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  "publishedAt": "2026-06-05T15:03:50.000Z",
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  "tags": [
    "first IndieWebCamp",
    "Homebrew Website Clubs",
    "IndieWeb",
    "IndieWebCamp",
    "session on homepage design",
    "James (capjamesg)",
    "knot.tilman.me",
    "digital garden",
    "Jeremy",
    "Schepp",
    "Daniel",
    "Tantek",
    "Jo of dead.garden",
    "Nora",
    "David",
    "Matthias",
    "Nuremberg",
    "Homebrew Website Club for Nürnberg Digital Festival"
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  "textContent": "Last month I went to my first IndieWebCamp, in Düsseldorf. After years of Homebrew Website Clubs, this was a big step up.\n\n## IndieWebCamp?\n\nThe IndieWeb is a community of people who run their own websites – their own domain, their own content, their own identity online – instead of renting a room inside someone else's social platform. An IndieWebCamp is where that community meets in person. It runs over two days. Day one is discussion, in a BarCamp format where the participants propose the topics and build the schedule on the spot. Day two is Create Day, when everyone makes, designs, codes, and improves their own sites, and then demos what they built at the end. You bring a laptop and whatever you want to work on. It's organised by volunteers, and open to anyone.\n\nIf you've been to a Homebrew Website Club: an IndieWebCamp is a Homebrew Website Club on fire. Same spirit, but two full days, more focused, with people travelling in from all over the world for it for it. That changes the energy completely. It is intensely social and intensely productive: introductions, nerd talk, getting to know each other, heads-down work, more talk, food breaks, repeat. Intense, but also a lot of fun and very motivating.\n\nIt was my first bar-camp too. I'd expected something improvised and a little chaotic; instead it felt structured and supportive while staying completely fluid. Nobody forced an agenda, the schedule grid filled itself, and the sessions simply happened.\n\n## A colourful community\n\nWhat stayed with me most is the community. The IndieWeb is a colourful, whimsical, positively weird crowd, and not once did anyone consider themselves superior, because they had a better website. People with years of writing and self-built publishing systems sat next to people who had just put up their first placeholder page. And that was completely fine! Everyone was supportive and genuinely appreciative, no matter where you stood on that path.\n\n## I rearranged my homepage\n\nI also got real work done, which surprised me.\n\nThe push came from a session on homepage design. We were talking about your homepage as a conversation with someone meeting you for the first time – you wouldn't unload everything about yourself on them at once. James (capjamesg) described an almost ”one in, one out“ policy to stop his homepage from growing forever. And I kept meeting people who blog like crazy, with regular personal updates on their sites. I want that for myself!\n\nSo I brought my microblog at knot.tilman.me back to more prominent place, side by side with my digital garden. And I decided to post the digital garden updates there too, where they would otherwise be hard to find. Two main buttons, the right wording, a clearer invitation to read on. Small changes – but it was the opportunity and the people that finally made me do it.\n\nOne more thing I carried home: James's site has a cat mascot, and the session wandered happily into cat pages, 404 cats, even a ”CatGPT“ that only answers in meow and purr. He adds a little whimsy without interrupting with the content.\n\n## All those people, all those sites\n\nI met so many people in person for the first time - James (capjamesg), Jeremy, Schepp, Daniel, Tantek, Jo of dead.garden, Nora, David, Matthias, and many more. All those websites … and all those people behind them …\n\n## Come to IndieWebCamp Nuremberg!\n\nIf you have a website – or want one – this is the friendliest room on the internet to walk into. You don't need to be technical. You don't need a finished site. You just need to show up.\n\nAnd here is the good part: the next IndieWebCamp in Germany is in Nuremberg, my own city, on 27-28 June 2026. I'll be there. Come build, talk, and demo with us.\n\nAnd if need another opportunity to mingle with friendly IndieWeb folks: We also do a special extra Homebrew Website Club for Nürnberg Digital Festival on July 1!\n\nI will never tire of meeting nice folks, on their sites or in person.",
  "title": "IndieWebCamp Düsseldorf 2026"
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