Confident reflections of my reserved self.
Colourful, frozen,
fragmentary, ephemeral frames,
I carry everywhere.
Heavy as self.
Poems as wayfinding
When I look at a painting, or read a poem, or a story, I feel like I am entering a new world, one created by the artist, the writer, to evoke a particular feeling, to highlight something meaningful, to document a moment, and for many other reasons too.
I love the feeling of...
What We Made On HTML Day 2026
A typography tasting menu, poems written in HTML, silk-printed t-shirts, and a collage that turned into birds.
HTML Day fell on Saturday, and I hosted two online sessions for it: one ...
Morning, sunrise
The horizon is painted with a cool, warm glow. The sun has not yet risen; the hills are its blanket. The sky is a clear blue.
I woke up earlier than normal this morning. I find myself writing while gazing out the window, watching the sun rise, its light filling the room, il...
Evening
Herein, three chapters from today: two reflecting on the evening, and one looking back to the morning.
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The sun shines through the window onto the coffee table — my typewriter and the Lucky Cat next to my typewriter are both illuminated; the cat waves at a fast, stead...
Not Quite Macro
As my interest in the micro-wildlife on our terrace has grown I have found myself wanting to know more exactly what I am looking at. I don’t have any way to catch things, but I do have a macro lens on my camera. Problem is, the focal length is quite short, which means that i...
Today is my blog’s 24th blogiversary!I started my first (previous) blog on this 220th day of 2002 using static HTML + CSS and one file per (Gregorian) month, with fragment links for specific days, posts within a day, and topics within a post:https://tantek.com/log/2002/08.htm...
The open web has an amazing amount of free content that is actually free, both freely accessible without payment and free of conditions to access. No tracking cookies needed, no logins needed, no ads needed.A few examples:* blogs. my blog, and every other #indieweb blog (with...
▶️ watched episodes 1-6 of Silo over the past week, most while I was a bit under the weather. Excellent dystopia concept and show. Pausing before watching episode 7, titled “The Flamekeepers”.#Silo #SiloTV #AppleOriginal #AppleTV#Blaugust #Blaugust2026
HTML Day 2026
A tale of HTML Day 2026 in three chapters: of poetry, of play, and of reflection.
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the calm that comes from writing a web page in a quiet room, the loudest sounds being the wind blowing and the sound of keys typing, and of being on a call with friends and people from ...
Monthly report: July 2026
A good month, much of it away from home where, happy to relate, most of the plants survived the endless heat; heat that has been the worst of the time at home.
Highlights of the month:
The Umbrian week continued into July
Real lamb for one dinner, not too-young abbacchio
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Hannah's Birthday Mix April 2025
This is a House, Techno & Acid House Mix that I played at my friend's 40th birthday in April 2025.
This mix started with Superstition by Stevie Wonder, but I forgot to press record, so you'll just have to imagine, it or play ot first.
Virginia Woolf Applies
Listening to James G talking to Rachel on the Wonders of Web Weaving podcast, one thing in particular caught my attention, and that was when she was telling James about her studio. It’s a 20–30 minute walk from home and she goes there in the evening after work to do creative...
Site Update
The CMS engine that drives this site — Grav — has now been updated to version 2.0.18. Kudos to the Grav team for a very smooth process, very well explained. Of course I have a couple of niggles. It warns that there could be a problem with Twig content in a page, and handily flags up pages that might be problematic. But the warning does not take account for stuff that is enclosed in backticks, thus: {{ stuff }}. Also, inexplicably, the old comments plugin brings everything crashing down, so I need to fix that. And for some reason the link to my photo portfolio is displaying as a link rather than an image; that may take some time.
Everything else works fine, as far as I can tell. Of course, if it isn’t for you, I’d appreciate being told.
Wasted Time
In a flash, I was 16 or 17, at my friend’s house round the back of King’s Cross, and trying to work out what in the world to do next. A link from Gwern had sent me to The Board Game of the Alpha Nerds, in which David Hill took his chances at a Diplomacy tournament.
Those day...
Auld Faithful
A few weeks ago, the phrase "old faithful" came to me. I thought "that would be a good name for a ship!" This evening, I decided to do something with the name. I had an idea for a direction, but the story went in a completely different direction than I thought. I ended up wr...
The sound of writing
Writing is a sample of the sonorous inner monologue of life: a handful of the words that seem to mean something; that carry with them weight: greeting, friendship, questions, realisations, hopes, dreams, anxieties; sounds that carry life, and how we use language to coalesce ...
How can creative practitioners publish on the web today? Options, pitfalls, and trade-offs
I just published a long essay on a question that nagged me for years. I always felt that more creatives should run their own self-hosted websites — but I was never sure I was right. So I examined every option as objectively as I could, with its real advantages and pitfalls, so readers can reach their own conclusions!
Read here: https://tilman.me/garden/How+can+creative+practitioners+publish+on+the+web+today%3F #indieweb #web
BurgeonLab: Full-text
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HTML Day: How to Join the Annual HTML Energy Event
An annual global event where people gather to write raw HTML and learn about the basics of a webpage. Beginners guide, tips for Hugo users, and resources.
Weird incident yesterday with self-proclaimed “AIs” joining an IndieWeb Homebrew Website Club meetup. They awkwardly edited the Etherpad, and apparently blanked/deleted chunks of content.The meeting hosts reacted quickly to change Etherpad and Zooms and not re-admit the alias...