Hello and welcome to This Week in the IndieWeb, audio edition, for the week of July 29th - August 4th, 2023. https://indieweb.org/this-week/2023-08-04.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 August 2nd with a virtual meetup at 6pm for Europe and London time. Discussion topics included regulation on the web, posting audio and music, low maintenance plants, Barbie, and more. You can find photos and links to notes from the meetup in the newsletter. Join us again on August 9th for the next Homebrew Website Club, with virtual meetups scheduled at 7pm for Europe and London, and 6pm for US/Pacific time. Also, mark your calendars for the next Galactic Bonus Homebrew Website Club on Saturday, August 26th starting at 9am US/Pacific. 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. On July 29th, community member James hosted Build a Website in an Hour, a virtual meetup and web project hackathon. Participant projects included new blogs, bookmarks and fanfiction, media processing, image hacking, and more. You can find links to the projects by following the event link in the newsletter to the archived notes from the event. July 30th was Send a Friend a Webmention Day, encouraging folks to use their personal sites for social interactions with others. Several people included a link back to the event itself, so you can find them in the Blog Posts section of the event page. 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. Planning is underway for an IndieWebCamp Nuremburg for 2023. Tentatively scheduled for October 28th and 29th, it will be adjacent to the border:none conference, which is celebrating its 10 year anniversary. --- 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. There were several new posts shared on IndieNews, this week. Here are some highlights. There were three Send a Friend a Webmention Day posts from sarajaksa.eu, tracydurnell.com, and lifeofpablo.com. James at jamesg.blog had posts about his recent appointment as co-chair in the W3C Social Web Community group as well as tools for discovering links between sites with webmention. James also posted a roundup of July's IndieWeb blog Carnival on "Moments of Joy", as Mark at marksuth.dev posted a kick-off for the August blog Carnival topic: Gardening. and Ryan at snarfed.org posted a Bridgy Fed status update including the newly revamped activity router and progress on Arroba, a Bluesky-compatible AT protocol Personal Data Server. --- And now, a selection of this week's updates from indieweb.org. # New Community Members Eric joins us from ericz.me. Eric is a student interested in software development, computer networking, managing infrastructure at scale, cybersecurity, and DevOps. sugardave joins us from sugardave.cloud, although there isn't much to their website just yet. 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 Congratulations to community member James, who recently stepped up as co-chair of the W3C's Social Web Incubator Community Group. James invites more folks to help out by joining in the monthly discussions and their chat on IRC. You can learn more at w3.org/wiki/SocialCG. # Services and Organizations Gfycat, the animated GIF hosting service at gfycat.com, has announced they will shut down on September 1st of this year. Popular alternative services include giphy.com - whose owner Facebook is currently selling to Shutterstock - and tenor.com, which is owned by Google. Folks with Micropub support on their personal sites can currently post gfycat images to their site with the Micropub client Kapowski. The pending gfycat shutdown leaves the future of Kapowski in question. # IndieWeb Development James, at jamesg.blog, released "webmemex.js" - a JavaScript library that creates web components for displaying preview cards of incoming and outgoing links on a page. The incoming-links component is powered by Webmentions, assuming your site's webmention hosting provides an API compatible with webmention.io. As always, you can follow the links in the newsletter to learn more about and add detail to any of these concepts. --- 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.