events/2025-09-24-hwc-eastern
Homebrew Website Club - Eastern was an IndieWeb meetup on Zoom held on 2025-09-24.
- Archived from: https://etherpad.indieweb.org/2025-09-24-hwc-eastern
Participants
Joe Crawford https://artlung.com/
Thomas Vander Wal https://vanderwal.net
Ross A. Baker https://rossabaker.com/- Kevin M
- shen
Al Abut https://alabut.com
Angelo Gladding https://ragt.ag- Shae Erisson
We Take Notes!
- Welcome to HWC!
- https://www.php.net/manual/en/function.trim.php - one can choose to trim a specific character
- Windmills along the theme of Kevin Marks' seaside background with windmills in the background https://codepen.io/artlung/pen/RNWzYpY
- Mixtapes: https://artlung.com/mixtapes/
- https://codepen.io/artlung/full/JoYQoZZ (taking digital files and creating an isometric view)
- https://codepen.io/artlung/full/XJXbGjR (and applying the same CSS to photos of covers)
- Al is adapting a new process to use Obsidian as the driver for his website
- Adapted the frontmatter into timestamps, and use Obsidian data types
- "Adding a Z solved it!" -- (I believe related to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601 formatting)
- Z means timezone to match GMT, sometimes called Zulu
- appending +00:00 should do the same thing
- Different schemes for a home page
- A link to everything like an encyclopedia index (like joe)
- A column of the latest thing (like gregorlove.com)
- A mix of the latest stuff, PLUS ways to explore (like rossabaker.com)
- How do we organize our sites?
- Categories imply more up-front work
- Tags are looser accrete over time
- Loose tags (beach windmill sunset) (or tage the place it is)
- many ways to use tags
- tumblr-like use of tags (a set of tags can constitute a joke!)
- "Performative hashtagging"
- Thomas has been cleaning up the tags of the stuff on his site - like working in a wiki way
- Standarization standard difficulty https://xkcd.com/927/
- Thomas released: "Complexity Lenses β An Overview" https://personalinfocloud.com/blog/2025/09/22/complexity-lenses-an-overview/
- Summaries of unwritten blog posts - Shae Erisson - puts up summaries - then pay to write it
- Do people talk like they blog? Talk like they write?
- Different blogs for different purposes maybe
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_murre (topic of a blog post Sophia needs to write)
- Buy a blog post: https://www.scannedinavian.com/buy-a-blog-post.html
- What are we trying to stay? And to who?
- Get paid from a blog post? ($15 fee)
- paid for one post (yay!)
- Talk by Juliette of PHP Codesniffer talking about how open source needs people, and human beings have human problems, and there ought to be ways to
- https://mastodon.social/@lauchgott/114722355945638707
Sustainability of Open Source:
- https://openssf.org/blog/2025/09/23/open-infrastructure-is-not-free-a-joint-statement-on-sustainable-stewardship/
- Don't sign a CLA: https://drewdevault.com/2023/07/04/Dont-sign-a-CLA-2.html (more links at bottom)
- https://pivotnine.com/blog/open-source-has-too-many-parasocial-relationships/
- HashiCorp https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HashiCorp
- Built stuff under a sharealike Mozilla license. Similar to GNU ~ able to give and take from community
- Sign contributor license work which assigns copyright
- Terraform (infrastructure as code)
- Next version can fork using the copyrighted source
- How is Obsidian doing things?
- Codeberg: why now? GitHub - copilot must be on when using GitHub
- Some reasons: https://sfconservancy.org/GiveUpGitHub/
- Ross got three AI-generated spam notifications during this meetup
- and can't pass the Captcha to submit abuse reports
- Microsoft is pushing copilot across all of their products - windows, office, etc.
- https://www.tomshardware.com/software/microsoft-office/microsoft-will-force-install-the-copilot-ai-app-for-users-with-desktop-versions-of-365-apps-like-word-and-excel-coming-october-with-no-way-to-opt-out-for-personal-users
- CoPilot now adds notifications? How do I know if the code is leaking?
- Sci Art September https://liapas.com/2024/09/30/sciart-september-2024/
- could be done with details elements, or popovers,
- https://jamesg.blog/2025/09/11/alt-text-button-design
- Scalable annotations on an image: https://codepen.io/artlung/pen/OPMyxdo
- https://pypi.org/project/watchdog/
- Run stuff on the system after pushes