events/2025-06-18-hwc-europe
Homebrew Website Club Europe/London was an IndieWeb meetup on Zoom held on 2025-06-18.
- Archived from: https://etherpad.indieweb.org/2025-06-18-hwc-europe
Participants
Mark Sutherland
Tantek Γelik
zacharykai - https://zacharykai.net/
benji
jo
Paul Watson
Ross A. Baker
mandaris
Nick Simson
Thomas Vander Wal
Joe Crawford
- Add yourself here⦠(see this for more details)
Notes
zacharykai - doing some digital mending today. Lots to catch up on!
Spotify recommended Sebastian BΓΆhm to t
IndieWeb Movie Club
- June is Mary Poppins
- July is Triplets of Belville
- May was Tomorrowland - anyone else planning a post
- Benji wrote and sent a webmention - t is looking into it
- Benji's post about TRMNL e-ink devices is great: https://www.benji.dog/articles/trmnl-metrotransit/
Joe Crawford is going to get one of them https://usetrmnl.com/
Hackers is the movie for October
- related: Cyberdelia party (30th anniversary Hackers) at DNA Lounge 2025-09-05: https://www.dnalounge.com/calendar/2025/09-05.html
MIT Wearable Computing Project members
Pride stripe in CSS
- https://codepen.io/marksuth/pen/YPXqpPN
- alternative design: https://codepen.io/marksuth/pen/KwpxBLX
WML
- https://lab.artlung.com/wml/
- https://microformats.org/wiki/wml (stubbed during the call)
- https://blamba.de has a working WML document
- https://blamba.de/?page=faq has interesting answers around how these works, it seems as though only a vintage phone can create the experience of WAP browsers and WML markup
- Nokia simulator: https://900kunder.com/mobile-site-simulator/nokia.htm (works with Joe's WML page)
- (but it's probably not an actual WML simulator)
- It is a simple iframe. The browser actually looks like it nullifies the xml declaration <?xml version="1.0"?> to . But still, neat!
BIMI
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brand_Indicators_for_Message_Identification
- https://www.fastmail.help/hc/en-us/articles/7002542139663-Using-BIMI-in-Fastmail
Turtle Graphics! Logo https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logo_(programming_language)
Angelo Gladding made a Turtle Graphics displayer on his site: https://ragt.ag/turtle - it can export a PNG
- And
Joe Crawford https://artlung.com/blog/2025/06/16/turtle/
- benji made the IWC logo https://www.benji.dog/articles/i-like-turtles/
- "Car touchscreens βtoo distractingβ as simple tasks take 22 seconds / Experts warn that touchscreens, which are cheaper for manufacturers, are becoming increasingly complex and mimicking smartphones, which are banned at the wheel"
- Are Cars With Touchscreens More Dangerous?
https://www.steinberglawfirm.com/blog/are-cars-with-touchscreens-more-dangerous/
- phone sizes
https://www.mobilephonemuseum.com/
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-54239180
- Joe: had to drop! Thanks for the fun everybody!
Tantek Γelik added
benji's Tomorrowland post
- then updated https://tantek.com/cassis.js to make the auto-linker work with .dog domains (and .garden since Jo is on the call)
- once that worked, updated https://github.com/tantek/cassis/blob/main/cassis.js as well
- origins: events/2025-04-02-hwc-europe
- Emissary: https://github.com/EmissarySocial/emissary or https://emissary.dev/ "Emissary is the Social Web Toolkit -- a standalone Fediverse server designed for end users, app creators, and hosting admins β that gives everyone powerful new ways to join the social web." Emmisary.dev specifically mentions integration with Indieweb β webmentions, etc.