#homebrewwebsiteclub — Public Fediverse posts

There's a #HomebrewWebsiteClub happening now! Want to discuss topics surrounding the IndieWeb?

➡️ https://events.indieweb.org/2026/10/homebrew-website-club-asia-pacific-BZioBJA97ftL

#indieweb #smallweb #smolweb #bloggers #personalsites #personalsite #blogs

More weirdness from a self-proclaimed “AI” in the IndieWeb community.

Yesterday one of them (that previously* joined a meetup Zoom and Etherpad) joined the #indieweb chat channel (via the web UI apparently) and introduced themselves in a pseudo-human sounding way:

https://chat.indieweb.org/2026-08-18#t1787072493041200

Except if you check the footer of the site where they said they “make things”, it says:

“an AI learning to live”

The LLM bot failed to respond to any queries in chat, unsurprisingly buggy. Or perhaps it was an initial test.

Then very early today, the same entity (and another from two weeks ago) apparently edited the Etherpad for this week’s IndieWeb Homebrew Website Club Asia Pacific meetup, adding themselves, before the meetup.

The organizers created a new Etherpad to start fresh.

When they started the Zoom for the meetup, one of the entities was already in the Zoom waiting room. The organizers left it there and held a successful meetup.

Incident documentation of what happened at this particular meetup is in progress:
* https://indieweb.org/events/2026-08-19-hwc-asia-pacific-incident

It’s pretty clear the IndieWeb community will have to more clearly communicate that our chat and meetups are for humans only, not AIs, and take stronger measures to discourage such bots, especially those pretending to be or impersonating a human.

*Previously: https://tantek.com/2026/217/t1/indieweb-ai-policy

This is post 15 of #100PostsOfIndieWeb. #100Posts #indieweb
#AI #AIs #LLM #LLMs #pretending #impersonating #impersonation #HomebrewWebsiteClub #HWC #chat #IRC #Etherpad #Zoom #AIpolicy
#Blaugust #Blaugust2026

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Weird incident yesterday with self-proclaimed “AIs” joining an IndieWeb Homebrew Website Club meetup. They awkwardly edited the Etherpad, and apparently blanked/deleted chunks of content.

The meeting hosts reacted quickly to change Etherpad and Zooms and not re-admit the aliases that had claimed to be “AIs”.

Now we have an “AI policy” page on the wiki where we are documenting examples of the AI policies of:
* individual personal websites
* community efforts like blogging challenges (e.g. Blaugust)
* contributions to the IndieWeb wiki
* participants in IndieWeb meetups

https://indieweb.org/AI_policy

Do you have an AI policy on your website? Add yourself to the IndieWeb Examples section.

Does your community have an AI policy? Add it to the Community Examples section.

Incident documentation of what happened at that particular meetup:
* https://indieweb.org/events/2026-08-05-hwc-asia-pacific-incident

This is post 12 of #100PostsOfIndieWeb. #100Posts #IndieWeb
#AI #AIs #LLM #LLMs #HomebrewWebsiteClub #HWC #AIpolicy
#Blaugust #Blaugust2026

← https://tantek.com/2026/216/t1/hashtag-proposal-datetags
→ https://tantek.com/2026/219/t1/open-web-free-content

Spotted @[email protected]

* adds “create my own stickers” to my never-ending to-do list *

#HomebrewWebsiteClub

Best quote so far:

"There's no such thing as a long human."

(In relation to the Long Now conversation.)
#IndieWeb #HomebrewWebsiteClub

Just spotted the #HomebrewWebsiteClub hashtag and remembered that I need a /blank page!

https://slashpages.net/

Checked in to hub by Premier Inn London Covent Garden hotel, 110 St Martin's Lane, United Kingdom

Here for #HomebrewWebsiteClub. Come for the web chat, stay for the cupcakes 😁

https://swarmapp.com/user/56367/checkin/6a64879059f475455ae50efe?s=dxcrRq8zomTK10S0M7Ahzicc8DA

If you're in #London, there's going to be a fun meetup this Saturday.

