events/2026-02-18-hwc-pacific
Homebrew Website Club - Pacific was an IndieWeb meetup on Zoom held on 2026-02-18.
- Archived from: https://etherpad.indieweb.org/2026-02-18-hwc-pacific
Homebrew Website Club - Pacific
Feb 18, 2026
Participants
Joe Crawford https://artlung.com/
Naty S https://burgeonlab.com- Morgan https://morganwebdev.org
Aaron Crowder https://crowdersoup.com
Kevin Marks https://kevinmarks.com/- Template:joelchrono https://joelchrono.xyz/
David Shanske david.shanske.com
Ross A. Baker https://rossabaker.com/- Template:btrem https://btrem.com/
Anthony Ciccarello https://www.ciccarello.me
gRegor Morrill https://gregorlove.com/
Mike Kupietz https://michaelkupietz.com/
Fractalkitty https://banjomagpi.com
Notes
Naty
- Naty S added new features to her Hugo blog
- Guestbook page (manual submissions with static form), no webmention support yet https://burgeonlab.com/guestbook/
- Add minimal h-card to the whole site (previously, h-card was only on the homepage)
- Created a Matrix public room for the blog - don't know what I'll use it for yet
- Setup `u-like-of` for a new /likes feed https://burgeonlab.com/likes/
- Add `u-in-reply-of` markup for my /notes which I used to sign https://chrisburnell.com/guestbook/ with https://burgeonlab.com/notes/2026/0216-73426-reply/
- Joined an IndieWeb directory maintained by James and Joe
Morgan
Morgans topics for whenever there is a good time:
- Appreciation moment for IWC
- My phone died (arghhh) now going to be living phoneless for 1.5-2 weeks by intention
- Trying to figure out what I will need to adapt to survive online or otherwise i.e:
- No Authy/Google Authenticator/Had one other auth app
- Turning inflated batteries into lemons into lemonade -> Blog fodder!
- Also updating my 404 page ideas
Lost phone tips
- Print out backup codes and keep with phone if it dies
- Keep old phones as a backup device
Joe
- Joe is running a github shell script to import the 44k tweets and 8k flickr photo chunks as yaml files into his site repository
- https://artlung.com/search/ https://artlung.com/twitter/ https://artlung.com/flickr/ are the start of those PESOS editions of that data (also mentioned during HWC Europe London today)
CrowderSoup (Aaron)
- Building his own CMS / website for fun and for learning (https://crowdersoup.com)
- Building IndieWeb reader / Microsub client https://padd.crowdersoup.com
- Thinking about how a Microsub server/client might be leveraged to help people discover new blogs to follow
- Django (python CMS)
- HTMX
- I have to drop, but it was great to meet you all! I will check back on the ehter pad after I get the kids to bed.
Nice meeting you Aaron!
Introductions
- Welcome Aaron! Blogged since 2003 grew up with the internet - loved building websites
- Naty! Xanga Livejournal - tried WP - hated it - switched to Hugo
- Joel Chrono - Mexico "blogging since 2021" - Jekyll - simpleCSS - "100 days to upload" - a blogging challenge
- working on book tracking - with <details> tags
- Mastodon comments, blogroll, but no webmentions yet
- David
- Location implementation on site
- David's Wordpress plugins:
- https://profiles.wordpress.org/dshanske/#content-plugins (thanks David!)
- Morgan did work on information freedom of information in New Zealand, became a web developer - looking to make a kind of change
- Static / Hugo / make it great for A11y
- https://www.morganwebdev.org/posts/riddim-part-two/ was able to be used by a visually impaired friend
- Anthony https://rello.me which goes to https://www.ciccarello.me/
- Working on the OmniBear browser extension https://omnibear.com/ - still trying to get the creds to get the Chrome plugin published
- Ross https://rossabaker.com/ mostly backend and open source
- Brian ~ 11ty personal website, and drupal for a community website
- - music reviews - media criticism - coding discoveries/examples
- Kevin Marks been on the internet 80s, web 90s, blogging 2000s
- Messing with ATProto - notes on that in today's EU meetup wiki page 40MM users (notes from today https://indieweb.org/events/2026-02-18-hwc-europe )
- Feels like fun era of Twitter
- Is the longest remaining person on
- Mike K - musician, Filemaker Pro consultant, website person for long time - multiple websites
- Fractal Kitty is in Oregon - multiple website
- If self-hosting counts, Ross saw Mercury: https://pics.rossabaker.com/p/ross/929898680111686400
- If you're really Pacific, go outside shortly after sundown!
- ATmosphere is coming up
https://atproto-browser.vercel.app/at/did:plc:lehcqqkwzcwvjvw66uthu5oq/community.lexicon.calendar.event/3lte3c7x43l2e https://news.atmosphereconf.org/
- Any suggestions of good, privacy-friendly polls platform for static sites?
- Google Forms, TypeForms, SurveyMonkey
- flatfiles + Perl/CGI
- Cryptpad might be an option https://cryptpad.fr/, thinking of a more privacy-focused 1:1 alternative to Google Forms, without getting into programming something or running some other open source software
- Ross uses their other offerings in open source and it's great. +1 to this idea.
- Ross has used https://civs1.civs.us/ for _elections_, which isn't quite the same as surveys. Good privacy and good political science, though!
- Found two open source options: https://github.com/LimeSurvey/LimeSurvey and https://github.com/formbricks/formbricks
- Database
- https://phinx.org/
- +1, it's great. I've also used https://github.com/odan/phinx-migrations-generator with it -- gRegor
- Migrations
- Django has the migrations
- Joe is using https://phinx.org/
- DBmate https://github.com/amacneil/dbmate
- HTMX - send html up and down the wire - Aaron and Morgan both use it
- JavaScript - include as simple as possible
- Lightweight up and down html
- https://htmx.org/
Display appreciation
- Fractalkitty used the tutorial created by Naty: https://burgeonlab.com/blog/add-appreciation-buttons-to-hugo-with-iine/
- https://bearblog.dev/discover/
- https://openheart.fyi/
- reactji - human social interactions
Movie Event: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winged_Migration Le Peuple Migrateur
- Joe uses script to lint YAML files
- VS Code has some built in support for YAML formatting and validation
- Joe's /like page shows a feed of liked entries saved in a YAML file, each entry has a permalink but it's not exposed in the frontend
- Joel's book reads page is https://joelchrono.xyz/bookshelf
- Details elements, stored in yaml and then inside a loop in Jeckyll
- RSS Mentions of what you subscribe to:
- FreshRSS to check for mentions of own posts to see who mentioned you
- User queries - find mentions of your own site by saving a user query of https://freshrss.github.io/FreshRSS/en/users/user_queries.html
- FreshRSS to check for mentions of own posts to see who mentioned you
- Use RSS as a webring to display latest posts you follow on your site: https://sr.ht/~sircmpwn/openring/
- https://www.terrygodier.com/phantom-obligation
- https://indieweb.org/webring https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sage_Weil