Hello and welcome to This Week in the IndieWeb, audio edition, for the week of February 4th - 10th, 2023. https://indieweb.org/this-week/2023-02-10.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 February 8th with a virtual meetup at 6pm for US/Pacific time. Discussion topics included static site generators, mechanical keyboards, Irish airline reservation systems, and more. You can find photos and links to notes from the meetups in the newsletter. Join us again on February 15th for the next Homebrew Website Club, with virtual meetups scheduled 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. --- 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. Tracy at tracydurnell.com posted "What makes RSS better than social timelines?" In it, she explores this question along technical, contextual, and content-related lines. --- And now, a selection of this week's updates from indieweb.org. 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 If posts on your site often include jargon or other non-obvious terms, you may want to consider adding a /glossary page. If some of those terms are IndieWeb-related, consider linking to, and improving, existing IndieWeb wiki pages to make their definitions more clear and accessible. Another common way to handle definitions and other asides within a post are footnotes. Finding a balance between adding extra information and preserving the reader's flow can be a challenge. Check out the /footnotes page for some recent brainstorms and designs. # Services and Organizations Luxury-priced web host Squarespace makes it easy to start a personal site. But if you try to take your content elsewhere you'll find that the price includes lock-in. This week the /Squarespace page has been updated with tips for migration such as what is - and what is not - included in their proprietary XML export format. # IndieWeb Development A common pattern when showing responses from across the web is to show an avatar image - or /profile_photo - along with each response. Discovery and display of these author images can be a challenge. So, while building your own is always an option, there are also services available to help do it for you. Examples include Zach Leatherman's IndieWeb Avatar service, and James' avtr.dev. And finally, while it's not quite spring in the northern hemisphere, there's never a bad time to add an /easter_egg to your site. Don't forget to share yours on the wiki, though you may want to be a little vague to avoid spoiling a surprise. --- 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.