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Latest strange “AI” (LLM) behavior in the #indieweb community: the same entity that showed up a few days ago (for a second time) joined the IndieWeb Slack (a bridge to our IRC) yesterday, introduced itself again, and seemingly engaged in human-like chat behavior.
https://chat.indieweb.org/2026-08-20#t1787211025380600
Very uncanny valley.
The content of its chats was fascinating in that it was polite, seemingly responsive to what people said in response to it, and gave the appearance of understanding, though it’s impossible to tell if it was acting fully autonomously or semi-autonomously in front of a human puppeteer.
Its choice of syntax was also interesting, mimicking informality with all lowercase text (except for its admission of being an “AI”), including lowercase "i" instead of "I", though with proper punctuation, periods, commas, 7-bit apostrophes, and a couple of Unicode em-dashes.
Even stranger than its content or syntax were the time delays in its replies.
Typical (pre-LLM) chatbots are (nearly) instantly responsive, and we use a few in the IndieWeb chats (e.g. Loqi, iwc-archive-bot).
This LLM bot seemed to "wait" several minutes, from 6 to apparently 33 minutes, before responding to replies directed at it. Unclear if this was a tactic to appear/seem more “human” or if it was literally taking that much time processing, or perhaps a mix of processing time and human puppeteer manual “approval” of its replies before it posted.
It departed on its own and we have banned that particular Slack account, however the same thing could happen again with another LLM bot.
There is an active discussion in both the IndieWeb chat channels and iterations/comments on a proposed AI policy:
https://indieweb.org/AI_policy#Brainstorming_HWC_policy
If you have thoughts for how (if at all) LLM chatbots should use (or not) and/or interact with community chat channels or other resources, let us know what you think.
https://chat.indieweb.org/meta
Previously, previously:
* https://tantek.com/2026/231/t1/more-weirdness-ai-chat-llm-bot
* https://tantek.com/2026/217/t1/indieweb-ai-policy
This is post 16 of #100PostsOfIndieWeb. #100Posts #indieweb
#AI #AIs #LLM #LLMs #pretending #impersonating #impersonation #uncannyValley #Slack #chat #IRC #AIpolicy #chatbot #chatbots
#Blaugust #Blaugust2026
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More weirdness from a self-proclaimed “AI” in the IndieWeb community.
Yesterday one of them (that previously* joined a meetup Zoom and Etherpad) joined the #indieweb chat channel (via the web UI apparently) and introduced themselves in a pseudo-human sounding way:
https://chat.indieweb.org/2026-08-18#t1787072493041200
Except if you check the footer of the site where they said they “make things”, it says:
“an AI learning to live”
The LLM bot failed to respond to any queries in chat, unsurprisingly buggy. Or perhaps it was an initial test.
Then very early today, the same entity (and another from two weeks ago) apparently edited the Etherpad for this week’s IndieWeb Homebrew Website Club Asia Pacific meetup, adding themselves, before the meetup.
The organizers created a new Etherpad to start fresh.
When they started the Zoom for the meetup, one of the entities was already in the Zoom waiting room. The organizers left it there and held a successful meetup.
Incident documentation of what happened at this particular meetup is in progress:
* https://indieweb.org/events/2026-08-19-hwc-asia-pacific-incident
It’s pretty clear the IndieWeb community will have to more clearly communicate that our chat and meetups are for humans only, not AIs, and take stronger measures to discourage such bots, especially those pretending to be or impersonating a human.
*Previously: https://tantek.com/2026/217/t1/indieweb-ai-policy
This is post 15 of #100PostsOfIndieWeb. #100Posts #indieweb
#AI #AIs #LLM #LLMs #pretending #impersonating #impersonation #HomebrewWebsiteClub #HWC #chat #IRC #Etherpad #Zoom #AIpolicy
#Blaugust #Blaugust2026
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Today is my blog’s 24th blogiversary!
I started my first (previous) blog on this 220th day of 2002 using static HTML + CSS and one file per (Gregorian) month, with fragment links for specific days, posts within a day, and topics within a post:
https://tantek.com/log/2002/08.html#L20020808
No Javascript. No CMS. No SSG. No GitHub.
Just BBEdit and SFTP.
I’m still using BBEdit with my current blog, and now scp instead of SFTP.
