“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 thoughts and opinions.
More and more software includes various “AI” features. The “quotes” are deliberate because there is an increasingly fuzzy popular understanding of what is or is not “AI” that continues to diverge from any specific technical meaning.
Many folks have expressed strong opinions against “AI” features (for lots of reasons which are worth a separate blog post), in particular in web browsers, and a desire for a simple way to disable such features.
Tentatively called an “AI kill switch”, the Firefox team developed both an overall switch to turn off or block various "AI" features by default (including any future features), and the ability to selectively enable specific features. Or vice versa (turn on by default, and selectively disable specific features).
See the official blog post for screenshots and lots more details:
* https://blog.mozilla.org/en/firefox/how-to-use-ai-controls/
I have set my own "Block AI enhancements" setting to "blocked", with the exception of enabling "Translations". Translations are a feature I use often, a feature that requires per-page activation (another degree of user-control), and runs completely locally on my browser. Nothing automatic, nothing that requires submitting what I’m reading to a random server.
For me this was an easy choice because it fits within my prior larger personal preference of using a restricted browser by default, with leaner settings, for greater security, privacy, and performance reasons. I do keep various other browser variants (and profiles) for testing purposes, experiments, or seeing what a new user may be experiencing.
The rest of this post is not about AI.
My Top Two Browser Extensions
As part a more restricted personal browser approach, for a long time I have run with two add-ons that block A LOT more by default:
* NOSCRIPT: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/noscript/
* EFF Privacy Badger: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/privacy-badger17/
I do not use a separate ad blocker. With NOSCRIPT, in general I don’t have to.
I prefer to explicitly grant permission to a site (domain) for its scripts to load. Some sites I use often enough that I've granted persistent permissions for their scripts. Others, third parties in particular, that I know function purely for analytics or tracking I explicitly persistently block, because they seem totally disconnected from any user benefit.
Yes it’s extra work, however, I find it worth seeing just how much each site depends on scripts, third party scripts, and how many.
It’s especially worth it when I'm on slow or intermittent wifi, where every script blocked makes a big difference in how fast a site loads. Yes this is still a problem.
The network is not the computer. The network is the weakest link.
Even now, in 2026, contrary to popular (especially developer) beliefs that fast internet access is ubiquitous, frequently it is not.
If you’re on a train, plane, or at an event with thousands of people like a concert or many conferences, your wifi or even mobile connection will be intermittent or slow at best.
Just this past Saturday at the F1 Exhibition in the San Francisco Marina, the cell networks were overwhelmed due to the crowds, with even “simple” text or chat messages failing to send. Last year at the Portola Festival their wifi was so bad that even if you managed to connect to it, simple HTML pages barely loaded, while native applications dependent on network access failed completely.
JS;DR
Many times if a site fails to display content without JavaScript, I simply close the tab.
I already have so many open tabs to read (process) that I no longer feel any need to read any particular new website that fails to show content without JavaScript. If their web developers can’t be bothered to take the time to implement progressive enhancement, why should I bother to take the time to read their content? More on this:
* https://tantek.com/2025/069/t1/ten-years-jsdr-javascript-required-didnt-read
* https://indieweb.org/js;dr
A subtler form of JavaScript failure is when a site’s content is displayed, however its buttons or even simple hyperlinks fail to function due to scripts not loading:
* https://tantek.com/2012/073/t4/js-ajax-only-tired-waiting-bloated-scripts-sxsw-wifi
Progressive Permissions
On sites that I do allow scripts, I still limit their access to cookies using the Privacy Badger add-on, and only selectively enable them if I’m logging in or otherwise customizing my experience on that site.
When websites immediately request use of a cookie disconnected from any user action that would justify a need for a cookie, it seems both presumptuous, and frankly, a bit pushy or rude. It also seems like rushed or lazy coding.
User requests are what computers are for.
A user-centric approach to any kind of permission or capability, whether cookies or personal information like location, would only request such as part of directly handling an explicit user action that requires the capability.
