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2026-04-05 14:55

Listening to Brisk Workout by MARU303 - MARU303 makes some tremendous jungle/rave tunes on the Dirtywave M8

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Philly Homebrew Website Club tonight! Hope 2 see u there.

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NeoVim Per-Environment Configs

screenshot of the tree bash command, showing a visual representation of the author's NeoVim config. it contains multiple lua files used in different environments

The Problem

I use NeoVim for my coding tasks [and you should too ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)], but an issue i’ve been having is keeping two versions going for my init.lua config file - one for my personal webdev work and livecoding stuff, and another specifically for my day job, which I generally do inside a virtual machine.

Both of these configs share a lot of features / keymaps (I always need HTML/CSS/JS features), but I don’t need SuperCollider language support for work, and conversely don’t need PHP debugger configs cluttering up my personal NeoVim config.

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📅 Homebrew Website Club - Philadelphia

Date: 2026-04-05

Time: 18:00 - 20:00 -0400

Iffy Books

404 S 20th St Philadelphia Pennsylvania US — View on Google Maps

Homebrew Website Clubs are online and/or in-person meetups where we discuss designing and developing our personal websites as a way to take back our online identities and control our content. This is an in-person-only event.

Join us at Iffy Books in Philadelphia for our eighth Philly Homebrew Website Club!

Common discussion topics include:

  • Website design and development with HTML and CSS
  • Progress and breakthroughs for attendees’ personal sites
  • IndieWeb standards and goings-on
  • Hosting websites and services
  • Retro websites and webrings
  • Miscellaneous chit chat!

All skill / experience levels welcome, don’t feel like you need to have a functional website to join in - just an interest in making your own home on the web!

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Philly Homebrew Website Club 7 Recap

several people seated around a plastic table, most with laptops, inside a bookstore with many posters on the wall. The camera is facing towards the front of the store.

Also posted on IndieNews

Homebrew Website Club - Philadelphia, 7th edition is in the books! Many thanks to everyone who came out, love having this group. My heart is full. :^)

Thanks as always to Iffy Books for hosting!

Notes are archived at https://indieweb.org/events/2026-03-01-hwc-philly

Here they are again anyway:

== Participants ==

== Notes ==

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📅 Homebrew Website Club - Philadelphia

Date: 2026-03-01

Time: 17:00 - 19:00 -0500

Iffy Books

404 S 20th St Philadelphia Pennsylvania US — View on Google Maps

Homebrew Website Clubs are online and/or in-person meetups where we discuss designing and developing our personal websites as a way to take back our online identities and control our content. This is an in-person-only event.

Join us at Iffy Books in Philadelphia for our fifth Philly Homebrew Website Club!

Common discussion topics include:

  • Website design and development with HTML and CSS
  • Progress and breakthroughs for attendees’ personal sites
  • IndieWeb standards and goings-on
  • Hosting websites and services
  • Retro websites and webrings
  • Miscellaneous chit chat!

All skill / experience levels welcome, don’t feel like you need to have a functional website to join in - just an interest in making your own home on the web!

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ESP32 Rust First Step

a small led shines a blue light. it is connected to a clear breadboard, and to a small black microcontroller. a piece of paper nearby lists the specs of the microcontroller

Been a while since I made anything hardware-related, and I’ve wanted to learn Rust specifically for microcontrollers, so here’s my first step towards becoming a Rustacean - an led blinking from an esp32-c3 supermini I picked up at iffy books 😄

I mostly followed Espressif’s documentation for programming ESP boards using Rust, and adapting the ‘hello world’ example that comes from their esp-generate crate so it uses the GPIO bits from this example for turning on an LED from the BOOT button on the board.

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Philly Homebrew Website Club 6 Recap

several people seated around a plastic table, most with laptops, inside a bookstore with many posters on the wall. A projector is showing indieweb.org

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Homebrew Website Club - Philadelphia, 6th edition, was a great time! Thanks everyone for coming out again, love that we have a solid core group now and great newcomers alike! :^)

Thanks as always to Iffy Books for hosting!

