Hello and welcome to This Week in the IndieWeb, audio edition, for the week of August 4th - 10th, 2018. 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 August 8th, with meetups in Nürnberg, Brighton, Baltimore, and Seattle, along with a Virtual Homebrew Website Club at Central European Time. You can find photos and links to notes from the meetups in the newsletter. Join us again for another Homebrew Website Club on August 22nd. Confirmed meetups so far include Nürnberg, Baltimore, and San Francisco. 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 IndieWebCamp NYC will be held at Pace University in Manhattan on September 28th and 29th. Registration is open now, and volunteers are needed. Find out more at indieweb.org/2018/NYC. 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. --- 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. Deluvi, at deluvi.com, published "Implementing Webmention on a static website". In it, the author describes their implementation of webmentions using webmention.io, the Hugo static site generator, and a custom Rust program which fetches webmention data from webmention.io every hour. Eddie Hinkle, at eddiehinkle.com, published "Thinking through hooks versus event callbacks". In it, Hinkle describes two different ways of structuring code modules for his website, and asks for feedback from the larger IndieWeb developer community. --- And now, a selection of this week's updates from indieweb.org. # New Community Members eta joins us from theta.eu.org. eta is a hobbyist programmer, occasional blog post writer, and free software enthusiast. Charlotte Rose Allen joins us from charlotteallen.info. Charlotte says, quote, "Hi! I'm a programmer, and I'm also a bit of a space case, tinkerer, and inventor. Also I'm a cyborg now. Also transgender." 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 Harrassment, abuse, and discrimination based on unchangeable personal characteristics have plagued social media silos, but they are problems that every community must have a plan to handle with an eye to reducing harm and maintaining safe and inclusive spaces. With that in mind, the IndieWeb community is collecting Code of Conduct examples from other communities, in order to strengthen our own. Check out indieweb.org/code-of-conduct-examples to see what we have so far, and to add links to new ones. # Services and Organizations Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey is in the news again, this time for the company's refusal to boot controversial and abusive users like Alex Jones from the site, even after sites like YouTube, Facebook, and even Apple Podcasts have removed Jones' content. In response to this and similar incidences of continued harrassment on the service, many folks have announced that they are either leaving Twitter, deleting their old tweets, or both. A few silo quitters noted on indieweb.org this week include Emily Dreyfuss, Susan Fowler, Darius Kuzemi, Brent Simmons, and Matt Haughey. Facebook is in the news, of course. The company recently lost over one-hundred twenty billion dollars in market value on news of lower than expected revenues and rising costs for content moderation and security. Facebook also announced the removal of 32 pages and fake accounts that they believe were engaging in political influence campaigns. # IndieWeb Development If you are a user of the Dropbox-backed Blot.im publishing service, you might want to check out blotpub, from developer Amit Gawande. Available on GitHub, this self-hosted service allows Blot.im users to post notes, long-form articles, likes, and replies to their sites via Micropub. Eric Meyer, at meyerweb.com, writes that "Securing Web Sites Made Them Less Accessible". Meyer reminds us that many communities access the internet via slow and expensive satellite connections. Local caching proxies can make the difference between a site that loads and one that doesn't. However, secure connections over HTTPS block this kind of proxy by design. So, websites that require HTTPS are trading security for accessibility in communities like these. Have you found yourself wishing for an emoji that doesn't yet exist? Check out the community at emojination.org. They're working on emoji submissions to the Unicode consortium, with upcoming approval dates in May and October of 2019. Other new terms on indieweb.org this week include: context collapse, litepub, "in case you missed", and eu.org. 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.