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This week I was writing a story and noticed something strange: I didn’t give the document a title, but, after saving it, the document had a title that I did not expect. If I don’t have a name for a story yet, or if I am doing free writing, I will often not give a document a ...

Today’s #WASSUP tip: Turn on DNS over HTTPS (DoH) in your Firefox Preferences. Advanced Settings. Custom: Always use secure DNS with control over your provider and fallback behavior. [x] Always warn me if secure DNS isn’t available.There are both security and privacy reasons ...

Hm. I probably expected something different from this movie. Both thematically and visually. It certainly has its good (and funny) scenes. The main character is very likeable. And the tongue in cheek references to slashers are good, too. But the story was weird and too meta for my tastes. And visually this was all over the place, and I was partly really turned off by the CGI and the kitschy landscapes. So, not quite my cup of blood.

I stand under a warm autumn sun and look back and see a dark cloud, seemingly resting still in the sky. I know it is moving — getting slightly closer. But yet the day is still beautiful. There is light to appreciate.

After spots of rain, the cloud blew away and the blue in the sky where there was grey marked a new beginning.

The nineteenth episode of Wonders of Web Weaving is out:

In Episode 19, I chat with Daniel, the author of melonking.net and maintainer of the Melonland community forum about, among other things, longevity on the web, the 'web revival', the creative potential of the web, and more.

I hope you enjoy the episode!

Wonders of Web Weaving also has an RSS feed you can use to follow along from wherever you get your podcasts.

Happy #8bitday!And happy Progammer’s Day! (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programmer%27s_Day) — one of the rare annual ordinal date observations, based on the day of the year, rather than day of a specific month of the year.Piano Day is another, celebrated on the 88th day of the year:* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piano_Day* https://tantek.com/2024/088/t1/world-piano-day-ordinal-date-iso-8601Do you know of any other annual ordinal date observances?Besides New Year’s Day of course.Previously, previously:* https://tantek.com/2025/257/t1/happy-8bitday-255-bytes-max* https://tantek.com/2024/256/t1/happy-8bitday-binary-byte (more previous posts there)#ProgrammersDay #ordinalDate #dayOfTheYear #ordinalDateObservance #annualObservance #annualEvent

A while ago, I noticed that my headings did not look consistent across Firefox and Safari. I learned that this was because the font file I was using on my website did not contain bold characters. This meant that browsers were trying to “synthesise” a bold font. This synthesi...

New episode: The Truth About Picky Eaters

I cannot imagine the horror of being a parent whose child won’t eat anything. The guilt, the fear, the worry. And yet pickiness is everywhere. It seems almost inevitable. Helen Zoe Veit's new book reveals that pickiness wasn’t even a thing until the 1920s. Where did it all go wrong?And what can you do if your child is picky?

https://eatthispodcast.com/picky

#podcasts #nutrition #FoodHistory

Rabbit Quest Geohashing 20260914-W-B2M8NE

* On foot
* 43.4747, 12.1380
* 14 September 2026
* 424.32 ppm CO2
* OpenStreetMap https://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=43.47472&mlon=12.13803#map=14/43.47472/12.13803&layers=H

Deep in the Umbrian countryside, even a Rabbit only 1.3 km away (much less as the crow flies) might not be reachable, and so it proved. I got as close as I could, on the edge of an olive orchard, but the Rabbit itself was down in a steep wooded valley.

#RabbitQuest

Yesterday – September 13th – was the 256th day of the year. Tantek blogged about this in 2024 and in 2025 introduced a challenge to make a web page in under 256 bytes. After reading his announcement from yesterday his morning, I decided I would participate again. Last year ...

#silentsunday

This year I have been drinking more tea than coffee. I have around three or four coffees a week, usually all decaf, and I don’t visit speciality coffee shops as much as I once did (in large part because I am never sure whether there will be decaf available). I think the last...

The joy of the cool morning air and the seeing singing birds fly between trees. There is a light haze in the air this morning, the haze of an autumn morning. My cheeks are chilly right now — probably pink too. Light shines through the windows and casts a long glow on the flo...

When melancholia hits you hart, you’re done.

Absolutely love the depressing atmosphere in this movie. And what a scenario with another planet hitting earth!

Love the classic soundtrack. The space images are fantastic. The opening slo-mo sequences remind me of Crewdson photographs.

Part one might be a bit too long, but part two is absolutely perfect.

👍 Recommended!

the music of poetry. the poetry of music.

the feeling of architecture. the architecture of feeling.

the design of the space. the space of design.

the rhythm of the moment. the moment of the rhythm.

the story of the print. the print of the story.

the sound of the painting. the painting of sound.

the silence of the painting; the music of the painting.

The perspective of the painting; the painting of perspective; the perspective of the viewing. The contrasts of the colours between canvases. The contrasts of light between rooms. I have seen Turner’s Sunrise several times this summer, and every time I see something new. Tod...

Herein, vignettes of today. Silver-tipped trees, reddening leaves hanging over fences. Trees swishing like bristles of a brush, painting the day, or waving away the clouds. Morning — listening to music that makes me happy. ⁂ ⁂ ⁂ Two hearts drawn on a wall on the corner. I...