events/2025-04-23-hwc-europe
Homebrew Website Club Europe/London was an IndieWeb meetup on Zoom held on 2025-04-23.
- Archived from: https://etherpad.indieweb.org/2025-04-23-hwc-europe
Homebrew Website Club
April 23, 2025
Participants
Joe Crawford - https://artlung.com
zacharykai - https://zacharykai.net/
mandaris - https://mandarismoore.com
Fractalkitty - https://fractalkitty.com- Template:flwrstems - https://flwrstems.mooo.com
jo - https://dead.garden- James - https://jamesbrierly.com/
Tantek Γelik
Reilly Spitzfaden
benji - https://benji.dog- Template:carrvo
- Template:herebox - https://herebox.org
Notes
- http://artlung.com/likes/ (webmention likes)
- Carousels coming to Chrome?
- chrome gallery/carousels https://developer.chrome.com/blog/carousels-with-css
- Sophie has a site she'd like to make prettier: https://flwrstems.mooo.com/
Static Site Generators
- Ghost https://ghost.org/
- Eleventy https://www.11ty.dev/
- https://greazel.com/
- site
- exported to Jekyll Markdown files https://wordpress.org/plugins/jekyll-exporter/
- Wrote PHP to render the site itself
- Uses Fancybox for galleries http://fancybox.net/
- site
Web Components?
- mandaris still working on share button
https://piccalil.li/blog/simplify-sharing-with-built-in-apis-and-progressive-enhancement/
- Wonders if this approach is sound?
Themes, Sites, Longevity
- Hugo has many themes available
- Fractal Kitty is using https://svelte.dev/ on https://fawnlily.org/blog
- Hugo
- Lightweight, huge community, runs on Markdown
- James moved to Bear Blog https://bearblog.dev/
- Now spends more time writing
- "Building software to last forever"
- Manifesto
- A great Bearblog recommended by Zachary: https://blog.avas.space/
- "The word generative is overrun for generative art" - maybe replace it with "procedural"
- Micro.blog https://micro.blog/
Blog Recommendation Time
On MUIH
- Just do it! Try out stuff!
- manual_until_it_hurts
- Painful until it hurts
- https://www.streamof.me/distance/
- https://codepen.io/artlung/pen/NPWodMq
- Alternate code for a scheme which uses a spreadsheet which converts data, with a python script, into html+css for a look and feel
- What's a inquain? https://poets.org/glossary/cinquain
- Blog Carnival
- Template:carrvo has improved display of his site for anon users, implemented his software as a debian package / apache / SVN / webmentions / etc
- Jonathan - joined via Discord - personal website a bit insecure for me
- Fonts that are pictures? What about interesting sites which are very very long (but not infinitely scrolling) pages
- long websitesvg: https://bobbles.art
- deep sea: https://neal.fun/deep-sea/
- javascript infinte scroll poem: https://ofatoms.art/
- animated pixel art: https://floor796.com/
- sketchbook: https://www.gabrielepala.com/beginning.html#start
- jamesg.blog says hi! - hi James
- long narrative page where scroll changes the appearance https://connie.surf/infinite.html
- jo implemented the 418 HTTP STATUS CODE
- https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Reference/Status/418
- https://dead.garden/coffee
Where to buy a domain name?
- personal-domain#Domain_Registrars
- Cloudflare sells domains at cost
- list of TLDs https://data.iana.org/TLD/tlds-alpha-by-domain.txt
- Where do new top level domains come from?
- ICANN https://www.icann.org/
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.su
- https://blog.infected.systems/posts/2025-04-21-this-blog-is-hosted-on-a-nintendo-wii/ !!!
- https://blog.infected.systems/status/
Monetization
Dumbphones and moving to Forums from big silos
- https://forum.dumbphones.org/
- Uses Discourse. For people who use and moving from smartphones to more basic phones.
- More intentional phones
- https://mudita.com/products/phones/mudita-kompakt/
- https://www.kaiostech.com/
- Careless People book by Facebook insider
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnsyGSTKlw0
- on social media/smartphones/the internet being inherently bad: https://dead.garden/blog/the-internet-is-both-a-blessing-and-a-curse.html
https://njms.ca/posts/2024-10-08.html
- https://www.versionmuseum.com/history-of/facebook-website (i love the og design of the site)
Toward more intentional internet usage
- You can make a permalink to load people you follow in Instagram:
- similar for Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/?filter=friends&sk=h_chr
- "more intentional technology usage"
- https://artlung.com/likes/ - I linked to https://jamesbrierly.com/moving-to-a-dumbphone/ on it. great post James!
- Forums
- https://indiewebforum.eu/
- https://www.indieforums.net/
- webmentions as forum?
AI and Accessibility: the Good, the Bad, and the Bollocks / LΓ©onie Watson / FFConf 2024 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ij-GLix2QUQ