events/2025-05-07-hwc-europe
Homebrew Website Club Europe/London was an IndieWeb meetup on Zoom held on 2025-05-07.
- Archived from: https://etherpad.indieweb.org/2025-05-07-hwc-europe
Participants
capjamesg - https://jamesg.blog
Joe Crawford
Mark Sutherland
Ross A. Baker casually lurked between work meetings
zacharykai - https://zacharykai.net
mandaris - https://mandarismoore.com/
benji - https://benji.dog
- ... add names
Notes
- Welcome to HWC!
- Homebrew Website Clubs typically have a quiet writing time
- Guy Sheffers's blog: https://guysoft.wordpress.com/
- Also active here: https://github.com/guysoft
- Skit related to ffmpeg - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9kaIXkImCAM
https://downloads.marginalia.nu/exports/: "atags-25-04-20.csv.gz" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4OAUOfh98Po https://cssbattle.dev/
On Brevity:
- βI didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.β -- Mark Twain
Code Golf - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_golf
- The idea of minimal code to accomplish a particular task is a good one, but a coding challenge is usually not analgous to the task of a website which must be fit for purpose of multiple browsers across time
What we're doing on our websites
- Manny is working on media reviews on his website
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/:only-child "widely available"
Theme in web development: Using CSS to customise HTML over which you have limited control (i.e. when designing themes on micro.blog).
Img tags in p
``` p>img:only-child { display: block; margin: auto; } ```
- How does one get sponsorship for software?
- Sponsorship, Ko-Fi, Liberapay
- James has a new self-made website to keep track of his books (private for now)
- Uses Hardcover API https://hardcover.app/pages/about
James is removing that domain because there is... technically no authentication right now :D
- carrvo has made updates to his tool SVNmentions - a webmention receiver to take advantage of SVN's unique features https://github.com/carrvo/SVNmentions
- SVN is still used though Git is more widely popular
- Discussion of software, dependency management, composer
Skit Sales Guy vs Web Dude (contains some foul language) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRGljemfwUE
https://jamesbrierly.com/typography
An interesting read on web typography: https://clagnut.com/blog/2433
- 1SE: May seem meaningless in the moment, but has meaning in retrospect.
- Streaks
Joe Crawford posted about doing CSS Battles https://artlung.com/blog/2025/05/06/110-css-battle/
- It's okay not to post!
- https://library.xandra.cc/moderation/ *terrific post about moderation, community*
- Designer https://www.youtube.com/@LinusBoman
- (I loved their video on the Chinese Restaurant font https://youtu.be/YP9gEeVQZ2U )
- https://artlung.com/front-end-study-hall/ (captures webmentions from frontend study hall) - it captures links to the main front end study hall and to all the
- Indieweb pages receive webmentions on webmention.io
- A webmention may be sent on behalf of any linking page as long as the target page has a webmention receiver
- https://brr.fyi/posts/mcmurdo-postal-mail
- https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/antarctic-exploration-museum-post-office