Announcement: Potluck 2026!
What’s happening: The Small Web Potluck is a virtual event open to all creators, webmasters, and hobbyists in the small/indie web space. Make a dish, post it online, and connect with one another over delicious food! Need some inspiration? View last year’s potluck!
Event Dates: August 2 – September 6, 2026
CO-HOST: I am incredibly delighted to announce that this year, I am joined by my friend Myrtletribe as event planner and co-host! I’m glad to be able to make the potluck a collaborative effort and I value her input tremendously.
New for this year: For those of you who joined last year’s potluck, we’re making some changes to how it will work this year! Full details are below, but as an overview:
- You’ll post your dish to your own website (honestly I should have done it this way from the beginning).
- This is now a month-long event, and you can post your dish at any time during the event period; there’s no big “reveal date”.
- We’re including an optional theme!
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How It Works
If you want to join the potluck, this section contains everything you need to know!
Optional sign-up
Just like any good potluck, we have a sign-up sheet! Although we think it’s part of the fun, signing up in advance isn’t required; feel free to jump to the next heading if you want to skip this step.
Myrtletribe is in charge of the sign-up sheet. If you’d like to be added, email her with your preferred name and the name of the dish you intend to make; see the Contact section below.
Participation requirements
To get started, make a dish! It doesn’t matter what the dish is, but it’s most fun if it tells us something about you. Maybe an old favorite, a traditional family recipe, or something you’ve been dying to try but haven’t found an excuse for yet.
Then, post it to your site! You can give it its own page, or make it a blog post, or whatever works for you (though it helps if it has its own URL so we can link to it). Please include the following:
- The name of the dish
- A photo (with descriptive alt text)
- The main ingredients
- A link to the potluck event page
Feel free to include anything else about the dish that you’d like—share the recipe, describe a memory it invokes, or tell us how it turned out!
Once you post your dish to your site, please send Myrtletribe the URL (contact information here) so we can add you to the event page!
Theme
In honor of Myrtletribe and Skep joining forces, this year’s theme is the color yellow! Your finished dish should include a bit of yellow for visual flair (or be served on yellow dishware, or something to that effect).
Following the theme is entirely optional, but encouraged.
Earn badges
The 2026 Potluck has two badges to reward folks who go above and beyond! If you fulfill the requirement for a badge, you are welcome to add it to your site if you’d like (the honor system is in effect).
- Early Bird badge: Add your name to the sign-up sheet OR post your dish by August 16th
- Splash of Yellow badge: Adhere to this year’s theme by including some yellow
Keep checking back
The Event page is the hub for this event, and we’ll update it regularly as you make and share your creations! This page will include the sites and dishes of all participants in one place for easy browsing.
Contact & Links
Skep: (xx)hello@(xx)skep.place | Neocities
Announcement & info (you are here)
Event page
Myrtletribe: (xx)myrtletribe@(xx)protonmail.com | Neocities
Announcement & info
Sign-up sheet
Questions & Answers
Q: Am I invited?
A: If you have a website, you’re invited!
Q: Can I share this link?
A: Please do!
Q: How big a dish should I make?
A: If any portion of it will not be eaten and end up thrown away, it’s too big.
Q: Can I just send you a picture of food I was already going to make for something else?
A: Although a bit against the spirit of the thing, we have literally no way of knowing if you do this!
Q: I put my name on the sign-up sheet, but actually I don’t think I can commit, or I decided to make something different. Will you be mad at me?
A: Nope, not at all!
Q: Can I just bring cups or chips or something?
A: Of course you can’t, why would you even sign up for this goofy little thing if you’re just going to half-ass it with chips.
Q: But I can’t cook.
A: Yes you can! (unless you mean you are physically incapable of cooking for any reason, in which case, fair. We will accept a reasonable alternative with a good story behind it). If you haven’t done any cooking before, now’s a good time to try something new!
Q: My website is intentionally text-only and doesn’t use pictures. Do I need a picture?
A: You don’t need to add a picture, but please email one to us so we can include it on the event page.