events/2025-05-28-hwc-americas

Homebrew Website Club - Americas was an IndieWeb meetup on Zoom held on 2025-05-28.

• Archived from: https://etherpad.indieweb.org/2025-05-28-hwc-americas

Participants

• David Shanske
• Reilly Spitzfaden
• Template:btrem
• Template:satyapatel
• gRegor Morrill
• benji
• Joe Crawford
• Template:herebox
• Pablo Morales
• Template:potato
• ... add names

Notes

Demos

btrem:

• footnotes on my website using a plugin which is on GH:
  • https://github.com/btrem/eleventy-plugin-footnotes
  • and the plugin in action: https://btrem.com/2025/04-addtemplate

Calliope:

• Demoing Calliope's site https://operand.online/, built on Elixir and NixOS
  • Recommended Nushell https://www.nushell.sh/

gRegor:

• demoed an easter egg that I added on https://gregorlove.com/ (hints/explanation can be found on that wiki page)

Joe

• Swapped blogroll page from WordPress into plain php - https://artlung.com/blogroll/ which also pulls in the 2 most recent posts for those folks sites who have an Atom or RSS feed
  • Based somewhat on code I wrote for home page and now page
    • https://artlung.com/
    • https://artlung.com/now/

benji

• benji sent me (Reilly) a sticker:https://reillyspitzfaden.com/notes/2025/05/indieweb-stickers-from-benji/

Mike

• "I live at https://herebox.org online since 2000 or so"
• See his now page https://herebox.org/now/
• Going to move a site on Glitch onto something else.
  • https://blog.glitch.com/post/changes-are-coming-to-glitch/ - Glitch shuts its site on July 8, 2025
• e.g. Glitch in Bio https://glitch.com/glitch-in-bio

• Thomas Vander Wal's less "personal" site / blog - Personal InfoCloud - https://personalinfocloud.com

Jhin https://potato.rs/

• Easter egg: https://potato.rs/css
• Fediverse: @potatomeow@fosstodon.org
• Anubis: "Weigh the soul of incoming HTTP requests using proof-of-work to stop AI crawlers" https://anubis.techaro.lol/

Misc

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyrillic_O_variants#Multiocular_O
• Just saw this HTML AC/DC shirt shared in main indieweb channel: https://cogdogblog.com/2025/05/html-is-back-in-black/
• Poor quality of CSS solutions offfered by LLMs
  • https://frontendmasters.com/blog/chatgpt-and-old-and-broken-code/

Falling characters inspiration from 1980s

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cascade_(computer_virus)

• Anubis made by https://xeiaso.net

• Fediforum June meeting: https://fediforum.org/2025-06/
• places.pub
• https://places.pub/ -
• https://www.mapzen.com/ -

Please upvote the question about Reilly's text color

• https://stackoverflow.com/questions/27433399/same-color-text-text-looking-different-color
• Posting to Mastodon https://xoxo.zone/@artlung/114588781053309280
• And to Bluesky https://bsky.app/profile/artlung.com/post/3lqbolzpy3s2u

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To test the JS microformats-parser: https://microformats.github.io/microformats-parser/ https://microformats.org/wiki/index.php?title=microformats2-parsing#parsing_for_implied_properties

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