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.com
• David Shanske
• Ross A. Baker https://rossabaker.com/
• benji https://benji.dog
• vanderwal https://vanderwal.net
• gRegor Morrill https://gregorlove.com
• Fractalkittyhttps://fractalkitty.com
• 🌮 Taco 🌮 Dave 🌮 https://davegoesthedistance.com/arbys
• 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
  • "easy" with Hugo
  • doable with Eleventy
  • Jekyll integration - Jekyll
• 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/

• code: https://github.com/aaronareed/collapser

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

easter egg

Knitted QR code puzzle from MIT Mystery Hunt: https://www.two-pi-noir.agency/puzzles/weirdo_threaded_doodads

Intros

• 🌮 Taco 🌮 Dave 🌮
  • https://davegoesthedistance.com/arbys
    • For Dave: https://www.arbyspotatocakeslawsuit.com/

Misc

gRegor Morrill: For Reilly: this is the tutorial I used for CSS-only menu I use on my site (at mobile resolution)

• https://shellcreeper.com/full-css-responsive-navigation-toggle-no-javascript/

Dillo text-based browser: https://dillo-browser.github.io/

Fonts!

• system_font_stack
  • https://modernfontstacks.com/
• Make your own font!
  • https://www.calligraphr.com/en/
  • https://fontforge.org/en-US/

gRegor Morrill recently came across https://smolcss.dev/ and been enjoying it h/t Kevin Powell's CSS Day talk

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