Philly Homebrew Website Club 13 Recap

Thanks for coming to Philly HWC 13 y’all! And thanks as always to Iffy Books for hosting (who recently turned 5!!)

Notes are archived at https://indieweb.org/events/2026-10-04-hwc-philly

== Participants ==

• Zephyr https://zephnet.biz
• Tim https://writingofftheworld-b7a8cb.gitlab.io/
• Andrii
• Ruben
• Aaron https://mudflood.org/
• Graham https://gvasquez.dev https://phlcode.club
• Indira https://indirageisel.com/
• Inessa https://thingsforworms.neocities.org/

== Notes == Mechanical Keyboard meetup https://ti.to/philadelphiakeyboardmeetup/phillykbmu2026-nov - https://discord.gg/G3w3GYBpb https://longplaytech.com/

• Templating languages
  • EJS https://ejs.co/#install
    • Don’t use these pls
  • Go templates (used in https://gohugo.io https://gohugo.io/templates/introduction/
    • Better the devil you know (∵)ψ
  • JSX (Astro kind-of uses these, jsx is a React thing) https://docs.astro.build/en/reference/astro-syntax/
  • Jinja/Nunjucks
• Hitchbot 10yr anniversary https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HitchBOT
  • https://www.avride.ai/
• Marty the stop & shop robot https://www.bostonmagazine.com/news/2024/09/12/marty-the-robot-stop-and-shop/
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autistici/Inventati - antifascist hosting platform recently (wrongly) flagged as a terrorist organization by trump admin
• https://reticulum.network/ Reticulum mesh networking
• FIFA cameras
  • https://futel.net and https://philtel.net - free payphone providers in portland or and philly (respectively)
• https://freifunk.net/en/how-to-join/support-our-campaigns/ freifunk is a german mesh public internet community
  • similar to nycmesh https://www.nycmesh.net/