My first HWC

What’s going on, Internet? Last night I joined the first Asia Pacific Homebrew Website Club, which was also my first HWC. These meetups have been running for years, just never at an hour that worked for me. Naty has started one in this timezone. Even though it was past my usual bed time, I made myself available. Eleven of us on Zoom. Some familiar faces, James, Chris Burnell, and Zachary Kai, plus a bunch of people I hadn’t met before. The group was a diverse bunch of webmasters, some of us having websites for decades, others for months, and others who haven’t started yet. Discussion covered how you make your personal site feel like you rather than just look like you, why it’s easier to write for fun, and our usage of static site generators. I got to talk through how I’d approach building a website from the start. We had a group photo midway, before setting some goals for what we might want to achieve or share before the next meetup. There was also an interesting occurrence, a person…