Wikipedia “Edited” 2025 year in review, summarizing from Wikimedia XTools queries, and Wikipedia itself, curated manually for my personal site:* 7 articles created (new personal best), with several firsts for me. In creation order: * "Take California" (https://en.wikipe...
The main feed of this site now automatically includes posts from my Photo Journal and Dan’s Polaroids.
This way, I do not have to manually link those here, and one can follow all my posts with a single feed. If you see a bunch of new entries, you now know it’s because I messed with my feed.
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Beyond aggregated and summarized stats, in 2025 I met a few amazing people (you know who you are), and started a few projects. Most of these projects started with an idea, or recognizing a problem, that inspired invention.Sometimes the ideas came from observations, shared, q...
🔗 Dan’s Polaroids
I created a new website where I share my Polaroid photos.
One instant photo per day.
@matthiasott guten Morgen lieber Matthias! ☕☀️
Ich wünsche Dir alles Gute zum Geburtstag 🎊🎁🎈 und hoffe, Du machst heute etwas Schönes mit Deiner Familie - vielleicht sogar im Schnee? 🌨️❄️☃️
Bis bald hoffentlich ❤️
🎬 Arctic
Like Cast Away in the snow. I would have like a little more reasoning regarding why he was in the situation in the first place. But I enjoyed Mads Mikkelsen and some great winter landscapes.
🎬 Sleuth
This review may contain spoilers. Tap or click to view.
Quite a clever movie. Was genuinely surprised.
👍 Recommended!
My Year in Sport, using data from my Strava, Swarm, and personal notes & recollections, assembled into a simpler summary on my personal site.2025 activities according to Strava:🏃🏻♂️1354mi + 160,077' hiking+running 👟 823mi + 119,453' running ⛰ 485mi trail runn...
My year in movies in theaters, using Fandango > My Orders > History, my Swarm Timeline, and personal recollection, to aggregate a few lists and stats:I saw 9 new movies in theaters in 2025, two of them multiple times (dates are first viewing)* 2025-02-20 👹 Captain Ameri...
Publishing my citation preferences
I was recently asked by a fellow blogger how I would prefer to be credited in a blog post they were working on. This brought to mind an idea I have been thinking about for a while: how could I indicate the way I would prefer a post on my website to be cited? By having this i...
Jeremy Cherfas
• Jeremy Cherfas
As I promised myself late last year, rereading for the first time, not quite 60 years on.
05.01.2026
📖 Between Meals ✍
The temptation, of course, is to review the book as one might a restaurant or a meal, to talk about savouring each witty gem while regretting that the meal must end, profess to being full without having overindulged, knowingly wink at past kitchen practices that today would ...
Software maintenance
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 h...
Why Artemis is invite-only
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 s...
Designing an A-Z navigation web component
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...