The simple act of viewing a website should never require cookies, location information, or any other capabilities that require special permissions. E.g.
* If I successfully log into a website, a cookie helps me stayed logged in.
* If I click a "show me my present location" button on a map site, it makes sense to request my location to fullfil that user request.
This probably could have been several blog posts.
Yet the common theme across all of these is user choice.
Whether new features, use of scripts, or privacy impacting features such as cookies or personal location, users should always have the choice and agency to say no, and customize their web browsing experience accordingly.
#Firefox #Firefox148 #AIcontrol #AIkillswitch #JSDR #UserChoice
*Top of post quote paraphrased from Neo in The Matrix Reloaded who said: “Choice. The problem is choice.”
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 a regular sized black iPhone with a flush battery pack attached to its back.
You may search the web for a screen capture or video if you like, or continue with this plain text description.
He's keeping his eyes on the road, and dictating audio.
“Diane, 11:30 a.m., February 24th. Entering the town of Twin Peaks.”
In 1989 he’s dictating a log entry to his presumably human assistant, Diane, for her to transcribe after the fact.
In 2026 (notwithstanding safety and legal concerns while driving) it’s not a stretch to say he could (would likely) be dictating to his (perhaps renamed) digital assistant, Diane, or at least a speech-to-text feature in a note-taking application that would automatically transcribe his words in real time.
Those transcribed words could even be saved as a private post or draft, either locally on his device, or to his personal website, for him to review and clean-up if necessary before publishing to and notifying perhaps a limited audience.
Imagine capturing your thoughts without having to look at a screen. No scrolling to first see what others have said. No attention-distracting alerts or admintax prompts to update an application. Capture your thoughts as they occur, and continue onward, focused on your current task or project, uninterrupted.
Today’s technologies and standards should enable such an interaction, all the way through to storing your dictations in a location of your choice. I wonder if anyone has built this.
This is post 8 of #100PostsOfIndieWeb. #100Posts #IndieWeb #TwinPeaksDay
← https://tantek.com/2026/007/t3/wikipedia-edited-year-in-review
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at the @CSSWG.org (@CSSWG) F2F (face to face) meeting^1, hosted by @Apple.com (@Apple) in Cupertino. Not counting at #w3cTPAC, the prior #CSSWG F2F meeting I went to was 2.5y ago, also in Cupertino, and before that 2019 in SF. Good to see so many longterm colleagues in-person.
#W3C #CSS #webStandards
^1 https://wiki.csswg.org/planning/cupertino-2026
Wikipedia “Edited” 2025 year in review, summarizing from Wikimedia XTools queries, and Wikipedia itself, curated manually for my personal site:
* 7 articles created (new personal best), with several firsts for me. In creation order:
* "Take California" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Take_California) — first music related
* "West Coast Health Alliance" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Coast_Health_Alliance) — first health related
* "Northeast Public Health Collaborative" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northeast_Public_Health_Collaborative)
* "RaptureTok" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RaptureTok) — first hashtag article
* "Governors Public Health Alliance" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Governors_Public_Health_Alliance)
* "Stephanie D'Agostini" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephanie_D%27Agostini) — first comedian
* "Mic Drop Comedy" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mic_Drop_Comedy) — first comedy club
* 2 Category: articles created — first ever for me. In creation order:
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:2025_establishments_in_Hawaii
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:2025_establishments_in_Maryland
* 28 redirects created: https://xtools.wmcloud.org/pages/en.wikipedia.org/Tantek/all/onlyredirects
and
* 1 image uploaded to Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:2025-12-11-stefdag.jpg?photo
In total:
* 272 edits (not counting User: page edits) across Wikipedia and Wikimedia commons
* 229 main Wikipedia articles edits
* 39 Talk: page edits
* 2 Category: page edits (above-mentioned articles created)
* 2 Wikipedia Commons edits
* 329 edits and contributions counting User: page edits: https://xtools.wmcloud.org/globalcontribs/Tantek/all///2025-12-31T01:36:35Z?limit=330
This is my first time posting a Wikipedia “Edited” year in review, despite having edited Wikipedia for 20+ years (https://tantek.com/2025/300/t20/wikipedia-editing-anniversary).
