events/2026-01-21-hwc-pacific
Homebrew Website Club - Pacific was an IndieWeb meetup on Zoom held on 2026-01-21.
- Archived from: https://etherpad.indieweb.org/2026-01-21-hwc-pacific
Homebrew Website Club - Pacific
Jan 21, 2026
Participants
Joe Crawford https://artlung.com/
- Morgan https://morganwebdev.org
gRegor Morrill https://gregorlove.com/
Ross A. Baker https://rossabaker.com/
Anthony Ciccarello https://www.ciccarello.me/Thomas Vander Wal https://vanderwal.net
Tantek Γelik https://tantek.com/
Notes
- Welcome to Homebrew Website Club! We talk about personal websites and our agency over our own digital presences here!
Joe
- https://smorgasborg.artlung.com/power-of-the-powerless/ was cited by Canada's leader, Joe wants to put a copy of his speech at Davos ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTvFnC-oFGw )
- I created a special page on Smorgasborg for just the RSS/Atom feed patterns for some silos https://smorgasborg.artlung.com/feed-patterns/
- I am slightly more automated on https://indieweb.thisbot.day/ but probably will be semi-manual in some respects for a while (posts to Bluesky and Mastodon on Mondays the upcoming https://events.indieweb.org events
- This week created journal page to flesh out a bit the idea of "journal" and "journaling" - which had no page
Morgan demos animation change: will-change
- 2-3 min demo of web graphics changes:
- Story: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/Reference/Properties/will-change
- Removing "Will Change" from an animation
Donations? Causes?
How do people publish their donations?
- supporting
- donation
- gRegor's example from IWCSD https://gregorlove.com/causes/ which I forgot to complete and link to, thanks for the nudge
- Tantek Γelik:
Security, Uses, Setups, Packing, Gear
- Pages like /uses vs /colophon
- opsec (security vulnerability of sharing) and "uses" or "colophon?"
Tantek Γelik has blogged packing lists of a few specific kinds:
- SXSW packing lists
- photos of what I packed on a trip, items laid out on a bed in a aesthetic arrangement
- race kits e.g. https://tantek.com/2020/073/t3/racekit-muc50
Morgan: 1-2 minute show and tell of some new music gear, considered for a variation of /uses specific to music gear :
- https://www.morganwebdev.org/posts/original-layering-machine/
- Device is from Teenage Engineering https://teenage.engineering/products/ep-40
Post vs Page?
- editing an existing page can be more difficult
- a "now" page that one has to update manually can be a source of stress
APPS!!!
Also, Morgans old website used to be a CSS phone: https://web.archive.org/web/20220520181335/https://www.morganwebdev.com/ with an app drawer style
- Tantek Γelik has virtual "app page" designs on https://tantek.com/contact - https://tantek.com/pay
Using file modification for display
- Joe used to use flastmod -= https://httpd.apache.org/docs/current/mod/mod_include.html#element.flastmod to display a last updated datetime for an html page. Ross used to but build processes for SSG's often make such a thing impossible
( An interesting article about Dates on Documents, that this discussion made me think of: https://infrequently.org/2025/08/names-and-dates-on-docs-every-time/
( Desktop bankruptcy: https://www.blairs.computer/
Fonts
- Simpler (older method?) System Font Stack: https://systemfontstack.com/
- Newer system font stacks (more stylish?): https://modernfontstacks.com/
- I was reminded of this fun "keming" shirt: https://laughingsquid.com/keming-and-other-t-shirts-for-type-nerds/
One more Font CSS link: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/Reference/Properties/font-variant-numeric Codepen example: https://codepen.io/javan/pen/WNXNZLN