events/2025-04-02-hwc-americas
Homebrew Website Club - Americas was an IndieWeb meetup on Zoom held on 2025-04-02.
- Archived from: https://etherpad.indieweb.org/2025-04-02-hwc-americas
Participants
David Shanske
benji
Ross A. Baker https://rossabaker.comJoe Crawford
Reilly Spitzfaden https://reillyspitzfaden.com/- Template:jack case https://jack-case.pro, @GandalfDG@indieweb.social
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Tracy Durnell
Fractalkitty
Notes
- Jack demos his wife's site Ms. Kiersten - building on graphic design from business card
- using https://wagtail.org/
- Designed in Penpot https://penpot.app/
- mobile first
- https://mskiersten.com
- Preview open graph: https://www.opengraph.xyz/
- https://alexsci.com/blog/blogroll-network/
- Uses an xml namespace to allow for the <source:blogroll>
- https://alexsci.com/rss-blogroll-network/
- Reilly working on exporting his blogroll as opml - using 11ty to do the export, adding tweaks to the RSS as well
- Security warnings from node with webmention subsystem for 11ty/Netlify β this tool here: https://webmention.app/docs#using-the-command-line
- Netlify post build webmention sending:
- https://webmention.rocks/
- NB: when setting up with webmention.io, need to go here: https://webmention.io/settings/sites and enter site url in box
- Webmention supported? Bookmarklet https://orangegnome.com/posts/2929/supports-webmentions-bookmarklet
- Bridgy: https://brid.gy/
- Bridgy Fed: https://fed.brid.gy/
- Mastodon to comments backfill into WordPress: https://www.jwz.org/hacks/mastodon-to-wp-comments.php
- Molly White's POSSE scheme
- https://www.citationneeded.news/posse/
- POSSE: Reclaiming social media in a fragmented world
- https://www.mollywhite.net/micro - a place where things stay
- Choosing a static site generator? Svelte vs Hugo vs 11ty vs whatever
- Will it be efficient? Am I getting locked in?
- If I'm worrying about architecture am I doing the writing/creating I want to do?
- The popular SSGs have starter templates that will work
- IndieWeb Carnival
- IndieWeb Movie Club
- Ross A. Baker resists gamification, but has collected the Severe Thunderstorm Warning, Tornado Warning x 2, and Flash Flood Warning achievements already, and is contributing little else tonight.
- Sophia showed off her spreadsheet-based content management for https://StreamOf.Me/
- https://www.ciccarello.me/posts/2024/05/02/velella-salor/
- https://artlung.com/blog/2023/04/16/nice-bodysurfing-session-velella-velella/
- Jack works with the 6800 architecture https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorola_6800 (different from the later 68000 architecture)
- https://smorgasborg.artlung.com/guru-meditation/
- https://artlung.com/mixtapes/ recently updated with more mixtape sequences, and also can pull playlst data from spotify
- also converted to display using PHP's Twig templating library https://gist.github.com/artlung/b79f928b45b85c177656e6bdc9ce64e0
- Books?
- How to pull images?
- Tracy Durnell posts reads on a page, e.g. https://tracydurnell.com/reading/read-in-2025/, and posts reviews and notes as separate posts https://tracydurnell.com/kind/read/
- Food
- https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/733899/small-fires-by-rebecca-may-johnson/ -- reflecting on cooking and recooking the same recipe
- Relavanssi Light search plugin https://wordpress.org/plugins/relevanssi-light/
- Page types
- {rossabaker} is increasingly thinking he has two: "static" and "dynamic". Other distinctions, like notes vs. articles, may not be binary enough to be useful.
- https://www.keychron.com/products/keychron-q8-pro-alice-layout-qmk-via-wireless-custom-mechanical-keyboard
- https://amazon.com/dp/B0DF2HXP1X
- https://amazon.com/dp/B0DCZJ2DNP