events/2026-03-18-hwc-pacific

Homebrew Website Club - Pacific was an IndieWeb meetup on Zoom held on 2026-03-18.

• Archived from: https://etherpad.indieweb.org/2026-03-18-hwc-pacific

Homebrew Website Club - Pacific

Mar 18, 2026

Participants

• Joe Crawford https://artlung.com/
• Naty S https://burgeonlab.com
• Chris Burnell https://chrisburnell.com
• Morgan https://morganwebdev.org
• David Shanske https://david.shanske.com
• Ross A. Baker https://rossabaker.com/
• Mike Kupietz
• Thomas Vander Wal https://vanderwal.net

Notes

• What is awesome about the web this week? (or other adjectives?)
• https://indieweb.org/Category:Writing - so fun to collect together solid articles on

• A mid-March December Adventure has been decreed! https://eli.li/december-adventure-march-2026

• Joe Crawford https://artlung.com/archive/ - working on keeping old stuff going on his site

• Morgan working on a minimalist setup for his Mac Mini dedicated for writing content
  • https://github.com/drduh/macOS-Security-and-Privacy-Guide
  • Naty uses Lulu firewall on macOS (https://objective-see.org/products/lulu.html) and often see Apple connecting to their own servers

• Opting out of telemetry in various CLIs: DO_NOT_TRACK=1.
  • Similar to the DNT HTTP header, which also failed: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Reference/Headers/DNT

• "I’m bringing everything back to my website"
  • https://lisacharlottemuth.com/bringing-everything-back-to-my-website
  • Return Old Online Things to your own Site - ROOTS
    • Joe Crawford added this to indienews https://news.indieweb.org/en
    • The wiki redirects this term to https://indieweb.org/backfill (yes, as intended. if it gets more cultural reach it may get its own page! - joe)
    • Be careful of dates when backfilling. https://indieweb.org/backfill
      • Bulk imports with auto syndicate
      • I added some notes around that note in "see also" from Tantek Çelik https://indieweb.org/backfill
      • Hugo supports three dates: Date, Lastmod, and PublishDate. This can be exploited for index pages, feed generation, etc. (That's very useful! Naty was just wondering how to avoid backfill content from going into the auto RSS/Atom feeds generation)
    • Chris Burnell used https://github.com/tweetback/tweetback/ to yoink tweets out of twitter

• IDE preferences: VS Code can feel cluttered. PhpStorm & JetBrains are alternatives Thomas used

• Asyncrhonous Posts!
  • "On this day" features of sites
  • Bringing past events or content into current blog/tumblr/twitter
  • Could be to show an old image

• Samuel Pepys Blog - https://www.pepysdiary.com/account/profile/1/
  • Today's (March 18th - https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/1663/03/18/
  • Run by Phil Gyford - https://www.gyford.com
  • War of the Worlds 2.0 - https://askawizard.blogspot.com/2008/11/war-of-worlds-20-post-mortem.html
  • Dracula Daily ("as-it-happened" of Bram Stoker’s novel) - https://draculadaily.com

• Pablo working on transit tap data: https://lifeofpablo.com/lists/transit - trying to post a chart of times I tapped by month

• Speaking of PESOS / ROOTS, doing that from YouTube can be done with youtube-dl
• https://gist.github.com/artlung/83c68fdbbdcbbbfcf72db4374a6309da pulling metadata from YouTube into my own site with https://indieweb.org/youtube-dl

• Remembering 24 hour places
  • Round The Clock restaurant
    • Still open, still not 24 hours! https://www.shawlocal.com/northwest-herald/2025/05/19/iconic-crystal-lake-diner-around-the-clock-celebrates-50-years-in-business-generations-come-through/
  • 24-hour post office at LAX in Los Angeles in the 1990s
  • 24 hour gyms
• Are there websites which you expect to be closed at some times?
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_availability#Percentage_calculation

• An example of a solar powered site that sometimes goes offline: https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/power/
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nine_nines redirects to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_availability#Percentage_calculation
  • https://uptime.is/ How much uptime?

• Thanks for joining!