events/2025-04-02-hwc-europe
Homebrew Website Club Europe/London was an IndieWeb meetup on Zoom held on 2025-04-02.
- Archived from: https://etherpad.indieweb.org/2025-04-02-hwc-europe
Participants
zacharykai - https://zacharykai.net/Joe Crawford - https://artlung.com/
capjamesg - https://jamesg.blog/
Mark Sutherland - https://marksuth.dev/
Tantek Γelik
benji - https://benji.dog- Michael K
- ...
Notes
- What is everyone doing on their websites or wanting to do on their websites?
- Times and timezones
- Cake blogging
- https://artlung.com/blog/2005/10/10/guts-cake/
- https://artlung.com/blog/2019/10/31/i-made-special-candy-sushicandy-happyhalloween/
- https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/oct/01/irish-court-rules-subway-bread-is-not-bread
- https://haggiswildlifefoundation.com/
- Sushi (candy) cake
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVo_wkxH9dU
- https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2017/sep/05/peppa-pig-spiders-cant-hurt-you-episode-pulled-off-air-in-australia-again
- James is working on a spot so share "moments of joy" - short phrases and sentences on things which create(d) joy
Mike Kupietz is working on uptime stats as a result of some downtime he had which he was not notified about last week.- How Mike K makes his oatmeal: https://michaelkupietz.com/works-in-progress/writing-works-in-progress/the-five-ingredient-cookbook/oatmeal-a-la-k/
- Joe is showcasing updates to his mixtapes page (https://artlung.com/mixtapes) that sync to his Spotify playlists
- And a /likes page with a semi-automated, CLI-based tool for sending webmentions to site authors
- And the same with /rsvp for webmention RSVPs
- Updating contact pages to use the contact means we now prefer
- Goal: make a smooth segue between each of our demos.
- James idea: /cinnamon-songs page
- From last week: Cassette control look and feel https://sheep.horse/2025/3/a_cassette_audio_control_for_the_web.html
Contact pages
- Tantek Γelik will be updating his, dropping Skype, FBM
- see: contact
- Tantek Γelik would prefer if he could put icons for everyone's contact pages on his mobile and use that to get in touch
- see: https://tantek.com/2013/338/b1/people-focused-mobile-communication-experience for more thoughts on this
- Joe doesn't like IG dms, but
- https://www.beeper.com/ -- a way to connect several chat networks in an app (includes better search than insta dms)
- https://www.benji.dog/contact/
- https://balintmagyar.com/contact
- Mobile view has a vCard
- https://anhvn.com/about/
- Not a contact page but shows different "contexts"
- Joe says use separate domains if you want separate contacts for personal vs professional
- Tantek Γelik: contact URLs should be speakable, listenable, and typable
- domains: short to type doesnβt matter as much as understandability
- James has https://jamesg.blog/contact/
- It currently redirects to /email
- Why .net/... vs. .com?
- hi@ or hello@ can be confusing as an email when said to someone
- tea@tantek
- Role-based emails may be a problem where platforms may struggle like support@ or admin@
- Make sure you have DKIM /DMARC / SPIF set up to make sure your emails don't go into spam
- Recent post about those technology, some interesting conversation in the comments .https://www.jwz.org/blog/2025/03/dmarc-and-spf/
- James made https://jamesg.blog/cinnamon-songs
- He wishes that there was a case-insensitive "in" operator in Python
- Python case insensitive string comparisons on StackOverflow https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6579876/how-to-match-a-substring-in-a-string-ignoring-case
- Radio by Lana Del Rey
- https://smorgasborg.artlung.com/guru-meditation/ Guru Meditation is notable enough for a Wikipedia page Guru Meditation
Private document sharing
https://www.are.na/ Like a combination of Tumblr & Pinterest - quiet interface, financially independent, good search engine
- https://www.are.na/kristoffer-tjalve/poetic-web-calendar
- https://www.are.na/kristoffer-tjalve/naive-call-for-participation
- https://www.are.na/kristoffer-tjalve/internet-village-people
- https://www.are.na/mayo/coffee-coffee-coffee-r1dqcf7liby
Tantek Γelik updated https://tantek.com/contact
- "corrupted cookie" (or "corrupts the cookie")
Make, on your website, the stuff that you want to exist.
- AI Bot Behavior is increasing and straining Wikipedia
- In-depth conversation between Mike and Claude re Claude's actual coding abilities: [1]
![[1]](https://michaelkupietz.com/offsite/claude_cant_code_1+2.jpg){kind=link}
- https://www.gov.uk/guidance/meet-the-requirements-of-equality-and-accessibility-regulations
- https://www.gov.uk/guidance/government-design-principles
- https://services.blog.gov.uk/2025/04/02/adding-sustainability-to-the-government-design-principles/
- https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/advice-for-small-organisations/create-your-own-privacy-notice/
- https://www.w3.org/WAI/planning/statements/generator/#create
- https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/@media/monochrome
- https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/@media/color
- Desaturate with CSS:
html { filter: saturate(0); }
- Slash page idea: /daylist
- https://jamesg.blog/daylists
- https://zacharykai.net/spotify
https://tapenotes.co.uk/episodes
Idea: A t-shirt that says "can you share a link?"
- Or a sticker!
How to organise slash pages / pages on your site
- How do we navigate personal websites?
- IndieWeb Minecraft server?
- McDonald's giveaway https://artlung.com/blog/2020/06/15/new-bot-day-bio-electronic-navigator-from-the/
- Happy Meal Toys
- McFly music box
- Kinder egg
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackcurrant
- http://tantek.pbworks.com/w/page/19402872/CassisProject
- https://github.com/tantek/cassis !
- minecraft -> mcdonalds toys -> kinder eggs -> blackcurrant -> cassis.js