While this #indieweb version of a year in review was fun to make and look back on, since all the data is public, there’s an opportunity here for a service (perhaps another XTool: https://xtools.wmcloud.org/) or open source project to create such a summary for any Wikipedia editor.
Beyond a nicer presentation than plain text lists and numbers, such a summary could include visuals like a graphs of some of these stats over time, like Wikipedia pages created or edits of various kinds each year.
Until then, I encourage everyone editing Wikipedia to make their own “Edited” (I made that up, feel free to pick a better term) year in review and post it on your personal site! Feel free to re-use any of the design or separation of numbers that I chose, or make up your own.
This is post 7 of #100PostsOfIndieWeb. #100Posts #yearInReview #Wikipedia #WikipediaEdited #Wikimedia #WikimediaCommons #XTools
← https://tantek.com/2026/006/t1/2025-people-projects-insights-creations
→ https://tantek.com/2026/055/t1/happy-twin-peaks-day
@hidde.blog (@hdv@front-end.social) not reading or browsing would be amazing. Not publishing on social media is key though. And reading may be the only way to keep up with some people.
@lip.pe (@Lippe@mastodon.social) it depended on the movie and theater. A few movies were packed, a few were about half full, and a few were nearly empty. I only saw one movie in Germany, at the Zoo Palast in Berlin. It was a pretty big auditorium was about one third full. The overall theater and lobby was packed however, long lines to buy tickets and food/drinks.
Beyond aggregated and summarized stats, in 2025 I met a few amazing people (you know who you are), and started a few projects. Most of these projects started with an idea, or recognizing a problem, that inspired invention.
Sometimes the ideas came from observations, shared, questioned, distilled into insights, and sometimes new creations.
During one such conversation over coffee last year, James (https://jamesg.blog/) and I noticed that our Spotify “daylist” list names were often quite entertaining, despite their brevity.
We mused whether it was worth keeping track of the particularly fun or interesting names, even knowing they were automatically generated.
In September 2025, James created a page on his site, a simple HTML list of a few of his fun daylists names, and shared it:
* https://jamesg.blog/daylists
With a single real world #indieweb example, it was enough to stub a wiki page:
* https://indieweb.org/daylists
A little over two months later, during the weekend of 2025 IndieWeb Black Friday Create Day: Build Don’t Buy, I followed James’s example and built my own daylists page with a similar list of names of daylists, adding the datetimes when I had taken screenshots of my daylists.
* https://tantek.com/daylists
Realizing it was a page of items listed in reverse chronological order with datetime stamps, it made sense to mark it up as an h-feed so a social reader could theoretically subscribe to it. The list items had the minimum viable information for h-entry markup: content and a datetime. Minimal information meant only minimal markup was necessary: one nested HTML time element, and a couple of class names.
The list item of just the daylist name I started with:
<!-- a daylist item -->
<li>
cyberpunk synthwave wednesday early morning
</li>
<!-- -->
The name’s coarse textual day and time of day was a handy bit of text to markup with the time element with a numerical date-time for parsers. That plus two h-entry class names:
<!-- minimal h-entry markup for a daylist item -->
<li class="h-entry">
cyberpunk synthwave
<time class="dt-published" datetime="2025-10-15 07:59">wednesday early morning</time>
</li>
<!-- -->
As linked on my daylists page, that plus a little h-feed wrapper is enough to make a web feed that a social reader like Monocle can parse and display:
* https://monocle.p3k.io/preview?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftantek.com%2Fdaylists
Minimal incremental markup added to an existing human readable HTML page.
No separate feed file needed. No XML, XSLT, or JavaScript either.
The HTML is the feed.
A feed that social readers, like Monocle, or Artemis (that James wrote) can directly follow.
