Today is my blog’s 24th blogiversary!I started my first (previous) blog on this 220th day of 2002 using static HTML + CSS and one file per (Gregorian) month, with fragment links for specific days, posts within a day, and topics within a post:https://tantek.com/log/2002/08.htm...
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The open web has an amazing amount of free content that is actually free, both freely accessible without payment and free of conditions to access. No tracking cookies needed, no logins needed, no ads needed.A few examples:* blogs. my blog, and every other #indieweb blog (with...
▶️ watched episodes 1-6 of Silo over the past week, most while I was a bit under the weather. Excellent dystopia concept and show. Pausing before watching episode 7, titled “The Flamekeepers”.#Silo #SiloTV #AppleOriginal #AppleTV#Blaugust #Blaugust2026
Weird incident yesterday with self-proclaimed “AIs” joining an IndieWeb Homebrew Website Club meetup. They awkwardly edited the Etherpad, and apparently blanked/deleted chunks of content.The meeting hosts reacted quickly to change Etherpad and Zooms and not re-admit the alias...
Simple hashtag proposal for dates: datetags for the #indiewebIn summary by example:* #2026_08_04 ISO8601 YYYY_MM_DD date of this post* #2026_216 ISO8601 YYYY_DDD ordinal date of this post* #2026_08 ISO8601 YYYY_MM month of this postMany of us posting on the indieweb often pos...
📀 watched “The Dark Knight” on Blu-ray, still holds up.I saw it in the Metreon IMAX theater when it came out in 2008. About 28 minutes of it was filmed in 70mm film using IMAX cameras. The movie switched aspect ratios when it switched from IMAX to normal film. The 2-Disc Special Edition Blu-ray also switched aspect ratios roughly at similar times. Nice to see that that was preserved.The movie has incredible pacing. No extra moments. I had forgotten how many quotes originated from The Dark Knight. https://enwp.org/The_Dark_Knight#BatMan #TheDarkKnight #Bluray #Blaugust #Blaugust2026
🎞 watched “The Odyssey” at the Metreon in 70mm IMAX on opening weekend, and mostly enjoyed it. No spoilers in this post.My pal Rohit (@rohit.khare.org) had bought tickets last year, had a spare, and invited me along last minute. After an early dinner at Cha Cha Cha (@chachach...
Over the years I and others have experimented with "watch" posts, short notes that express having seen a movie or TV show, sometimes with a link, and brief review or other commentary, like earlier today:https://tantek.com/2026/214/t1/watched-spider-man-brand-new-dayI was insp...
🎦 watched “Spider-Man: Brand New Day” in the Metreon Dolby Cinema this past Friday and really enjoyed it.Took a half day off to recover from a long week & last weekend, and decided to see the new Spider-Man movie. The theater was packed except for the front row. Lots of fans wearing Spider-Man gear.If you haven’t seen the previous Tom Holland Spider-Man movies, you could watch only those three then this film and still have a great time. No significant dependence on other MCU (Marvel Cinematic Universe) stories in Brand New Day.Optionally, you could watch the Tobey Maguire and Andrew Garfield Spider-Man movies before watching the third Tom Holland one, “No Way Home”, for character development and additional narratives.#SpiderMan #BrandNewDay #SpiderManBrandNewDay #Blaugust #Blaugust2026 #2026_212 #20260731
Welcome to August which means once again it is time for the Blaugust Festival of Blogging!In its simplest form, Blaugust is a blogging challenge “to post 31 times during the month of August”, typically once a day, however, doubling up (etc.) is allowed and provides the nice f...
at my first Homebrew Website Club Nuremberg meetup!Thank you Tilman for hosting!#indieweb #hwc #hwcnue #NUEDIGITAL #Nuremberg
Delightful first day at IndieWebCamp Nuremberg, great sessions, more than half led by first time IndieWebCamp participants!https://events.indieweb.org/2026/06/-indiewebcamp-nuremberg-7EIKg0lqfg93Session notes have been archived! Recordings coming soon.Want to join us for the IndieWeb Create Day tomorrow?https://indieweb.org/Create_DayIf you’re in Germany, hop on a train and join us in-person.Or join us with the Zoom remote participation option! Optionally add yourself here:* https://indieweb.org/2026/Nuremberg#Remote_ParticipantsWe’ll publish the Zoom link Sunday morning (CEST). Until then, feel free to join us in the chat for updates: https://chat.indieweb.org/#IndieWeb #IndieWebCamp #IWCNUR #IWCNUR2026 #hackathon #hackDay #createDay
Yesterday was the hottest Broken Arrow Skyrace 23k of the four I have run. And the hardest. Sometimes you give it your all and your all is not quite enough. Made it much farther than last year, under worse (hotter, dryer, dustier) conditions.It was already in the mid-70s Fahr...
