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"published": "2025-11-04T16:36:30-0500",
"url": "https://martymcgui.re/2025/11/04/iwc-berlin-2025-in-too-few-photos/",
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"name": "IWC Berlin 2025 in too few photos",
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"text": "After many years away, I have returned to in-person IndieWeb events, for IndieWebCamp Berlin 2025!\nIn past years, I have tried to capture my experience for each day and session\nin a long-form blog post, with thoughts on sessions, project ideas, progress\nmade, ideas for the future, etc.\nI\u2019m pretty tired, though, so instead here is a collection of photos from my\nphone. It is both too-few and yet too-many!\nSaturday\n\n\nAmy was so incredibly nice and made me breakfast! What!!\n\nSpotted this ad for an improv workshop that looks like it must have been pretty popular.\n\nPutting my \"IndieWebCamp Organizer Kit\" to work for the first time since 2019.\n\nI really appreciate organizer Tantek encouraging folks to COVID test at the start of each day. Kudos to our hosts Mozilla Berlin for stocking them!We had a good turnout, and I was impressed with how many folks demo\u2019d their\npersonal sites, in whatever state they were in, and shared their plans and hopes\nto improve them! \u2764\ufe0f\nYou can find a recap of the Intros session on the IndieWeb wiki.\nAfter intros we took a short break for coffee and the restroom, then inscribed\nthe runes and constructed the grid for summoning our schedule for Saturday.\n\n\nPhoto credit to fellow IWC Berlin 2025 volunteer Jo. Ignore the small sticky notes to the right which are spoilers for Sunday.With our futures committed to ink and paper, we had our first short sessions.\nThen it was time to break for lunch.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nScenes from lunch with Tantek and Jo.Fed and caffeinated, we returned to our sessions.\nYou can find a list of sessions, each with links to notes (and, eventually, videos) for each,\non the IWC Berlin 2025 schedule page.\nBefore 5pm (1700) we cleaned up and moved out. I was beat, so I headed back to\nwhere I\u2019m staying for food, before meeting up with Amy and our friend Jessica,\nwho showed us KPop Demon Hunters. I loved it. \ud83e\udd79\nSunday\n\n\nBreakfast again?? Amy is too sweet. \u2764\ufe0f\n\nWanted a dramatic transit photo. Pushed the button too early.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nScenes from morning at Mozilla Berlin. Many thanks to Tantek for making espresso for all who asked! No one knew why the microwave had been tagged with a \"WebAuthn\" sticker.Once caffeinated, we returned to the scene of Saturday\u2019s summoning. We each\ninscribed small prayers for the day on small paper squares and arranged them\nnext to the scheduling grid as a blessing.\nThen everyone hacked on their websites! Until lunch time!\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA quick lunch!A short couple of hours of hacking later, it was time for Demos.\nEveryone shared the projects they had tackled, showed their progress, and talked about future work.\nAfter demos it was time to wind it down, clean up, photograph and take down the\nschedule board, pack up our pins and stickers, and say our goodbyes and see-you-laters.\nIt\u2019s Over!\nIt was weird to be back, and it was good to be back. To catch up after a long\ntime away, to continue conversations as if no time had passed at all, and to\nmeet new friends in meatspace.\nThanks to everyone who made this possible! An incomplete list would include:\nOur hosts at Mozilla Berlin\nOrganizers Tantek and Joschi.