events/2024-02-21-hwc-europe

Homebrew Website Club Europe/London was an IndieWeb meetup on Zoom held on 2024-02-21.

• Archived from: https://etherpad.indieweb.org/2024-02-21-hwc-europe

Participants

• capjamesg
• David Shanske
• Joe Crawford
• Paul Watson
• Angelo Gladding
• Sara Jakša
• Tantek Çelik
• ... add names

Notes

404 pages

Paul Watson has made a new 404 page with text adventure game - https://www.lazaruscorporation.co.uk/404

• No JavaScript, just HTML, CSS, and a couple of images
• CSS: "overflow-y" set to "hidden" on body, "height" set to "100vh" on each div that acts as a screen/page
• inspiration: https://www.thesistersofmercy.com/error404page.html
• My favorite text adventure https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/1g84m0sXpnNCv84GpN2PLZG/the-game-30th-anniversary-edition
• https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/scroll-behavior

Apple in the EU

• I first was made aware of this from this post https://adactio.com/journal/20888

Other HTTP Response pages

Sara Jakša is blocking scrapers with a static text file asking to contact with reasons

• I was worried if the message is condescending to the user
• The message for search engines/AI: https://sarajaksa.eu/error/403-scraping.txt
• The message for non-descriptive User-Agent: https://sarajaksa.eu/error/403-scraping-learning.txt
• Advice: make sure you are more explicit about what I would accept and how to contact me + to contact me if there is an error and I should not be blocking you
• Webmention user agent "may" for senders: https://www.w3.org/TR/webmention/#sender-discovers-receiver-webmention-endpoint
• Open source library for retrieving the webmention endpoint of a source uses curl, without an explicit useragent:
  • https://github.com/indieweb/link-rel-parser-php/blob/main/src/IndieWeb/get_rel_webmention.php#L96

Playing around with image maps:

• https://www.benji.dog/articles/fun-with-image-maps-and-svg/
• Huge image map: https://www.math.wm.edu/~leemis/chart/UDR/UDR.html
• Hover over one of the boxes for a few seconds
• Joe Crawford finished a blog post responding to the ChatGPT malfunction yesterday and an illustration of a craft "computer" I made as a kid https://artlung.com/blog/2024/02/21/milk-carton-chatgpt/
• How to make the image maps:
  • https://www.image-map.net/
  • https://github.com/davidjbradshaw/image-map-resizer
  • Joe Crawford yesterday I attempted and failed to create a good looking IWC logo using only CSS gradients with the constraint of using percentage based widths and positioning. https://codepen.io/artlung/pen/OJqGwvO

And finally

• David Shanske sending a complaint letter to Leo Laporte about his slander of the Hydrox cookie. https://twit.tv/shows/weekly-daily-giz-wiz/episodes/1423 - July 2013