Hello and welcome to This Week in the IndieWeb, audio edition, for the week of December 3rd - 9th, 2022. https://indieweb.org/this-week/2022-12-09.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 December 7th with a virtual gathering at US/Pacific time. You can find photos and links to notes from the meetup in the newsletter. Join us again on December 14th, when virtual Homebrew Website Club events are scheduled for 7pm Europe/London time and 6pm US/Pacific time. 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 The next IndieWeb Create Day is scheduled for Monday, December 26th from 9am to 6pm US/Pacific time. Join other members of the IndieWeb community via text chat or Zoom to work on and share your personal website projects. Learn more at https://indieweb.org/2022/Create. 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, 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. --- # Podcasts In Episode 539 of the Core Intuition podcast, hosts Daniel and Manton discuss the wave of opportunity from Twitter's drastic downfall, whether they can "catch it", and IndieWeb principles about plurality and monoculture. --- 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. Michael Herstine gave a talk at EmacsConf2022 titled "Putting Org Mode on the Indieweb". In it, Herstine shows how to publish and send Webmentions via Emacs Org Mode. You can find the video and transcript for the talk at https://emacsconf.org/2022/talks/indieweb. Ryan Barrett, at snarfed.org, published "Bridgy Fed updates". In it, Barrett discusses his recent efforts to update and extend the Bridgy Fed service, which allows interoperation between "fediverse" sites like Mastodon and personal sites that support IndieWeb building blocks. Barrett also posted a note about the recent updates to Mastodon which removed support for rendering posts and feeds in plain HTML, requiring JavaScript to see any content. Barrett notes that this is a step backward for server-to-server communications, and recommends using the Granary library, or its hosted service at granary.io, as a stopgap. Tim Bachmann, at https://tiim.ch/, published "IndieWebifying my Website Part 1 - Microformats and Webmentions". In it, Bachmann describes his introduction to the IndieWeb and how he added support for Microformats and Webmentions to his site. Terence Eden, at https://shkspr.mobi/, published "The ethics of syndicating comments using WebMentions". In it, Eden explores some of the implications of collecting commentary about your posts from social media sites and publishing them as comments on your own site. Jean-Philippe Caruana, at https://jp.caruana.fr/, published a note about LastCrusader, an open source project written in Elixer which adds IndieWeb building blocks to static sites, including Micropub, Webmention, and syndication support via Bridgy. --- And now, a selection of this week's updates from indieweb.org. ## New Community Members Daniel joins us from cornbreadjournals.com. Daniel is using this site as a journal for adventures, hobbies, and life. 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 It's December, and the 2022 IndieWeb Gift Calendar has seen at least one new community gift each day. Gifts so far include new and updated tools and plugins, improvements to community tools like the wiki, new and updated wiki content, and much more. Learn more, get inspired, and add your own at indieweb.org/2022-12-indieweb-gift-calendar. A new "stream" channel has been added to the IndieWeb discussion rooms. "Stream" gives a home to mentions of "IndieWeb" on Twitter as well as Mastodon instances mastodon.social and indieweb.social. You can learn more at indieweb.org/discuss. ## Services and Organizations Gowalla, a checkin silo that shut down in 2012 after being acquired by Facebook, appears to be re-launching. This month they've launched a new website with waitlist sign-ups to join beta testing a new app. ## IndieWeb Development Two links were added to the Mastodon page. First up, a post on how to verify your WordPress site on Mastodon. Additionally, Yoyogi is an experimental interface to Mastodon which moves away from the timeline concept to instead explore posts by a single user at a time. Several IndieWeb building blocks begin with semantic HTML. But did you know that you can make a website without it? Check out a demo and learn more at no-ht.ml. One other new term on indieweb.org this week: nearlyfreespeech. You can follow the links in the newsletter to learn more about, or add detail to, any terms on the wiki. --- 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.