\nFellow volunteers Jo and Daniel\n\nExpert remote Zoom wrangler David\n\nEveryone who attended, whether you were in-person or remote. Thank you for contributing your time and your thoughts!\nAbout those Projects\nI had an idea of a couple of \u201ceasy\u201d projects, but ended up spending most of my\ntime fixing up some posts with images I broke when I deleted a bucked from\nAmazon S3, thinking I had already updated those posts. I hadn\u2019t! So, I dug into\nmy backups, re-uploaded, and updated 50-something images across 30 or so posts,\nmostly from my February 2011 thing-a-day posts.\nMy first easy project was to fix up some bad markup and styles where YouTube\nembeds were breaking out of my layout at small screen sizes. This was largely\ndue to my awful old templates and styles, and I ended up manually fixing about\na half-dozen posts by hand.\nThe second \u201c\u201c\u201ceasy\u201d\u201d\u201d project was to try and figure out why I couldn\u2019t sign in\nto the IndieWeb wiki, using my own IndieAuth server.\nIt seems like the indielogin.com service that the IndieWeb wiki uses has drifted\nfrom the IndieAuth spec, in anticipation of an update to the spec that has not\nyet materialized.\nIt\u2019s too much to recap here, but you can find the chat log where I bother Aaron Parecki about it.\nA little while later, he told me to \u201ctry again\u201d, and\u2026\n\n\n\nSuccess!\n\nSuccess!!!",
"html": "<p>After many years away, I have returned to in-person <a href=\"https://indieweb.org/\">IndieWeb</a> events, for <a href=\"https://indieweb.org/2025/Berlin\">IndieWebCamp Berlin 2025</a>!</p>\n<p>In past years, I have tried to capture my experience for each day and session\nin a long-form blog post, with thoughts on sessions, project ideas, progress\nmade, ideas for the future, etc.</p>\n<p>I\u2019m pretty tired, though, so instead here is a collection of photos from my\nphone. It is both too-few and yet too-many!</p>\n<h2>Saturday</h2>\n<a href=\"https://media.martymcgui.re/81/59/ef/60/891b8a80b7d2eee465b71586af67656623e9707ae724be43e60cf29b.jpg\"><img src=\"https://res.cloudinary.com/schmarty/image/fetch/w_960,c_fill/https://media.martymcgui.re/81/59/ef/60/891b8a80b7d2eee465b71586af67656623e9707ae724be43e60cf29b.jpg\" alt=\"A breakfast spread with an open face egg sandwich, coffee, apple, and bottle of water.\" /></a>\n\nAmy was so incredibly nice and made me breakfast! What!!<a href=\"https://media.martymcgui.re/f5/c2/56/98/29ab4ec77f3738ea309811aba58357f0e9cb385d872acf569cfd4d8a.jpg\"><img src=\"https://res.cloudinary.com/schmarty/image/fetch/w_960,c_fill/https://media.martymcgui.re/f5/c2/56/98/29ab4ec77f3738ea309811aba58357f0e9cb385d872acf569cfd4d8a.jpg\" alt=\"Utility pole next to a light rail stop featuring an ad for an improv workshop focusing on emotion.\" /></a>\n\nSpotted this ad for an improv workshop that looks like it must have been pretty popular.<a href=\"https://media.martymcgui.re/11/2e/a4/c1/7ed17459329086d28adaedad0aaf4b56b4ebb10adb1ea47026dd089c.jpg\"><img src=\"https://res.cloudinary.com/schmarty/image/fetch/w_960,c_fill/https://media.martymcgui.re/11/2e/a4/c1/7ed17459329086d28adaedad0aaf4b56b4ebb10adb1ea47026dd089c.jpg\" alt=\"Countertop with sharpie markers, blank name badges, pins and stickers for IndieWebCamp, and pins for indicating preferred pronouns.\" /></a>\n\nPutting my \"IndieWebCamp Organizer Kit\" to work for the first time since 2019.<a href=\"https://media.martymcgui.re/89/5b/35/ee/346f9e2df7c5c75bc306f9ccd33b8c6058a5bb1d00566e0191f9ae80.jpg\"><img src=\"https://res.cloudinary.com/schmarty/image/fetch/w_960,c_fill/https://media.martymcgui.re/89/5b/35/ee/346f9e2df7c5c75bc306f9ccd33b8c6058a5bb1d00566e0191f9ae80.jpg\" alt=\"Negative COVID test with red control line and blank test line.