π Happy International Pi Day! (the 314th day of the year)
🥧 This morning I celebrated with an apple hand pie, purchased from the newest Tartine Bakery in Mill Valley (https://tartinebakery.com/san-francisco/mill-valley) last Saturday. Through trial and error I learned that Reheat at 325F (default) for 4 minutes worked best to heat the filling enough to be very warm, but not hot enough to burn your mouth (settings for a Breville mini oven / “air fryer”).
After several years of celebrating today as “ordinal pi day”, derived from the “ordinal date” standardized by ISO 8601 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601#Ordinal_dates), I decided it merited elevation to International Pi Day, since ordinal dates are an international standard, and counting days works the same worldwide.
As noted in previous years, celebrating pi day on March 14th is US-centric, because more countries (people) write their dates day/month instead of the US month/day convention (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_date_formats_by_country#Usage_map). March 14th is a US National Pi day at best.
It’s about time we declared the only standardized nth day of the year as our method for declaring international number-related holidays.
The list so far of such international nth day of the year holidays:
* 088: World Piano Day
* 256: 8-Bit Day (https://tantek.com/2026/256/t1)
* 314: International Pi Day (or World Pi Day if you prefer)
Previously:
* https://tantek.com/2025/314/t1/happy-ordinal-pi-day
#piDay #internationalPiDay #worldPiDay #actualPiDay #ordinalDate #ordinalDates #ISO8601 #ISOdate #standards #ordinal #pi
🥧 This morning I celebrated with an apple hand pie, purchased from the newest Tartine Bakery in Mill Valley (https://tartinebakery.com/san-francisco/mill-valley) last Saturday. Through trial and error I learned that Reheat at 325F (default) for 4 minutes worked best to heat the filling enough to be very warm, but not hot enough to burn your mouth (settings for a Breville mini oven / “air fryer”).
After several years of celebrating today as “ordinal pi day”, derived from the “ordinal date” standardized by ISO 8601 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601#Ordinal_dates), I decided it merited elevation to International Pi Day, since ordinal dates are an international standard, and counting days works the same worldwide.
As noted in previous years, celebrating pi day on March 14th is US-centric, because more countries (people) write their dates day/month instead of the US month/day convention (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_date_formats_by_country#Usage_map). March 14th is a US National Pi day at best.
It’s about time we declared the only standardized nth day of the year as our method for declaring international number-related holidays.
The list so far of such international nth day of the year holidays:
* 088: World Piano Day
* 256: 8-Bit Day (https://tantek.com/2026/256/t1)
* 314: International Pi Day (or World Pi Day if you prefer)
Previously:
* https://tantek.com/2025/314/t1/happy-ordinal-pi-day
#piDay #internationalPiDay #worldPiDay #actualPiDay #ordinalDate #ordinalDates #ISO8601 #ISOdate #standards #ordinal #pi
A year and a half ago I wrote that MCP wasn't ready for the enterprise. I also said we could fix it!
A year and a half later, we did! The fix is Cross-App Access. Instead of every employee clicking through an OAuth prompt for every app they connect to their AI tools, the connection goes through the company's identity provider. The admin decides which apps can talk to each other, and users never see a consent screen. That's a lot less clicking, and the IT admin finally gets to see what's connected to what.
Back then it was a draft and a hypothetical example. Now it's shipping in over 100 places:
• 12 identity providers issuing ID-JAGs
• 18 authorization servers accepting ID-JAGs
• 11 clients, including Claude
• 34 apps and MCP servers, including Atlassian, Figma, Slack and Zoom
• 17 gateways
• 23 SDKs, libraries and test tools
This isn't one vendor's ecosystem. It's an open spec in the IETF OAuth working group, implemented independently by a lot of different companies. It's also the spec behind Enterprise-Managed Authorization in MCP.
The OAuth working group meets next week at IETF 127 in San Francisco, where we'll work through what's left to finish the draft. The IETF runs on "rough consensus and running code", and boy do we have plenty of running code!
Thanks to everyone who has built, tested and given feedback on this. If you've implemented it and you're not on the list, let me know and I'll add you.
https://oauth.net/cross-app-access/
A year and a half later, we did! The fix is Cross-App Access. Instead of every employee clicking through an OAuth prompt for every app they connect to their AI tools, the connection goes through the company's identity provider. The admin decides which apps can talk to each other, and users never see a consent screen. That's a lot less clicking, and the IT admin finally gets to see what's connected to what.
Back then it was a draft and a hypothetical example. Now it's shipping in over 100 places:
• 12 identity providers issuing ID-JAGs
• 18 authorization servers accepting ID-JAGs
• 11 clients, including Claude
• 34 apps and MCP servers, including Atlassian, Figma, Slack and Zoom
• 17 gateways
• 23 SDKs, libraries and test tools
This isn't one vendor's ecosystem. It's an open spec in the IETF OAuth working group, implemented independently by a lot of different companies. It's also the spec behind Enterprise-Managed Authorization in MCP.
