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Saturday morning

Before I leave this morning, I have to pack some things to read. I picked up a zine and a book on colour and set out to a coffee shop to ease my way into the weekend. I purchased the zine and the book following my reflection on reference works earlier this week, which had me...

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21.08.2026

A blue and a yellow pedalo on a pebble beach in the sun. The lake in front of dark clouds and mountains.
Last rays of sunshine before the rain started.

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More weirdness from a self-proclaimed “AI” in the IndieWeb community.Yesterday one of them (that previously* joined a meetup Zoom and Etherpad) joined the #indieweb chat channel (via the web UI apparently) and introduced themselves in a pseudo-human sounding way:https://chat....

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Music; pressure

The sun is shining through the big and small clouds in the sky. The sun shines with such power that the areas that most catch my eye are the periphery of the darkest clouds, illuminated by the yellows of evening. The light coming through the window ebbs between faint and ful...

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April 2026

A zoo visit, easter, a concert, IndieWebCamp, and Beyond Tellerrand. (35 photos)

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HTML element letter count distribution

How many HTML elements are exactly five letters long? This question came to mind in the context of a discussion I had yesterday about what an indie web version of Wordle would look like. We all started to name elements. table, tbody, input, among others, all have five letter...

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Why I wish people a happy day of the week

Zachary and I are trading blog post titles. Zachary has written a blog post in response to the suggested title “What everyone should know about Australia”. I have written my post in response to the title “Why I wish people a happy day of the week”. For the last year or so, ...

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Brainstorming site name changes in web readers

Recently, one of the websites I follow (not this one!) changed their name. Artemis, the web reader I maintain, was still using the old name for the feed. This makes sense in the case of Artemis because users can choose their own names for an author; if the author name were s...

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Re: My perfect laptop

The Macbook Air in Carlos‘ response to Michael’s post “My perfect laptop” caught my eye as soon as I saw it. The Macbook (which I will refer to as a “Mac” going forward) in the blog post looks similar to my first Mac. I originally wanted a Mac because I had been following CS...

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Change; anchors

I look out the window. Every time I look I notice change: the ambering of leaves that are still green in my memory, the movement of clouds as they go from one end of the sky to the other, the movement of leaves as they sway to-and-fro with the light morning breeze; some morn...

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📖 read “Holston” in “Wool” by @hughhowey.com  https://tantek.com/isbn/0358447844#book #Holston #Wool #Silo#Blaugust #Blaugust2026

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As We May Prompt

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19.08.2026

a shrimp in a small bucket of water
Shrimp

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The Tower of Babel by Bruegel the Elder

Thomas and I are doing a collaborative writing challenge where we each choose a painting for the other to write about. Thomas chose The Tower of Babel by Pieter Bruegel the Elder for me to write about. You can read about the painting I chose for Thomas, Meindert Hobbema’s Wo...

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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 differ...

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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

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📚 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

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▶️ 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

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And @bramus's reply: https://www.bram.us/2026/08/18/the-case-for-tri-state-dark-mode-toggles/

What’s your take? 🤔

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Just kidding, of course. This is an important discussion, and I’m glad we’re talking about these details.

For context:
@leaverou's post – https://lea.verou.me/blog/2026/dark-mode-toggles/