Full circle.
And the year before that, James blogged about how publishing an h-feed is also a more efficient, and easier to maintain, method of supporting other formats:
* https://jamesg.blog/2024/06/06/publish-h-feed
This is post 6 of #100PostsOfIndieWeb. #100Posts #yearInReview #webFeed #microformats #microformats2 #hFeed #hEntry #socialReader #socialWeb
← https://tantek.com/2026/005/t1/year-movies-in-theaters
→ https://tantek.com/2026/007/t3/wikipedia-edited-year-in-review
Glossary:
Artemis
https://indieweb.org/Artemis
daylists
https://indieweb.org/daylists
h-entry
https://indieweb.org/h-entry
h-feed
https://indieweb.org/h-feed
IndieWeb Black Friday Create Day
https://indieweb.org/events/2025-black-friday-create-day
Monocle
https://indieweb.org/Monocle
social reader
https://indieweb.org/social_reader
time element
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Reference/Elements/time
My year in movies in theaters, using Fandango > My Orders > History, my Swarm Timeline, and personal recollection, to aggregate a few lists and stats:
I saw 9 new movies in theaters in 2025, two of them multiple times (dates are first viewing)
* 2025-02-20 👹 Captain America: Brave New World
* 2025-05-22 ℹ️ Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning
* 2025-07-20 🦸🏻♂️ Superman (2025)
* 2025-07-26 ⓸ The Fantastic Four: First Steps (2025)
* 2025-10-09 🔻 Tron: Ares
* 2025-11-15 🏃🏻♂️ The Running Man (2025)
* 2025-11-19 🧌 Predator: Badlands
* 2025-12-03 🪄 Now You See Me: Now You Don’t
* 2025-12-14 🧹 Wicked: For Good
In these cities:
* 11x San Francisco
* Berlin
* Boston
* San Diego
At the following movie theaters:
* 6x AMC Metreon Dolby
* 2x AMC Metreon IMAX
* Zoo Palast
* Alamo Drafthouse SF HDR BARCO
* AMC Boston Common IMAX
* Regal Stonestown Galleria ScreenX
* Regal Stonestown Galleria
* AMC Mission Valley 20
In the following formats, in rough order of frequency then features/quality:
* 5x Dolby
* 2x IMAX
* 2x Standard
* 3D IMAX
* 3D Dolby
* HDR BARCO
* ScreenX
* Standard German dub
The latter three were new formats for me this year: HDR BARCO, ScreenX, and Standard German dub.
My preferred movie format is still Dolby, in particular in the Metreon Dolby theater. I’ve been to other “Dolby” theaters (including other AMC Dolby) and none have measured up. Dolby theater audio quality is significantly better than any IMAX theater I have been in.
3D IMAX can look amazing for the right film (e.g. Tron: Ares). In comparison, I was not impressed by 3D Dolby, or any other 3D projection+glasses technologies over the years.
HDR BARCO was very high quality, however, having seen the same film (Tron: Ares, with lots of dark scenes) in both HDR BARCO and Metreon Dolby, I could not see a discernible difference in the visual quality. Perhaps the light pollution from the Alamo Drafthouse's under-table lights interfered with the quality of the HDR BARCO experience.
I archived the page that Alamo Drafthouse had setup for the HDR BARCO Tron: Ares showing:
* https://web.archive.org/web/20251011173709/https://drafthouse.com/sf/event/special-event-tron-ares-hdr-by-barco?cinemaId=0801&sessionId=74102
Unclear why they took the page down.
ScreenX was an entertaining gimmick for the landscapes of Predator: Badlands. I would consider seeing another suitable movie in the format.
Watching a film dubbed in German was an interesting challenge that pushed and exceeded my German speech comprehension skills. I had to use contextual cues, on screen, sci-fi terminology, and the Fantastic Four subject matter to interpret much of it.