\" /></a>\n\nI really appreciate organizer <a href=\"https://tantek.com/\">Tantek</a> encouraging folks to COVID test at the start of each day. Kudos to our hosts Mozilla Berlin for stocking them!<p>We had a good turnout, and I was impressed with how many folks demo\u2019d their\npersonal sites, in whatever state they were in, and shared their plans and hopes\nto improve them! \u2764\ufe0f</p>\n<p>You can find a recap of the <a href=\"https://indieweb.org/2025/Berlin/Intros\">Intros session on the IndieWeb wiki</a>.</p>\n<p>After intros we took a short break for coffee and the restroom, then inscribed\nthe runes and constructed the grid for summoning our <a href=\"https://indieweb.org/2025/Berlin/Schedule#Saturday\">schedule for Saturday</a>.</p>\n<a href=\"https://media.martymcgui.re/ee/55/50/c6/020bea99f5325431d9e3e1eb49cc41d156bf16ce29571966741fa65d.jpg\"><img src=\"https://res.cloudinary.com/schmarty/image/fetch/w_960,c_fill/https://media.martymcgui.re/ee/55/50/c6/020bea99f5325431d9e3e1eb49cc41d156bf16ce29571966741fa65d.jpg\" alt=\"Whiteboard with a grid of session topics organized into rooms and time slots. For details, see the schedule for Saturday link above.\" /></a>\n\nPhoto credit to fellow IWC Berlin 2025 volunteer <a href=\"https://dead.garden/\">Jo</a>. Ignore the small sticky notes to the right which are spoilers for Sunday.<p>With our futures committed to ink and paper, we had our first short sessions.\nThen it was time to break for lunch.</p>\n\n<a href=\"https://media.martymcgui.re/55/9b/19/42/f18e05803d1950bfdba952fe48e7be25de920301361d0302fc0bc846.jpg\"><img src=\"https://res.cloudinary.com/schmarty/image/fetch/w_480,c_fill/https://media.martymcgui.re/55/9b/19/42/f18e05803d1950bfdba952fe48e7be25de920301361d0302fc0bc846.jpg\" alt=\"A bottle of fritz-cola original on a wooden tabletop.\" /></a>\n\n<a href=\"https://media.martymcgui.re/35/d2/8f/6e/2a25c01e8639779f3bda119834d97c23fd36323bc9aae1dc26d9f139.jpg\"><img src=\"https://res.cloudinary.com/schmarty/image/fetch/w_480,c_fill/https://media.martymcgui.re/35/d2/8f/6e/2a25c01e8639779f3bda119834d97c23fd36323bc9aae1dc26d9f139.jpg\" alt=\"A pizza featuring zucchini, eggplant, yellow peppers, basil, mozzarella, and red sauce.\" /></a>\n\n<a href=\"https://media.martymcgui.re/fb/39/42/b5/7b6251518584fddb8b6505481eae86145b13d4e1008a863897743856.jpg\"><img src=\"https://res.cloudinary.com/schmarty/image/fetch/w_480,c_fill/https://media.martymcgui.re/fb/39/42/b5/7b6251518584fddb8b6505481eae86145b13d4e1008a863897743856.jpg\" alt=\"Chalk sign for 19 grams coffee shop. Features the warning: only good vibes allowed, no laptops on the weekend.\" /></a>\n\n<a href=\"https://media.martymcgui.re/9a/ea/8f/fb/526247febab6801eec791dfd41682280c4b81354a6f76f469123e865.jpg\"><img src=\"https://res.cloudinary.com/schmarty/image/fetch/w_480,c_fill/https://media.martymcgui.re/9a/ea/8f/fb/526247febab6801eec791dfd41682280c4b81354a6f76f469123e865.jpg\" alt=\"A pink-handset payphone on a pole, covered in stickers and flyers.\" /></a>\n\n\n\nScenes from lunch with Tantek and Jo.<p>Fed and caffeinated, we returned to our sessions.</p>\n<p>You can find a list of sessions, each with links to notes (and, eventually, videos) for each,\non the <a href=\"https://indieweb.org/2025/Berlin/Schedule#Saturday\">IWC Berlin 2025 schedule page</a>.</p>\n<p>Before 5pm (1700) we cleaned up and moved out. I was beat, so I headed back to\nwhere I\u2019m staying for food, before meeting up with Amy and our friend Jessica,\nwho showed us KPop Demon Hunters. I loved it. \ud83e\udd79</p>\n<h2>Sunday</h2>\n<a href=\"https://media.martymcgui.re/31/8d/8b/22/88857b0edcfb4551a0fda3fbce692a51b0e1d9fb0538b384da33292b.jpg\"><img src=\"https://res.cloudinary.com/schmarty/image/fetch/w_960,c_fill/https://media.martymcgui.re/31/8d/8b/22/88857b0edcfb4551a0fda3fbce692a51b0e1d9fb0538b384da33292b.jpg\" alt=\"A breakfast spread with an open face egg sandwich, tiny salad, coffee, and apple.