events/2025-07-30-hwc-eastern
Homebrew Website Club - Eastern was an IndieWeb meetup on Zoom held on 2025-07-30.
- Archived from: https://etherpad.indieweb.org/2025-07-30-hwc-eastern
Homebrew Website Club - Eastern
July 30, 2025
Participants
Joe Crawford
Reilly Spitzfaden- {
David Shanske
Thomas Vander Wal
Dr. Matt Lee (hosting)- Template:btrem
jo
Al Abut- ... add names
Notes
- Create Days are great: Create_Day
- (most recent: July, before that, November 2024, next: November 2025)
- Small world!
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_box_(phreaking)
- Has there been a musical composition made of famous hacking tones?
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Double_(2013_film) β Mr. Papadopoulos' theme uses phone/fax/modem sounds
- https://applytriangle.bandcamp.com/track/if-this-reaches-you β Reilly's composition, which uses radio modem, pager, etc. sounds from an RTL-SDR (https://www.rtl-sdr.com/about-rtl-sdr/)
- Sound collage musicians
- https://radiowonderland.org/Radio-Wonderland-bio
- https://pulusound.fi/ also uses retro Macintoshes for her livecoding
- Matt staring working on the follow-up to: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4607980/ and the original site - https://orangumovie.com/
- Discovery discovery
- Leonard Maltin's books of movies ended in the early 2000s
- A big "phone book" of stuff would be useful to expose you to things that might interest you
- Netflix does a poor job exposing their whole catalog
https://www.icollecteverything.com/share/1291968/movie_Movies/main/title/
Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist
- https://heydonworks.com/article/the-blockquote-element/
- The Blockquote Plus going through my Lab - https://lab.vanderwal.net/blockquote-plus.html
- Accessibility, captions, audio descriptions: https://lab.artlung.com/comics-a11y/
- Voice audio descriptions of film, games
- Accessibility is in the air!
- With a Mastodon account that links to a GitHub account which also links to the Mastodon account with rel=me on both links, a user can log in using IndieLogin
- Al Abut recently got zines in the mail from Zachary Kai, chosen from the zine section from their personal website:
- https://zacharykai.net/zines/
- Excellent use of bridging the digital/physical divide in a completely indie, grassroots, DIY way
- This weekend: https://html.energy/ HTML Day will be August 2, 2025! Go write HTML!
- issues with webmention.io and emojis:
- https://veronique.ink/paper-blog/
- re: libary on website: https://dead.garden/books
- @ Al about getting into War and Peace "late": https://embed.tumblr.com/embed/post/t:_DhNxGZ117dZnYBdSwOI7g/775766250130440192/v2?width=542&language=en_US&did=86e21741b82f7512f3e1818d7be61cb3c51c0b81** π Very funny Jo
Thomas Vander Wal uses Obsidian and a books plugin to organize his reading and notetaking
- How to "gut" a book for research: https://artsweb.cal.bham.ac.uk/NStanden/impchina/guttingabook.htm
- Gutting books: https://vanderwal.net/random/entrysel.php?blog=2125 by Thomas
- Which Obsidian plugin was it for looking up books? https://github.com/anpigon/obsidian-book-search-plugin
- James made a bookshelf scanning app: https://jamesg.blog/2024/02/22/photo-bookshelf
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delicious_Library
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CueCat CueCat was a device repurposed to do scanning
- https://smorgasborg.artlung.com/bruce-sterling/free_as_knowledge/ (Sterling talk frokm 1992 on how radical and wonderful an idea libraries are)
- Al Abut is a big fan of the read-it-later app Reader: https://readwise.io/read
- Can take in many different reading material types and organize to the Nth degree with tags, search, etc.
- Same company that makes the web highlighting app Readwise: https://readwise.io/
Thomas Vander Wal does a lot of usage with these apps and integration into Obsidian for knowledge management using tools such as Hookmark: https://hookproductivity.com/
- https://github.com/DominikPieper/obsidian-ReadItLater lets you save a webpage as a .md document
- https://calibre-ebook.com/ ebook library manager
- Obsidian plugin to see how many times you've tagged something: https://github.com/TfTHacker/obsidian42-strange-new-worlds
- ZettelkΓ€sten
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