Philly Homebrew Website Club 6 Recap

Also posted on IndieNews

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

Here they are again anyway:

== Participants ==

• Zephyr https://zephnet.biz
• Graham https://gvasquez.dev/ and https://phlcode.club/
• AJ https://ajstensland.github.io (i have not touched this in years)
• Inessa https://thingsforworms.neocities.org/ (its a mess but its my special mess) haydenshuker.com: https://haydenshuker.com
• Emily https://www.fauxtrots.com/ and https://www.emilykrose.com/
• Andy https://blog.andylu.dev
• Claude (don’t have a website yet oop)
• Benjamin https://benjamincorey.net (https://themitzvahmagician.com/) (https://bencorey.com) https://tv.benjamincorey.net (press a/b) for: https://photos.app.goo.gl/5nQq2H2MNfJVpwD4A https://photos.app.goo.gl/7nTSSPX69ZUDiaKy9
• Nathan http://localhost:8080

== Notes ==

• now pages - https://indieweb.org/now or https://nownownow.com/about
  • slash pages - https://slashpages.net/
• RSS readers - capyreader - https://capyreader.com/
• miniflux is the best desktop feed aggragator: https://miniflux.app/
• mozilla problems
• micro.blog - simple, low/no code pre-indieweb-enabled platform for blogs
• neocities.org - simple free web host with built in tutorials and room to grow
• github.io / cloudflare pages / aws amplify - more involved but great platforms once you’re comfortable with a static site generator like https://gohugo.io or https://www.11ty.dev/ or https://astro.build/ (more examples welcome!)
• RTL character support in top level domains??
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internationalized_domain_name
• the $2 or less bargain bin domains on namecheap.org
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabic
• idk how to explain what this thing is: http://geminiquickst.art/
• https://zen-browser.app/ - Firefox engine browser
• The great web novel
• Flash and the new-ish web standards-focused implementation - https://github.com/lightspark/lightspark
• The Java Ring - https://hackaday.com/2024/10/01/java-ring-one-wearable-to-rule-all-authentications/

Looking forward to the next one on 2025-03-01 (woah, two first of the months in a row), same place same time!