Tomorrow morningonce more into the woodsup the rocks, onto the ridges@brokenarrowskyrace.comGoal: finish 23kLive stream: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZeYQprW-4u4#BrokenArrowSkyrace #skyRace #trailRace #mountainRunning
How to add Google News, Google Books, and Google Scholar search directly in your browser, to search those sites with fewer steps, and less chance of being distracted.One of my hobbies is contributing to Wikipedia, and more so, creating new Wikipedia articles. Citations of rel...
The Snooze Tabs browser add-on is a key technology I use for category 2, defending focus (and prioritizing) from my previous post (link in footer).I noted in the #indieweb informal cafe chat that "I am going to snooze the tab for a month and re-evaluate then" (about purchasin...
Three areas of insights for improving focus, from this afternoon’s long run: needs, defense, techniques.1. Make sure your "needs" are met. If your needs are not being met, you will be distracted from whatever you are trying to focus on by those unmet needs.2. Defend against a...
Sometimes it’s good take a step back and re-assess things from the immediate like daily routines & habits, to how to focus on goals whether within weeks, months, or years. Taking bits of time off to reflect on these and related topics. The grayscale phone interface has helped me get here: https://tantek.com/2026/124/b1/may-the-focus-be-with-you-iphone-grayscale
Ran my 14th Bay to Breakers race in 1:57:12 this past Sunday.Almost 2min behind last year, from needing a 5min+ pitstop at the Panhandle.I skipped public transport (see previous years), and left at 7am to jog to the start. After ~3.5 miles I found my way to corral A and seren...
Please update your Firefox to 150.0.3.Details why: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2026-45/Step-by-step instructions:* open your Firefox application* choose/click menu "Firefox"* choose/click menu item "About Firefox"If it says: ✓ Firefox is up to d...
Citrus Club on Haight Street has closed for good. :(I walked by earlier this evening to order some takeout and all the signage was gone and a large metal gate was lowered.A notice of application for ownership change was posted including a license for “On sale beer & wine ...
May the Focus Be With You!
Last weekend at IndieWebCamp I noticed
James
had setup his iPhone in grayscale.
I think I first saw that on
Jeremy’s
phone years ago.
I remember trying it on my iPod Touch for a while, eventually switching back to see color photos.
This morning while chatting with Jam...
"web joy" — the joy you experience when visiting a website with joyful content and/or have a joyful experience (as a user) on a website, or the joy of creating such a website.During the beyond tellerand conference this past week, someone mentioned “responsive web design” and ...
4 conferences across 3 cities in 10 days:* 4/20 W3C AC Meeting (Huangzhou) “Challenging how we see the web” future of web browsers panel participant (remotely from San Francisco, on the evening of 2026-04-19)* 4/21-23 Mozilla Leadership Summit (Boston)* 4/25-26 IndieWebCamp D...
@NASA.gov has lots of short Artemis videos on their YouTube channel (@NASA@YouTube.com), however this 10h10m video of the Artemis II lunar flyby appears to be the closest to a continuous long-form recording of the live stream during that period.https://youtu.be/z-j1uxBmis0 Af...
NASA Artemis II live stream update:Spaceflight Now has the raw feed of Houston and Integrity comms and video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8m9YdxgJ5g The official NASA live stream (posted previously), has switched to a NASA spokesperson and interviews of folks on the sea/ground as part of splashdown recovery operations.Choose your live stream:* Houston, space, and astronauts talking: https://youtu.be/M8m9YdxgJ5g * Spokespeople/interviews talking: https://youtu.be/m3kR2KK8TEs or pull them both up on separate side-by-side monitors like they have on the desks at Mission Control.About an hour left til splashdown!#NASA #liveStream #Artemis #Artemis #Artemis2 #ArtemisII #Integrity #Earth #Houston #MissionControl #SpaceflightNow
What I’m watching for the next 3 hours:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3kR2KK8TEs #NASA #liveStream #Artemis #Artemis #Artemis2 #ArtemisII #Earth
Filed my 2025 taxes today (electronically). Payments mailed (physically).Earliest in at least a decade, maybe two.Took a very conscious and deliberate effort to get here. Prioritizing, cutting or postponing anything non-urgent, iterating and improving systems year over year (especially in coordination with an accountant), collecting clustering materials earlier, and more.Completing these kinds of "required" tasks/projects sooner feels like it frees up mental (and emotional) bandwidth (not having them occupying daily thoughts) to dream, brainstorm, and make more creative things.
“Choice. The solution is choice.”*You should download Firefox 148 (released today!) and explicitly set the new "AI Controls" to your preferred choice.* https://www.firefox.com/Disclosure: I work for Mozilla, but this post, like all on this site, represents my personal thought...
Happy Twin Peaks day to those who celebrate!In Agent Cooper’s first appearance in the show, he’s driving a car, right hand on the steering wheel, left hand holding a small black box (a microcassette recorder), that, if you don’t look too closely, could easily be mistaken for ...