Hello and welcome to This Week in the IndieWeb, audio edition, for the week of December 24th - 30th, 2022. https://indieweb.org/this-week/2022-12-30.html This Week in the IndieWeb is a weekly digest of activities in the IndieWeb community at indieweb.org. It contains recent and upcoming events, posts from IndieNews, and a summary of website updates. This Week in the IndieWeb is sent out Fridays at 2pm Pacific time, with this audio edition appearing over the weekend. You can find the web edition of This Week in the IndieWeb, including all links and an archive of all past editions at indieweb.org/this-week --- ## Events Homebrew Website Club is a bi-weekly meetup of people passionate about or interested in creating, improving, building, and designing their own website. Homebrew Website Club met on December 28th with a virtual meetup at 6pm US/Pacific time. You can find photos and links to notes from the meetups in the newsletter. Join us again on January 4th for the next Homebrew Website Club, with virtual meetups at 7pm Europe/London time and 6pm US/Pacific time. You can always find info about the next upcoming Homebrew Website Club meetups and other IndieWeb events at events.indieweb.org. If you're an organizer, please remember to update the site with information about your venue, times, and how to RSVP. A virtual IndieWeb Create Day was held on Monday, December 26th. Community members worked on personal website projects such as writing new posts, updating styles, improving annotations, and much more. You can find links to some of the discussions at indieweb.org/2022/Create/December All IndieWeb events follow the IndieWeb Code of Conduct, which can be found at indieweb.org/coc. And, all IndieWeb events are volunteer-run, so if you are interested in helping organize, getting the word out, finding sponsors, and more let us know in the chat at chat.indieweb.org. In IndieWeb related events, mark your calendar for Sunday, January 15th, when IndieWeb community member James will present "Decentralized Website Communication with Webmention" at codementor.io. You can find out more and get your free ticket at events.indieweb.org. --- Here is a brief summary of posts collected this week by IndieNews, a community-curated list of articles relevant to the IndieWeb. You can read more, or submit posts of your own, at news.indieweb.org. James at jamesg.blog made several IndieWeb-related posts this week, including a study in how friendly chat bot Loqi helps bridge real-time conversation with long-term wiki documentation, and tools for personal sites to allow sharing links to text highlights, displaying seasonal emoji, and displaying sparkline graphs of wiki activity. Fluffy at beesbuzz.biz posted "What is the IndieWeb?". In it, she details many aspects of the IndieWeb community, including some history, introductions to building blocks, how to get started, and much more. It's a great explainer for folks who may have recently learned about IndieWeb, particularly in the context of recent buzz about ActivityPub. --- And now, a selection of this week's updates from indieweb.org. # New Community Members Bob joins us from bw3.dev. Bob is a software engineer running his site on microblog.pub, which supports interactions between IndieWeb-friendly sites as well as ActivityPub. Ross joins us from axiomeval.me, a personal site built using Obsidian.md and the Digital Garden plugin. and Reese joins us from reeseric.ci. On their site you can find current and past projects, and stay up to date by signing up for Reese's weekly newsletter. If you haven't already, now is a good time to create your own user page. It's a great way to introduce yourself to the IndieWeb community, and to collect the things that you are working on, or want to work on, for your personal website. For more details, visit indieweb.org/wikifying. ## Community and Concepts December is coming to a close, which marks the final week of updates for the 2022 IndieWeb Gift calendar. This week features the release of a new progressive web app micropub client named "sparkles", interactive highlighting via a JavaScript library or Firefox plugin, and more. You can check out these and all the other gifts added this month at indieweb.org/2022-12-indieweb-gift-calendar "Make what you need" and "use what you make" are two related IndieWeb principles designed to help creators focus on creating and publishing for their personal site. By building for your own needs, you improve your ability to creatively share online. By using what you build, you ensure that your tools have at least one active user for feedback and improvements. ## Services and Organizations Domains such as Tumblr's href.li and Twitter's t.co, are services used to "wrap" links to external sites. Ostensibly, wrapping links allows sites to add features like click-tracking or stripping sensitive referrer information. However, wrapped links also create longevity and interoperability issues for the open web. Find out more on the /outbound_link_wrapper page. ## IndieWeb Development Do you post events to your personal site? Do you display RSVPs from others? If so, how? Check out the /rsvps page for some collected research on how other folks are doing this, and add your own. Other new concepts on the wiki this week include: IndieWebTrain, ActivityWeb, and clapback. You can follow the links in the newsletter to learn more about, or add detail to, these new terms. --- That's going to do it for this week. Thank you for listening! This English version of This Week in the IndieWeb, audio edition was read and produced by Marty McGuire. If you have suggestions for improving this audio edition of the newsletter, please feel free to contact Marty in the IndieWeb chat. This Week in the IndieWeb and the IndieNews services are provided by Aaron Parecki. Music for this episode comes from Aaron Parecki's 100 Days of Music project. Find out more at 100.aaronparecki.com. Learn more about the IndieWeb at indieweb.org, and join the discussion via Slack, IRC, or the web at chat.indieweb.org.