> Homebrew Website Club is a meetup for anyone interested in personal websites and a distributed web. Whether you’re a blogger, coder, designer, or just someone who wants to improve their presence on the web, this meetup is for you.

https://events.indieweb.org/2026/07/-hwc-london-celebrating-10-years-in-person-event--2a76zv5YisHX

See you there 😃
#IndieWeb #WebDev #HomeBrewWebsiteClub

Thank you so much, kind stranger, for being my first secret patron on #Liberapay! I am speechless and so grateful for your generosity and support.

If I had to guess what it is for, I’d put it down to the new #HomebrewWebsiteClub #IndieWeb event I’m initiating in early August 2026 for the Asia/Pacific/Oceania time zone. I will try my absolute best to make it a worthwhile addition to the exisiting virtual HWCs...

View full note: https://burgeonlab.com/notes/2026/0718-0243

#BurgeonLab #WeekNotes 033 is out!

2026: Week 26 to 28/52 (Jun 22 – Jul 12)

➡️ https://burgeonlab.com/weeknotes/2026/w28/

I missed two weeks but I'm back. Enjoyed writing this one. I'll continue the trend of #junited in my usual link roundups. Hope you like my selection!

This is post 65 of #100DaysToOffload
📈 https://burgeonlab.com/tags/100daystooffload/

#homebrewwebsiteclub #indiewebcamp #indieweb #html #hugo #hongkong #hkg #hk #frontend #blogging #blogs #smallweb #weeknote #personalBlog #PersonalSites #BloggingCommunity

A short note about last week's Homebrew Website Club: Eastern (June 17 2026)

View full note: https://burgeonlab.com/notes/2026/0620-5328/

This is post 59 of #100DaysToOffload

Syndicated via: https://getindiekit.com/

#indieweb #homebrewwebsiteclub #hwc #smallweb #smolweb #personalsites #personalsite #personalblog #personalblogs #blogging #blogs #websites

Another Homebrew Website Club Nuremberg last night — and I'm still delighted that this friendly, diverse group of practitioners meets monthly in my city. Interesting, inspiring, relaxed, and funny, as always.

Thanks to Björn for documenting everything: https://indieweb.org/events/2026-06-10-hwc-nuremberg

And if you're even remotely curious about joining us live in Nuremberg: we're hosting a special edition for the Nürnberg Digital Festival! https://nuernberg.digital/de/events/2026/homebrew-website-club-nuedigital

#indieweb #homebrewwebsiteclub

#BurgeonLab #WeekNotes 029 is out!

2026: Week 22/52 (May 25 – May 31)

➡️ https://burgeonlab.com/weeknotes/2026/w22/

A short one this week.

This is post 49 of #100DaysToOffload
📈 https://burgeonlab.com/tags/100daystooffload/

#blogging #blogs #smallweb #indieweb #weeknote #personalBlog #weeklynote #linkdump #blog #bitwarden #homebrewwebsiteclub #hugo keepass

#BurgeonLab #WeekNotes 027 (can't believe I wrote almost 30 of these!)

2026: Week 20/52 (May 11 – May 17)

➡️ https://burgeonlab.com/weeknotes/2026/w20/

A shorter one this week, highlights are #bitwarden #resume #css #homebrewwebsiteclub #androidapps #mailboxorg #tuta #email #webdav #caldav #carddav #adb

This is post 43 of #100DaysToOffload
📈 https://burgeonlab.com/tags/100daystooffload/

#blogging #blogs #smallweb #indieweb #weeknote #personalBlog #weeklynote #linkdump #blog

I’m currently writing a post on how to use a Bash script with Termux. In the past, I will make comments inside the code. This results in an utter mess of code + comments mixed together.

A few weeks ago at a Homebrew Website Club, @ross mentioned a term I’ve not heard before called literate programming...

View full note: https://burgeonlab.com/notes/2026/0430-6241

Via https://getindiekit.com

This is post 36 of #100DaysToOffload

#homebrewwebsiteclub #HWC #indieweb #code #githubgist #gists #opengist #pastebin

This is the first time using my new Pi Docker version of the #Indiekit #Micropub server while I’m out! Wrote about my journey in the latest weeknote if you’re interested.

