events/2025-04-09-hwc-europe
Homebrew Website Club Europe/London was an IndieWeb meetup on Zoom held on 2025-04-09.
- Archived from: https://etherpad.indieweb.org/2025-04-09-hwc-europe
Participants
capjamesg - https://jamesg.blog
zacharykai - https://zacharykai.net
jo - https://dead.gardenBrandon Pugh - https://www.brandonpugh.com/
benji - https://benji.dog- ... add names
Notes
- Welcome to HWC!
- What we have been doing on our websites this week
- zacharykai - IndieWeb Movie Club for April 2025: https://zacharykai.net/notes/iwmapr25
- Come watch a classic Australian comedy: The Castle (1997)
- Template:carrvo has added Webmentions to their website!
- capjamesg made https://airportpianos.org/admin-add/ to add pianos to the airportpianos.org
- IndieWeb_Movie_Club is going on this month
- Front End Study Hall has been running for a year! 26 editions!
- What are your goals for your website? How can we help?
Links:
Website Magic 8 ball?
- A slider that changes how prophetic the Magic 8 ball is?
- There is an API to detect device motion, which could be used to simulate a shake event: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/DeviceMotionEvent
https://turner.enemyterritory.org/user/carrvo/index https://turner.enemyterritory.org/shared/repo/user/carrvo/profile/webmentions.html
The Castle (1997) has at least two versions: the original and at least one internationalised version. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118826/alternateversions/
- Things to watch
- Trainspotting
- New Instagram Export Library: https://github.com/greg-randall/memento-mori
- Blog post about it https://gregr.org/instagram-reconstituer/
- CSS Naked Day https://css-naked-day.org/
- https://dead.garden is participating
- https://artlung.com is participating
- https://benji.dog is participating
- ... add notes
- CSS carnival -- James will try to start it :)
- "Photoshop battles"
- Rounds of battles would happen of changes / additions to images [Joe, please add more context here!]
- Collaborative making
- A Zoom call where we all get together to make a website
- Website in an hour event where we all collaborate on a single web page
- Related: million dollar home page (but that was a stunt)
- IndieWeb version: you get a chunk of a page that you can contribute to
- https://marigold.town
- Mozilla Hubs
- https://hubsfoundation.org/
- https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/end-support-mozilla-hubs
- Related: Second Life
- "Website's Got Talent"?
- StreetPass for personal websites
- NFC tags on your phone that you could tap?
- Digital map where you can drop in?
- "The Sovereign Individual" book from 1997
- https://www.amazon.com/Sovereign-Individual-Mastering-Transition-Information/dp/0684832720
- https://www.eff.org/cyberspace-independence
Something James saw in his feed reader today: https://plunch.de/my-happy-space-in-the-web/
- 1996: "A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace" by John Perry Barlow
- Coffee button
- CSS animation?
- Coffee button that pours coffee
- https://jamesg.blog/sparkles
- https://magma.com/ is a slio which allows users to create shared drawing spaces for real time or asynchronous collaboration
- Related to virtual whiteboarding: https://www.tldraw.com/
- Collaborative grids
- https://aaronparecki.com/grid
- https://www.svenknebel.de/posts/
- 1 million checkboxes
- https://onemillioncheckboxes.com/
- https://eieio.games/blog/one-million-checkboxes-data-and-code/
- https://eieio.games/blog/the-secret-inside-one-million-checkboxes/
- ++ yes this is the best starting place!
- Oceania directory
- There are so many personal websites on the web!
