events/2025-04-30-hwc-europe

Homebrew Website Club Europe/London was an IndieWeb meetup on Zoom held on 2025-04-30.

• Archived from: https://etherpad.indieweb.org/p/hwc-europe-2025-04-30

Participants

• Mark Sutherland
• Mike Kupietz
• Joe Crawford
• zacharykai - https://zacharykai.net/
• Template:psylok - https://giorgiopretto.com
• jo - https://dead.garden
• Template:btrem - https://btrem.com
• Brandon Pugh - https://www.brandonpugh.com/
• Add yourself here… (see this for more details)

Notes

• Michael added tooling to show the sourcecode of a page on a page and ran into issues with escaping issues - https://michaelkupietz.com/cli.html - command "source"
• Joe Crawford added a now page https://artlung.com/now/
  • https://nownownow.com/
• Mark has been working on Jenkins CI/CD tooling for his site and for work
• https://blogofthe.day/ had an issue with bad json, fixed by commiting directly to the main branch (rather than in a pull request
  • Welcome zacharykai to Blog of the .Day! https://github.com/artlung/blogofthe.day/pull/73
• zacharykai hosted IndieWeb Movie Club for April: https://zacharykai.net/notes/iwmapr25
  • Tantek Çelik is hosting May's event!
• https://lab.artlung.com/ has some basic PHP Codesniffer and unit tests
  • https://github.com/artlung/lab.artlung.com/blob/master/.github/workflows/ci.yml runs `composer sniff` and `composer test` which in turn run php code to assure code quality.
  • https://pestphp.com/
    • https://pestphp.com/docs/arch-testing#presets
  • https://laravel.com/docs/12.x/testing
• Toolchains are still pretty hard to work with!
• Giorgio is working on his site and updating portfolio and looking into all the tooling and latest technologies
  • zacharykai says Giorgio has a very cool 404 page! https://www.giorgiopretto.com/404
• WebStorm from JetBrains is free for personal use https://www.jetbrains.com/webstorm/
• To force things not to be www Joe Crawford uses Apache .htaccess code like:
  • RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.example\.com$ [NC]
  • RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://example.com/$1 [R=301,L]

• https://www.dashes.com/2024/02/06/wherever-you-get-podcasts/
  • “Wherever you get your podcasts” is a radical statement.

• Joe Crawford added a likes page https://artlung.com/likes/ (a linkblog of a sort) and added an RSS feed
• Brandon used Delicious, then Pinboard, now Raindrop https://raindrop.io/
  • https://artlung.com/blog/2024/10/31/owning-my-own-bookmarks-over-20-years/ (I use linkding)
• Brandon blogs with Hugo with Markdown files
  • Is experimenting with link blogging: https://www.brandonpugh.com/links
• Simon Wilson's approach: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Dec/22/link-blog/

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