Philly Homebrew Website Club 7 Recap

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 ==

• Zephyr https://zephnet.biz
• Quigley https://quig.info
• Graham https://gvasquez.dev/ https://phlcode.club/
• ryelle https://ryelle.codes
• Tim https://writingofftheworld.neocities.org
• Christina https://cbtalia.com
• Sierrah (making book/art project website, migrating from wordpress)
• AJ Stensland https://ajstensland.github.io (i havent touched this in uhhh 7 years lmao)

== Notes ==

• now pages - https://indieweb.org/now
• moving off of discord and onto IRC!
• Intro to web development content:
  • The MDN Learn Web Development course is my (zephyr’s) fav - https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Learn_web_development
    • The MDN pages have in-depth resources on anything in web development, just use the search! https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/
  • Making a website on Neocities is a great (and free!) starting point - https://neocities.org/tutorials
  • Zephyr uses Cloudflare Pages - https://developers.cloudflare.com/pages/ but that’s a bit more invovled!
• Jiu Jitsu VCS - rust(?)-basedc alternative to git - https://github.com/jj-vcs/jj
• NOAA satellite DIY antennae - https://parasec.net/blog/noaa-weather-satellites/
• Slow scan television - images over radio https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slow-scan_television
• AMPRNet - internet over ham radio https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMPRNet
• 2600hz - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2600_hertz and
• 2600 - The Hacker Quarterly - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2600:_The_Hacker_Quarterly

Looking forward to the next one on 2025-04-05, same place same time!