This Week in the IndieWeb

August 1-8, 2025

Recent Events

From events.indieweb.org/archive:




Join us at Iffy Books for Philly’s first Homebrew Website Club!


Plan to build something doable in a few hours - a document, a feature, a big fix or a POC!

Reply to RSVP or just come by. It'll be nice to hack together!











location in case of rain or heat advisory: Café Beatrice (right by the park)












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An informal meetup to write HTML together, inside the Peddlers Market event in Sheffield on Saturday. Bring a laptop or pen and paper to write and talk about HTML.








Upcoming Events

From events.indieweb.org:



Front End Study Hall is an HTML + CSS focused group meeting, held on Zoom to experiment and learn with the basic building blocks of the web. All skill levels welcome.


HWC Nuremberg is a in-person meeting for everybody who is interested in setting up a personal website and talk about web-related issues.



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HOPE_16 is a welcoming place for hackers of all types: makers, artists, educators, experimenters, tinkerers, and more! If you're interested in playing with technology, coming up with new ideas, learning from others, and sharing your knowledge, then this is the place for you!

HOPE_16 is an all-ages event with at least four speaker tracks, a whole bunch of workshops, awesome vendors, and fun activities throughout the entire weekend. This will all take place in a unique campus environment accessible by mass transit and offering free parking. On- and off-campus housing options are available, with surprisingly low prices.




Homebrew Website Club (HWC) Düsseldorf is an in-person meeting for everybody who is interested in setting up a personal website and talk about web-related issues.





HWC Nuremberg is a in-person meeting for everybody who is interested in setting up a personal website and talk about web-related issues.

What We’re Reading

From news.indieweb.org:

My IndieWeb Journey: Building, Sharing, and Owning Your Online Presence.
by ohhelloana.blog on
A very simple way to make a new web page (2025)
by mat.tl on
bookmarked Bridging vs cross-posting
by blog.anew.social on

New Community Members

From IndieWeb Wiki: New User Pages:

User:Jodie.website

Created by Jodie.website on Friday

Top New Wiki Pages

From IndieWeb Wiki: New Pages:

HTML Day

HTML Day is an annual celebration of HTML, run in the summer of 2024 and again in 2025.

Created by [social] on Saturday with 5 more edits by mat.tl, loqi.me, and tantek.com

Spacebar

Spacebar (formerly Fosscord) is a free and open source, full stack reverse engineering and reimplementation of the Discord server, and some indieweb community members have experience with it.

Created by Doesnm.cc on Tuesday with 4 more edits by tantek.com and mat.tl

Blaugust

Blaugust is a community led blogging challenge to post 31 times during the month of August, described in Blaugust 2025 is Coming! and has awards & badges you can earn by participating.

Created by Tantek.com on Saturday with 4 more edits by [tantek], loqi.me, and gregorlove.com

source map

Created by Blog.fermi.chat on Thursday and edited 1 more time

New Event Notes

From IndieWeb Wiki: New Pages:

Homebrew Website Club Europe/London: 2025-08-06

Homebrew Website Club - Pacific: 2025-08-06

Top Edited Wiki Pages

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