\" /></a>\n\nBreakfast again?? Amy is too sweet. \u2764\ufe0f<a href=\"https://media.martymcgui.re/07/0a/fd/a4/a71ab96b0feb3aad8d7ab8f145512d8ee2120e7c2f1ecc434740c1e7.jpg\"><img src=\"https://res.cloudinary.com/schmarty/image/fetch/w_960,c_fill/https://media.martymcgui.re/07/0a/fd/a4/a71ab96b0feb3aad8d7ab8f145512d8ee2120e7c2f1ecc434740c1e7.jpg\" alt=\"A selfie of me in a KN-95 mask. The M-10 tram is pulling into the station over my shoulder.\" /></a>\n\nWanted a dramatic transit photo. Pushed the button too early.\n<a href=\"https://media.martymcgui.re/3b/f3/7b/5c/8235169074f1903391d6874d042fdf1848216e4023865f23aa269fcc.jpg\"><img src=\"https://res.cloudinary.com/schmarty/image/fetch/w_480,c_fill/https://media.martymcgui.re/3b/f3/7b/5c/8235169074f1903391d6874d042fdf1848216e4023865f23aa269fcc.jpg\" alt=\"Negative COVID test.\" /></a>\n\n<a href=\"https://media.martymcgui.re/d6/a4/89/40/cfd1da64cf9313edbe393ead21f71f87219a3415383667cd16f757ef.jpg\"><img src=\"https://res.cloudinary.com/schmarty/image/fetch/w_480,c_fill/https://media.martymcgui.re/d6/a4/89/40/cfd1da64cf9313edbe393ead21f71f87219a3415383667cd16f757ef.jpg\" alt=\"Microwave in front of a hexagonal tiled wall. There is a large sticker at the bottom of the microwave door reading 'WebAuthn'.\" /></a>\n\n<a href=\"https://media.martymcgui.re/5b/3a/ff/b7/8fd86982d6d51af6d7478256c5586c0ef5b5f67f064b4804ff82c637.jpg\"><img src=\"https://res.cloudinary.com/schmarty/image/fetch/w_480,c_fill/https://media.martymcgui.re/5b/3a/ff/b7/8fd86982d6d51af6d7478256c5586c0ef5b5f67f064b4804ff82c637.jpg\" alt=\"A hand holding a cup of espresso in front of a river view.\" /></a>\n\n<a href=\"https://media.martymcgui.re/31/6f/55/a1/01a00998657e5142d8cc04dcfbb3557d29141f23913ba452c59b7827.jpg\"><img src=\"https://res.cloudinary.com/schmarty/image/fetch/w_480,c_fill/https://media.martymcgui.re/31/6f/55/a1/01a00998657e5142d8cc04dcfbb3557d29141f23913ba452c59b7827.jpg\" alt=\"A river view looking to the west from the break area of Mozilla Berlin.\" /></a>\n\n<a href=\"https://media.martymcgui.re/b1/a0/e5/b3/30af8f5c9bdba6cee405b70adcdbd371b7bd0f46cca4a9095c7b120e.jpg\"><img src=\"https://res.cloudinary.com/schmarty/image/fetch/w_480,c_fill/https://media.martymcgui.re/b1/a0/e5/b3/30af8f5c9bdba6cee405b70adcdbd371b7bd0f46cca4a9095c7b120e.jpg\" alt=\"A river view looking east from the break area of Mozilla Berlin.\" /></a>\n\n\n\nScenes from morning at Mozilla Berlin. Many thanks to Tantek for making espresso for all who asked! No one knew why the microwave had been tagged with a \"WebAuthn\" sticker.<p>Once caffeinated, we returned to the scene of Saturday\u2019s summoning. We each\ninscribed small prayers for the day on small paper squares and arranged them\nnext to the scheduling grid as a blessing.</p>\n<p>Then everyone hacked on their websites! Until lunch time!</p>\n\n<a href=\"https://media.martymcgui.re/83/40/e0/1c/2bdd4127287c262be52cd953dd0ab477a52c5dd2225b97900df60c97.jpg\"><img src=\"https://res.cloudinary.com/schmarty/image/fetch/w_480,c_fill/https://media.martymcgui.re/83/40/e0/1c/2bdd4127287c262be52cd953dd0ab477a52c5dd2225b97900df60c97.jpg\" alt=\"Damascino, shiny mirrored sign on a shiny wall.\" /></a>\n\n<a href=\"https://media.martymcgui.re/cc/1c/54/71/7d7ad58856d47e5a4b725c1ced9c47889156bed61a85ae37abad5320.jpg\"><img src=\"https://res.cloudinary.com/schmarty/image/fetch/w_480,c_fill/https://media.martymcgui.re/cc/1c/54/71/7d7ad58856d47e5a4b725c1ced9c47889156bed61a85ae37abad5320.jpg\" alt=\"A 12 oz bottle of Club Mate.