events/2024-11-13-hwc-europe

Homebrew Website Club Europe/London was an IndieWeb meetup on Zoom held on 2024-11-13.

• Archived from: https://etherpad.indieweb.org/2024-11-13-hwc-europe

Participants

• Al Abut
• Paul Watson
• Sara Jakša
• gRegor Morrill
• Joe Crawford (started at the beach, ended in office)
• Tantek Çelik
• capjamesg
• jo
• benji
• Mark Sutherland
• Mike Kupietz
• Pablo Morales

• ... add names

Notes

• Welcome, everyone!

Libraries are Wonderful

• • Library cards
  • Your library card can often get you access to more than just books in your local building.
    • Calibre
    • Libby
    • https://standardebooks.org/
    • https://www.kanopy.com/
    • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interlibrary_loan

• Other Physical Cards
  • physical cards of sorts
  • transit tickets
  • paper money
    • Alan Turing is on the 50 GBP note

Dictionaries:

• capjamesg mentioned his library card does not have access to an Oxford's dictionary.
• Do libraries have access to the old 1913 Webster's dictionary? It is extremely writer-centric and has long flowery explanations.
• https://jsomers.net/blog/dictionary
• You can access the Oxford English Dictionary online
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antidisestablishmentarianism

Paper vs Digital:

• There are at least 3 studies showing that although there is no difference in reading speed, paper does have better reading comprehension performance because of spatial and tactile cues.
• https://jsomers.net/blog/dictionary

• https://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/home.html

• • Kupietz when I do a search for site:www.kupietz.com it prompts me to "Try Google Search Console www.google.com/webmasters/ Do you own www.kupietz.com? Get indexing and ranking data from Google." —thanks, I think that's just a standard little google promo for GSC. I do get that too but it says "promoted", it's just an ad. -- Mike Kupietz
    • If Google is important to you probably jumping through their hoops is in your interest. -- Joe Crawford
    • update, just since we discussed it, current Desktop Google PageSpeed scores for my gargantuan homepage, after all caching has been regenerated: 97/100/100/100 https://pagespeed.web.dev/analysis/https-michaelkupietz-com/qv0np828kc?form_factor=desktop (Mobile still needs work.) Mike Kupietz

• James' demo https://jamesg.blog/2024/11/13/organising-content-by-theme/
  • https://jamesg.blog/collections/for-swifties/
• Jo's blog post: https://dead.garden/blog/day-trip-to-my-first-indiewebcamp-in-berlin.html

Original Content vs External Sources

• Al Abut is wondering how people with static sites mix in activity from other social media and websites into their own blogs or CMS.
• https://chsmc.org/ - mini posts are subtly darker in color than the longer posts
• https://nicksimson.com/ - blends his likes, bookmarks, and etc with his blog posts
• OG bloggers like John Gruber and Jason Kottke have been doing this for ages: https://daringfireball.net/ and https://kottke.org/

• HATHTCUC
• I think we should call it it "Homebrew Website Club & Virtual Algonquin Roundtable" ( Mike Kupietz)

• https://ragt.ag/usbahcm
• "you might have a cookie issue"
• https://ragt.ag/pads/p/2024--11--07--u8
  • A good example of the collabortative writting (even if for shitposting)

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In-band_signaling "In telecommunications, in-band signaling is the sending of control information within the same band or channel used for data such as voice or video."
• Jupyter Notebooks https://jupyter.org/
• It also is reminding me of how Twitch is supposed to be - fun and such
• https://etherpad.org/ can be integrated into another website
• "The street finds its own uses for things"

• https//ft.com/404 - economists explain why the page was not found

• Just implemented, thanks to capjamesg for demonstrating the utility: https://michaelkupietz.com/blank/

comics

• comics
• 2018 IWC session: 2018/serials

Joe Crawford latest changes on his site

• New page - https://artlung.com/comics/ which is more unified way to show a list of items vs https://artlung.com/blog/category/comics (which is a different kind of presentation) and https://artlung.com/blog/tag/comics which pulls in blog posts I've tagged with comics but don't represent specifically.
• New sidebars on the site linked from the footer which loads hamburger menus for search and for a rough sitemap. Initially implemented them using the nonexistent `<sidebar>` tag (which worked in Chrome, Safari and Firefox! despite not implementing a custom element (which would not work since it lacks a dash). Thanks to capjamesg I was able to fix this and make it an `<aside>` tag. TIL THERE IS NO SIDEBAR TAG.
• Implemented a new header https://artlung.com/headers/-20241112 which uses `image-rendering: pixelated` which I learned because of a presenter at IWC 2024 Berlin

easter eggs

easter_egg

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404 pages

https://www.ft.com/404 https://www.lazaruscorporation.co.uk/404 https://www.benji.dog/spoon or https://www.benji.dog/angelos-etherpad/ https://dead.garden/404 https://404.club/ https://dnsimple.com/404 https://www.thesistersofmercy.com/error404page.html

• https://github.com/muan/postcard.support

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/143809136903

IndieAuth

• selfauth
• https://indieauth.spec.indieweb.org/#request
• https://github.com/indieweb/indieauth/issues/133