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
Here they are again anyway:
== Participants ==
- Zephyr https://zephnet.biz
- Ragman (Richard) https://ragman.net
- ryelle https://ryelle.codes
- Quigley https://quig.info
- Graham https://gvasquez.dev (https://phlcode.club)
- Chris https://cbtalia.com
- Taj (websiteless and sad for it)
- Richard
== Notes ==
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Webmention - https://webmention.io
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bfcache - handling cache events in javascript - https://ragman.net/musings/bfcache/
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POSSE - https://indieweb.org/POSSE
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Micropub https://micropub.spec.indieweb.org/
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RSS aggregators - freshRSS, Miniflux https://www.freshrss.org/ https://miniflux.app/
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Hugo RSS output https://gohugo.io/templates/rss/
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Astro vs Hugo as a blog plaform https://astro.build/ https://gohugo.io/
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Eleventy https://www.11ty.dev/
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https://sightlessscribbles.com/the-colonization-of-confidence/ - article on how a job forced the author to write using an LLM for ideas and editing, and how it undermined their confidence
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note taking
- Obsidian https://obsidian.md/
- Logseq https://logseq.com/
- Asciidoc https://asciidoc.org/
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JavaScript import maps - https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Guide/Modules#importing_modules_using_import_maps
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next phl code club event - 2026-01-26 mini-hackathon
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collide zine - cool sometimes-tech-oriented philly zine- richard here, did some digging, it was actually the Philadelphia Citywide Zine that I was thinking of, not collide: https://philadelphiacitywide.com/#about
- Their 4th issue, which isn’t on their website, but is on their instagram sigh: https://www.instagram.com/p/DSLodzgjU8S/
Looking forward to the next one on 2025-02-08, same place same time!
Zephyr Prusinski