events/2026-03-04-hwc-pacific
Homebrew Website Club - Pacific was an IndieWeb meetup on Zoom held on 2026-03-04.
- Archived from: https://etherpad.indieweb.org/2026-03-04-hwc-pacific
Homebrew Website Club - Pacific
Mar 4, 2026
Participants
Joe Crawford
Naty S https://burgeonlab.com
Ross A. Baker https://rossabaker.com/David Shanske
gRegor Morrill
Reilly Spitzfaden https://reillyspitzfaden.com/
Beto Dealmeida https://robida.net/
Fractalkitty https://fractalkitty.com https://banjomagpi.com https://toground.link
Notes
- What is happening website-wise for everyone?
- MkDocs turmoil
- 1.x is unmaintained? https://github.com/mkdocs/mkdocs/discussions/4010
- Broke the popular Material MkDocs: https://squidfunk.github.io/mkdocs-material/blog/2026/02/18/mkdocs-2.0/
- A new Static Site Generator, Zensical, is born: https://squidfunk.github.io/mkdocs-material/blog/2025/11/05/zensical/
- https://share.joinmastodon.org/
- https://shareopenly.org/
- Naty uses https://sharetomastodon.github.io that offers a no-JS options
- And shareopenly doesn't seem to support alternate PDS's like https://blacksky.app
- https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/03/adding-log-in-with-mastodon-to-auth0/
- which uses https://auth0.com/
- Where are things stored for Mastodon session preferences
- 11ty - what happens next?
- https://indieweb.org/Zola
- https://indieweb.org/Eleventy
- https://indieweb.org/Hugo
- https://indieweb.org/Category:SSG - list of many many SSGs
- Beto https://robida.net/ websites went offline and recently come back into activity
- Unique architecture - offline first - more frameworks
- https://jamesg.blog/2026/03/04/offline-mode-2
- app is a progressive web app
- using lots of different browser tech things
- Implemented ActvityPub
- AP vs. ATProto; bridging
- Interesting article: https://connectedplaces.online/where-does-community-live/
- βBut experimentation is not the same as success, and neither protocol has yet demonstrated a scalable, repeatable model for community formation. ActivityPub has a clear answer to where community lives that turns out to be structurally difficult to realize. ATProtoβs architecture suggest a more individualised and global network, but projects like Blacksky also show that building communities is possible, even if it requires extending the protocol.β
- https://masto.host/
- Interesting article: https://connectedplaces.online/where-does-community-live/
- https://mastodon.fediverse.observer/list a site to check stats of different fediverse servers
- Sophia investigating how to move a static site (an experiment) off GitHub pages https://www.streamof.me/
- how many domains is too many? https://fosstodon.org/@fractalkitty@mathstodon.xyz/116172392692027884
- https://blog.mollywhite.net/ reads her posts as a podcast
- Sophia and Naty is concerned about voice privacy
- https://iocaine.madhouse-project.org/ protects sites from scrapers but site is down?
- Music
- Beto uses https://listenbrainz.org/ API to display scrobbles
- Reilly uses a manual way of noting what music they enjoyed that year and write an annual wrap-up
- Lilypond (like latex for music) https://lilypond.org/
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KORG_DS-10 Naty and Beto
- Reilly has been into the phrase "Let it rot" for their blog - Just focus more on creating content
- https://dthompson.us/projects/haunt.html Schema based SSG
- Object storage possible alternative to Dropbox, Google Drive etc for PDFs
- .gitignore_global prevents .DS_Store globally
- βrun git config --global core.excludesfile ~/.gitignore_globalβ (https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Customizing-Git-Git-Configuration.html#_core_excludesfile)
- Back in the 1980s: https://classicreload.com/will-harveys-music-construction-set.html#
Keycaps
- PBS Keycap Profile The PBS (Penguin Belly Slide) keycap profile is a new uniform design developed by Matt3o
Clocks
- gwg is interested in cuckoo clocks, has one but it doesn't cuckoo and considering fixing it
- There's a famous HK brand that does a flip clock https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twemco