I constructed these summary lists by hand, and having completed them, I think next time it might work better to incorporate the raw data into a table with various columns for date, time, film name, theater, auditorium, format, and perhaps more like seat number(s) and the set of us at the viewing. I would not include classic "IMDB" fields like genre, director, writer etc. because all of those are independent of the particular theater/viewing and can easily be looked up on Wikipedia. Duplicating that info in my own personal notes would merely add noise to the signal of each specific movie theater experience.
I’m curious if anyone else has done something like this / is doing this to keep track of the movies they see in theaters, what info to capture about the viewing, what to note about the particular experience, and what to publish on their #indieweb site.
This is post 5 of #100PostsOfIndieWeb. #100Posts #yearInReview #yearInMovies #yearInTheaters
← https://tantek.com/2026/004/t1/year-in-sport
→ https://tantek.com/2026/006/t1/2025-people-projects-insights-creations
My Year in Sport, using data from my Strava, Swarm, and personal notes & recollections, assembled into a simpler summary on my personal site.
2025 activities according to Strava:
🏃🏻♂️1354mi + 160,077' hiking+running
👟 823mi + 119,453' running
⛰ 485mi trail running
🛣 337mi road running
🥾 526mi + 40,624' hiking
🧘🏻♂️ 8h27m yoga
💪🏻 some number of weight-lifting sessions (less than one a week)
🚲 4.6mi + 413' bicycling — only one ride all year somehow(?)
🪨 1 bouldering session (at Movement)
Races:
🏁 3 races, finished 2
🌳 12k Bay to Breakers 1:55:31 https://tantek.com/t5c61
⛰ 50k Skyline: 9:34:51 https://tantek.com/t5dQ1
2025 was a more difficult year than expected, in many ways, and that cut into both hours and frequencies of many physical activities.
My yoga, bicycling, and bouldering activities all dropped from 2024 to 2025. My goals for 2026 for these are to find sustainable regular rhythms for each, either by myself or with friends.
Update: I double-checked my Strava > Progress > See more of your progress, and both my time and frequency of weight-lifting sessions actually increased from 2024 to 2025, from only 17 to 21 activities (~25%), so I am counting that as a minor win that I can build on this year.
I made several distance and vertical climbs on feet improvements in 2025 over 2024:
* Overall: 160,077' climbed, +9.4k' over 150,676' in 2024
* Running: 823mi + 119,453', +20mi +8.3k' over 803mi + 111,155' in 2024
* Hiking: 526mi just barely (+6mi) over 520mi in 2024
* Finished a 50k! First since mid-2023.
I have a few running goals for 2026:
* incrementally faster Bay to Breakers over 2025
* Broken Arrow 23k Skyrace, finish and ideally beat my 2024 time (6h52m)
* finish a 50k trail race, my fifth 50k
I don't have specific metrics goals, like total distance, or feet climbed, or any specific race times (other than beating last year’s times). Those are all secondary to my goals.
Based on how the past few years have gone, I believe these are reasonable goals, yet will take focus and hard work to achieve them.
Lastly, this personalized, #indieweb “year in sport”, reflects much more of what matters to me than any summary from an online service. It’s not perfect and doesn’t need to be. It’s a start and I expect to iterate and improve it next year.
This is post 4 of #100PostsOfIndieWeb. #100Posts #yearInReview #yearInSport
← https://tantek.com/2026/003/t1/seek-2025-year-in-review
→ https://tantek.com/2026/005/t1/year-movies-in-theaters
Glossary:
Year in Review:
https://indieweb.org/year_in_review
My Seek 2025 Year in Review:
* 101 new species observed (down from 141 last year)
Top three kinds:
* 64 new plants (down from 79)
* 14 new insects (down from 20)
* 8 new fungi
* 4 new challenge badges earned (down from 56)
July, June, February were the months I observed the most new species.
Last year: June, March, July.
Seek also gave me a graph of observations per month, and also a map of where I made my discoveries.
