Thanks to @florianziegler for taking so many amazing photos at @btconf last week! 📷🖤😍
Feeds from people participating at the IndieWebCamp Düsseldorf, May 2025.
Last week, I had the immense honor of speaking at one of my favorite events, @btconf. (🤯)
My talk “Painting With the Web” is now available on YouTube. I hope you like it! 🤗💚
And if you are a person who likes slides, here are the slides for the talk. 😁
Next Thursday, May 22nd at 6 pm, there’s going to be a Homebrew Website Club Düsseldorf. Co-organised by Schepp and myself, we plan this to be the first HWC event in a series of regular events.
I quote from the IndieWeb wiki page to explain what an HWC is:
Homebrew Website Club is a growing world-wide network of meetups for everyone who wants to take back their web experience from social media silos, and own their online identities & content, or just want support with blogging!
So, if you’re interested in this sort of thing, and can make it to Düsseldorf, you’d be very welcome to join. (We still have to confirm the location, and will update the event page as soon as possible.)
rhythm
the rhythm of writing.
The joy of
Seeing someone wear an Eras Tour t-shirt (if you know you know). Writing with the glow of the sunset radiating through the window. The detail of the hand-painted illustration on the wall in a coffee shop. Saying something that makes someone laugh. A colleague leaving a sticker on my desk. Dream big., it read. Basking in the sun at lunchtime on a warm spring day. Sharing ideas with friends. Writing stories. Imagining.
The park
After a long day, one of my favourite things to do is to get a sandwich from a supermarket. Today I was tempted by a meal deal: a sandwich, some fruit, and a bottle of water. The sandwich to fill me up, the fruit for something sweet (I love fruit!), and a bottle of water to n...
“Semantics should be defined in HTML. And styles and visual affordances should follow from there.”
An incredibly thorough and important post by @SaraSoueidan about the current state of CSS carousel (in)accessibility. 👏
tl;dr – don’t use them (yet?)
#a11y #css
https://www.sarasoueidan.com/blog/css-carousels-accessibility/
“Do you think that’s funny?”
“Yes. 😁”
The blank whiteboard
When I am motivated to make new things, my whiteboard becomes a living space. I jot down notes day and night: things I want to do, ideas I want to explore, phrases that come to mind. The ideas I am ready to turn into reality — wireframes, essay ideas, website thoughts — “grad...
Good morning, @matuzo! I found a button for your collection. 😍 What do you think? 😁
[Hydrated]
Figma (Sites) creating inaccessible, non-semantic div soup? I’m not surprised at all. That’s basically the main point of the talk I just gave at #btconf. Figma is for painting beautiful pictures of websites. Not for making websites. We make websites with semantic HTML, declarative CSS, JavaScript for the things only JavaScript can do, and a bit of ARIA. That’s how this medium works. That’s the material.
Extending my edit web page bookmarklet
I have a bookmarklet called “Edit” which, when clicked, takes me to the editing page of GitHub that corresponds to the page on my website that I am viewing.
I described how the edit bookmarklet works in my post “My static site editing bookmarklet” earlier this year. Since th...
The email delivery problems seem to have eased and from what I can see, emails seem to get delivered again phew. I’ve also now improved the look and content of said emails. And for every list’s feeds - such as IndieWeb feeds - there’s now an OPML version/export available.
Running For Re-election in the 2025 W3C Advisory Board (AB) Election
Foreword
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is holding its regular annual Advisory Board (AB) election this month.
I was elected two years ago after being elected to a
six month term
(See full AB members history).
This is my 2025 AB election nomination statement posted o...
Last Friday I published my second Cybersecurity Friday post with three more key steps for cybersecurity. In summary:1. Different email address for each account, AKA email masking. Use or create a different email alias for each service you sign-up for.2. Different password for each account. This is a well known security technique against credential stuffing attacks.3. Use a password manager to autofill. Always using a password manager to autofill your login username (or email) and password can be a very effective method of reducing the chances of being phished.Full post with details: https://tantek.com/2025/122/b1/more-steps-indieweb-cybersecurity#CyberSecurity Friday #cyber #securityPreviously: https://tantek.com/2025/055/t1/three-steps-indieweb-cybersecurity
“I couldn't help but feel struck by the power of the good people that are somehow still designing and building this future together. This is an industry packed with sensitive, thoughtful, sharp, talented people who still give a shit about how to make things right.”
— Thomas Rumbold 🖤✊
https://terminal.ahumanfuture.co/posts/2025-05-06/the-narrow-road-to-the-deep-north/
Also, what a quote:
“We’re each of us alone, to be sure. What can you do but hold your hand out in the dark?”
— Ursula K. Le Guin