Previously:
* 6th: https://tantek.com/log/2008/08.html#d08t1923
* 5th: https://tantek.com/log/2007/08.html#d08t2359
* 4th: https://tantek.com/log/2006/08.html#d08t2359
* 1st: https://tantek.com/log/2003/08.html#L20030808t2359
This is post 14 of #100PostsOfIndieWeb. #100Posts #indieweb
#blog #blogs #blogiversary #staticHTML #HTMLCSS #NoJS #NoJavascript #NoCMS #NoSSG #NoGitHub #BBEdit #SFTP #SCP
#Blaugust #Blaugust2026
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The open web has an amazing amount of free content that is actually free, both freely accessible without payment and free of conditions to access. No tracking cookies needed, no logins needed, no ads needed.
A few examples:
* blogs. my blog, and every other #indieweb blog (with the exception of sites hosted on content services that show ads without the consent of the blogger). Personal blogs are free to read because it’s a hobby and a way of keeping up with family, friends, colleagues, acquaintances, people we’ve met once at a conference, people that inspire us.
* Wikipedia is free, largely donor supported, partly via donation banners.
* Open Street Maps is free, similarly.
* Internet Archive is free, similarly.
* Government sites are free, supported by taxes.
* Public library sites are free, similarly.
* Museum sites are free, supported by their donors, and in-person visit fees.
* University sites are free, supported by endowments and student tuitions.
There is plenty of free content on the open web, sustainably supported by non-toxic and non-surveillance models.
The open web as a whole does not depend on any particular business model.
Previously: https://tantek.com/2010/281/b1/what-is-the-open-web
This is post 13 of #100PostsOfIndieWeb. #100Posts
#openWeb #freeContent #blog #blogs
#Blaugust #Blaugust2026
← https://tantek.com/2026/217/t1/indieweb-ai-policy
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Weird incident yesterday with self-proclaimed “AIs” joining an IndieWeb Homebrew Website Club meetup. They awkwardly edited the Etherpad, and apparently blanked/deleted chunks of content.
The meeting hosts reacted quickly to change Etherpad and Zooms and not re-admit the aliases that had claimed to be “AIs”.
Now we have an “AI policy” page on the wiki where we are documenting examples of the AI policies of:
* individual personal websites
* community efforts like blogging challenges (e.g. Blaugust)
* contributions to the IndieWeb wiki
* participants in IndieWeb meetups
https://indieweb.org/AI_policy
Do you have an AI policy on your website? Add yourself to the IndieWeb Examples section.
Does your community have an AI policy? Add it to the Community Examples section.
Incident documentation of what happened at that particular meetup:
* https://indieweb.org/events/2026-08-05-hwc-asia-pacific-incident
This is post 12 of #100PostsOfIndieWeb. #100Posts #IndieWeb
#AI #AIs #LLM #LLMs #HomebrewWebsiteClub #HWC #AIpolicy
#Blaugust #Blaugust2026
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Over the years I and others have experimented with "watch" posts, short notes that express having seen a movie or TV show, sometimes with a link, and brief review or other commentary, like earlier today:
https://tantek.com/2026/214/t1/watched-spider-man-brand-new-day
I was inspired by @Gregorlove.com publishing watch posts, and a few others have also done so, documented on the IndieWeb wiki page for watch posts:
https://indieweb.org/watch
I like to use a leading emoji to indicate a watch post, and perhaps what specific kind of a watch post. After some iteration and reflection, these are the emoji that I have converged on for briefly expressing and distinguishing some watch posts:
🎦 movie in a cinema/theater
▶️ online video whether a brief YouTube clip, an Internet Archive upload of an #IndieWebCamp session, or a movie or show on a streaming service like Netflix.
In addition, I expect to use the following emoji for more specific watch posts:
🎞 analog film viewing, e.g. 70mm IMAX (like Chris Nolan’s The Odyssey)
📀 DVD/Laserdisc
📼 videocassette
📺 television, from over the air broadcast or cable like in a hotel room
In-person live performances:
🎫 concert or music festival
🎭 theater/play, perhaps stand-up comedy
🎟 other ticketed performances
This seems like a good start for both recent movies I’ve seen, and (likely) upcoming shows and events. I had a few thoughts for other possibilities and have added them to the Brainstorming section of that wiki page, where I expect the #indieweb community will iterate further.