- Guy with checkboxes that allowed you to light up an 8x8 hardware LED array in his room: https://www.caloyannis.online/fun (feature no longer live, redirects to his home page)
- Indie search engines
- https://search.marginalia.nu
- https://kagi.com/ has a "small web" toggle that you can press to specifically search independent websites
- Meta directory of web directories
- On the IndieWeb wiki the "discovery" page attempts to list some of these, but there is a lot of opportunity in this space discovery
- http://aboutideasnow.com/
- https://bukmark.club/
- https://indieblog.page/
- https://smallweb.cc/
- https://marginalia-search.com/
- https://diagram.website/: showing possibilities of the web
- Data is in a linked spreadsheet in https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1y5AMSi3Q7JuyNmghJSBV6GhEBLAsdCfKTRoWzrc-8xE/edit?gid=0#gid=0
- https://internetphonebook.net
- Idea: tiny website zines
- Print stylesheets
- https://pandoc.org/
- James showed his printed website
- This blog post explains how the book was generated, with the command used https://jamesg.blog/2023/04/05/pandoc-markdown
- Using lynx to get the contenf ot a website as plaintext
> lynx --dump https://example.com/ > lynx --dump https://example.com/ | more > lynx --dump https://example.com/ > example.txt
- Michael added a command-line version to his website (https://michaelkupietz.com/cli.html)
- "A text [and command line] interface for my website"
- capjamesg says this is so cool!
- Random thought from James: My first command to run is usually "ls" in a terminal.
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zork
- Get Lamp is an excellent documentary about text adventure video games https://archive.org/details/GET_LAMP_The_Text_Adventure_Documentary
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_PET
- https://xkcd.com/149/
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortune_(Unix)
- James typed "fortune" in his terminal and got
- "fish: Unknown command: fortune" :D
- ASCII art portraits on our websites
- cowsay but it's me https://portal.mozz.us/gemini/diptera.casa:1963/cgi-bin/pilotsay
- https://jamesg.blog/kittyscript
- Challenge: Use a text-based browser for a day.
- benji worked on an easter egg hints page: https://www.benji.dog/%F0%9F%A5%9A
- Bubble-wrapping cookies
- Apricot delights -- Australian snack
- jo changed the font on her website.
- https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Atkinson+Hyperlegible
- (https://www.brailleinstitute.org/freefont/)
- How did you find the fonts that you use on your website?
- found in file from work
- Knowing the feel you want visually and searching online
- Asking a friend who knows about fonts
- https://brow.sh: "Browsh is a fully-modern text-based browser."
- IndieWeb StumbleUpon
- Documenting the history of the web
- Interviewing people to hear their stories with the web
- https://cybercultural.com/
- Studs Terkel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Studs_Terkel : "Terkel was acclaimed for his efforts to preserve American oral history." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oral_history
- https://thehistoryoftheweb.com/ is also an excellent site with stories about the web
- "because you said /web"
- HTCPCP/1.0: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc2324
- https://github.com/capjamesg/hypertext-coffee-pot
- The protocol uses a coffee:// protocol handler
- Related: Android share intents
- Idea: A "coffee client" that consumes the HTCPCP protocol
- A web page with buttons like "BREW", "ADD MILK"
- Styled like a web page
- Unix pipes
- Who is the Bob Ross of the web?
- https://www.smallpieces.com/
- There is a kids version of the book! https://www.smallpieces.com/kids/spljkids00.html
- "Now, if connecting and caring are what make us into human people, then the Web - built out of hyperlinks and energized by people's nterests and passions - is a place where we can be better at being people.
And that is what the Web is for."
- You can submit your site to the Internet Archive to preserve URLs
- Except they are not at your original domain
- Can one remove ones site from the internet archive?
- Mark Pilgrim made the affirmative decision for his sites to leave the web? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Pilgrim
https://web.archive.org/web/20050618235940/https://diveintomark.org/
- 410 Gone day is tomorrow (4/10)
- Today is https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Reference/Status/409
- Hobbies sometimes cost; web making is often one of them (i.e. for domain cost)
- Web weaving may cost the same amount as other hobbies
- Create a βReleaseβ of your static website (maybe only the static HTML?)
Please note that all contributions to this pad and other IndieWebCamp documents are considered to be released under the public domain according to CC0.