events/2024-11-20-hwc-europe
Homebrew Website Club Europe/London was an IndieWeb meetup on Zoom held on 2024-11-20.
- Archived from: https://etherpad.indieweb.org/2024-11-20-hwc-europe
Participants
- capjamesg
- mandaris
- Mark Sutherland
- Paul Watson
- Joe Crawford
- David Shanske
- gRegor Morrill
- benji
- Nick Simson
- Angelo Gladding
- Tantek Çelik
- Add yourself here… (see this for more details)
Notes
- Welcome to HWC, everyone!
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pantomime
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boxing_Day
- https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/46377/page/9343 - A Royal proclamation for Boxing Day
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buy_Nothing_Day
- Taking a step back from a website and coming back to new ideas
- Personal websites as a "reflection of me"
- Q that James will ask: writing more non-technical posts.
- https://css-irl.info/national-blog-posting-month/
- https://theinbetweenismine.com/2024/10/22/who-is-ready-for-nablopomo-2024/
- NaBloPomo post ideas: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1wCni7gb81bT-Bcee_Rsd9DIxQX29uBrwRO5ANt4IshQ/edit?tab=t.0
- Carnival
Bluesky
- Setting up your domain as your username: Bluesky#How_to
- Blog post with Links to setting up a BlueSky PDS: https://www.lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/artists-notebook/posts/bluesky-exit-and-self-hosting
Domain name registrars
- Some indieweb experience and recommendations personal-domain#Domain_Registrars
Icons
- mandaris: Going to be using https://tabler.io/icons going forward
- https://fontawesome.com/search?q=bluesky&o=r
- https://phosphoricons.com/
- Material icons: https://fonts.google.com/icons
- https://icon-sets.iconify.design
- Collaborative design
- http://www.milliondollarhomepage.com/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Million_Dollar_Homepage
- Pixel grids that multiple people can contribute to?
- Brainstorm: Could a Million Dollar Webpage be made based on Webmentions ?
- Playing with drawing with pixels https://artlung.com/archive/portfolio/draw/
- Joe Crawford added breadcrumbs in the silkscreen font to most pages
- Jenn Schiffer's Make 8-bit art: https://make8bitart.com/
- Jaguar rerand: https://www.theverge.com/2024/11/19/24300569/jaguar-rebrand-new-logo-ev
- gRegor Morrill doesn't like the capital G in that :)
capjamesg has made great improvements to his site search engine at https://jamesg.blog/search-pages/
- speedy automatic result display
- add the word photo to get photos
- parse questions linguistically to return definitions for a term
The IndieWeb Gift Calendar is coming up in December:
- https://www.traffic.gov.scot/gritter-tracker
- https://www.dot.state.mn.us/nameasnowplow/
- https://cityofls.net/snow-ice-control/snowplow-naming
"to make this indieweb..." "... it's a website"
Surfing movies: don't forget https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surf_Ninjas (("lol" -- Joe Crawford))
- https://artlung.com/blog/tag/bodysurfing/ has many links to videos and other sites
- Surf spots in Scotland https://www.surfline.com/surf-reports-forecasts-cams/united-kingdom/scotland/2638360
David Tennant as fennec foxes
- Some bots on Mastodon
- https://xoxo.zone/@[email protected]
- James' favourite bot: https://botsin.space/@smallness
- https://www.sohaiku.art/
- bots in general: robots
88x31 buttons
- 88x31
- theories of why this size: http://88x31.nl/history.html
- https://botsin.space/@oblique_strategies
- One million checkboxes