FeedCity: IWC DUS 2026

with words, wonder
19 Aug 15:24 • with words, wonder

Organising my blog categories

My blog categories page has, until today, been designed with a functional mindset: the purpose of the page was to list all of the categories I use on my website. But, this week, I started thinking about how I could improve the page, to make it more of a hub to explore differe...

Tantek Çelik
19 Aug 14:51

kinda chic to order books from your local bookstore instead of Amazon who is now destroying books in their #VGT3 division, see the hashtag.also kinda chic to pay cash when buying local, to give local businesses an extra 2-3% instead of credit card companies, at no additional charge to you.#books #orderBooks #bookstore #localBookstore #Amazon #payCash #cash #localBusiness #localBusinesses #kindaChic#Blaugust #Blaugust2026

Tantek Çelik
19 Aug 14:51

📚 picked up the Silo books trilogy @borderlands-books.com earlier today: “Wool”, “Shift”, “Dust”, and a small booklet of “Silo Stories” which came inside the boxset. Looking forward to cracking them open and seeing how far I get while waiting for the last three episodes of season three.Previously: https://tantek.com/229/t1/watched-silo-season-3-episode-7#Silo #books #trilogy #boxset#Blaugust #Blaugust2026

Tantek Çelik
19 Aug 14:51

▶️ watched Silo season 3 episode 7 “Radio” last Friday night. I watched the first six season 3 episodes before that, and was inspired to order the Silo trilogy boxset (of books) @borderlands-books.com last Wednesday.Previously: https://tantek.com/2026/222/t1/watched-silo-season-1-2#Silo #SiloTV #AppleOriginal #AppleTV #2026_226 #2026_08_14#Blaugust #Blaugust2026

Dan’s Polaroids
19 Aug 08:45

18.08.2026

A yellow digger on a pebble beach. — That’s what I came here for.

BurgeonLab: Full-text
18 Aug 15:54 • Naty S

IndieWeb Homebrew Website Club Asia Pacific: Reflections

A recap and summary of the first ever Homebrew Website Club: Asia Pacific IndieWeb event.

with words, wonder
18 Aug 14:09 • with words, wonder

The Hay Wain by John Constable

V.H. and I are doing a painting exchange challenge where we each choose a painting for the other person to write about. We gave each other three options. From the options given to me, I chose The Hay Wain by John Constable. V.H. wrote about Corot’s “Entrance to the Wood”. Wr...

with words, wonder
18 Aug 10:39 • with words, wonder

The Poet (Le poète) by Picasso

When I was looking for a painting to share with someone to do an art writing exchange – where we each write about a painting we choose for each other – there was one painting that stood out to me that I wanted to analyse: Picasso’s The Poet (Le Poète). The painting, in Cubist...

with words, wonder
18 Aug 08:36 • with words, wonder

Movement

When Joe pointed out the movement in Stanley Cursiter’s “Surf” painting, I made a mental note of the word “movement.” I noted in the aforelinked post that Monet, among other Impressionists, such as Berthe Morisot, depicted movement in their works; Monet painted trees blown by...

with words, wonder
18 Aug 06:51 • with words, wonder

Wonders of Web Weaving, Episode 15

The fifteenth episode of Wonders of Web Weaving is out: In Episode 15, I chat with Zoe, the author of zoeloukia.bearblog.dev about, among other things, writing on personal websites, making art from whatever is around, zines, 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.

Dan’s Polaroids
17 Aug 22:03

17.08.2026

View from a tent onto a campground, with a view on a lake. — Lago di Garda

Tilman
17 Aug 20:54

Corse 1
#photography #mobilephotography

Tilman
17 Aug 20:54 • https://tilman.me

Corse 1

with words, wonder
17 Aug 20:45 • with words, wonder

Plainsong by The Cure

Thamara and I are doing a collaborative writing challenge where we gave each person three songs from which we were to choose one to write about. I chose “Plainsong” by The Cure from Thamara’s list. Thamara chose Gimme Sympathy from my list. You can read Thamara’s post for the...

with words, wonder
17 Aug 20:45 • with words, wonder

Miniatures, reference works, and writing

One of the works at the Stanley Cursiter exhibition I saw at the National Gallery of Scotland this week was a collection of miniatures he had painted. According to the gallery website, Cursiter, who served as keeper, and later director, of the gallery, painted “miniature wate...

Dan’s Polaroids
17 Aug 20:02

16.08.2026

A girl trying a handstand in front of a wacky building. — Designerhandstand

with words, wonder
17 Aug 11:54 • with words, wonder

I’m Old Fashioned by Ben Paterson

Ruben and I are doing a writing challenge where we each gave each other three songs and we picked one to write about. From Ruben’s list, I chose “I’m Old Fashioned” by Ben Paterson. You can read about the song that Ruben chose from my list on his website. The cover of the al...

Tilman
17 Aug 09:54

Just write ––– At the moment there are two initiatives running in the world of weblogs and blogging: Blaugust and 100 Days to Offload. They differ in the details. The first is about a month of posting, the other about a hundred posts in a year. But the aim is the same: to get people writing on their personal weblogs more. Read on: https://knot.tilman.me/post/just-write/

Tilman
17 Aug 09:48 • https://tilman.me

Just write

At the moment there are two initiatives running in the world of weblogs and blogging: Blaugust and 100 Days to Offload. They differ in the details. The first is about a month of posting, the other about a hundred posts in a year. But the aim is the same: to get people writi...

Tantek Çelik
17 Aug 04:54

CSF_03: today’s Cybersecurity Friday post: the effective security of small business websites has likely gotten worse due to LLMs and “AI agents” (with or without safeguards) and what actions you may want to consider.This article documents an instance of this problem:* https:/...