As noted last year: https://tantek.com/2025/020/t1/seek-2024-year-in-review
Seek is a delightful free (like actually free, free of tracking, free of surveillance) native mobile application for identifying species.
Made by the iNaturalist folks (https://www.inaturalist.org/pages/seek_app), Seek works:
1. works without creating an account
2. works completely offline to identify species
3. adds new species to your local collection on your device
Those first two capabilities (no login wall, offline first) are what we should aspire to when we build #indieweb apps or websites for ourselves and our friends.
This is post 3 of #100PostsOfIndieWeb. #100Posts #yearInReview #iNaturalist #SeekApp
← https://tantek.com/2026/002/t1/find-export-strava-year-in-sport
→ https://tantek.com/2026/004/t1/year-in-sport
Glossary:
login wall
https://indieweb.org/login_wall
offline first
https://indieweb.org/offline_first
I checked my Strava: Year in Sport 2025 after I did my last run on the 31st, and it felt a bit light. When I checked my saved images/videos from last year’s Strava Year in Sport, it was clear they had dropped several things from 2024 to 2025.
First, here’s updated instructions for finding and exporting your Strava Year in Sport 2025:
The Strava Year in Sport 2025 is once again only available on the native mobile app (iOS and presumably Android) and not accessible via the website.
From the mobile app home screen, tap the "📋 You" button in the lower right corner.
Near the top you should see an orange header with white text:
STRAVA
YEAR IN SPORT
and a black triangle play button on a white disc background.
Tap that ▶️ play button.
Saving Summary Segments
You should fairly quickly see an animation start playing, with nine "segments" (like Instagram stories) at the top, gradually filling-in as progress indicators one at a time.
The first "segment" is purely intro animation. You can skip it.
Every subsequent "segment" you can screenshot using the respective button pressing on your mobile (e.g. volume-up + power on iPhone 14). In addition to taking a screenshot it will put you in a "share" screen with one or more videos or still images to share in a carousel format.
For each item in the carousel (if there is more than one)
1. tap the item in the carousel
2. tap the "[↓] Save" button at the bottom to store it locally on your mobile
Then tap "Cancel" in the top right to go back to the "segments".
Either wait for that current "segment" to finish playing or tap the video near the right edge of the screen to skip to the next "segment" and repeat the two steps above.
The ninth "segment" is your overall summary, and shows all your sports combined.
Save it (using the "[↓] Save" button as noted above), then
* tap the "✏️ Customize" button
* choose an individual sport (e.g. "👟 Run")
* tap "Save changes"
* save that image (with the "[↓] Save" button as above)
* tap customize again
* choose the next sport (e.g. "🚲 Ride")
* "Save changes" again
* "[↓] Save" button again
Strava seemingly only reports summaries of (up to?) two of your sports. Those were Run (presumably all running, street and trail) and Ride for me.
Cleanup Your Screenshots
After having saved all the videos/images for each "segment", you can:
* go back to your mobile’s top level Photos app/stream
* delete the screenshots
You should see all the images you've saved (no videos this year). If anything is missing, go back to the previous steps and save them again, then remove any duplicates as necessary.
I have saved all the images from my own Strava Year In Sport, and as I assemble the pieces into my own Year in Sport post, I’ll take more notes, and add to the IndieWeb year in review page accordingly: https://indieweb.org/year_in_review
Previously: https://tantek.com/2025/001/t3/strava-year-in-sport-how-to-get-info-save
#Strava #yearInSport #yearInReview #ownYourYearInReview
This is post 2 of #100PostsOfIndieWeb. #100Posts
← https://tantek.com/2026/001/t1/no-socials-january
→ https://tantek.com/2026/003/t1/seek-2025-year-in-review
2026 goals I’ve heard:
* Dry January — avoid alcohol
* Meatless January — avoid meat
If you have a personal website, how about also:
* No Socials January — avoid #socialMedia silos
No posting on social media, just for a month (not counting DMs).
Instead, since you have your own website, post there, and see how that feels.
