05.01.2026
📖 Between Meals ✍
The temptation, of course, is to review the book as one might a restaurant or a meal, to talk about savouring each witty gem while regretting that the meal must end, profess to being full without having overindulged, knowingly wink at past kitchen practices that today would ...
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Phone Apps
For the newly initiated digital independence day (short: di.day) during the 39c3 talk "Die Känguru-Rebellion: Digital Independence Day" by Mark-Uwe Kling.
This blog post is list of Apps that I use and and find good.
F-Droid
F-Droid is an alternative app-store to the google P...
Software maintenance
In my last blog post, I noted:
With regard to sustainability [of Artemis], there are several considerations: infrastructure and its associated costs, the time required to maintain the software, responding to user requests and inquiries, and more.
This had me thinking about ho...
Why Artemis is invite-only
When someone goes to the Artemis sign up page, a message is presented asking users to ask me for an invite code. While Artemis has been public for almost a year now, the software is still invite-only. I occasionally share the invite code in blog posts, but, despite that, I st...
Designing an A-Z navigation web component
Artemis, the calm web reader I maintain, has an Authors page that lists all of the websites to which you are subscribed. The list is presented in alphabetical order, with a heading for each letter in the alphabet to aid in navigation. There is a search feature, too.
I follow...
Morning moonlight
When I first looked out the window this morning, I first noticed the faint pink colour on the horizon. The sun rises later in winter, so I can see more of the morning colours. Then, for a moment I had no words as I saw the moon – bright, full – in the sky, contrasting in grea...
Every time someone says Star Trek: Strange New Worlds is their fav new Trek show I wanna either hold them gently in my arms and tell them they deserve better or just say 'Ew.' But what I usually do is say nothing
04.01.2026
I checked my Strava: Year in Sport 2025 after I did my last run on the 31st, and it felt a bit light. When I checked my saved images/videos from last year’s Strava Year in Sport, it was clear they had dropped several things from 2024 to 2025.First, here’s updated instructions...
My Seek 2025 Year in Review:* 101 new species observed (down from 141 last year)Top three kinds: * 64 new plants (down from 79) * 14 new insects (down from 20) * 8 new fungi* 4 new challenge badges earned (down from 56)July, June, February were the months I ...
Monthly report: December 2025
Janus incarnate; they get you leaving and they get you coming back. Not in living memory have I spent such a dreadful year end and start, restricted to my bed by a heavy cold and bronchitis. A couple of days after Christmas I could not catch my breath during standard, easy w...
Personal and community web search engines
Ever since I made the first version of IndieWeb Search, a search engine that let you search personal websites, I have been thinking about the idea of “community search engines.”
A community search engine indexes materials related to a specific community. The information sour...
Turn a list into a web feed
A while ago I made HTML Element of the Day, a site that selects a HTML element every day to be designated the “HTML element of the day.”
When I built this project, I decided that I wanted to offer both a web page and a web feed to which people could subscribe. Rather than b...
Dragged myself upright to post this monthly report. Now it’s back to bed. https://www.jeremycherfas.net/blog/monthly-report-2025-12
03.01.2026
2025 #donation suggestions. I #donated to these, #donate to those that resonate:@ACLU@CalAcademy@NAACP@deYoungMuseum@ExperienceCamps@Exploratorium@EFF@Wikipedia@InternetArchive@SFMOMA@KQED@MontereyAq@SPLCenter@LongNow@RPF_EB@GardensofGGP@PPact@Mozilla****Disclosure: I work for #Mozilla, on & with open web standards & communities @IndieWebCamp @microformats @WHATWG #W3C supported by @Firefox to provide a more human-centric, private, and secure web for all users.Previously: https://tantek.com/2024/366/t2/last-donation-please-donate-tonight
2026 goals I’ve heard:* Dry January — avoid alcohol* Meatless January — avoid meatIf you have a personal website, how about also:* No Socials January — avoid #socialMedia silosNo posting on social media, just for a month (not counting DMs).Instead, since you have your own website, post there, and see how that feels.If you don’t have a personal website, make it your goal for the month to set one up. The #IndieWeb folks https://indieweb.org/ can help! Join https://chat.indieweb.org/Once again I am restarting a #100PostsOfIndieWeb #100Posts project for the year.This is post 1.Previously:* https://tantek.com/2025/001/t1/15-years-notes-my-site-first← ✨→ https://tantek.com/2025/002/t1/find-export-strava-year-in-sport
Been Busy – What Happened During the Last Months?
Wow! Two Three month really went by so quick. I am, right now, sitting on my couch (not anymore, it’s the kitchen table now) and thought “Let’s see how long I haven’t posted on my personal site anymore” and ouch, that was quite some time. Reason for this was that I have done...
02.01.2026
