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18 Nov 2025
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. #Cloudflare #Outage #NJTransit #ChatGPT #Shopify #Dropbox tantek.com/t5fA1

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🎃 Night before #IndieWebCamp #Berlin! Participants are tucked into their beds, dreaming of what things they can brainstorm for their personal sites Saturday, and #HackTheirPlanet on Sunday. Keep up with their feeds & more: indieweb.org/2025/Berlin#Fee… 👻 tantek.com/t5es1
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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: #Hacktoberfesttantek.com/t5er1

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… 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! holopin.io/hacktoberfest2025… via @holopin_ Personal site link: tantek.com/t5ep1
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Saturday was my 20th #Wikipedia editing anniversary. I’ve created 25 articles and 100 redirects. Five this year: * Governors Public Health Alliance * #RaptureTok * Northeast Public Health Collaborative * West Coast Health Alliance * Take California More: tantek.com/2025/300/t20/wiki…

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fire, water, wind, steam, electric, solar, nuclear tantek.com/t5dt1

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The Vision for #W3C has been published as a W3C Statement: w3.org/TR/2025/STMT-w3c-visi… As one of the editors, along with Chris Wilson (@cwilso), I’m both proud of this multi-year W3C Advisory Board effort, and grateful … tantek.com/2025/210/t1/visio… #w3cVision #w3cAB #openWeb #Vision

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Team @microdotblog has done it again. * micro.one * cost: $1 a month Simplest & cheapest way to own your identity & posts. Stop posting in someone else’s garage. Export your Twitter and migrate your Mastodon to your #indieweb home. More: tantek.com/t5_s1

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Do you use #Strava? See my brief notes on how to find and get your 2024 #YearInSport before it disappears after January 6th! Save your info locally so you can #ownYourData and write and publish your year in sport on your #indieweb site instead. More: tantek.com/t5_p3

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1/1 is a good day to publish a year in review on your #indieweb site. Services that create a year in review weeks beforehand (e.g. #Spotify #Unwrapped or #Strava #YearInSport), are short-changing you. No one asked for an 11 months in review. More: tantek.com/t5_p2

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Welcome to 2025! 15 years ago I began posting notes on my own #indieweb site first, and only later on #socialMedia. You can too. I am once again asking you to: 1. Get a personal domain name 2. Post on your own site, then syndicate elsewhere #POSSE More: tantek.com/t5_p1

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I’m going to @btconf #Berlin 7-8 Nov and you should too! Great speakers, talks, & side events by @marcthiele crew. The best independent #webdesign, #webdev, inspiration conf in #Europe Get a ticket: btco.nf/t and come to #IndieWebCamp too … tantek.com/t5Zn1

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⚠️ .io domain likely being phased-out (as were .cs & .yu) — 7 suggested steps 1. Avoid buying new #dotIO domains 2. Run a .io service? Make & publicize a transition plan 3. Got an #indieweb .io? Make a transition plan 4. Using a .io e.g. #GitHubPages? … tantek.com/t5ZT1

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I have put a lot of thought into deliberately shifting metaphors, often in the context of the #indieweb. One goal is to replace use of violent or divisive metaphors with actively constructive, cooperative, or joyful alternatives like: * gardening/farming… tantek.com/t5ZR1

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Happy October! For some reason this month has a plethora of daily blogging or other creativity prompts. Here’s a few I found: * #Blogtober (consider this post my first for this, retroactively day 1) * Inktober — inktober.com/ * LOLtober … tantek.com/2024/277/t2/octob…
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Last week I participated in #w3cTPAC 2024. It was quite packed, and often started early, from 8am informal breakfast meetings at a nearby IHOP, to Working Group, Community Group, and other small group meetings every day (but Wednesday) til 18:00. … tantek.com/2024/277/t1/w3ctp…

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