If you don’t have a personal website, make it your goal for the month to set one up. The #IndieWeb folks https://indieweb.org/ can help! Join https://chat.indieweb.org/
Once again I am restarting a #100PostsOfIndieWeb #100Posts project for the year.
This is post 1.
Previously:
* https://tantek.com/2025/001/t1/15-years-notes-my-site-first
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→ https://tantek.com/2025/002/t1/find-export-strava-year-in-sport
2025 #donation suggestions. I #donated to these, #donate to those that resonate:
@ACLU
@CalAcademy
@NAACP
@deYoungMuseum
@ExperienceCamps
@Exploratorium
@EFF
@Wikipedia
@InternetArchive
@SFMOMA
@KQED
@MontereyAq
@SPLCenter
@LongNow
@RPF_EB
@GardensofGGP
@PPact
@Mozilla**
**Disclosure: I work for #Mozilla, on & with open web standards & communities @IndieWebCamp @microformats @WHATWG #W3C supported by @Firefox to provide a more human-centric, private, and secure web for all users.
Previously: https://tantek.com/2024/366/t2/last-donation-please-donate-tonight
Important #indieweb lesson in #modular website setup this morning:
Keep your DNS provider separate from your CDN separate from your webhost, so you can swap out any one of them as necessary, whether for economic or as it were today, reliability reasons. And make sure those services themselves don’t depend on each other.
This is of course regarding the #Cloudflare #outage:
* https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/incidents/8gmgl950y3h7
* https://theguardian.com/technology/2025/nov/18/cloudflare-outage-causes-error-messages-across-the-internet
* https://the-independent.com/tech/cloudflare-down-twitter-not-working-outage-b2867367.html
* https://bbc.com/news/articles/c629pny4gl7o
* https://independent.co.uk/bulletin/news/nj-transit-down-app-cloudfare-outage-b2867457.html
#CloudflareOutage #NJTransit #ChatGPT #Shopify #Dropbox #Coinbase #Twitter/X #modularity #devops
This is post 17 of #100PostsOfIndieWeb. #100Posts
← https://tantek.com/2025/311/t2/indieweb-sessions-btconf-berlin
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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 mathematicians we should seek international-based celebrations that bring us all together around the globe rather than country-specific dates.
The ordinal date (ISO 8601) is the only way to have an international nth day of the year: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ordinal_date
Similarly:
* 88th day: worldwide Piano Day: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piano_Day (blogged https://tantek.com/2024/088/t1/world-piano-day-ordinal-date-iso-8601)
* 256the day: 8-bit day or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programmer%27s_Day (blogged https://tantek.com/2025/257/t1/happy-8bitday-255-bytes-max)
I suspect there are other such annual worldwide holidays that are pinned to the ordinal date rather than a Gregorian or other non-decimal calendar. Let me know if you have a favorite that you celebrate!
🥧 I haven't made a pie (or picked one up) yet — will have go pick up a slice during a break in this evening’s #w3cTPAC meetings (which are in Japan where it’s already the day after pi day).
Previously:
* https://tantek.com/2022/314/t1/happy-ordinal-pi-day
#piDay #actualPiDay #ordinalDate #ISO8601 #ISOdate
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 online neighborhoods”. That’s a great metaphor and very complementary to rebuilding your own home(page) on the web with perhaps a digital garden as well!
Today, Ana Rodrigues (@anarodrigu.es @ohhelloana.blog) connected the dots from Sacha’s reminders to encouraging everyone to join burgeoning healthy online neighborhoods like:
* 32-Bit Cafe (@32bit.cafe and see their Discord & Discourse)
* IndieWeb Community (@indieweb.org and see @chat.indieweb.org for Discord, IRC, Slack)
Both are filled with online neighbors helping and teaching each other how to make what people want to express on and for their personal sites!
Know of other healthy online neighborhoods? Let me know and I’ll add them to the IndieWeb communities page!
Want to connect your online home with online neighbors?
