events/2025-09-17-hwc-pacific

Homebrew Website Club - Pacific was an IndieWeb meetup on Zoom held on 2025-09-17.

• Archived from: https://etherpad.indieweb.org/2025-09-17-hwc-pacific

Participants

• David Shanske
• Ross A. Baker https://rossabaker.com/
• Joe Crawford https://artlung.com/
• Thomas Vander Wal https://vanderwal.net
• lqdev.me https://www.lqdev.me
• Template:fractalKitty https://fractalkitty.com and https://toground.link
• Template:prabash
• benji

Notes

• David writing about our experiences
• "Truman-Showing" ourselves
• Prabash is thinking about blogging, new to everything IndieWeb
• MDN to learn almost everything https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/
• "Master one at a time"
• Ross mentions the web development triad: HTML, CSS, and JavaScript

• Event earlier today: etherpad notes go into the indieweb wiki
  • events/2025-09-17-hwc-europe
• Event tomorrow: Front End Study Hall
  • https://events.indieweb.org/2025/09/front-end-study-hall-036-duXKDJFSwypW

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penet_remailer
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pirate_Bay
  • https://thenftbay.org/

• "PESOS" "POSSE" - own your website, It's a new golden age of websites - late 90s and early 200s
• https://artlung.com/visualization/ tells the story, from blogging, to deelicious, to instagram posts, and the fallof off blogging was related to more twitter and instagram
• Thomas' pattern has been similar, with many small posts initially, then longer posts later
• week_note week notes - a pattern many folks use
• digital_garden

• Learning Markdown - try it out! https://markdownlivepreview.com/
• static_site_generator

Luis great words - a website is a journey

• Places to start
  • https://micro.blog/
  • Micro.blog's export help notes: https://help.micro.blog/t/exporting-from-micro-blog/557/3
  • https://bearblog.dev/
  • https://app.netlify.com/drop
    • Ross has never tried this, but has found other Netlify products easy
  • https://developers.cloudflare.com/pages/get-started/direct-upload/
    • Ross set this up for a non-developer, and the learning curve has been tough!!!
• Pages on code forges
  • These are great if you know Git and horrible if you don't
  • https://docs.github.com/en/pages
    • the de facto standard
    • Microsoft is your owner
  • https://docs.codeberg.org/codeberg-pages/
    • emerging, so flakier
    • run by a lovely German non-profit
• https://www.wix.com/
  • Ross' spouse uses this successfully. She is computer savvy, but not a coder.
  • Expensive and maybe hard to port away from later

• A cranky attempt to use UBlock Origin to remove Copilot buttons from GitHub: https://codeberg.org/rossabaker/github-copilot-filters

Searches that focus on IndieWeb

• https://feedle.world/
• https://marginalia-search.com/ "prioritizes non-commercial content"
• https://kagi.com/ has a "small web" search, but is paid

Visiting Toledos

• Toledo, Spain is better place to see art
• Toledo, Ohio is a better place to watch a hockey game

• Fish Taco restaurant in DC area
  • https://fishtacoonline.com

• Weird Maps?

** https://hoodmaps.com/ (Actually pretty accurate) *** brb, I'm going to the neighborhood "99%er Mall"

• https://bix.blog/posts/2025-09-11-on-second-person-birds-from-shipyard-to-library-in-just-eighty-years/

• salem storm hole drain "augmented" data: https://porthales.art/
• ... add notes

What should David Shanske do with davidpl.us ?

• Sophia mentions https://denisegaskins.com/mtap/ for math

• Jim Kosel Fraeakout weather forcast - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=elNNnNDuS6M

• A silly calculator of nines of reliability: https://codeberg.org/rossabaker/how-many-nines