events/2025-08-27-hwc-eastern
Homebrew Website Club - Eastern was an IndieWeb meetup on Zoom held on 2025-08-27.
- Archived from: https://etherpad.indieweb.org/2025-08-27-hwc-eastern
Participants
Joe Crawford https://artlung.com/
Thomas Vander Wal https://vanderwal.net
Reilly Spitzfaden https://reillyspitzfaden.comDavid Shanske
- Zephyr https://zephnet.biz
gRegor Morrill https://gregorlove.com/
Pat Oyson-Matthan https://garden.patsitive.co.nz- Kevin
- Pierre
Notes
- Typepad is shutting down in a month https://everything.typepad.com/blog/2025/08/typepad-is-shutting-down.html
- Live-coding tool we were discussing at the beginning: https://tidalcycles.org/
- Live coding is a kind of interactive multimedia music visuals creative spaces - glitches and patterns - and part of it is the display of the code behind it
- San Diego https://www.instagram.com/open_osc_sd/?hl=en
- New York City https://livecode.nyc/
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Db0QJo1eaoI
- https://blog.toplap.org/
- Joe's page of old silo links https://artlung.com/elsewhere/
- Joe uses webmention.io with a link rel https://tilde.club/~artlung/ to at least capture
- also captures webmentions to lab site - code at https://github.com/artlung/lab.artlung.com
- https://reillyspitzfaden.com/wiki/tutorials/webmention-tutorial/#automatically-bringing-in-new-mentions
- Recently Philly
- https://zephnet.biz/posts/phillyhwc1recap/ (awesome turnout!)
- https://iffybooks.net/ "hacking, free culture, gardening, zines"
- Reilly - "uses" pages? https://reillyspitzfaden.com/uses/
- has de-Googled android stuff
- filesharing stuff
- NeoVIM "what's your dot files" - awesome
- https://github.com/topics/neovim-dotfiles
- digital_garden
- Obsidian
- Pat Oyson-Matthan
- Asked about Meeting Protocol / Expectations as a newbie
- It is very casual and chill (for any new peeps who are wondering/scared to click the join link).
- Also, you don't need to be in the US Eastern area to join!
- Also, usually the event page on the IndieWeb wiki will usually say if the event is still live if you want to join
- https://patsitive.co.nz/ https://garden.patsitive.co.nz/
- Markdown files in Obsidian to publishing to the web
- Plugins in Obsidian, public repo in GitHub with a token to publishing to web
- Markdown file has frontmatter
- add dg-publish: true to frontmatter
- has a component to show an icon for every page on the digital garden
- Obsidian / GitHub / Vercel / 11ty - pushes to website
- leaning into the "garden" idea - very much zettelkasten strategy for information
- Inspired by Nicole van der Hoeven https://notes.nicolevanderhoeven.com/Fork+My+Brain
- https://github.com/zsviczian/excalibrain - read/write
- very much ZettelkΓ€sten "A zettelkasten is note taking system featuring atomic notes which are densely interlinked and are used primarily for writing and acting as an external memory."
- Asked about Meeting Protocol / Expectations as a newbie
- https://artlung.com/blogroll/
- able to filter blogroll links (looks at name of website or name of feed posts)
- https://reillyspitzfaden.com/wiki/links/
- https://art.teleportacia.org/observation/vernacular/ β interesting quote that describes a practice IndieWeb is trying to return to
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jorn_Barger
- https://web.archive.org/web/20010917011022/https://www.robotwisdom.com/ (circa 2001 was a continuosly updated page)
Kevin
- Kevin is a web developer into open source and decentralization
- Christmas music website https://thechristmasstation.org/
- https://scouting411.org/
- https://radio.garden/
Al Abut business in the front, party at the back - a website that's mostly professional then another website that is more freewheeling- Manage cool URI across multiple sites
- Make content discoverable (e.g. links to the other site from one page, the about page in the secondary pages goes to your main site, etc.)
- - POSSE or PESOS
- Molly White has a nice article about POSSE https://www.citationneeded.news/posse/
- Ensure redirects are in place where appropriate
- POSSE
- https://www.theverge.com/2024/2/12/24071036/queer-af-mastodon-taliban-shut-down-afghanistan
- Been a while since I logged into gRegorLove's project Indiebookclub.biz but it worked much better using the IndieAuth drop-in library https://indiebookclub.biz/users/artlung.com - and I added it to my /elsewhere page https://artlung.com/elsewhere/
- https://www.vice.com/en/article/robert-ashley-on-the-return-of-a-life-well-wasted/
- batslyadam's NES live RAM hacking via WebSocket (url broken, video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4OizdS05_Zw)
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