events/2025-07-02-hwc-europe
Homebrew Website Club Europe/London was an IndieWeb meetup on Zoom held on 2025-07-02.
- Archived from: https://etherpad.indieweb.org/2025-07-02-hwc-europe
Participants
Ross A. Baker
capjamesg
zacharykai - https://zacharykai.net/Joe Crawford
Tantek Γelik
Angelo Gladding
jo
Al AbutThomas Vander Wal
- ... add names
Notes
- Welcome to Homebrew Website Club!
- Security on your web server
- htaccess should be 440 or 400 in file permissions
- The basic principle is to move anything containing passwords into a
- Remove from GitHub: https://docs.github.com/en/authentication/keeping-your-account-and-data-secure/removing-sensitive-data-from-a-repository#purging-a-file-from-your-local-repositorys-history-using-git-filter-repo then https://docs.github.com/en/authentication/keeping-your-account-and-data-secure/removing-sensitive-data-from-a-repository#fully-removing-the-data-from-github
- Secret Scannning:
- Never store passwords in clear text. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptographic_hash_function#Password_verification
Security experts to follow:
- https://krebsonsecurity.com/
- https://www.schneier.com/
- https://www.troyhunt.com/ (who runs https://haveibeenpwned.com/)
Re: emails and passwords, blog posts:
- https://tantek.com/2025/052/b1/steps-indieweb-cybersecurity
- https://tantek.com/2025/122/b1/more-steps-indieweb-cybersecurity
Latest IndieWeb Carnival
- July 2025 IWC "totems" https://www.maxwelljoslyn.com/2025/07/01/1
benji says hi from an airplane :)
zacharykai An airplane? How on earth do you have wifi? How cool!
benji waiting for takeoff. Dont think this plane has wifi. We'll see.
zacharykai Makes sense then! Hope you have a safe flight!
Have a safe flight, benji! Have a good cup of coffee on the plane! +1 safe travels!
- Optimising for writing vs. publishing
- "local first" local_first
- Mobile writing flows
- Al did a demo showing a website in an iCloud-mounted folder that can be edited from his phone
- many folks do similar notes handling Obsidian with Obsidian
Al asked "does anyone feel organized with their thoughts?"
- James sharing his Notion setup
- Similar to James' pastebin: https://calnewport.com/deep-habits-workingmemory-txt-the-most-important-productivity-tool-youve-never-heard-of/
- For me
- Thomas uses https://github.com/TfTHacker/obsidian42-strange-new-worlds with Obsidian
- Zachary shared https://www.rssrssrssrss.com/ today and it's great. It allows combining rss feeds into new unique feeds.
- "jots" for notes on your website that are short, like one-liners
- Example: https://zacharykai.net/jots
https://jamesg.blog/ideas-list#software-wishes
- Thomas did a deep dive into his local notes setup with Obsidian
- Thomas has a feature in his notes that shows a [0] icon with the number of pages that link to the anchor
- "Solar" - related to a color scheme significant enough to have a wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solarized
- iAWriter: https://ia.net/writer
- What is the most creative page on your website?
- IndieWeb_Movie_Club
- https://dead.garden/blog/indieweb-movie-club-june-2025.html
- https://marksuth.dev/posts/2025/07/indieweb-movie-club-july-2025-triplets-bellville
- https://www.nicksimson.com/posts/2025-indieweb-carnival-take-two
- Primer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primer_(film) (time travel! intricate! inscrutable! Indie!)
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triangle_(2009_British_film) (a favorite of kupietz β recommend you not read the wikipedia page, as it gives away the entire plot)
- More fun is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frequently_Asked_Questions_About_Time_Travel which is set in a pub. (another very fun one, βkupietz)
- Re: grandfather paradox https://phys.org/news/2025-06-theory-dimensions-space-secondary-effect.html is interesting
- XKCD movie narrative charts, including Primer: https://xkcd.com/657/
Counterpoint to comman software names that you can't google, had to think of this post: https://www.tumblr.com/orcboxer/745857099387584512/have-you-seen-the-new-show-its-on-tubu-its
https://www.benji.dog/articles/i-like-turtles/
- Salmention! Salmention
- There are webmention "likes" Angelo like
- Open heart protocol: https://github.com/dddddddddzzzz/OpenHeart https://openheart.fyi/
- sharp quip from
Thomas Vander Wal https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turtles_all_the_way_down
rigmarole (James: I thought it was spelled "rigamaroll") https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tohu_wa-bohu
- site:bbc.co.uk "rigmarole"
- https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/rigmarole
- "ragman"
- rag and bone man https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rag-and-bone_man
- there's always another way to interpret something!
- "absquatulate"
- "elsewise"
- "otherhow"
- kawaii (a word, along with kawaii, and chibi, I did not know when I drew my self portrait in 1999 - i called it "Japanese Cute Style" - https://artlung.com/blog/2005/07/21/joe-japanese-cute-style-1990/
- Mike's vocabulary page, including "absquatulate" and other neologisms from the US 1820s-1840s craze: https://michaelkupietz.com/vocabulary/
- 100+ gen z terms: https://socialtradia.com/blog/gen-z-slang-terms/
- 50+ gen alpha terms: https://parade.com/living/gen-alpha-slang
- Tantek says he's heard "No cap" in public usage, James hasn't β is it a Tantektualization?
- one of my favorite Japanese terms: **kuidaore**: to eat yourself into bankruptcy
- "irusu" -- japanese : pretending to be out when someone knocks at your door
- "ACG is a gorpcore brand" - via https://www.gearpatrol.com/style/shoes-boots/a43668434/nike-acg-explained/
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backronym
There is an aesthetics wiki! https://aesthetics.fandom.com/wiki/Aesthetics_Wiki
- "indieweb core"
- "core core" -- fans of apple cores
- light and dark mode that changes to light/dark academia
- https://aesthetics.fandom.com/wiki/Webcore
- https://www.pinterest.com/ideas/coffee-core-aesthetic/897856674082/
- "Grunge coffee aesthetic"
- https://ragt.ag/weather
- https://open-meteo.com/ weather API
- https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/
- IndieWeb Carnival for this month: https://www.maxwelljoslyn.com/2025/07/01/1
- A drawing by James from 2020: https://jamesg.blog/assets/cheapshot_drawing.avif
- Cheapshot Coffee is now closed :(
- Kupietz has posted the first draft of his post on his per-website email/password scheme suggestions, as discussed earllier this meeting https://michaelkupietz.com/?p=29863