events/2025-03-19-hwc-americas
Homebrew Website Club - Americas was an IndieWeb meetup on Zoom held on 2025-03-19.
- Archived from: https://etherpad.indieweb.org/2025-03-19-hwc-americas
Participants
Reilly Spitzfaden https://reillyspitzfaden.comDavid Shanske
Ross A. Baker https://rossabaker.com/
benji https://benji.dog- vanderwal https://vanderwal.net
gRegor Morrill https://gregorlove.com
Fractalkittyhttps://fractalkitty.com- Agnes https://pdx.social/@agnes (no website... yet!)
- btrem https://btrem.com/
Notes
Where people come from
- Stumbling in from Mastodon
- You can follow the #indieweb hash tag, not just individuals
Socials
- Bluesky: mathy, but conversations not as deep as Mastodon?
- https://app.wafrn.net/: ActivityPub and ATProto together?
Hosting options
- Personal domain, and you can switch between these options later: personal-domain
- Ghost
- self hosting
- Security implications
- GitHub Pages
- Netlify
- Cloudflare Pages
- https://turner.enemyterritory.org/shared/repo/user/carrvo/website/Journey-to-MIndie.html
Tallies, not streaks
choose your own adventure: https://www.streamof.me/LostSignal/index.html
generative horror novel: https://subcutanean.textories.com/
Carnivals and clubs
- If you have math-y posts this month please submit to the carnival of mathematics: https://aperiodical.com/carnival-of-mathematics/
- https://lifeofpablo.com/blog/self-expression-indieweb-carnival-march-2025
- https://artlung.com/whatsupdoc-imc/
- https://iwmovieclub.sploot.com/
- https://iwcarnival.sploot.com/
- IndieWeb Movie Club
Knitted QR code puzzle from MIT Mystery Hunt: https://www.two-pi-noir.agency/puzzles/weirdo_threaded_doodads
Misc
gRegor Morrill: For Reilly: this is the tutorial I used for CSS-only menu I use on my site (at mobile resolution)
Dillo text-based browser: https://dillo-browser.github.io/
Fonts!
- system_font_stack
- Make your own font!
gRegor Morrill recently came across https://smolcss.dev/ and been enjoying it h/t Kevin Powell's CSS Day talk