Hello and welcome to This Week in the IndieWeb, audio edition, for the week of January 7th - 13th, 2023. https://indieweb.org/this-week/2023-01-13.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 January 11th with a virtual meetup at 6pm for US/Pacific time with discussion topics including recipes, decentralized social networking, and when not to add location to your posts. You can find photos and links to notes from the meetup in the newsletter. Join us again on January 18th for the next Homebrew Website Club, with virtual meetups at 7pm for Europe and London, and 6pm for 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. 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, 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. Christopher P. Long at cplong.org published "Return to Blogging". In it, Long recognizes that while he has a professional history of encouraging academic scholars to post on their own domains, it's time for him to return to a personal practice of blogging, rather than engaging in toxic and extractive social media. Tantek Celik at tantek.com posted about the sixth anniversary of the publication of Webmention as a W3C Recommendation. A key social web building block, Webmention enables peer-to-peer comments, likes, and other responses to be created, updated, and deleted across the web, by both dynamic & static websites. --- And now, a selection of this week's updates from indieweb.org. ## New Community Members Caleb joins us from calebhearth.com. Caleb is a software engineer and Dungeons & Dragons enthusiast rebuilding his site in Ruby. 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 There were several small updates this week from community members announcing updated projects or features on their site. Congrats to T Michelle Moore and Aaron Crowder for organizing their ongoing /100days projects, to Tantek Celik for updates to his auto-linker to support ActivitPub-style usernames, to Cam Pegg and Tantek for syndicating their Strava fitness activity to their own sites, and to gRegor Morrill on his weekly and monthly newsletters. ## Services and Organizations Article hosting silo Medium announced this week the roll out of their own Mastodon instance, at me.dm, as a way of "extending what we do into the short-form". The announcement has been met with criticism, particularly from folks familiar with Medium's long history of abandoned features and partnerships. ## IndieWeb Development Video can be particularly difficult to self-host, and one part of that is the feature mismatch between native browser video and commercial video players like /YouTube. Do you post videos to your site that support text-driven chapter segments, thumbnails for timeline scrubbing, and more? Please post about them on your site and add them to the wiki. Looking to set up a web-based journal for writing and photography? Check out Sam Wilson's Twyne. An open source web-based CMS, Twyne aims to operate with IndieWeb building blocks, and supports geotagging posts with location data from the Overland mobile app. Read more at twyne.readthedocs.io and finally... What scrolls in text debugs nginx and helps you repair your blog? Tells you history in chat? Why Bridgy did that? It's log, log, log. --- 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.