events/2025-01-29-hwc-europe
Homebrew Website Club Europe/London was an IndieWeb meetup on Zoom held on 2025-01-29.
- Archived from: https://etherpad.indieweb.org/2025-01-29-hwc-europe
Participants
- Angelo Gladding
- Joe Crawford - https://artlung.net
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- capjamesg - https://jamesg.blog
- JJ Del Carpio
- Pablo Morales - https://lifeofpablo.com/
- Mark Sutherland - https://marksuth.dev
- Michael K - https://m9z.org
- Template:VinceAggrippino - https://aggrippino.com
- zachary.kai - https://zacharykai.net
- Joe Crawford https://artlung.com/
- benji https://benji.dog
- jo
- ... add names
Notes
- Time Zones: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_zone
- Titles In Scotland: https://establishedtitles.com/
- Proper Pronuncation of Edinburgh "eden-BRUH"
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghoti
- English as a language of many
- The quirks, delights & accidents of mispellings
- How many words can refer to the exact same thing
- Cultural differences between folks who vlog and blog
- Indieweb culture vs surf culture: the balance between sharing and keeping it private. All communities grapple with the divide between these two
- Waves are a finite resource, and so more people added has an impact of ones own usage
- Feeling intimidated is one of the biggest reasons why folks don't join new communities or learn new hobbies
- Study showing the proficiency levels of technology based on personal demographics: previously there was a correlation between low proficiency levels and lack of resources, and now the correlation is between low profiency levels and frequent usages of digital wallets
- The tension between convience and privacy, monetization and keeping things community-based
- Your interests can be as simple or as complex as you like, and time/interests are the biggest determining factors
- Technology metaphors as a teaching method for life and vice versa
- Teaching the Ruby programming language to kids through play: https://helloruby.substack.com/
- Learning styles are more preferences or comforts than actually proven as better for you to learn from: often the most effective way to learn is via engaging as many of your senses as possible at once
- Often the most important thing is making it interesting
- Learning tools, learning preferences, motivated learning all fascinating topics
- When building tools, one has to consider the audience: different demographics may as well speak different languages
- Everyone has their drink of choice and won't be told otherwise: and that metaphor applies to technology too
- What is programming like in different languages, given US English is the 'accepted default'?
- The pain of debugging for hours only to find you've spelled a programming concept in
What are folks doing on their websites?
- Joe Crawford
- Creating pages on a few of my domains (most with webmentions)
- Downloading my old Twitter bots (@ventcheck, @bloggingbot) to repurpose the specific tweet data as websites and share their code
- 28 hours for turnaround getting downloads from twitter
- Helped IndieNews deploy with some php knowledge https://github.com/aaronpk/IndieNews/pull/67
- Still planning to update https://ownyourgram.com with a new purpose
- posted to IndieWeb Carnival https://artlung.com/blog/2025/01/28/meditations-on-friction/
- Still need to prep for February's IndieWeb Carnival which I am hosting - the prompt will be "affirmations"
- And I've added a number of pages to https://smorgasborg.artlung.com/
- zachary.kai
- Adding notes from events attended last year (updating the changelog/sitemap to reflect that)
- Updating my RSS Feed with my new notes (haven't done so in a while)
IndieWebbish Stuff
- IndieWeb Carnival IndieWeb_Carnival
- FrESH #020 tomorrow https://events.indieweb.org/2025/01/front-end-study-hall-020-PJGxETOMne1b
- Lots of folks in the IndieWeb taking up the Bear Blog blog questions recently
Pronunciation!
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghoti
- "Polyglot"
- Milk roll: https://www.gadsbysbakery.co.uk/product/milk-roll-400g
Digressions
- RSS-only is still public
- James: Joe, I'd love to read more about surfing culture. Thanks James!
- Three virtues of Programmers
- https://thethreevirtues.com/ - Lazyness, Impatience, Hubris
Authentication
- Selfauth: https://github.com/Inklings-io/selfauth
language, news, public information, etc
- IndieWeb meetings in different languages?
- there may be interest in one in Spanish
- Most pages on the Indieweb Wiki, programming concepts and specs are in English
- Anyone can submit an event to list on https://events.indieweb.org
- Multi-Lingual Personal Websites events/2023-10-22-multilingual-websites
- If PHP were British: https://aloneonahill.com/blog/if-php-were-british/
- DeepSeek was hugely in the news this week
- Carl Malamud
- Public documents are public, when they're on GitHub, you can see the trail of policy changing
- The power of the independent press: "Personal blogs are where tech news happens."
- https://www.anildash.com/2024/01/19/personal-blogs-tech-news/
- Third Party Recording of web pages
- "Perma.cc helps scholars, journals, courts, and others create permanent records of the web sources they cite." https://perma.cc/
- Record a page to the Wayback Machine https://help.archive.org/help/save-pages-in-the-wayback-machine/
- there was an HTML editor called CoffeeCup
- https://adobe.fandom.com/wiki/GoLive_CyberStudio_3
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CoffeeCup_HTML_Editor
- https://www.coffeecup.com
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vONC3sdhiwM&t=58s
- https://web.archive.org/web/20030608193544/https://www.coffeecup.com/html-editor/
- https://web.archive.org/web/19961222161330/http://www.coffeecup.com:80/
- https://web.archive.org/web/20040201212925/http://www.coffeecup.com/html-editor/
Postal Mail, etc
- Anti-JavaScript JavaScript club: https://muan.co/pages/stuff
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extraordinary_(TV_series)
- https://www.terminal.shop/
- James I can't find something short describing the WordPress behavior for pages which turns 404s into pages.
- Code Switching:
- George Herriman https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Herriman
- Desert Bus
- Swindon Magic Roundabout
- Tesla trying to figure out a train https://bsky.app/profile/ketanjoshi.co/post/3lfrxqo2d522x
- https://transportation.ky.gov/saferoadsolutions/Pages/DoubleCrossoverDiamondInterchange.aspx
- "Wheel of homebrew"
https://github.com/zserge/zine
- Reset https://indieweb.org/wiki/index.php?title=days_since_last_domain_purchase_at_HWC&action=edit
- James has reset the calendar
Dancing popcorn clip for IndieWebMovie.club: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lm6IU6V-dE8
- Nicole Kidman AMC clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KiEeIxZJ9x0
- URL to word ratio in Etherpads
- There are 64 links so far in this Etherpad
- Why Frames Suck (Most of the Time) Jakob Nielsen
- November 30, 1996 https://www.nngroup.com/articles/why-frames-suck-most-of-the-time/
- https://indiewebmovie.club/
- Mechanical keyboards
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Griffin_PowerMate (Model Mike has is pictured at: https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/797643-REG/Griffin_Technology_NA16029_PowerMate_Assignable_USB_Multimedia.html)