🎂 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...
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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"...
My Seek 2024 Year in Review:* 141 new species observed, of those, the top three kinds: * 79 plants * 20 insects * 16 fungi* 56 challenge badges earnedJune was the month I observed the most new species in 2024, followed by March, and then July.Seek also gave ...
16 years ago today I wrote up and posted a proposal for a new calendar: newcal.orgHaving long been frustrated by unnecessary unevenness and other quirks of the Gregorian calendar, I designed and wrote up a more ordered, mathematically simpler, and more continuously consistent...
🎉 Eight years ago today, the #IndieWeb Webmention protocol was published as a W3C REC https://www.w3.org/TR/webmention/As a social web building block, #Webmention was designed to work with various other building blocks. Small pieces, loosely joined. Every year developers find...
remembering losing #aaronsw twelve years ago today, and drawing connections with:* Lawrence Lessig’s https://lessig.tumblr.com/post/56888930628/on-the-emptiness-in-the-concept-of-neutrality* Ben Werdmüller’s https://werd.io/2025/building-an-open-web-that-protects-us-from-harm...
Alan Watts wrote in the “The World As Emptiness”:“So in the same way, the coming and going of things in the world is marvelous. They go. Where do they go? Don’t answer, because that would spoil the mystery.”I have to disagree with Watts here.Do ask and DO answer. Again and again. Embrace curiosity, explanation, understanding.Any mystery you can explain will reveal another mystery underneath.There is no spoiling the mystery, there is only the journey of one mystery after another.#meditationThoughts #Kula #meditation #liveMeditation #groupMeditation #AlanWatts #mystery
The team @micro.blog have done it again.They soft-launched https://micro.one yesterday¹.This may be the most accessible onramp to the open social web ever.Cost: $1 a month. Yes you read correctly.This is the simplest and cheapest (where you are the customer, not the product) ...
Yesterday https://last.fm/ (@lastfm) emailed their year in review reports, which they called #Playback24 and Last.Year.Kudos to them for waiting until the new year to do so, and breaking with the pattern of services prematurely posting year in review summaries.¹They’re also a...
The #indieweb is more than #independence. It’s also a web, of both personal sites and “third place” sites like aggregators, bridges, proxies, directories, indexes, and other community sites.Broadly speaking, such “third place” sites include places we collectively contribute t...
When we say #ownYourData we mean whatever data is important to you, like the data services aggregate about you and present back to you. Owning that data means extracting it into a form you can hang onto regardless of what the service does in the future (or disappears), and pu...
The first of a new year seems like a good day to assemble, aggregate, summarize and publish various year in review posts for the prior year.When various online services create a year in review for you many weeks before the end of the year (whether #Spotify #Wrapped or #Strava...
Welcome to 2025!15 years ago today I began posting notes on my own #indieweb site first, and only later on #socialMedia: https://tantek.com/2010/001/t1/declaring-independence-building-itYou can too.I am once again encouraging you start the year with:1. Getting a personal doma...
Last 2024 #donation request: please #donate to any/all tonight!I donated to these, pick ones that resonate with you:@ACLU@NAACP@InternetArchive@Wikipedia@PPact@Mozilla**@EFF@CalAcademy@deYoungMuseum@Exploratorium@MontereyAq@SFMOMA@SFParksAlliance**Disclosure: I work for @Mozilla, on & with open web standards & communities @indiewebcamp @microformats @W3C @WHATWG supported by @Firefox to provide a more human-centric, private, and secure web for all users.Previously: https://tantek.com/2019/365/t1/today-donate-renew-arts-science
Last day of the year and last chance to #donate to worthy causes for 2024!I post a lot about the #indieweb but I’m not asking you to donate to that.Starting this series of non-profit #donation posts with asking you to consider donating to the #independentArts.Choose an #arts organization local to you or one that friends or family are directly involved in.For example: @theatermitu.org (@theatermitu @instagram.com/theatermitu)Theater Mitu is an independent theater arts organization, space, and community that supports numerous artists, shows, and incubates and produces new work!Donation link: https://secure.givelively.org/donate/theater-mitu/the-decade-ahead-10-more-years-of-mitu-in-brooklyn#TheaterMitu #NewYork #NYC #Brooklyn
finished the #InsideTrail Woodside Ramble 35k #trailRace in 7:42:58!21+ miles for the 21st. Happy Winter Solstice!One last dance for 2024. Drove down 101 and saw the orange sunrise between the East Bay mountains and stormy cloud cover. Made it to Huddart Park, parked, got my ...