signed up for @brokenarrowskyrace.com (@BrokenArrowCA) 23k #skyRace on 2025-06-22!¹ This will be my third #BrokenArrow race. Goals: finish strong, beat last year’s time.The race sold out within 10-15minutes of opening this morning. Here’s how it went for me:09:00 Pacific time...
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This is a summary curation of prior posts of mine on why post, what to post, and how to post, as well as some bits I wrote on the #IndieWeb wiki. This post assumes you already have a blog — if you don’t have one and wonder why you should, that’s a different blog post.If you h...
~3 weeks ago I posted some thoughts¹ about the US #election. Upon more reflection, more thoughts and some updates.~50 days until many #changes that will harm many, disrupt many more. Some changes and impacts will be immediate, some in days to weeks, mostly predictable, and so...
ran the Spartan Turkey Trot #5k #race in 44:34 @SpartanTurkey5k!2min/mi+ faster average pace than 2023’s #turkeyTrot walk / slow jog of 47:37 on a shortened course (2.86mi).Arrived early for a warm-up and it was the coldest it’s been in years (30-something F). Alternated run/...
Day 1 of #IndieWebCamp #Berlin 2024¹ was very well attended!* 20 participants, more than 3x the previous one in 2022, and second highest (2019 had 22).* 18 introduced themselves² and their personal sites or aspirations for oneCollectively we proposed and facilitated 11 breako...
Still reflecting and listening to how different folks are reacting after the US #election results. A few immediate thoughts:* take care of yourselves, physically, emotionally, etc.* lean into mutual care, check on those close to you* (re)connect with community and especially those that reach out to you* (re)consider privacy implications of your actions, IRL & online, spending habits Here in #SanFrancisco and #California we are seeing mostly positive local results¹ including a new mayor (who I happened to rank first for many reasons).Lots to think about and do in the next couple of months.¹ https://sfstandard.com/2024/11/05/san-francisco-election-results-november-2024/
Last week at a #HomebrewWebsiteClub session¹ I pointed out that I was working on implementing a “simple” way to support embeds of my notes, that is, make my short notes embeddable, like how people embed tweets or toots.I noted that to keep it as simple as possible while being...
European friends!🗓 I am going to Beyond Tellerand (@btconf@mastodon.social) Berlin next week 7-8 November and you should too!BTconf is the best independent web design, development, and inspiration conference in Europe.Everything from the speakers to the talks to the side events are a labor of love by @MarcThiele.com (@marcthiele@mastodon.social) and his crew, and it shows in the #btconf community he has gathered over the years.If you’re in #Berlin, or can hop on a train and join us, you should.🎟 Grab a ticket: https://btco.nf/tAnd while you’re there, consider joining us at #IndieWebCamp Berlin right afterwards on 9-10 November (complimentary camp tickets at the same link), for #barcamp style discussions sessions and an #indieweb Create Day, writing, styling, designing, coding, hacking on our personal sites for a better web for ourselves and everyone else.
Bing use-case! AKA One Weird Trick Time And Date Sites HateIn my prior post¹ I noted that I use 'b' as a Search Shortcut for #Bing. Here is why: * quickly view a Gregorian calendar month display, with readable days, days of the week, and weekends & holidays highlighted.E....
You should setup Search Shortcuts in #Firefox, they have sped up my web browsing experience considerably.James (@jamesg.blog) wrote up a great summary of how to do so and his experience:* https://jamesg.blog/2024/10/13/search-engine-shortcuts-firefox/I use DuckDuckGo as my de...
No I did not block you on the #fediverse / #Mastodon / #Misskey etc.If you were following me @tantek.com on your client/server/instance of choice but noticed you were no longer doing so, that was due to a recent software bug in my fediverse provider which accidentally caused ...
⚠️ .io domain¹ likely being phased-out² — seven suggested stepsGood article in The Verge summarizing recent .io related events, see that for more context if this is news to you:* https://www.theverge.com/2024/10/8/24265441/uk-treaty-end-io-domain-chagos-islandsIt looks likely...
I have put a lot of thought into deliberately shifting¹ metaphors², often in the context of the #indieweb³. One goal is to replace use of violent or divisive metaphors with actively constructive, cooperative, or joyful alternatives, like:* gardening/farming e.g. digital garde...
Happy October!For some reason this month has a plethora of daily blogging or other creativity prompts. Here’s a list of the ones I found so far:* #Blogtober (consider this post my first for this, retroactively day 1)* Inktober — https://inktober.com/* LOLtober - https://weblo...
Last week I participated in #w3cTPAC 2024¹ in Anaheim, California. It was quite packed, and often started early, from 8am informal breakfast meetings at a nearby IHOP, to Working Group, Community Group, and other small group meetings every day (but Wednesday) til 18:00.Midwee...