\" /></a>\n\n<a href=\"https://media.martymcgui.re/ad/77/91/a7/3500a042e65864d087500e775d0cfe555343d82e21f3fd5f88c7299f.jpg\"><img src=\"https://res.cloudinary.com/schmarty/image/fetch/w_480,c_fill/https://media.martymcgui.re/ad/77/91/a7/3500a042e65864d087500e775d0cfe555343d82e21f3fd5f88c7299f.jpg\" alt=\"A partially eaten pita with fried haloumi cheese.\" /></a>\n\n\n\nA quick lunch!<p>A short couple of hours of hacking later, it was time for <a href=\"https://indieweb.org/2025/Berlin/Demos\">Demos</a>.\nEveryone shared the projects they had tackled, showed their progress, and talked about future work.</p>\n<p>After demos it was time to wind it down, clean up, photograph and take down the\nschedule board, pack up our pins and stickers, and say our goodbyes and see-you-laters.</p>\n<h2>It\u2019s Over!</h2>\n<p>It was weird to be back, and it was good to be back. To catch up after a long\ntime away, to continue conversations as if no time had passed at all, and to\nmeet new friends in meatspace.</p>\n<p>Thanks to everyone who made this possible! An incomplete list would include:</p>\n<ul><li>Our hosts at Mozilla Berlin</li>\n<li>Organizers Tantek and <a href=\"https://jkphl.is/\">Joschi</a>.</li>\n<li>Fellow volunteers <a href=\"https://dead.garden/\">Jo</a> and <a href=\"https://danielpietzsch.com/\">Daniel</a>\n</li>\n<li>Expert remote Zoom wrangler <a href=\"https://david.shanske.com/\">David</a>\n</li>\n<li>Everyone who attended, whether you were in-person or remote. Thank you for contributing your time and your thoughts!</li>\n</ul><h2>About those Projects</h2>\n<p>I had an idea of a couple of \u201ceasy\u201d projects, but ended up spending most of my\ntime fixing up some posts with images I broke when I deleted a bucked from\nAmazon S3, thinking I had already updated those posts. I hadn\u2019t! So, I dug into\nmy backups, re-uploaded, and updated 50-something images across 30 or so posts,\nmostly from my <a href=\"https://martymcgui.re/2011/02/\">February 2011 thing-a-day posts</a>.</p>\n<p>My first easy project was to fix up some bad markup and styles where YouTube\nembeds were breaking out of my layout at small screen sizes. This was largely\ndue to my awful old templates and styles, and I ended up manually fixing about\na half-dozen posts by hand.</p>\n<p>The second \u201c\u201c\u201ceasy\u201d\u201d\u201d project was to try and figure out why I couldn\u2019t sign in\nto the IndieWeb wiki, using my own IndieAuth server.</p>\n<p>It seems like the indielogin.com service that the IndieWeb wiki uses has drifted\nfrom the IndieAuth spec, in anticipation of an update to the spec that has not\nyet materialized.</p>\n<p>It\u2019s too much to recap here, but you can find the <a href=\"https://chat.indieweb.org/dev/2025-11-02#t1762091995606800\">chat log where I bother Aaron Parecki about it</a>.</p>\n<p>A little while later, he told me to \u201ctry again\u201d, and\u2026</p>\n\n<a href=\"https://media.martymcgui.re/54/0f/fa/d7/d55d6aa940ba6cf2d772a153a85153f0a1a6b691da8219e736659e73.jpg\"><img src=\"https://res.cloudinary.com/schmarty/image/fetch/w_480,c_fill/https://media.martymcgui.re/54/0f/fa/d7/d55d6aa940ba6cf2d772a153a85153f0a1a6b691da8219e736659e73.jpg\" alt=\"Screenshot of indielogin.com with the message: Congrats! You successfully authenticated as https://martymcgui.re .\" /></a>\n\nSuccess!<a href=\"https://media.martymcgui.re/d9/25/47/cd/72a62cbb8f7832678f24183f207dcaa6bdda6e257ea36c14d766943a.jpg\"><img src=\"https://res.cloudinary.com/schmarty/image/fetch/w_480,c_fill/https://media.martymcgui.re/d9/25/47/cd/72a62cbb8f7832678f24183f207dcaa6bdda6e257ea36c14d766943a.jpg\" alt=\"Mobile screenshot of the IndieWeb wiki with the mobile menu open. It shows that I am signed in as https://martymcgui.re .\" /></a>\n\nSuccess!!!"
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