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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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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

This piece by @WeirdWriter just hits different. So good.

“The "problem" was that creating art—real, human, meaningful writing—is slow. It is expensive. It is unpredictable. And it is diverse. It requires dealing with people. People with traumas, people with political opinions, people with voices that don't fit into a corporate style guide. […]
So the Tech Bros, in their infinite mediocrity, decided to bypass the human element entirely.”

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“They built a machine that scrapes our work—our pain, our joy, our very souls—without consent, grinds it into a mathematical slurry, and extrudes it as a flavorless, inoffensive paste that can be sold by the bucket.

They built a machine to gentrify the English language.

And the horror of watching my friend lose his soul almost eats me alive.”

The Colonization of Confidence.

https://sightlessscribbles.com/the-colonization-of-confidence/

Note to self: if you block all the bots™, remember to not block archive.org_bot. Especially if you even wrote a Craft CMS plugin that notifies the Wayback Machine to crawl new posts on your site … 🤦‍♂️

Watching as condensation drips from the window panes – the inside being so warm, and the outdoors being almost freezing – I notice the pink sky which signals that, soon, the sun will set. My first instinct when seeing the pink sky – the colour of the sky only intensifying as ...

Oh, THE LÄND FÄNSHOP got häcked.

Happy 2026!! 🎆🎉🤗💚