Notes are archived at https://indieweb.org/events/2026-02-01-hwc-philly

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== Notes ==

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📅 Homebrew Website Club - Philadelphia

Date: 2026-02-01

Time: 18:00 - 20:00 -0500

Iffy Books

404 S 20th St Philadelphia Pennsylvania US — View on Google Maps

Homebrew Website Clubs are online and/or in-person meetups where we discuss designing and developing our personal websites as a way to take back our online identities and control our content. This is an in-person-only event.

Join us at Iffy Books in Philadelphia for our fifth Philly Homebrew Website Club!

Common discussion topics include:

  • Website design and development with HTML and CSS
  • Progress and breakthroughs for attendees’ personal sites
  • IndieWeb standards and goings-on
  • Hosting websites and services
  • Retro websites and webrings
  • Miscellaneous chit chat!

All skill / experience levels welcome, don’t feel like you need to have a functional website to join in - just an interest in making your own home on the web!

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Philly Homebrew Website Club 5 Recap

8 people seated around a plastic table, most with laptops, inside a bookstore with many posters on the wall. A projector is showing indieweb.org

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Homebrew Website Club - Philadelphia, 5th edition, was arguably the best one yet! Thanks everyone for coming out - really fun conversations and I think we all learned a lot :^)

Thanks as always to Iffy Books for hosting!

Notes are archived at https://indieweb.org/events/2026-01-04-hwc-philly

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== Notes ==

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📅 Homebrew Website Club - Philadelphia

Date: 2026-01-04

Time: 18:00 - 20:00 -0500

Iffy Books

404 S 20th St Philadelphia Pennsylvania US — View on Google Maps

Homebrew Website Clubs are online and/or in-person meetups where we discuss designing and developing our personal websites as a way to take back our online identities and control our content. This is an in-person-only event.

Join us at Iffy Books in Philadelphia for our fifth Philly Homebrew Website Club!

Common discussion topics include:

  • Website design and development with HTML and CSS
  • Progress and breakthroughs for attendees’ personal sites
  • IndieWeb standards and goings-on
  • Hosting websites and services
  • Retro websites and webrings
  • Miscellaneous chit chat!

All skill / experience levels welcome, don’t feel like you need to have a functional website to join in - just an interest in making your own home on the web!

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Philly Homebrew Website Club 4 Recap

10 people seated around a plastic table, with laptops, inside a bookstore

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Homebrew Website Club - Philadelphia was packed! 12 people ended up coming out, and it was a bit chaotic but a good time nonetheless :)

Thanks as always to Iffy Books for hosting!

Notes this time weren’t as exhaustive as usual but here’s what we talked about:

Next one is on 2026-01-04. See you in the new year!

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📅 Homebrew Website Club - Philadelphia

Date: 2025-12-07

Time: 18:00 - 20:00 -0500

Iffy Books

404 S 20th St Philadelphia Pennsylvania US — View on Google Maps

Homebrew Website Clubs are online and/or in-person meetups where we discuss designing and developing our personal websites as a way to take back our online identities and control our content. This is an in-person-only event.

Join us at Iffy Books in Philadelphia for our third Philly Homebrew Website Club!

Common discussion topics include:

  • Website design and development with HTML and CSS
  • Progress and breakthroughs for attendees’ personal sites
  • IndieWeb standards and goings-on
  • Hosting websites and services
  • Retro websites and webrings
  • Miscellaneous chit chat!

All skill / experience levels welcome, don’t feel like you need to have a functional website to join in - just an interest in making your own home on the web!

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Easy color theme management with CSS variables

Intro

For a long time I used Sass in conjunction with a bundler like Webpack in order to make up for CSS’ shortcomings, the most important of which (for me) was the ability to assign and use variables, or, as CSS calls them - custom properties.