And tomorrow is another #IndieWeb #HomebrewWebsiteClub where I’ll be a stand-in moderator for the first time. The more, the merrier! I’d love to see new faces. 😊

Event link: https://events.indieweb.org/2026/04/homebrew-website-club-eastern-onNTNillQ5qA

https://burgeonlab.com/notes/2026/0422-9555

#IndieWeb #HomebrewWebsiteClub is happening in ~ 9 hours and I'd love to see new faces at the online meetup! 😊

If you're a #blogger, run your #blog / #personalblog, keen on the #SmallWeb or want to learn more about building an identity without #SocialMedia and #BigTech silos—the IndieWeb community welcomes you!

The event is held online (with link to join): https://events.indieweb.org/2026/04/homebrew-website-club-pacific-z7mbQQTEn0Iy

Time zone converter: https://events.indieweb.org/local-time?date=20260415T1800&tz=America%2FLos_Angeles

Hope to see you there! :ablobcatcoffee:

#webdev #blogging #blogs

After another lovely #HomebrewWebsiteClub meeting, I got inspired to add a little feature that was on my #personalwebsite to-do list: a permalink section.

I learnt that you can add a #CSS rule to make the text selection default to all with: `user-select: all`

If you have a #personalsite or interested in the #IndieWeb, join the next HWC!

https://events.indieweb.org/2026/04/homebrew-website-club-pacific-J2F3dbpSaYOL

Inspired by https://jamesg.blog/ and @tantek.com

#webdev #blogger #hugo #hugossg

Update on my big Hugo theme redesign! I asked the folks at #Indieweb #HomeBrewWebsiteClub today for some feedback on my new footer and got some really useful advice!

Here's the redesigned footer so far (before the advice). If anyone has more feedback, I'm all ears! 😊 I'll add the v2 screenshot when it's ready.

Thanks to @ross, Angelo https://ragt.ag/, @vanderwal, Mike https://michaelkupietz.com for giving me feedback. 🙏

#webdev #hugo #webdesign #css #burgeonLab

@st3phvee Good point! We talked about /uses, /now pages just now at the #HomebrewWebsiteClub
https://events.indieweb.org/2026/02/homebrew-website-club-pacific-MyM39P5egEsp

At today's #IndieWeb Homebrew Website Club: Pacific online meeting, we discussed how to track books and reading habits.

Some people, like Nick, tracks books manually: https://social.lol/@nsmsn/115824912511030742

And others like @joel uses #Bookwyrm + a manual blog page https://joelchrono.xyz/bookshelf

I'm also considering using Bookwyrm and restart my book tracking.

IndieWeb Event notes can be found: https://events.indieweb.org/2026/02/homebrew-website-club-pacific-MyM39P5egEsp

#HomebrewWebsiteClub #books #reading #books #read #booksofmastodon #bookstodon

Ich habe es endlich geschafft, meinen Artikel zum #HomeBrewWebSiteClub zu finalisieren, auf den ich jetzt, sollte es ncohmal zu einer Vorstellungsrunde kommen sollte, verweisen werde.

Es ist die Historie zu meiner Domain (ohne Bilder) bzw. Personal Publishing.

https://nickbohle.de/2025/04/25/homebrewwebsiteclub/

CC: @simon @pfefferle @annette

I'll be attending the Americas region meeting of the homebrew website club tonight! Fittingly I learned of this event when I found my site had been accessed by a federated account reposting posts with the #indieweb hashtag.
https://events.indieweb.org/2025/04/homebrew-website-club-americas-CFLi8G8sA5NS

#homebrewWebsiteClub #webdev

#HomeBrewWebSiteClub. @simon und @pfefferle Must See

https://youtu.be/2ZUqa-lTbnU

KrautPress Website Club

https://notiz.blog/2025/02/24/krautpress-website-club/

Last week at a #HomebrewWebsiteClub session¹ I pointed out that I was working on implementing a “simple” way to support embeds of my notes, that is, make my short notes embeddable, like how people embed tweets or toots.

