events/2025-06-25-hwc-europe
Homebrew Website Club Europe/London was an IndieWeb meetup on Zoom held on 2025-06-25.
- Archived from: https://etherpad.indieweb.org/p/hwc-europe-2025-06-25
Participants
Ross A. Baker - https://rossabaker.com/
Paul Watson - https://www.lazaruscorporation.co.uk
zacharykai - https://zacharykai.net/
Ana Rodrigues - ohhelloana.blog
Terence Eden - https://shkspr.mobi/blog/- Hugh - https://hughrawlinson.me
gRegor Morrill https://gregorlove.com/- AmΓ©lie https://freeradical.zone/@AmelieCornelis
Joe Crawford https://artlung.com/
- Rowan https://rowan.fyi
Angelo Gladding
mandaris
Reilly Spitzfaden https://reillyspitzfaden.com
joThomas Vander Wal
benji https://benji.dog- ... add names / websites. If you have a chat name on the wiki, you can enter Template:username
Notes
- Is there a Zoom link yet? I don't see one on the main page. - sorted out!
- One just appeared - thanks for your patience all!
- https://gifcities.org/
- wrote a blog post about finding a GIF of mine in these results: https://artlung.com/blog/2025/06/25/gifs-seriously/
RSS feeds and namespaces
- Q: Are there any specific namespace extensions that *should* be added for compatibility?
- How to add styles to XML / RSS feeds https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2023/06/style-your-wordpress-atom-feed/
- https://www.lazaruscorporation.co.uk/feeds/blogs/artists-notebook/format/rss
- https://manuelmoreale.com/feed/rss
- An example of Granary's HTML to Atom conversion and the namespaces it adds:
- Ross A. Baker added a feed without his PESOS content: https://rossabaker.com/originals.xml
- Some Hugo implementation details: https://rossabaker.com/configs/website/atom-feed/#define-the-layouts-to-call-the-partial
Trading blog post titles with people
- https://blog.avas.space/
- https://kami.bearblog.dev/lets-trade-blogposts/
- zacharykai is happy to trade blog post titles! https://zacharykai.net/hello
- Ava also has a blog question challenge from earlier this year that several of us participated in
- https://blog.avas.space/bear-blog-challenge/
If you're looking for blog challenges, some documented on challenge or 100_days
Anti-spam on forms
- Making comments section with basic HTML form markup; Netlify serverless functions; and Supabase/Supabase.js: https://reillyspitzfaden.com/posts/2024/01/do-read-the-comments/
- Talking of Captchas: https://doom-captcha.vercel.app/
- gRegor Morrill I've had some success with a honeypot hidden text field with a name like "website2", and checking when the form is submitted that the field is empty; if it's not, discard it as spam. Humans should never see it/fill it out, but a good chunk of bots will try to fill it in.
- Using the page's title, like this: https://zacharykai.net/lists/oceania
- "Our personal websites are not an emergency service" - Ana
Logging into the indieweb.org website
- https://indiewebify.me/ can help validate your h-card on your homepage, and h-entry on post permalinks
- https://turner.enemyterritory.org/shared/repo/user/carrvo/website/homeserver-bom-calculator.html
- database-antipattern: definitely a plurality when it comes to db vs flat file usage in the community, no one "right answer" but tradeoffs
- gRegor Morrill: Wait, Excel isn't a database? ;)
- Baked data architectural pattern: https://simonwillison.net/2021/Jul/28/baked-data/ - and related: http://datasette.io/. I wonder if anyone has done indieweb stuff with datasette, it would be well suited for at least some of it.
- Misc
- Nintendo Wii web server: https://wiibrew.org/wiki/Wii_Web_Server
- Simon Willison https://simonwillison.net/
- His tool https://datasette.io/ - doing interesting things
- Demo: https://michaelkupietz.com/draggable-elements-wordpress-plugin/
- Added draggable menus to move things away
- Simple website starter pack https://github.com/indieweb/blank-gh-site which outputs https://indieweb.github.io/blank-gh-site/
- Various ways to join IndieWeb chat: discuss
- h-cards not updating in events - https://github.com/aaronpk/Meetable/issues/135
https://piccalil.li/blog/some-simple-ways-to-make-content-look-good/
- Good Internet Magazine: https://goodinternetmagazine.com/
- Joe got his copy just the other day. Zachary Kai has an article in it
- https://internetphonebook.net/
- https://jamesg.blog is also in rural Scotland, Amelie (thanks!)
- Internet on Legs, Captain Wikipedia, Burning Man (<-- questionable nicknames people have been called. BTW even though the festival is "Burning Man", I was getting called "Burningman", one word, very clearly.)
- gRegor Morrill: I liked this blog post by Dan Sinker about generative AI, creativity, and caring: https://dansinker.com/posts/2025-05-23-who-cares/
- βIn the Who Cares Era, the most radical thing you can do is care. In a moment where machines churn out mediocrity, make something yourself. Make it imperfect. Make it rough. Just make it.β
Accessibility tools
- https://sa11y.netlify.app/bookmarklet/
- @edent found a small bug! https://github.com/ryersondmp/sa11y/issues/122
- accessibility
Fix SVG Animations in Chrome - https://issues.chromium.org/issues/427020732
- Ana Tudor https://thebabydino.github.io/ (often works at the edges of what SVG can do)
- https://mastodon.social/@anatudor is her account on Fediverse
Angelo Gladding demo of page showing received webmentions:
- https://ragt.ag/mentions
- gRegor Morrill has a similar page, parsing microformats to show names/avatars: https://gregorlove.com/responses/
- IndieWeb Carnivals This Month:
Re: Webmention the specification vs the expected user experience, 
Marty McGuire had a good post:
- https://artlung.com/blog/2005/08/02/mr-roth-caricature-1987/ is my favorite example of a long lived page with infrequent interactions.
- We must all decide what to *do* with the webmentions we receive? Are they displayed or not? Are there counts of interactions or not? Every site owner can decide how to handle!
https://www.benji.dog/π aka http://www.benji.dog/%F0%9F%90%9D (in url encoded format)
https://www.benji.dog/articles/i-like-turtles/
Graphing calculator bunny: https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10152302673960839&type=3