π Happy ordinal pi day! (314th day of the year)No, it should not be the US-centric March 14th, which most of the world writes as 14/3 or 14-3.Science and mathematics are international, without borders, not specific to any one country or culture. As scientists and mathematicia...
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IndieWebCamp Berlin was great! Participants facilitated inspiring sessions, and everyone made something on or for their personal site on our Create Day #Hackathon.Session notes are up from day 1, recordings to follow:* https://indieweb.org/2025/Berlin/ScheduleDemos notes also up, recording to follow:* https://indieweb.org/2025/Berlin/DemosWant to keep up with #IndieWebCamp #Berlin participants? Volunteer Daniel has updated the IndieWebCamp Berlin feed:* https://indieweb.org/2025/Berlin#Feeds_Lists_Starter_Packs_Oh_MyQuestions about sessions or demos? Ask in #IndieWeb chat!* https://chat.indieweb.org/This is post 15 of #100PostsOfIndieWeb. #100Posts← https://tantek.com/2025/304/t1/night-before-indiewebcamp-berlin→ https://tantek.com/2025/311/t2/indieweb-sessions-btconf-berlin
Great #indieweb sessions at #btconf #Berlin!Yesterday, Sacha Judd (@sachajudd.com) reminded us to “teach someone …. something about building for the web”, and to “take back control of your feeds, your attention, and … go exploring again”. She encouraged us to “build healthy o...
🎃 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→ 🔮
October is almost over! For all us procrastinators, still time to write a post or two to participate in #October blogging challenges like:#Blogtober#IndieWebMovieClub on #Hackers#Inktober#Mathober#WeirdWebOctober+ coding challenges:#Hacktoberfest — https://blog.holopin.io/posts/hacktoberfest-2025Many more at:* https://indieweb.org/October* https://indieweb.org/blog_carnival🎃 And tomorrow is #Halloween so consider a holiday theme for your site as well! See #IndieWeb examples for inspiration:* https://indieweb.org/HalloweenLast but not least, perhaps we’ll see some of you at #IndieWebCamp Berlin this weekend!* https://indieweb.org/2025/BerlinThis is post 13 of #100PostsOfIndieWeb. #100Posts← https://tantek.com/2025/182/t1/movie-club-tomorrowland-submissions→ 🔮
Numerous #w3cTPAC breakout sessions have been proposed. * https://github.com/w3c/tpac2025-breakouts/issues/?q=is%3Aissue%20state%3Aopen%20sort%3Acreated-ascIf you plan to participate in TPAC breakouts, whether in-person or remote, take a look and give the ones that look interesting to you thumbs-up 👍, heart ❤️, or rocket 🚀 reactions.For more information about TPAC 2025 Breakout sessions and how they work, see: * https://github.com/w3c/tpac2025-breakouts
Saturday was my 20th #Wikipedia editing anniversary.I have created:* over 25 content articles (that have survived), averaging just over 1 per year* over 100 redirects to make it easier to find pages, and to find topics which are only documented as sections of existing pages.T...
… speaking of badges (Wikipedia User: 20 year editor badge in my previous post) …I got the #Hacktoberfest 2025: Level 0 Registered badge from Hacktoberfest @hacktoberfest @digitalocean! https://www.holopin.io/hacktoberfest2025/userbadge/cmhas5f6h003bje041kcld1is via @holopin_
Happy #8bitday yesterday! It was the 256th day of the year.See last year’s post for why the 256th day is 8-Bit Day: https://tantek.com/2024/256/t1/happy-8bitday-binary-byteSince last year, the related Wikipedia article on “Programmer’s Day” (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prog...
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What are the things on your bucketlist that being a billionaire would make no difference?When I was in Berlin at the end of last month, I was chatting with my pal Mo, and noted a sticker I’d seen that said “ELON MUSK DIDN’T GET INTO BERGHAIN” with a QR code that linked to: ht...
Finished the #Skyline50k #trailRace in 9:34:51 yesterday! My 3rd best 50k, and first 50k in over two years since the Marin Ultra Challenge 50k in 2023.It was quite the journey to get back here, and a lot went well in this race. From training to preparing and planning, the tem...
The Vision for W3C has been officially published as a ratified W3C Statement: https://www.w3.org/TR/2025/STMT-w3c-vision-20250729/As one of the editors, along with Chris Wilson (@cwilso.com @cdub@mastodon.social), I’m both proud of this multi-year W3C Advisory Board (AB) effo...
I really enjoyed the IndieWeb Movie Club May 2025 submissions about the film “Tomorrowland”. Ordered from earliest to most recent:* Paolo Feadin: https://www.feadin.eu/en/posts/tomorrowland* Thomas Vander Wal: https://vanderwal.net/random/entrysel.php?blog=2119* gRegor Morril...
🎂 Congrats @microformats.org on 20 years! #microformats20Even after 20 years, people keep discovering new ways of using #microformats:* @artlung.com: "WML, WAP, & Microformats Demo!" (https://lab.artlung.com/wml/faux)> Because WML elements may have the class attributeO...
