events/2025-12-17-hwc-eastern
Homebrew Website Club - Eastern was an IndieWeb meetup on Zoom held on 2025-12-17.
- Archived from: https://etherpad.indieweb.org/2025-12-17-hwc-eastern
Participants
Joe Crawford
Thomas Vander Wal https://vanderwal.net
Ross A. Baker https://rossabaker.com/David Shanske
mandaris
Naty S https://burgeonlab.com
Tantek Γelik
gRegor Morrill
- ... add names
Notes
- Welcome to HWC Eastern!
- Mushy peas & Heismans!
- https://www.ciccarello.me/blog/2025/12/14/indieweb-hackathon/
- https://artlung.com/mixtapes/chanukah-music (ported during San Diego IWC)
- Timeline of IndieWeb Camps:
- Pine Phone, a LINUX phone - https://pine64.org/devices/pinephone/
- Pinephone64 runs Manjaro out of the box https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manjaro
- Pine Time
- Signal runs on Android: https://signal.org/download/ and on Debian based up
- San Diego IndieWeb Camp
- Skip Links https://www.morganwebdev.org/posts/skip-link/
- Morgan is enjoying writing about accessibility
- Friend who is not sighted was bemused
- David and Joe both have only been in an airport in Tokyo, but almost certainly not the same one and also decades apart.
- Ross A. Baker is fighting SameSite cookie policies and OAuth redirects
- Japanese-style egg salad sandwiches are in California and in the UK
- Random fact of the day: 7-Eleven is a Japanese company
- Manny is working on his Hugo site to add a site search
- Process generates a large json file (an index, presumably?)
- "mini search"
- Naty has used "Pagefind" successfully ~ https://github.com/Pagefind/pagefind
- It is simple to use, can exclude pages (e.g. terms/taxonomy hugo pages) and easy to customize output, gets the database of all words on build during deployment so index stays fresh
- Manny also has been leaning on with Picalilli - https://piccalil.li - for front end insights
- "Why are my view-transitions blinking" https://piccalil.li/blog/why-are-my-view-transitions-blinking/
- Thomas working on his site search and running into complicated database issues
- Joe helping a fellow do filtering on an html page and in development: https://codepen.io/artlung/pen/ogxrJQe
- Mark looking at Typesense https://typesense.org/
- Dr. Demento: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._Demento
- Fishheads, Weird Al,
- GitHub Actions Has a Package Manager and It Might Be the Worst: https://nesbitt.io/2025/12/06/github-actions-package-manager.html
- https://resources.github.com/actions/2026-pricing-changes-for-github-actions/
- https://youtu.be/xTSar1SEmIU?si=Em7BjGHit4WIa7JR - The Github Tax video by Theo
- Mentioned alternates to GH Actions: Blacksmith and Depot (I'm not familiar with them but lookin at them)
- Simon Willison's posts mentioning github actions
- #GiveupGithub: https://giveupgithub.org/
- Naty left GitHub (Pages hosting) to SourceHut CI (Builds) and separate static hosting https://burgeonlab.com/blog/migrate-github-pages-to-sourcehut-bunny/
- There's also Codeberg Pages, which has a hazy future: https://docs.codeberg.org/codeberg-pages/
- App Stores in the Apple Ecosystem and Google Ecosystems often have onerous requirements for publishing software, whether that's:
- Browser plugin for Chrome
- Browser plugin for Safari
- Android app for phone
- "social media apps" - indieweb software falls into this category and so has even greater "regulatory" overhead
- Micropub lowers writing barrier for GWG Micropub/Clients
- 2019/SF/webactions
QUOTES
- Don't admin tax me bro!
- I'm in a much higher admin tax bracket than I was a month ago
- This might be
- "Here there be dragons but no dreidels"
- Another day of Chanukah!
- https://soundcloud.com/shelley-posen/put-the-latkes-on-to-fry