You generally assign these to your :root selector so they are available throughout the rest of your CSS:

:root {
  --color1: #f00;
}

You can also assign them to more specific selectors for… greater specificity as needed. After the variables are assigned, you can use them as values in your CSS like so:

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Philly Homebrew Website Club 3 Recap

2 people seated around a plastic table, with laptops, inside a bookstore

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The third edition of Homebrew Website Club - Philadelphia is in the books! Thanks for coming Ruben! and thanks again to Iffy Books for hosting. Turnout was slim, probably because of the All Saints Day parties (if not the Halloween ones). Anywho, we still had a great hang.

Topics:

  • Drupal & WordPress dev
  • p5.js
  • Intro to the IndieWeb
  • Framework churn
  • Bookmark strategies
  • CSS and JavaScript options for honoring user preferences for light/dark themes
  • Variant sudoku puzzles (Cracking the Cryptic youtube)

Next one is on 12-07-2025. See you there!

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📅 Homebrew Website Club - Philadelphia

Date: 2025-11-02

Time: 17:00 - 20:00 -0400

Iffy Books

404 S 20th St Philadelphia Pennsylvania US — View on Google Maps

Homebrew Website Clubs are online and/or in-person meetups where we discuss designing and developing our personal websites as a way to take back our online identities and control our content. This is an in-person-only event.

Join us at Iffy Books in Philadelphia for our third Philly Homebrew Website Club!

Common discussion topics include:

  • Website design and development with HTML and CSS
  • Progress and breakthroughs for attendees’ personal sites
  • IndieWeb standards and goings-on
  • Hosting websites and services
  • Retro websites and webrings
  • Miscellaneous chit chat!

All skill / experience levels welcome, don’t feel like you need to have a functional website to join in - just an interest in making your own home on the web!

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📅 Moon Pox & Allegra Geller set at Sound.Art 2 - WBCR-lp

Date: 2025-10-12

Time: 12:00 - 00:00 -0400

WBCR-LP 97.7FM

320 Main St Great Barrington Massachusetts US — View on Google Maps

Moon Pox (me) and Allegra Geller are playing a duo set at Sound.Art 2, hosted by WBCR-lp in Great Barrington!

I’ll be doing live coding in TidalCycles while Allegra Geller does live electronics via Ableton, MIDI controllers, and a satellite dish :^)

DISCLAIMER Allegra Geller is my dad :^O

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2025-10-05_19-05-49

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📅 Philly Homebrew Website Club 2

Date: 2025-10-05

Time: 18:00 - 20:00 -0400

Iffy Books

404 S 20th St Philadelphia Pennsylvania US — View on Google Maps

Join us at Iffy Books in Philadelphia for our second Philly Homebrew Website Club!

This is an in-person-only event.

Homebrew Website Clubs are online and/or in-person meetups where we discuss designing and developing our personal websites as a way to take back our online identities and control our content.

Common discussion topics include:

  • Website design and development with HTML and CSS
  • Progress and breakthroughs for attendees’ personal sites
  • IndieWeb standards and goings-on
  • Retro websites and webrings
  • Miscellaneous chit chat!

All skill / experience levels welcome, don’t feel like you need to have a functional website to join in - just an interest in making your own home on the web!

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Philly Homebrew Website Club Recap

Several persons seated around a rectangular picnic table, each with a laptop or desktop computer. The man nearest the camera (me) has e. coli but is not presenting symptoms thankfully.

The first Philly Homebrew Website Club went great! Thanks everyone for coming and many thanks to Iffy Books for hosting!

There’s me in the bottom right, unaware that I had e. coli at the time 😩 Feeling better now!

Unfortunately, the next one (scheduled for September 7th) is cancelled for related reasons. We’ll pick back up in October!

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📅 Philly Homebrew Website Club

Date: 2025-08-03

Time: 14:00 - 16:00 -0400

Iffy Books

404 S 20th St Philadelphia Pennsylvania US — View on Google Maps

Join us at Iffy Books for Philly’s first Homebrew Website Club! All skill levels are welcome. Together we’ll discuss our plans for our websites, spend some time working toward our goals, and discussing the progress we’ve made and what went right or wrong.

Homebrew Website Club is a growing world-wide network of meetups for everyone who wants to take back their web experience from social media silos, and own their online identities & content, or just want support with blogging!

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