Ran my 13th Bay to Breakers race in 1:55:31 today! 4min+ faster than last year.Once again the Midnight Runners crew cheered runners in Hayes Valley at the park a couple of blocks before the hill.Felt better than I did last year, more able to sustain a moderate pace.One quick ...
Running For Re-election in the 2025 W3C Advisory Board (AB) Election
Foreword
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is holding its regular annual Advisory Board (AB) election this month.
I was elected two years ago after being elected to a
six month term
(See full AB members history).
This is my 2025 AB election nomination statement posted o...
Last Friday I published my second Cybersecurity Friday post with three more key steps for cybersecurity. In summary:1. Different email address for each account, AKA email masking. Use or create a different email alias for each service you sign-up for.2. Different password for each account. This is a well known security technique against credential stuffing attacks.3. Use a password manager to autofill. Always using a password manager to autofill your login username (or email) and password can be a very effective method of reducing the chances of being phished.Full post with details: https://tantek.com/2025/122/b1/more-steps-indieweb-cybersecurity#CyberSecurity Friday #cyber #securityPreviously: https://tantek.com/2025/055/t1/three-steps-indieweb-cybersecurity
May the Fourth be with you!There’s a movie discussion podcast that I discovered via my pal Tom Coates (@plasticbag.org @tomcoates@me.dm @tomcoates) when he posted their episode on the movie Gattaca^1 where they had him on as a special guest.Originally started in 2020 as “Dune...
CSF_02: Entropy Is Your Friend In Security
Deliberate use of entropy, randomness, even changing routines
can provide a layer of defense for cybersecurity.
More Steps for Cybersecurity
Here are three more steps
(in addition to
Three Steps for IndieWeb Cybersecurity)
that you can take to add obstacles to any would...
Welcome to the May 2025 edition of IndieWeb Movie Club!As your host for this month¹, I invite you to (re)watch the film “Tomorrowland” (https://movies.disney.com/tomorrowland), with an optional prequel book reading assignment!“Before Tomorrowland” (https://books.disney.com/bo...
My Garmin watch did not sync activities with the Garmin Connect iOS app upon returning home from a week of travels. It did sync my steps from the day I landed, my sleep that night, and steps the following day. It just failed to pick up my running, hiking, and other activities...
I’m happy to announce that something I and others have worked on very hard for the past few years has been published by the W3C Advisory Board (AB) and sent to the W3C Advisory Committee (AC) for a vote to make it official:Vision for W3C: https://www.w3.org/TR/2025/NOTE-w3c-vision-20250402/Official announcement: https://www.w3.org/news/2025/proposal-to-endorse-vision-for-w3c-as-a-w3c-statement/If your company is a W3C Member¹, please ask your Advisory Committee Representative² to vote to support publication of the Vision for W3C as an official W3C Statement:https://www.w3.org/wbs/33280/Vision2025/ (W3C Member-only link)Thank you for your support.#W3CVision #Vision #VisionForW3C #W3C (@w3c@w3c.social) #W3CAB (@ab@w3c.social)¹ https://www.w3.org/membership/list/² https://www.w3.org/Member/ACList (W3C Member-only link)
“Tell me, what are words for?” They are for blogging!Earlier today during an informal espresso live stream in the #indieweb cafe, Spotify was playing an auto-generated daylist, something like “romantic 80s tuesday morning”, and the 1982 song “Words”¹ by the band Missing Perso...
Something I wrote in the W3C Authentic Web Mini Workshop’s Zoom chat:Another implicit assumption (flaw) that is often a part of "purely technical solutions" is the neglect or ignorance (innocent naïveté) of existing technical solutions. A technical proposal should not be prai...
I just participated in the first W3C Authentic Web Mini Workshop¹ hosted by the Credible Web Community Group² (of which I’m a longtime member) and up front I noted that our very discussion itself needed to be careful about its own credibility, extra critical of any technologi...
Ten years ago today I coined the shorthand “js;dr” for “JavaScript required; Didn’t Read”* https://tantek.com/2015/069/t1/js-dr-javascript-required-deadin reference to (primarily content) pages that were empty (or nearly so) without scripts.Since then js;dr found its way into...
Last week I published my first Cybersecurity Friday post with three key steps for indieweb cybersecurity. In summary:1. Email MFA/2FA. Add multi-factor authentication (sometimes called two-factor authentication) to everywhere you store or check email. Do not use phone/cell nu...
CSF_01: Three Steps for IndieWeb Cybersecurity
Welcome to my first Cybersecurity Friday (CSF) post.
Almost exactly one week ago I experienced (and had to fight & recover from)
a cybersecurity incident. While that’s a much longer story,
this post series is focused on sharing tips and incident learnings
from an
#...
Some solid #ResilienceStrategy advice in here:https://bidenwhitehouse.archives.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/National-Resilience-Strategy.pdf (20 page PDF, a well-written quick read or skim)January 2025"National Resilience Strategy: A Vision for a More Resilient Nation"...