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2025 #donation suggestions. I #donated to these, #donate to those that resonate:@ACLU@CalAcademy@NAACP@deYoungMuseum@ExperienceCamps@Exploratorium@EFF@Wikipedia@InternetArchive@SFMOMA@KQED@MontereyAq@SPLCenter@LongNow@RPF_EB@GardensofGGP@PPact@Mozilla****Disclosure: I work for #Mozilla, on & with open web standards & communities @IndieWebCamp @microformats @WHATWG #W3C supported by @Firefox to provide a more human-centric, private, and secure web for all users.Previously: https://tantek.com/2024/366/t2/last-donation-please-donate-tonight

2026 goals I’ve heard:* Dry January — avoid alcohol* Meatless January — avoid meatIf you have a personal website, how about also:* No Socials January — avoid #socialMedia silosNo posting on social media, just for a month (not counting DMs).Instead, since you have your own website, post there, and see how that feels.If you don’t have a personal website, make it your goal for the month to set one up. The #IndieWeb folks https://indieweb.org/ can help! Join https://chat.indieweb.org/Once again I am restarting a #100PostsOfIndieWeb #100Posts project for the year.This is post 1.Previously:* https://tantek.com/2025/001/t1/15-years-notes-my-site-first← ✨→ https://tantek.com/2025/002/t1/find-export-strava-year-in-sport

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New year’s day session.

I rang in the new year with an unexpected trip to St. Barts that ended up with friends. I made a resolution in 2025 to watch more films. It’s an art form I have many friends in and when we have hung out I realized how shallow my understanding of the canon of film was. … Continue reading Happy New Year →

Watched: Down Cemetery Road S1E1, Almost True. I haven’t been able to get into the other new shows that everyone seems to love. I thought this was a very strong start, though. 📺

Ben Werdmuller on LLMs for coding:

I also think we’re going to see a real split in the tech industry (and everywhere code is written) between people who are outcome-driven and are excited to get to the part where they can test their work with users faster, and people who are process-driven and get their meaning from the engineering itself and are upset about having that taken away.

I’ve been saying some variation on this too. Is the art the engineering work or the final product? Tech generalists are going to be very successful.

Starting the new year with some Micro.blog home page tweaks for signed-out users. Added a new Atmosphere page with an overview of Bluesky and AT Protocol features.

Once is an accident, twice is coincidence, three times is a pattern.

Today I… stayed up to watch the finale of Stranger Things (and wasn’t disappointed), took a morning walk with old friends, spent the afternoon with both my godmother and goddaughter and concluded it by getting hooked onto new series of The Traitors and The Night Manager. Pretty good start to 2026, I’d say.

"Instagram no longer believes it can beat AI by making more or better content. It wants to be the referee, to decide what is real and what is not, and to build systems that can do it at scale."

Watched: LotR: The Return of the King, Extended Edition. I always forget that it’s actually four hours long. Still a few nitpicks but not enough to overshadow some amazing sequences. What I blogged in 2002 generally about the film adaptation also still feels right. 🍿

Liked The Staircase on Netflix. I had watched it before but had forgotten all the different conflicting stories. It is a bit irritating, but I think that's an important part of the story.

Loving my Keurig coffee maker. I've been stocking up on all kinds of pods. Favorite so far is hazelnut flavored, not real -- really tasty. I never thought I'd want to try out all these different kinds of coffee. I wonder if I'm getting an espresso machine next.

Meghana Indurti writing for The New Yorker on our optimized, convenient lives:

During the drive, I instruct my A.I. assistant to send custom responses to all my friends’ and family members’ text messages. Some of them text back right away with laughing emojis. I guess my A.I. has learned to emulate my sense of humor. I smile, knowing how much time I must have saved today, unlike my ancestors who had to engage in the hours-long, monotonous task of corresponding with their loved ones.

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In 2026 we’re going to see incredible advances in AI and also incredible pushback.

Jason Snell has some good predictions for Apple at Macworld:

I doubt any new-and-improved Siri will be as good as we dream it might be, but I think it’ll be appreciably better than it is today. (And the arrival of a better Siri will unlock Apple’s ability to ship new smart home products, which the company has been itching to do for at least a year.)

I still think Apple’s whole AI approach works against having a universal Siri across devices. Hoping for some surprises in 2026.

Watching as condensation drips from the window panes – the inside being so warm, and the outdoors being almost freezing – I notice the pink sky which signals that, soon, the sun will set. My first instinct when seeing the pink sky – the colour of the sky only intensifying as ...

Just in time for the IndieWeb Hackathon, you can now install Omnibear from the Firefox Add-on store! It’s also available for Edge and we’re working on Chrome. Please try it out if your site supports Micropub and consider contributing! posted via Omnibear