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It's the first day of "no more baseball" for the next ten months or so. I admit I don't really get involved until August. But this year was great, even though the Mets didn't make the playoffs. Congrats to my friends who are Mariners fans, they made a really good run. I was pulling for the Blue Jays, dreading a Los Angeles win, but as they say you can't always get what you want. And I don't mind that there's a victory for LA, a city that's taking the brunt of what's surely coming for NYC. Obviously they're waiting for the election to be over before they occupy the city.

Current screen shot of WordLand.

Before enlightenment; chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment; chop wood, carry water. Kyle Kowalski has an amazing blog post exploring many aspects of this Zen Kōan, including some diversions into David Foster Wallace’s legendary commencement speech, This is Water.

Working on something new for the Mac app and thinking about how disclosure triangles are sort of a lost art. We’ve web-ified most UI design.

🎃 Night before IndieWebCamp Berlin! Participants are (hopefully, mostly) all tucked into their beds, dreaming of what wonderful things they can brainstorm for their personal sites Saturday, and #HackTheirPlanet on Sunday.Want to keep up with #IndieWebCamp #Berlin participants?Follow their feeds and a Bluesky starter pack (happy to include more for any other formats, protocols, or platforms)* https://indieweb.org/2025/Berlin#Feeds_Lists_Starter_Packs_Oh_MyWe’ll add more as folks sign-in at the camp!This is post 14 of #100PostsOfIndieWeb. #100Posts #IndieWeb #Blogtober #IndieWebMovieClub #HackThePlanet 📟← https://tantek.com/2025/303/t1/october-blogging-challenges→ 🔮

A short reader survey about the challenges you’re working through and the support you wish existed.

The pandemic isn't over, and there's still much to fear from the COVID-19 virus.

Since the next version of NetNewsWire supports source:markdown. I wanted to show how to find the feeds generated by WordLand that are compatible. We need both sides to start the bootstrap, and we have them, and my daveverse site, which I update fairly frequently, generates a Markdown-inclusive feed. Important for the bootstrap to have the three legs -- 1. A writing tool that generates the feature. 2. A feed reader that understands it. 3. Content available in the format.

I wanted to show Jake Savin, an old school UserLand dev, how I edit my JavaScript code projects in Frontier. This is the source.opml file for the feedlanddatabase package, viewed in my outliner, Drummer.

In August 2002 I asked why RSS 1.0 is named RSS? I gathered up opinions from people and published it as a single document. I didn't edit or respond, just let people speak.

📍 Checked in at Mozilla Berlin, Berlin, Berlin.

This week, the Automattic Creed received its first-ever update, which I’ll describe as a minor point upgrade. This is the sentence before and after. I am in a marathon, not a sprint, and no matter how far away the goal is, the only way to get there is by putting one foot in front of … Continue reading Creed Update →

Samhain or All Hallows Eve when the boundary between the living and the dead has been blurred seems the best time to pull out the Remington 666 with the blood red ribbon and brew up a similarly colored Boulevardier cocktail to write about our wishes for the coming new year. Sláinte! How are you celebrating?

I wrote a bit about Philippe Kahn the other day, and just remembered -- I forgot to write about Turbo Pascal. I had been using program compilers for C and Pascal for almost a decade when it came out, and it was shockingly different in a good way. Somehow it could compile a wh...

October blog posts in OPML. BTW, well-kept secret, I have a Node app that takes one of these outlines and publishes it to the web, in the format you see on Scripting News. If you can get your text to flow through OPML this way, you can have a replica of this site, with most ...

The unique thing about neighbors is you can try to divorce them, but no matter what you do they will still be neighbors. There are few relationships as permanent as neighbor. They don't have to listen to you. But you should listen anyway, and try to figure out how they look at the neighborhood. Probably very differently from the way you view it.

Wonder if you noticed that the main difference between social media and chat is which way the new messages flow and where the tiny little text box is, at the top or the bottom.

📍 Checked in at Mozilla Berlin, Berlin, Berlin.