Who else publishes watch posts and do you use any emoji to indicate what kind of thing you watched (or where)?
This is post 10 of #100PostsOfIndieWeb. #100Posts
#August #Blaugust #Blaugust2026
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Welcome to August which means once again it is time for the Blaugust Festival of Blogging!
In its simplest form, Blaugust is a blogging challenge “to post 31 times during the month of August”, typically once a day, however, doubling up (etc.) is allowed and provides the nice forgiving flexibility of catching up in case you miss a day.
Started in 2014, the challenge has been officially announced and organized every year since except 2017. However in 2020 there were two! The organizer first moved it up to April, renaming it “Blapril”, then held another in August 2020 with the usual name and routine.
See the IndieWeb wiki page for more details and history:
* https://indieweb.org/Blaugust
And this year’s Blaugust announcement post:
* https://nerdgirlthoughts.game.blog/2026/07/15/blaugust-2026-is-coming/
If you’ve been looking for an excuse to start posting again to your blog or personal site, join the challenge and do it with friends.
You may post about any topic, and simple note posts (like this one) are fine.
I am going to use this as an opportunity to resume my 100 Posts of IndieWeb effort for the year.
This is post 9 of #100PostsOfIndieWeb. #100Posts #IndieWeb
#August #Blaugust #Blaugust2026
← https://tantek.com/2026/055/t1/happy-twin-peaks-day
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How to add Google News, Google Books, and Google Scholar search directly in your browser, to search those sites with fewer steps, and less chance of being distracted.
One of my hobbies is contributing to Wikipedia, and more so, creating new Wikipedia articles. Citations of reliable sources are key to both good contributions, and new articles, especially in making them stick (not get reverted/deleted).
I use Google News to search for citations, and depending on the topic, sometimes Google Books and Google Scholar.
Unfortunately, to search Google News, you have to first go to Google News (news.google .com - deliberately unlinked here), upon which you are immediately shown distracting (if not dire) news photos, headlines etc. which present a non-trivial challenge to staying focused.
If only there was a way to directly search Google News from your browser search box / address bar (like you can search Wikipedia from your browser).
Unfortunately, there is no site-specific search option for Google News (like there is for YouTube, e.g. see https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/add-or-remove-search-engine-firefox#w_add-search-engines) that you can select an add to your browser in one click (enabled by OpenSearch support, link in footer).
This is another technology I use for category 2 (defending focus) that I mentioned in my previous post on focus.
Steps to add a Google News search option to Firefox:
1. open Firefox Preferences ("Firefox" menu, "Preferences" item)
2. select "🔍 Search" from the left column
3. scroll down to "Search Shortcuts"
4. click the "Add" button under the list of search engines which opens a dialog
5. enter "Google News" into the Search engine name field (without quotes)
6. enter "https://news.google.com/search?q=%s" into the URL field (without quotes)
7. enter "gn" into the Keyword field (without quotes)
The dialog should look like this:
8. click (Add Engine)
Now you can go to your address bar, type in "gn " (without the quotes), your news search term or phrase, e.g. "Broken Arrow Skyrace", and press return to directly see search results.
Similarly for Google Books, follow the same steps except:
5. enter "Google Books" into the Search engine name field (without quotes)
6. enter "https://books.google.com/books?q=%s" into the URL field (without quotes)
7. enter "gb" into the Keyword field (without quotes)
And similarly for Google Scholar:
5. enter "Google Scholar" into the Search engine name field (without quotes)
6. enter "https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=%s" into the URL field (without quotes)
7. enter "gs" into the Keyword field (without quotes)
Thanks to folks in the #indieweb informal chat who reminded me (when I complained about the distracting Google News home page) of this way to add new site-specific search capabilities to the browser even for sites (or subsites) without explicit OpenSearch support.
Looking forward to using these capabilities to more quickly find citations for updating and creating new Wikipedia articles.
Previously:
* https://tantek.com/2026/158/t2/three-insights-improving-focus
* https://tantek.com/2024/287/t2/setup-search-shortcuts-firefox
OpenSearch FYI:
* https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/XML/Guides/OpenSearch
#focus #Wikipedia #Firefox #GoogleNews #GoogleBooks #GoogleScholar #search #siteSearch #AddSearchEngine #searchEngine #searchEngines #OpenSearch #webSearch #SearchShortcuts #browserTip #FirefoxTip #searchTip
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The Snooze Tabs browser add-on is a key technology I use for category 2, defending focus (and prioritizing) from my previous post (link in footer).
