events/2024-12-04-hwc-europe

Homebrew Website Club Europe/London was an IndieWeb meetup on Zoom held on 2024-12-04.

• Archived from: https://etherpad.indieweb.org/2024-12-04-hwc-europe

Participants

• Paul Watson
• Reilly Spitzfaden https://reillyspitzfaden.com
• capjamesg https://jamesg.blog
• Angelo Gladding
• benji https://benji.dog
• jo https://dead.garden
• Joe Crawford (other "joe")

... add names

Notes

• Welcome to HWC!

• Link Dump: https://www.lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/artists-notebook/posts/link-dump-nov-2024
  • Paul Watson I appreciated that mention - and I did see it. :-) Joe Crawford

"It is wednesday, my dudes"

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=du-TY1GUFGk

• Posting about things other than the IndieWeb
• Starter Packs as a way to find people on Bluesky
• Encouraging people to use their domain name as your Bluesky domain name
  • Gets people thinking about their website as their identity on the web
  • Domain name ownership for Bluesky as progression into having a personal website
  • https://bsky.social/about/blog/7-05-2023-namecheap

https://web.plc.directory/ https://web.plc.directory/spec/v0.1/did-plc

• Joe Crawford has had a productive few weeks
  • https://lab.artlung.com/ (>20 year old site that was recently upgraded, fixed, styled, put public on github, added webmentions, etc)
  • Experimenting with tools to let visitors create variations of images, on my own logotype:
    • https://apps.artlung.com/logo-i-zer/create.php
    • https://apps.artlung.com/logo-i-zer/images/ (to see all the images that have been made)
    • https://apps.artlung.com/logo-i-zer/?c0=f00&c1=000
    • Source code available https://apps.artlung.com/logo-i-zer/source.php

Jellycat Website plushie

• https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/10499

• GDS design system
  • https://design-system.service.gov.uk/components/
  • https://design-system.service.gov.uk/accessibility/accessibility-strategy/
  • https://github.com/alphagov/govuk-frontend
  • https://www.gov.uk/guidance/accessibility-requirements-for-public-sector-websites-and-apps#meeting-accessibility-requirements
  • https://www.gov.uk/guidance/accessibility-requirements-for-public-sector-websites-and-apps#meeting-accessibility-requirements
• The US has laws around reasonable accommodation / accessibility for digital services
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_Content_Accessibility_Guidelines#WCAG_referenced_by_law

• physical stickers etc of friends websites
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vintage_Computer_Festival

• Neocities badges
  • Collecting badges on your personal website
  • Badges made to look like ... badges: https://www.lazaruscorporation.co.uk/info/version

• https://neocities.org/

• Fun: https://mgx.me/kirby-vs-this-blog-post

• https://dodov.dev/blog/css-can-get-you-in-jail

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/77_Million_Paintings

• Publish on your own site, syndicate to the city [government]

• https://perma.cc

• James: "I'm a domain name stenographer."

• What can you use a website for?
• HTML as a way of expressing ideas

• 3Blue1Brown

• Typefaces: Open Sans, Helvetica
  • https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Radio+Canada

• Winter themes on our sites

• Webring with a narrative attached
  • Fiction over multiple websites
  • More collaboration on personal websites
  • A story written across multiple websites
• Tie-in websites
  • http://www.savewalterwhite.com/
  • https://tardis.wiki/wiki/Category:2006_tie-in_websites
• Collaboirative posts by sharing quick fun quizzes
  • https://jamesg.blog/2024/01/04/anime-hair-color/
  • https://jamesg.blog/2024/01/15/cheese-quiz/

• https://theodorepayne.org/nativeplantdatabase/index.php?title=A_Snagging_Issue
• https://www.woodlandtrust.org.uk/trees-woods-and-wildlife/british-trees/a-z-of-british-trees/alder/