The OAuth working group meets next week at IETF 127 in San Francisco, where we'll work through what's left to finish the draft. The IETF runs on "rough consensus and running code", and boy do we have plenty of running code!
Thanks to everyone who has built, tested and given feedback on this. If you've implemented it and you're not on the list, let me know and I'll add you.
https://oauth.net/cross-app-access/
If you cite a Google Search URL for an “interesting” or especially a new term, use the "npfr=1" query parameter to force Google to return results for your literal search, instead of auto-correcting it, either to a related older term, or potentially something new and popular in the future.
E.g. If I wanted to direct you to search results for the word "faschadenfreude“, I would share this link:
https://www.google.com/search?q=faschadenfreude&nfpr=1
Without the "nfpr" parameter, the query would have redirected to showing you results for merely "schadenfreude“.
Due to some amount of recency bias in search (and LLM) indices, news and other events can impact what words and phrases are these services redirect you to. Since new words and phrases can and will get more attention, there’s no way to predict if or when any search you link to will be redirected to something else in the future.
The only way to be sure a Google search results link in a blog post shows what you intend is to add the "&nfpr=1" URL query parameter to the link in your post.
This is post 22 of #100PostsOfIndieWeb. #100Posts #indieweb
← https://tantek.com/2026/263/t1/slack-pro-free-trial-old-posts-dms
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#search #GoogleSearch #tip #searchTip #GoogleTip #GoogleSearchTip
E.g. If I wanted to direct you to search results for the word "faschadenfreude“, I would share this link:
https://www.google.com/search?q=faschadenfreude&nfpr=1
Without the "nfpr" parameter, the query would have redirected to showing you results for merely "schadenfreude“.
Due to some amount of recency bias in search (and LLM) indices, news and other events can impact what words and phrases are these services redirect you to. Since new words and phrases can and will get more attention, there’s no way to predict if or when any search you link to will be redirected to something else in the future.
The only way to be sure a Google search results link in a blog post shows what you intend is to add the "&nfpr=1" URL query parameter to the link in your post.
This is post 22 of #100PostsOfIndieWeb. #100Posts #indieweb
← https://tantek.com/2026/263/t1/slack-pro-free-trial-old-posts-dms
→ 🔮
#search #GoogleSearch #tip #searchTip #GoogleTip #GoogleSearchTip
faschadenfreude, noun
definition: joy or pleasure from seeing fascists lose, suffer, and experience other misfortunes, especially as consequences, direct and indirect, for their words and actions.
etymology: portmanteau of 'fascists' and 'schadenfreude'.
see also FAFO.
inspiration:
* https://www.vanityfair.com/story/midterms-republican-watch-party-blue-wave
* https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/nov/07/flip-voters-trump-midterms
* https://theconversation.com/donald-trumps-republicans-suffer-landslide-defeat-what-this-means-for-the-world-295769
* https://www.nytimes.com/2026/11/07/us/turning-point-arizona-midterms.html
* https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/nov/08/trump-midterms-voters-mirror-world
* https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/nov/04/fox-news-midterm-ratings
#blueWave #blueTsunami #Schadenfreude #FAFO #FAAFO #consequences #USMidtermElections #USElections2026 #USElection2026 #USElection #USPolitics #Midterms2026 #Midterms26 #Midterms #Election2026 #Elections2026 #Elections26
definition: joy or pleasure from seeing fascists lose, suffer, and experience other misfortunes, especially as consequences, direct and indirect, for their words and actions.
etymology: portmanteau of 'fascists' and 'schadenfreude'.
see also FAFO.
inspiration:
* https://www.vanityfair.com/story/midterms-republican-watch-party-blue-wave
* https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/nov/07/flip-voters-trump-midterms
* https://theconversation.com/donald-trumps-republicans-suffer-landslide-defeat-what-this-means-for-the-world-295769
* https://www.nytimes.com/2026/11/07/us/turning-point-arizona-midterms.html
* https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/nov/08/trump-midterms-voters-mirror-world
* https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/nov/04/fox-news-midterm-ratings
#blueWave #blueTsunami #Schadenfreude #FAFO #FAAFO #consequences #USMidtermElections #USElections2026 #USElection2026 #USElection #USPolitics #Midterms2026 #Midterms26 #Midterms #Election2026 #Elections2026 #Elections26
Many thanks to Everest Pipkin for teaching The Browser is Already a Game Engine this past summer.
Even more thanks for putting together this showcase of student projects from the session!
https://projects.sfpc.study/the-browser-speaks/
Click through and may fortune smile upon you!
Damn. Shame we were without Mali. No margin for error now, or we will miss the playoff.
We look so soft. Getting absolutely bullied. Can’t punch it in from the one. Can’t get home on pressure. Offense is weak. Not great.
🎵 Oh hell yeah, there’s a new La Roux album, Old Flames: youtu.be/qTwaC9UCt0c
Want to read: A Resistance History of the United States by (ISBN 9781586424367)
Want to read: Extremely Online by (ISBN 9781982146894)
