events/2025-08-13-hwc-eastern

Homebrew Website Club - Eastern was an IndieWeb meetup on Zoom held on 2025-08-13.

• Archived from: https://etherpad.indieweb.org/2025-08-13-hwc-eastern

Participants

• Angelo Gladding
• Joe Crawford
• capjamesg
• Template:btrem
• Thomas Vander Wal
• jo
• Dr. Matt Lee
• Ross A. Baker
• lqdev.me
• Tantek Çelik

Notes

• Video Toaster https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_Toaster
• Computer hardware memories - Macs, etc
• "A mac that can run Windows doesn't feel like a Mac to me" - Matt
• James' first personal computer of his own was a Macbook Air
• Microsoft Mac Lab: https://davidweiss.blogspot.com/2006/04/tour-of-microsofts-mac-lab.html
• Tantek did work at Apple (cite: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tantek_%C3%87elik )
• https://arlorose.com/konfabulator.html which became https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo_Widgets - Kupietz was a Konfabulator developer
• Homebrew Website Club t-shirt?
• https://cottonbureau.com/people/nick-simson
• https://www.nicksimson.com/posts/2025-indieweb-is-metal
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linocut
• Ross A. Baker is distracted by the raccoon kits distracting his dogs: https://pics.rossabaker.com/p/ross/861370087970930337

• IndieWeb_Carnival theme this month is colour
  • https://marisabel.nl/public/blog/IndieWeb_Carnival_August_2025_:_Colors

• Friends of Shawn Kerri https://thefriendsofshawnkerri.org/
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-BgmNHP5P9g Panel at San Diego Comic Con 2025
  • HTML+CSS to allow comparing 2 images (with a single JavaScript event handler) https://codepen.io/artlung/pen/zxvzMQr
  • I've started a transcript of the panel from Comic Con (still in progress) https://artlung.com/blog/2025/08/13/shawn-kerri-panel/

• IndieWeb shoes
• https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000bks0
  • Robbie Cumming on YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/@RobbieCumming
• https://jamesg.blog/coffee-time
• https://jamesg.blog/train-station-sandwiches
• https://www.theguardian.com/news/2017/nov/24/how-the-sandwich-consumed-britain
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tootsie_Roll
• Pineapple sandwich

• capjamesg talking about coffees and computers
  • https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Reference/Status/418
• https://www.dougmacdowell.com/coffeematic-pc.html
• https://www.dougmacdowell.com/george-foreman-computer.html

• Communication is a timeless problem
  • When a text conversation goes wrong - Key & Peele https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sngRrkQayDA
• There was a "Romeo + Juliet" with cell phones: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romeo_%2B_Juliet
  • R&J as a SMS class project - https://jaimetong.wordpress.com/2012/04/19/english-10-pair-activity-romeo-juliet-rewritten-as-text-messages-engchat-bclearns/
• https://marksuth.dev/posts/2025/02/indieweb-movie-club-feb-2025-romeo-juliet
• fandom.com
  • https://breezewiki.com/ "makes Fandom readable"
• https://www.marksimonson.com/notebook/view/typecasting-revisited/ "Typecasting" was the aegis under which Mark Simonson wrote about anachronistic typography in film (Here's a coincidence—in one postscript, Simonson credits an old client of Kupietz's, for the topic of an article: https://www.marksimonson.com/notebook/view/not-a-font/ I've known Bill S. for a long time.)
• https://freshrss.org

• Angelo does a Micropub demo
  • Los Angeles County Tree DB link - https://www.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=a27ae1f995bb42c89c8c9615182fd862
  • The view of the data on a map to click on exact trees to that their unique ID - https://losangelesca.treekeepersoftware.com/index.cfm?deviceWidth=1920

• Ross A. Baker added a locations taxonomy, which is still half-baked: https://rossabaker.com/locations
  • There seems to be partial support for hierarchies, but weird cases around the edges.
  • /locations/us, /locations/us/indiana, and /locations/us/indiana/indianapolis work out of the box
  • /locations generates an entry for country, state, *and* city

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