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“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 Persons came on. When […]

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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 praised for what it […]

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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 technologies discussed or […]

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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-dead in reference to (primarily content) pages that were empty (or nearly so) without scripts. Since then js;dr found its way into a book […]

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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 numbers. 2. Domain […]

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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" While […]

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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 earned June was the month I observed the most new species in 2024, followed by March, and then July. Seek also gave me a graph of observations per […]

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16 years ago today I wrote up and posted a proposal for a new calendar: newcal.org Having 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 calendar […]

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🎉 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 new ways to […]

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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 Two points of […]

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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 […]

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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) way to own […]

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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.¹ They’re also available on the […]

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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 to, and which […]

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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 publishing whatever […]

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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 #Unwrapped or #Strava #YearInSport) […]

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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-it You can too. I am once again encouraging you start the year with: 1. Getting a personal domain name 2 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 bib, pinned it […]

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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 registration […]

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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 have a blog and […]

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~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 some in months or […]

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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/walk sessions […]

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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 one Collectively we proposed and facilitated 11 breakout sessions³ on […]

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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 […]

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Last week at a #HomebrewWebsiteClub session¹ I pointed 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 flexible to […]

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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 […]

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Bing use-case! AKA One Weird Trick Time And Date Sites Hate In 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.g. I type this […]

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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 default search […]

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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 everyone’s […]

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