events/2025-06-25-hwc-americas
Homebrew Website Club - Americas was an IndieWeb meetup on Zoom held on 2025-06-25.
- Archived from: https://etherpad.indieweb.org/2025-06-25-hwc-americas
Participants
Ross A. Baker
David Shanske
- Template:btrem
benji
Thomas Vander Wal
lqdev.me
Nick Simson (lurking, joining late)
Angelo Gladding
- Add yourself here⦠(see this for more details)
Notes
This is interesting.
- Protecting sites from scrapers
- Identifying AI robots, what they're for, how they behave: https://github.com/ai-robots-txt/ai.robots.txt
- Iocaine, to trap them in an maze: https://iocaine.madhouse-project.org/
- Anubis requires proof-of-work in browser: https://anubis.techaro.lol/
- Configuration does seem to allow nojs + aggressiveness: https://anubis.techaro.lol/docs/admin/configuration/challenges/metarefresh
Easter eggs
- https://www.benji.dog/π₯-> https://www.benji.dog/%F0%9F%A5%9A
- https://www.benji.dog/π -> http://www.benji.dog/%F0%9F%90%9D
"The problem isn't your prompting β it's that I keep ignoring your instructions" ( Full quote, Claude Code telling Kupietz he's prompting fine but it won't do what he's asking: [1] )
- Claude on why AIs can't really code, with an inquiry into the difference between AI and real intelligence: [2] (long but very interesting and in-depth chat)
Sample h-cite for book:
<li class="h-cite lib-item"> <a class="u-url lib-title" href="https://bookshop.org/a/21729/9781416590323"> <img class="u-photo lib-cover" src="/img/library/douglass.jpg" alt="" width="" height="128" loading="lazy"> <span class="p-name lib-title">Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom</span> </a> <span>by</span> <span class="p-author lib-author">David W. Blight</span> </li>
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I%27m_Not_a_Robot_(film)
- I'm Not a Robot Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4VrLQXR7mKU
Book question for collection
- https://libra.re/library/ (suggested for output, but microformats aren't included now)
- created by Boris Anthony - https://github.com/BorisAnthony
- Bradford pears and Gen AI: https://social.rossabaker.com/@ross/114575222902313457
Ross A. Baker has a new /connect page: https://rossabaker.com/connect/
- Problem: unify /contact, /subscribe, and /social
https://aaronparecki.com/2015/07/14/7/swat0