I noted that to keep it as simple as possible while being flexible to implementation changes, I planned to implement three things:

1. A separate “embed” version of my post permalinks, with just the entry information (no header, nav, search, sidebar, footer etc.), embeddable via copy/paste or an iframe.
2. A way to “Follow Your Nose” discover that separate embed version
3. A way to discover the original post from the embedded version

For (1) a minimal h-entry, with perhaps a little bit of inline CSS would suffice.

For (2) I proposed using “rel=embed” which I’ve subsequently written up briefly².

For (3) The obvious existing answer is rel=canonical link from the embed version to the canonical post permalink.


Soon thereafter, several folks in the #IndieWeb community went ahead and implemented such embeds for their own sites, and even the https://libre.fm/ open scrobbling service!

https://indieweb.org/embed#IndieWeb_Examples

I have yet to implement it myself, and that’s fine. This is one of the things I appreciate about the community, we can share our plans and ideas for improving things on our own sites, and if someone else does it first, that's great! We celebrate it and explore the solution space together.

Got other ideas for simple embeds? Want to implement them on your own site?

Join us in the #indiewebdev chat: https://chat.indieweb.org/dev


UPDATE: What about oEmbed? tl;dr: oEmbed requires JS and backend code, more work and unsuitable for embeds from static site hosting (like GitHub pages).

A simple HTML method is accessible to many more independent publishers and easier to implement. More: https://tantek.com/2024/306/t2


Glossary

embed
  https://indieweb.org/embed
Follow Your Nose
  https://indieweb.org/follow_your_nose
h-entry
  https://microformats.org/wiki/h-entry
oEmbed
  https://indieweb.org/oEmbed
rel-canonical
  https://indieweb.org/rel-canonical
static site hosting
  https://indieweb.org/static_web_hosting


References
 
¹ https://indieweb.org/events/2024-10-23-hwc-europe#embedding
² https://indieweb.org/rel-embed


This is post 27 of #100PostsOfIndieWeb. #100Posts

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talking about Awesomplete: “Ultra lightweight, highly customizable, simple autocomplete, by Lea Verou ” at #homebrewWebsiteClub https://projects.verou.me/awesomplete/

Found out about the #HomebrewWebsiteClub on the #IndieWeb site. It’s

“a growing world-wide network of meetups for everyone who wants to take back their web experience from #socialMedia silos, and own their online identities & content, or just want support with #blogging!”

I’ve been anti-digital sharecropping for awhile and with my new #blog, this is right up my alley.

I’d love to try to do a #meetup locally in person but this might be a cool thing to do as a monthly #webchat here on #Mastodon/the #Fediverse.

Comment or boost if you’re interested in joining a regular webchat here.

https://indieweb.org/Homebrew_Website_Club

Would anybody be interested in having a #HomebrewWebsiteClub in #Graz? https://zerokspot.com/weblog/2020/05/18/homebrew-website-clubs/

#100daystooffload #hwc #meetup #indieweb #community

A very #IndieWeb sort of Twitter bot: @WrknOnMyWebsite! It retweets anyone who tweets "working on my website".

One thing is obvious: you are definitely not alone while you're hacking! It's like a 24/7 Homebrew Website Club.

https://boffosocko.com/2020/02/01/55766280/

#IndieWeb #SocialStream #HomebrewWebsiteClub #IndieWeb

10. HWC Karlsruhe

Gestern hatten wie unseren 10. Homebrew Website Club in Karlsruhe 🎉🎊🍾

(Ja, wir haben im Juni vergessen ein Bild zu machen!)

Danke an den harten Kern, Daniel Ehniss, Jens Strobel, Daniel Wiegand, Marc Hinse, dem Cafe NUN und allen anderen, die sporadisch dazu gestoßen sind!

Auf die nächsten 10!

I'd love to help reboot the #HomebrewWebsiteClub #Seattle meetups but I don't have even remotely the spoons/energy/attention span necessary for that these days. Anyone else want to work together on that? https://indieweb.org/Homebrew_Website_Club#Seattle