events/2025-10-22-hwc-europe
Homebrew Website Club Europe/London was an IndieWeb meetup on Zoom held on 2025-10-22.
- Archived from: https://etherpad.indieweb.org/2025-10-22-hwc-europe
Participants
capjamesg: https://jamesg.blog- Zachary Kai: https://zacharykai.net
Mark Sutherland https://marksuth.dev
Nick Simson https://nicksimson.com- Joe https://artlung.com/
mandaris mandarismoore.com- Monica: https://messymind.me/
benji https://benji.dog- Template:Morganwebdev.org https://morganwebdev.org
Al Abut
Tantek Γelik- ... add names
Notes
- Welcome to HWC!
- I love the design! Very lively and fun. Wonderful to see you have 88x31 button! I'll be adding it to my site.
- Welcome Monica! So lovely to have you here --
zacharykaiwrites - Distract-a-cat: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lusYOiAd62U
- Related to cats: https://github.com/adryd325/oneko.js
- Art everywhere! In the uk and more art around us than is obvious.
- Interestingly that's the theme of the book for this month's IndieWeb Book Club https://zacharykai.net/notes/iwboct25 (always time to read a good book and post about it!)
- https://github.com/metmuseum/openaccess/blob/master/MetObjects.csv - Met museum data
https://images.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ https://images.nationalarchives.gov.uk/collection/127/
- Nick's playlist page: https://www.nicksimson.com/playlist
- James added animated cat eyes to his websites
- James also updated his seasonal.js file to include the anniversary dates of Taylor Swift album releases
- Eyes that follow your cursor: https://www.creativeboom.com/
- https://pointerpointer.com/
Please check out my demo website https://airbr.github.io/WCAG-JSON-experience/ WCAG Link!
- Urban Dictionary documents slang words / new words that are popping up on the web
days_since_last_domain_purchase_at_HWC
- Is there a wiki syntax for "days since [date]"?
- It's amazing that someone can join a meeting and listen to people chat about websites from several timezones away! (this meeting :D)
- Blog post idea: "reasons to be optimistic about the web"
- One reason: the IndieWeb exists!
- The IndieWeb is a community where you can meet new people and socialise
- https://turner.enemyterritory.org/user/carrvo/website/debian-package-for-apache.html -- Matthew's latest blog post
- IndieWeb Movie Club for this month is the movie Hackers (https://www.benji.dog/articles/indieweb-movie-club-october-2025/)
- Seeing posts in an RSS reader means you miss the site design unless you click through
- CSS aspect-ratio: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/aspect-ratio
- The history of the IMG tag: https://thehistoryoftheweb.com/the-origin-of-the-img-tag/
- zacharykaiwrites at last fixed his RSS feed generator script! Only took seven attempts over five days...but the good news is now the feed is valid and it automatically updates once every twelve hours. Hooray for crons!
- Zachary is hosting this month's book club: IndieWeb_Book_Club
- https://snaps.jeddacp.com/ -- a cool photo blog!
- The Photographer's Playbook: https://aperture.org/books/educational/the-photographers-playbook/
- Should there be a book of lots of website challenges?
- https://weirdweboctober.website
- Joe has been doing the prompts and despite it being a busy month has done a prompt every day so far https://artlung.com/weird-web-october/
- If you want sticker versions of James' mascot, send an email to jamesg [at] jamesg [dot] blog.
- https://blr.indiewebclub.org/ maintained by the IndieWebClub Bangalore community has a list of recent posts published by members.
- Of a piece with
- Google "cat" to see a cat button that, when clicked, lets you click on the page and hear a meow and see a cat paw press where you clicked.
- Google should have a cat mode!
- CSS cursor property https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/cursor
- At one time a cursor was required to be a .cur file for it to work on Windows. At some point browsers allowed (nearly) any image to be used.
- https://jamesg.blog/buttons has a coffee cup cursor
- There should be a website that translates the idiom "making biscuits"
