffee as a treat vs multiple beers)
• Coffee documentary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qY7_rNiz9BY
• GWG needs content inspo for more posts for his site
  • Maybe join a blog carnival? blog_carnival#List_of_Blogging_Carnivals
  • This month's IndieWeb Movie Club film is When Harry Met Sally
• Transit and public safety
  • "See something? Say something." not quite as satisfying as "See it, Say it, Sorted."
• equal or better: the story of the Boston SIlver Line https://vimeo.com/40582561
• modern back to the future with a cybertruck?
  • back to the future stage play
• mattl's wordpress to static tool https://github.com/mattl/wordpress-to-eleventy
• SiteSucker for Mac: https://ricks-apps.com/osx/sitesucker/index.html
• wordpress hosting challenges
  • mattl has been merging multiple sites (as static sites, sometimes)
  • WPEngine keeps WP up-to-date (nice!) but additional charges for everything (ouch!)
  • Kirby (https://getkirby.com/)
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konami_Code
  • https://marksuth.dev/ has the Konami code on their homepage
  • mattl did this many years ago on https://en.windows7sins.org/
• live debugging for handling emoji in URLs
  • https://blog.mat.tl/%f0%9f%91%be/
  • percentf0percent9fpercent91percentbe
  • https://blog.mat.tl/wp-json/wp/v2/pages?orderby=date&order=desc&per_page=100
  • https://blog.mat.tl/wp-json/wp/v2/posts?orderby=date&order=desc&per_page=100
• https://neato.pub/

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