* Join the IndieWeb #webring: https://indieweb.org/IndieWeb_Webring
Prefer events? Join a virtual Frontend Study Hall, Homebrew Website Club meetup, or the next #IndieWebCamp!
Glossary and links:
btconf (Beyond Tellerrand conference) Berlin 2025
https://beyondtellerrand.com/events/berlin-2025
communities (IndieWeb)
https://indieweb.org/communities
digital gardens
https://indieweb.org/digital_garden
home (page) on the web
https://indieweb.org/homepage
Homebrew Website Club (HWC) online and in-person:
https://events.indieweb.org/tag/hwc
Front End Study Hall (FrESH)
https://indieweb.org/fresh
IndieWebCamps - in-person and hybrid!
https://events.indieweb.org/tag/indiewebcamp
This is post 16 of #100PostsOfIndieWeb. #100Posts
← https://tantek.com/2025/311/t1/indiewebcamp-berlin-sessions-demos
→ https://tantek.com/2025/322/t1/modular-website-dns-cdn-webhost
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/Schedule
Demos notes also up, recording to follow:
* https://indieweb.org/2025/Berlin/Demos
Want 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_My
Questions 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
🎃 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_My
We’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
→ https://tantek.com/2025/311/t1/indiewebcamp-berlin-sessions-demos
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-2025
Many 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/Halloween
Last but not least, perhaps we’ll see some of you at #IndieWebCamp Berlin this weekend!
* https://indieweb.org/2025/Berlin
This is post 13 of #100PostsOfIndieWeb. #100Posts
← https://tantek.com/2025/182/t1/movie-club-tomorrowland-submissions
→ https://tantek.com/2025/304/t1/night-before-indiewebcamp-berlin
… 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_
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.
This year I’ve created five content articles (so far). Most recently:
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Governors_Public_Health_Alliance
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RaptureTok
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northeast_Public_Health_Collaborative
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Coast_Health_Alliance
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Take_California
I have had quite the range of experiences editing and creating articles.
Many of my contributions to pages eventually disappeared after iterative edits or outright rewrites. I have seen repetitive wiki edits, repeatedly undoing changes made.
I have also seen others build on my edits, sometimes taking a correction I made and expanding upon it, with more citations, more details, or both.
Over time I learned various techniques, or patterns for editing, especially for creating new pages, to increase their chances of survival, while also discouraging vandalism or other attacks. I have found ways of writing that somehow get other editors to show up and help defend articles.
If I could summarize it in a few words, I'd say aim for short, boring, and factual content (with high-quality citations). New articles work best when they’re similar to and based on existing well-established articles, no matter how small.
I have learned that it is possible to defend the accuracy of an article even if you are outnumbered, by accurately documenting erroneous additions or changes on the article’s :Talk page, along with calm and thorough refutation of those erroneous additions. Doing so makes it much easier to revert any similar changes, and point to the pre-existing analysis on the :Talk page to discourage repetitive edits.
Wikipedia has a fascinating set of rules, guidelines, and mechanisms for working in the open, and especially in the context of attacks by all sorts of bad actors, whether griefers, or politicians and businesses scrubbing (or self-promoting) their image.
I found this article on Wikipedia’s systems and their resilience particularly inspiring:
* https://www.theverge.com/cs/features/717322/wikipedia-attacks-neutrality-history-jimmy-wales
I believe every open source project and open standards organization can learn from how Wikipedia works and thrives, especially in the face of antagonists large and small. I certainly have.
If you do not have a Wikipedia account, I recommend creating one and using it to edit so you too can learn firsthand. Make an account, then browse your areas of interest or expertise to see if you can find pages to improve. Be bold.
I was proud to add the 20 year editor badge to my User page.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:User_Twenty_Year_Society
It’s never too late to start.
Numerous #w3cTPAC breakout sessions have been proposed.
* https://github.com/w3c/tpac2025-breakouts/issues/?q=is%3Aissue%20state%3Aopen%20sort%3Acreated-asc
If 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
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