events/2026-04-01-hwc-pacific
Homebrew Website Club - Pacific was an IndieWeb meetup on Zoom held on 2026-04-01.
- Archived from: https://etherpad.indieweb.org/2026-04-01-hwc-pacific
Homebrew Website Club - Pacific
Apr 1, 2026
Participants
Joe Crawford https://artlung.com/
Naty S https://burgeonlab.com
Anthony Ciccarello https://www.ciccarello.me- Template:enocc https://enocc.com
Thomas Vander Wal https://vanderwal.net
Ross A. Baker https://rossabaker.com/
Angelo Gladding https://ragt.ag
Mike Kupietz
Notes
- https://xkcd.com/3227/ comic today has many great effects!
- Welcome enocc]!!
- enocc has seen smorgasborg.artlung.com/feed-patterns
- Anthony has a great one: https://www.ciccarello.me/sitemap/
- Naty uses Hugo to auto-generate a sitemap index that includes tags, series (categories), locations, and post types https://burgeonlab.com/sitemap
- https://www.ciccarello.me/birds/ and https://www.ciccarello.me/caw/ are great!
- today's notes from London
- he has seen Getting Started
Multilingualism on a global web
- IndieWeb Carnival: https://tilde.team/~zinricky/multilingualism/
- Software support:
- Ross has an es. and de. subdomain, but they're pretty sparse because he's pretty bad
- enocc was using gemini several years ago - branched out to following the hashtag on
- https://github.com/kr1sp1n/awesome-gemini tools related to the Gemini protocol (p.s. not related to the AI)
- uses Jekyll, using Hetzner, writing more HTML over Markdown
- https://granary.io/ can be used to convert h-feed to ATOM/RSS
- https://lab.artlung.com/indieweb-org-webmention-bookmarklet/ adds an HTML
formtag with webmention POST parameters to allow sending- There's a bookmarklet that checks if a page has Webmention support: https://zacharykai.net/bookmarklets#webmention-checker
- https://ragt.ag/uses now displays a Webmention from Naty
- But Naty doesn't displays her received mentions on the site (yet), she just keeps a record on the ATOM feed from webmention.io
- Pablo shared his site https://powrss.com/
- https://codeberg.org/robida/human.json
- Not the vouch above, but similar... and uses the term!
- FOAF - friend of a friend
- https://indieweb.org/RDF#FOAF
- https://webmention.io/ and there's also https://telegraph.p3k.io/
- https://webmention.rocks/ is a tool to check if it's working
Trust networks are hard
- Links don't always mean trust
- Trust isn't always reciprical
- Keeping a list of who you trust manually takes work
- Trust isn't all or nothing (aquantance vs close friend)
- On facebook people spoof profiles with no hacking required
- Facebook also prioritizes old accounts so some hackers will set up entirely new identities on an old account
"Some people, when confronted with a problem, think I'll use regular expressions. Now they have two problems." -- disputedly Jamie Zawinski
- https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/3-text-editors-compared Vim/Emacs/Nano
- Events Calendar iCal - https://events.indieweb.org/tag/hwc
- or all events iCal: https://events.indieweb.org/ics/events/preview
IndieAuth
- https://indieweb.org/RelMeAuth
- https://indieweb.org/indieauth.com - Can be
- https://indielogin.com/setup
- https://indieweb.org/selfauth
- https://indieweb.org/PHP#Libraries
- another PHP https://github.com/taproot/indieauth
After-hours
- https://www.w3.org/guide/meetings/hybrid-meeting.html
- https://www.w3.org/events/
- https://ragt.ag/socialcg
https://www.w3.org/groups/cg/socialcg/calendar/