Dear Creative Commons (@creativecommons.org @creativecommons@mastodon.social @creativecommons@x.com), Can we have CC-NT licenses for no-training (ML/LLM, GenAI in general), just like we have CC-NC for non-commercial?My previous post¹ reminded me that I’ve been creating, writi...
20 years and two weeks ago, I came up with undohtml.css and unknowingly invented the mechanism of CSS Resets (AKA reboot or reset style sheets¹) which spawned numerous variants, many still in broad use on the web today.https://tantek.com/log/2004/09.html#d06t2354A one sentenc...
Happy #8bitday — 256th day of the year! Here’s some reasons to celebrate:bit = portmanteau of binary digit8 binary digits can represent 256 different numerical values8 bits are also a byte, the fundamental unit of computer storage — 'B' is for byte in 'GB' or 'TB' as an amoun...
Came up with and tried a three phase pomodoro technique yesterday for working thru tasks and projects.This three phase pomodoro cycle repeats and resyncs hourly. The three phases I came up with:* physical tidying/cleaning* physical processing* digital processingThis worked qu...
Tip: use the W3C Link Checker and fix any errors before federating with Bridgy Fed.https://validator.w3.org/checklinkIf you are using Bridgy Fed to federate your posts from your personal site, I highly recommend you first run the W3C Link Checker on a post, and verify there a...
Twenty years ago this past February, Kevin Marks and I introduced #microformats in a conference presentation.Full post: https://tantek.com/2024/044/t1/twenty-years-microformatsAside: This is an even shorter summary of that post from ~200 days ago, which #Mastodon readers never got due to a Mastodon #federation bug (details in https://tantek.com/t5Yo1).Since early 2023, here are the top three updates & interesting developments in microformats:1. Growing rel=me adoption for distributed verification (✅ in Mastodon etc.) * Wikipedia, Threads, omg.lol2. Proposal to merge #microformats2 h-review into h-entry, since in practice (e.g. on #indieweb) reviews are just entries with a bit more.3. #metaformats adoptions, implementations, iteration
Twenty years ago this past February, @KevinMarks.com (@KevinMarks@xoxo.zone) and I introduced #microformats in a conference presentation.Full post: https://tantek.com/2024/044/t1/twenty-years-microformatsAside: This is a summary of a longer post from ~200 days ago¹, which #Ma...
Adventures in IndieWeb / ActivityPub (AP) bridging:While in general my posts are being successfully federated by https://fed.brid.gy/ #BridgyFed, most of my recent posts, and two more earlier this year, were delivered successfully to multiple #Mastodon instances AP inboxes (r...
✏️ I want the Read Write Suggest-Edit Accept-Edit Update Web.The consumer Infinite Scroll Web leaves us feeling empty.Too few of us participate in the Read Write Web, whether with personal sites or Wikipedia.A week ago when we wrapped up #IndieWebCamp Portland and I was readi...
✏️ I want the Read Write Suggest-Edit Accept-Edit Update Web.The consumer Infinite Scroll Web leaves us feeling empty.Too few of us participate in the Read Write Web, whether with personal sites or Wikipedia.A week ago when we wrapped up #IndieWebCamp Portland and I was readi...
Had a great time at IndieWebCamp Portland 2024 this past Sunday — our 10th IndieWebCamp in Portland!https://events.indieweb.org/2024/08/indiewebcamp-portland-2024-8bucXDlLqR0kBeing a one day #IndieWebCamp, we focused more on making, hacking, and creating, than on formal discu...
Had a great time at IndieWebCamp Portland 2024 this past Sunday — our 10th IndieWebCamp in Portland!https://events.indieweb.org/2024/08/indiewebcamp-portland-2024-8bucXDlLqR0kBeing a one day #IndieWebCamp, we focused more on making, hacking, and creating, than on formal discu...
Nice #IndieWebCamp discussion session with Kevin Marks (@kevinmarks@indieweb.social @kevinmarks@xoxo.zone @kevinmarks) on the topic of auto-linking¹.I’ve implemented an auto_link function² that handles quite a few use-cases of URLs (with or without http: or https:), @-name @-...
Nice #IndieWebCamp discussion session with @KevinMarks.com (@kevinmarks@xoxo.com @kevinmarks) on the topic of auto-linking¹.I’ve implemented an auto_link function² that handles quite a few use-cases of URLs (with or without http: or https:), @-name @-domain @-domain/path @-@-...
All setup here at IndieWebCamp Portland!https://events.indieweb.org/2024/08/indiewebcamp-portland-2024-8bucXDlLqR0kGood crowd of participants from #XOXO #XOXOConf (@xoxofest.com @xoxo@xoxo.zone @xoxo) here to work on their personal website(s), domains, or other independent so...