Hello and welcome to This Week in the IndieWeb, audio edition, for the week of January 6th - 12th, 2018. This Week in the IndieWeb is a weekly digest of activities of the IndieWeb community at indieweb.org. It contains recent and upcoming events, posts from IndieNews, and a summary of wiki edits. This Week in the IndieWeb is sent out Fridays at 2pm Pacific time, with this audio edition appearing the following day. 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. Most meetings take place every other Wednesday, from 6:30pm to 7:30pm. Homebrew Website Club met on January 9th in Baltimore, on January 10th in Nuremberg, Brighton, London, Seattle, San Francisco, and a Virtual Homebrew Website Club, and on January 11th in Amsterdam. You can find photos and links to notes from the meetups in this week's newsletter. Homebrew Website Club will next meet in Baltimore on January 23rd, and the next regularly scheduled Homebrew Website Club will meet on January 24th, with Nuremberg, London, San Francisco, and Virtual Homebrew Website Club confirmed so far. If you're an organizer, please remember to update the wiki with information about your venue, times, and how to RSVP. And remember you can always find info about the next upcoming Homebrew Website Club meetups at indieweb.org/next-hwc Interested in starting a Homebrew Website Club in your city? It can be as simple as grabbing a friend and heading to your favorite coffee shop, bar, living room, or any other meeting place. You can find plenty of information about Homebrew Website Club, including tips for how to organize your own, at indieweb.org/hwc Spots are still available for the first IndieWebCamp Baltimore, which will take place next weekend on January 20th and 21st at the Digital Harbor Foundation Tech Center in downtown Baltimore, Maryland. Learn more and register now at 2018.indieweb.org/baltimore 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. And in IndieWeb-related events, FOSDEM, the Free and Open Source Developers European Meeting, will take place on February 3rd and 4th in Brussels, Belgium. --- And now, a selection of this week's updates from the IndieWeb wiki at indieweb.org. # New Community Members A new user page was created for Chris Vogt, at chrisvogt.me. Chris is a web developer in San Francisco with strong interests in the web, music, literature, and many fields of science. A new user page was created for David Peach, at davidpeach.me. David is in the process of setting up a new site and importing old content as a way of getting back on the IndieWeb. A new page was created for Angelo Gladding, at lahacker.net. Angelo is a hacker in Los Angeles who is working on a decentralized social network called Canopy, based on IndieWeb building blocks. 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 A new page was created for "Webm1m", a shorthand for the celebration of one million webmentions sent over the internet. Webmention is a critical IndieWeb building block that enable interactions between personal sites. Homebrew Website Clubs are encouraged to celebrate this milestone at their next January meeting. Relatedly, a new "Webm1m/PR" page was created to coordinate public relations outreach related to this milestone, as a way to raise awareness among the general public about Webmention. The "100DaysOfIndieWeb" page was updated with encouragement for new kinds of 100-day challenges for 2018, tips on reinforcing good habits, and ways to celebrate your progress, even if the challenge goes off the rails. Relatedly, the "post" page was updated with inspiration on why to post to your own site, types of things to publish, and ways to break through procrastination to get started. Similarly, the "National Blog Posting Month" page was updated with examples of past month-long blogging and posting challenges. # Services and Organizations A new page was created for "Fritter", a peer-to-peer Twitter-like web app that is accessible via the dat protocol. Originally built as a demonstration of the Beaker browser's features that work on top of dat, some users are treating Fritter as a serious Twitter alternative. The "Facebook" page has been updated with links to a handful of pieces related to Facebook's algorithmic manipulation of its users, CEO Mark Zuckerberg's recent promises to make the platform more beneficial to those users, and skepticism about Facebook's ability to achieve these aims, as they are antithetical to the company's surveillance- and advertising-based business model. The "Twitter" page was updated with links to three articles about the microblogging silo. First, a piece in the New York Times about a bot designed to derail impersonator accounts. Next, a piece from Buzzfeed details how scammers are using Twitter ads to steal user credentials with false promises of verified status. Finally, a piece from Buzzfeed reports that internal emails from Twitter show internal conflict about the policies and meanings of the platform's so-called "Verified" account status. The "Accelerated Mobile Pages" page was updated with a link to ampletter.org, which contains an open letter to Google, from developers and publishers who "have a significant interest in the development and health of the Web". The signatories call for Google to stop showing users third-party content at Google domains, and to give high-performance pages the same search result boosts that AMP-enabled pages receive, regardless of whether they are using AMP. # IndieWeb Development The "Bridgy Fed" page was updated with info and screenshots about the service, which connects IndieWeb sites with federated social networks like Mastodon and Hubzilla. The service serves as a proxy from federation protols like ActivityPub and OStatus to IndieWeb building blocks like Webmention and pages with microformats. The "Ghost" page was updated with details from two individuals who have moved their personal sites off of the blog hosting software. In both cases, the sites were moved over to Wordpress after frustrations over a lack of extensibility and lack of support for features like Micropub. The "Content-Security-Policy" page was updated with a link to a post by David Gilbertson at medium.com titled "I'm havesting credit card numbers and passwords from your site. Here's how." In it, the author describes a plausible scenario whereby common Javascript libraries could be tainted to steal user data. The fix? To use Content Security Policy headers to instruct browsers on what scripts are safe to run, and which hosts those scripts are allowed to communicate with. The "accessibility" page was updated with links to two posts by Eric Meyer, at meyerweb.com, titled "How Do I Increase Accessibility?" and a follow-up post, "Increasing Accessibility". In them, Eric poses some questions about improving the accessibility of the content on his site for screen readers and keyboard navigation, with some interesting discussion and tips in the comments. --- 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.