events/2025-04-30-hwc-americas
Homebrew Website Club - Americas was an IndieWeb meetup on Zoom held on 2025-04-30.
- Archived from: https://etherpad.indieweb.org/2025-04-30-hwc-americas
Participants
David Shanske
Reilly Spitzfaden
benji- Template:btrem - https://btrem.com
Ross A. Baker
Nick SimsonJoe Crawford
Angelo Gladding
Tracy Durnell
Mike Kupietz
Pablo Morales
Notes
- Anil Dash https://www.anildash.com/2025/04/19/ai-first-is-the-new-return-to-office/
- new cool technologies sell themselves
- Coding on Copilot: 2023 Data Suggests Downward Pressure on Code Quality: (https://www.gitclear.com/coding_on_copilot_data_shows_ais_downward_pressure_on_code_quality)
- Ana Tudor on ChatGPT writing code with older techniques https://bsky.app/profile/anatudor.bsky.social/post/3lnxblxpy6s2j
- Claude on why AI is poor at code- https://michaelkupietz.com/info-news/reference-archives/the-encyclopedia-of-ai-apologies/ - >300 screenshots of AI apologizing
- ai also causes problems in the non c.s. world, where they're called "hallucinations," e.g., history essays with incorrect dates, or a legal filing with references to non-existenent case law
- https://searx.space/
- Reilly has been working on css only menus and submenus
- https://moderncss.dev/css-only-accessible-dropdown-navigation-menu/ β uses :focus, :focus-within + <button>
- Yes, bring to FrESH next week!
- and posted (last day!) for the IndieWeb Carnival "Reboot, Renewal" https://artlung.com/blog/2025/04/30/reboot-renewal/
- Spielberg's movie release date vs, when they are set? https://codepen.io/artlung/pen/JjrmEgP
& https://artlung.com/blog/2022/01/13/spielbergs-films-by-year-of-release-vs-year-set/
Is -x- infix in microformat names harmful?
- https://microformats.org/wiki/microformats2-prefixes#vendor_extensions
- General advice on why it could be harmful: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc6648
- example of pages using -x- infix:
- Ross is anti-x the infix, neutral on X the display server, and anti-X the social network
- https://ragt.ag/Cedrus-deodara
- https://ragt.ag/trees/guide
- https://ragt.ag/117
- https://python.microformats.io/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fragt.ag%2FCedrus-deodara&parser=html5lib
- "Record collections" online. I miss browsing people's CD racks.
- Related, working on adding playlists, still, to https://artlung.com/mixtapes/
- https://www.etymonline.com/
- How to Speak Midwestern: https://archive.org/details/howtospeakmidwes0000mccl
- Wikipedia page on the accent: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inland_Northern_American_English
Something fun: a song that translates cockney slang to Jamaican patois: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMpYoz_c834
- Not IndieWeb, but uncannily good: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/upshot/dialect-quiz-map.html
- https://faustcakes.wordpress.com/2015/07/30/psych-cinnamon-pie/
Random links to share:
- https://hyperessays.net - hypertext version of old essays
- https://aaronzlewis.com/blog/2020/08/01/bridging-the-zoomer-boomer-divide/ - texting format for dual-author post
- https://minafi.com/interactive-guide-early-retirement-financial-independence - interactive article
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12427069
- Nunjucks templating: https://mozilla.github.io/nunjucks/
- https://github.com/pmoralesgarcia/pabsnet/blob/main/docker-compose.yml
- Michael's CLI view: https://michaelkupietz.com/cli.html
- Drupal's Experience Builder Initiative: https://www.drupal.org/about/starshot/initiatives/experience-builder
https://ragt.ag/pads/p/2025--04--02--gy/timeslider#7525
https://ragt.ag/editor/draft?permalink=2025/02/04/w3
Use Google App Scripts to update recommendations and essentially create databases : https://lifeofpablo.com/lists/song-recommendations <==share your song recs