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...
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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...
People over protocols over platforms.inspired by today’s #indieweb #fediverse #ActivityPub #decentralized #socialMedia lunch meetup at #XOXO #XOXOConf (@xoxo@xoxo.zone)This is post 16 of #100PostsOfIndieWeb. #100Posts← https://tantek.com/2024/173/t1/years-posse-microformats-adoption→ 🔮
finished the Skyline 21k (half marathon) trail race in 3:39:48! (official bib time)Went out with the goal to have fun and try for sub-4, finished with smiles and a sub 3:40. Superbly run event as always by @ScenaPerformance.com (@instagram.com/scenaperformance), race director Adam Ray, and all the great volunteers.So many things went well. Race write-up to follow.Previously:* 2023: DNS Skyline 50k because of a bad fever from a blood bacteria infection caught in Wakefield MA (that’s whole other story, never going back there)* 2022: 50k race PR at Skyline: https://tantek.com/2022/289/t1/hot-skyline50k-ultra-finish#Skyline #21k #halfMarathon #trailRace #trailRun
Good W3C SocialCG telcon yesterday morning.Minutes: https://www.w3.org/wiki/SocialCG/2024-08-02Appreciate working with @evan@cosocial.ca @dmitriz@mastodon.mit.edu @TallTed@mastodon.social @snarfed.org Lisa a @AaronNGray@fosstodon.org @bobwyman@mastodon.social @by_caballero@mastodon.social @j12t@j12t.social @steve@social.technoetic.com @thisismissem@hachyderm.io#W3C #SocialCG #20240802 #2024_215 #ActivityPub #ActivityStreams #relAuthor
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Rambaldi
may have hidden so many inventions.
Forecast
When you invent something, you should forecast the impact of your invention in the current cultural (social, political, economic, belief systems) context, and if it
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Finished my second Broken Arrow #Skyrace 23k¹ yesterday in 6:52:44! #RingDasBellThis year’s #BrokenArrowSkyrace² 23k was actually that distance! I ran 23.3km with 4557' vertical climb! In contrast, last year’s "23k" race³ was rerouted (due to weather conditions) last minute t...