Hello and welcome to This Week in the IndieWeb, audio edition, for the week of May 6th - 12th, 2023. https://indieweb.org/this-week/2023-05-12.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 May 10th with virtual meetups at 7pm for Europe and London time and 6pm for US/Pacific time. Discussion topics included BlueSky, AT protocol, information management, ecosystem restoration, and more. You can find photos and links to notes from the meetup in the newsletter. Join us again on May 17th for the next Homebrew Website Club, with a virtual meetup scheduled at 7pm for Europe and London 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. 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. Johanna at dead.garden posted "toki pona and the small-net: a match made in heaven". In it, she details notable overlaps between "small net" projects like neocities websites, gemini capsules, and indie games and people writing in the constructed language toki pona. Caleb at calebhearth.com posted "/now Hear This". In it, he encourages readers to add a /now page to their personal domain to answer the question "what are you up to recently?". He describes how he uses automation to collect details of recent posts he's made and media he's consumed such as podcasts, tv, movies, and games. James at jamesg.blog posted "Announcing subscribable feeds for Bluesky profiles". In it, he discusses recent development on his service for generating web-embeddable posts from Bluesky. Available at bsky.link, you can now embed a feed of the latest posts for a given Bluesky profile. --- And now, a selection of this week's updates from indieweb.org. # New Community Members Kevin joins from kevinyank.com. Kevin is best known for his work as CTO at sitepoint.com from 2002-2012, as well as books on PHP, MySQL, JavaScript, and CSS. 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 Every person's context and lived experience is different. When a user interface or app behaves in a way that someone doesn't expect, it can lead to frustration and even harm. Rather than blame the user for their "wrong" expectations, seek to empathize and investigate how the apps and interfaces can be improved. # Services and Organizations David Pierce at theverge.com published "Speed Trap". In it, the author recounts the rise and fall of Google's Accelerated Mobile Pages, more widely known as AMP. Google promised this new HTML-like format would make the mobile web more usable, and used search result page placement to strong-arm publishers into using it. After years of controversy, lawsuits, and internal pivots, AMP has been all but abandoned by publishers and Google, alike. # IndieWeb Development Want to allow anyone on the web to react to your posts, but feeling overwhelmed by Webmention? Maybe give the Open Heart protocol a try. Published at openheart.fyi, this protocol lets anonymouse users send an emoji reaction to a URL, and that's it. Open Heart creator Mu-An, at muan.co, has also published Open Stories, a syndication format for sharing images and video clips in the style of Instagram stories built on JSON Feed. 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.