Hello and welcome to This Week in the IndieWeb, audio edition, for the week of July 21st - 27th, 2018. https://indieweb.org/this-week/2018-07-27.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. Most meetings take place every other Wednesday, from 6:30pm to 7:30pm. Homebrew Website Club met on July 25th in Nürnberg, London, Baltimore, San Francisco, and Seattle, along with Virtual Homebrew Website Clubs at Central European Time and US Pacific Time. You can find photos and links to notes from the meetups in the newsletter. Join us again on August 8th for the next regularly scheduled Homebrew Website Club. Meetups in Nürnerg and Baltimore have been 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 A one-day IndieWebCamp SF will be held at the offices of Mozilla in San Francisco on Tuesday, July 31st, in line with the the Decentralized Web Hackers Day that is part of the Internet Archive's 2018 Decentralized Web Summit. Check the link in the newsletter to find out how to join. The third IndieWebCamp Nuremberg will take place on October 20th and 21st, 2018, as part of Nuremberg Web Week. Volunteers can help with organizing at indieweb.org/2018/Nuremberg. And save the date for IndieWebCamp Berlin, which will be held on November 3rd and 4th. You can learn more and lend a hand organizing at indieweb.org/2018/Berlin. 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, the 2018 Decentralized Web Summit will be held this week at the Internet Archive in San Francisco from July 31st through August 3rd. A few registrations are still available, and you can check out the full schedule at decentralizedweb.net. --- 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. Eddie Hinkle, at eddiehinkle.com, published "Reclaiming your content". In it, he talks about his ongoing project to bring his content from silos like Facebook and Instagram to his personal site. His most recent project was to use the Micro.blog app for MacOS to import all of his Instagram photos back into his own site. Hinkle also published "One Website to Rule Them or Separate Areas of Focus", in which he discusses the design challenges of hosting everything he wants to post on a single website, and ponders some options for spinning out some smaller, single-purpose sites. Kicks Condor, at kickscondor.com, posted "Webmentions as the Wall". In it, Condor describes the technical challenges of engaging in website-to-website discussions via webmentions as, quote, "a kind of wall around the garden". Condor encourages the formation of smaller enclaves on the web, connected by link lists and blogrolls. Peter Stuifzand, at p83.nl, published "Implementing Microsub yourself (part 1)". In it, he introduces, with code, simplified example implementations of portions of the Microsub spec, which is enabling a new generation of indie readers with response features built in. --- And now, a selection of this week's updates from indieweb.org. # New Community Members Marco Zehe joins us from marcozehe.de. Marco is an accessibility engineer at Mozilla with a focus on screen readers, people with disabilities, and web accessibility. Chirag Desai joins us from chirag.biz. Chirag is a podcaster based out of Dubai, UAE, who runs the AMAEYA.FM podcast network with 4 active shows. 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 Longevity of our personal data beyond the life of a corporate silo is one of the principles of the IndieWeb. But what should happen to that data when we ourselves die? Researchers at Oxford published a piece in Nature that suggests that the ethical rules for handling digital artifacts from people who have died could be derived from the conventions that guide archaeological exhibitions. # Services and Organizations Microcast.club is a directory of microcast, or short-form podcasts, created to help discover new and interesting microcasts. Created and managed by IndieWeb co-founder Aaron Parecki, the service welcomes new podcasts to join by signing in with IndieAuth and adding webring-style links to their landing page. # IndieWeb Development As CSS Grid gains in popularity, some developers are using it to replace existing design frameworks. Garrett Coakley, at polytechnic.co.uk, explains how he replaced his use of the Skeleton CSS framework with CSS grid in a post titled "Oops!... I Grid It Again!". Other new terms on indieweb.org this week include: namespaces, Data Transfer Project, slow web, ICQ, DreamPress, Synfig, considered harmful, nonce, and engagement. 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.