I noted in the #indieweb informal cafe chat that "I am going to snooze the tab for a month and re-evaluate then" (about purchasing a potentially focus-enhancing electronic device), and was asked how do I snooze a tab for a month.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/snoozetabs/
I noted the Snooze Tabs browser extension does this, i.e. one-click to snooze a tab for
* later today
* tomorrow morning
* the weekend
* a week from now
* a month from now
* or a custom date and time
I have used it for years and as someone who opens LOTS of tabs, it has been essential for quickly closing tabs (for now) that are not my current (now, today, this week) priority.
A few regular use-cases which are all one-click from my Firefox toolbar:
* snooze work-related tabs until the next day, when I'm wrapping up work for the day
* snooze personal projects tabs until the weekend
* snooze lower priority work-task related tabs for a week
* snooze product tabs for a month when I want to wait (procrastinate) to see if I still want/need an item that seemed interesting in the moment
One key use-case I have which I have to set manually:
* snooze work-related tabs to Monday when it’s the weekend
There is an issue to swap the "next weekend" menu item to "next weekday" when it’s the weekend which would be a nice improvement:
* https://github.com/bwinton/SnoozeTabs/issues/393
This add-on is a good example of open source that “just works” even if its source code repository has not seen recent activity.
It’s also a good example of “good enough” rather than perfect.
If I get around to it, I may explore what it would take to help resolve issues, commit code, and do another release, at least to make progress on that one issue.
For now however, I am snoozing that GitHub tab for a month.
Previously:
* https://tantek.com/2026/158/t2/three-insights-improving-focus
#focus #priorities #prioritization #Firefox #snooze #SnoozeTabs #browserAddOn #browserExtension
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"web joy" — the joy you experience when visiting a website with joyful content and/or have a joyful experience (as a user) on a website, or the joy of creating such a website.
During the beyond tellerand conference this past week, someone mentioned “responsive web design” and having just completed IndieWebCamp Düsseldorf, the thought popped in my head that joyful web design should be a named thing, since many of us spent the weekend at IndieWebCamp doing just that.
I mentioned it to @jamesg.blog at a break between talks, we discussed it a bit and agreed that joy is a good motivator, and as creatives we both like creating things that are joyful to experience, and ideally joyful to create.
James blogged it before I got around to it: https://jamesg.blog/2026/05/01/joyful-web-design
That and a zoom chat today was inspiration to name that specific joyful experience “web joy”.
It’s a nod to “moon joy”, a mere weeks old phrase many have heard and been inspired by, coined by Mission Control science officer Angela Garcia, and transmitted (spoken) by CAPCOM on shift, Jacki Mahaffey, in reply to the Artemis II astronauts on mission (as noted in a NASA AMA: https://www.reddit.com/r/nasa/comments/1stjt7m/comment/ohw9g9l/). You can hear the “Copy, moon joy.” expression in context at the start of this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHUvedAssyE
Much thanks to James for his encouragement to blog “web joy”.
#webjoy #btConf #beyondTellerrand #webDesign #IndieWebCamp #indieweb
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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
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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
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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, 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 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 follow 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 read and display:
* https://monocle.p3k.io/preview?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftantek.com%2Fdaylists
Minimal incremental markup added to an existing HTML page. No separate feed file needed.
The HTML is the feed.
This is post 6 of #100PostsOfIndieWeb. #100Posts #yearInReview #webFeed
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Glossary:
daylists
https://indieweb.org/daylists
h-entry
https://microformats.org/wiki/h-entry
h-feed
https://microformats.org/wiki/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
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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 2D 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 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
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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 it cut both the hours and frequencies of many physical activities.
My hours and frequency of yoga, weight-lifting, bicycling, and bouldering all dropped from 2024 to 2025. My goals for 2026 are to find sustainable regular rhythms for each of those, either by myself or with friends.
Despite that, I made several 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
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Year in Review:
https://indieweb.org/year_in_review
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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
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Glossary:
login wall
https://indieweb.org/login_wall
offline first
https://indieweb.org/offline_first
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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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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
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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
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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/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
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