Finished my second Broken Arrow #Skyrace 23k¹ yesterday in 6:52:44! #RingDasBell
This year’s #BrokenArrowSkyrace² 23k was actually that distance! I ran 23.3km with 4557' vertical climb! In contrast, last year’s "23k" race³ was rerouted (due to weather conditions) last minute to two laps of the 11k course, where my actual distance was 18.87km with 4905' vert.
I have been looking forward to this all year, to climbing the infamous "Stairway to Heaven" ladder to the top of Washeshu Peak (8885'/2692m elevation) for the first time (since last years’s race had to skip it).
This year’s Broken Arrow is the start of the Mountain Running World Cup⁴. It’s a rare sports event opportunity to compete with the best in the sport, to literally run the same trails they do, on the same day, with the same start (there are no waves), and finish line.
Lots to write-up, for now, I’m grateful for the experience and accomplishment.
Super grateful for everyone who came out to cheer and especially my coach whose training and guidance got me here.
A few notes:
Great lining up with so many friends.
Hot day. Filled my ice bandana at the first aid station (Snow King) which made the rest possible.
Steady hydration & fueling.
Fueling timeline notes (times are my H:MM race clock times from the start)
0:00 start 1:45 ate Picky Bar 2:00 finished Tailwind in 500ml bottle 2:08 Snow King aid station, refilled bottles one with water and the other with mandarin Tailwind, filled ice bandana with ice, picked up a few Spring Energy gels 3:15 ate Awesome Sauce gel 3:45 ate Awesome Sauce gel ~4:30 left Siberia aid station with refilled ice bandana, bottles, a few Spring Snacks, ate potato chips, a watermelon slice, salt+nuun add to one water bottle, mandarin Tailwind in the other 5:05 ate Awesome Sauce gel 5:35 (-13:39) left Julia aid station with another Spring Energy gel 6:03 ate Awesome Sauce gel 6:52:44 finish
Lots of incredible views along the way. The air was clean and quite breathable even nearing 9000'. Felt a bit slower but kept going within my capacity.
Kept an eye on the time remaining before cut-off compared to my distance and vert climbing remaining and pushed steadily when I could.
Finished with just over 7 minutes to spare before the official cut-off, to friends cheering on all sides. Saw and hugged my coach after ringing the bell at the finish.
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"text": "Finished my second Broken Arrow #Skyrace 23k\u00b9 yesterday in 6:52:44! #RingDasBell\n\nThis year\u2019s #BrokenArrowSkyrace\u00b2 23k was actually that distance! I ran 23.3km with 4557' vertical climb! In contrast, last year\u2019s \"23k\" race\u00b3 was rerouted (due to weather conditions) last minute to two laps of the 11k course, where my actual distance was 18.87km with 4905' vert.\n\nI have been looking forward to this all year, to climbing the infamous \"Stairway to Heaven\" ladder to the top of Washeshu Peak (8885'/2692m elevation) for the first time (since last years\u2019s race had to skip it).\n\nThis year\u2019s Broken Arrow is the start of the Mountain Running World Cup\u2074. It\u2019s a rare sports event opportunity to compete with the best in the sport, to literally run the same trails they do, on the same day, with the same start (there are no waves), and finish line.\n\nLots to write-up, for now, I\u2019m grateful for the experience and accomplishment.\n\nSuper grateful for everyone who came out to cheer and especially my coach whose training and guidance got me here.\n\nA few notes:\n\nGreat lining up with so many friends. \n\nHot day. Filled my ice bandana at the first aid station (Snow King) which made the rest possible. \n\nSteady hydration & fueling.\n\nFueling timeline notes (times are my H:MM race clock times from the start)\n\n0:00 start\n1:45 ate Picky Bar\n2:00 finished Tailwind in 500ml bottle\n2:08 Snow King aid station, refilled bottles one with water and the other with mandarin Tailwind, filled ice bandana with ice, picked up a few Spring Energy gels\n3:15 ate Awesome Sauce gel\n3:45 ate Awesome Sauce gel\n~4:30 left Siberia aid station with refilled ice bandana, bottles, a few Spring Snacks, ate potato chips, a watermelon slice, salt+nuun add to one water bottle, mandarin Tailwind in the other\n5:05 ate Awesome Sauce gel \n5:35 (-13:39) left Julia aid station with another Spring Energy gel\n6:03 ate Awesome Sauce gel\n6:52:44 finish\n\nLots of incredible views along the way. The air was clean and quite breathable even nearing 9000'. Felt a bit slower but kept going within my capacity. \n\nKept an eye on the time remaining before cut-off compared to my distance and vert climbing remaining and pushed steadily when I could.\n\nFinished with just over 7 minutes to spare before the official cut-off, to friends cheering on all sides. Saw and hugged my coach after ringing the bell at the finish.\n\nWhat an experience.\n\n#BrokenArrowSkyrace #trailRace #trailRun #trailRunner #runner #running #trailRunning\n\n\u00b9 https://www.brokenarrowskyrace.com/23k\n\u00b2 https://ultrasignup.com/register.aspx?did=106489\n\u00b3 https://tantek.com/2023/178/t1/june-trailrunner-ultrarunner\n\u2074 https://worldathletics.org/news/preview/mountain-running-world-cup-2024-opens-broken-arrow",
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Had a (fireball) blast running Joel and Andy of the Silver Linings Playback Podcast through some loosey goosey Dungeons & Dragons as we discussed the loosey goosey 2000 film adaptation Dungeons & Dragons.
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"text": "Had a (fireball) blast running Joel and Andy of the Silver Linings Playback Podcast through some loosey goosey Dungeons & Dragons as we discussed the loosey goosey 2000 film adaptation Dungeons & Dragons.\nhttps://www.hobotrashcan.com/2024/06/24/silver-linings-playback-213-dungeons-dragons-ft-marty-mcguire/",
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"text": "Are you a member of the \ud83d\udd78\ufe0f\ud83d\udc8d IndieWeb Webring? Perhaps one of many who noticed that the \"previous\" and \"next\" links were actually going to random active member sites in the ring?\nI'm pleased to announce that the \"next\" and \"previous\" links between webring member sites should now be, more or less, deterministic! For example, if you visit gRegor's site, scroll to the webring links at the bottom, and click \"next\", you'll be taken to a site like mine! (at this moment, it is mine!) From my site, if you click the \"previous\" link, you'll be taken back to gRegor's site! This should m-\nWait, did you say \"more or less\"?\nWell, uh, yeah, good spot. At a high level, the update works like this:\nEach active member site gets a pseudo-random \"sorting\" number. For a given site, the \"next\" site is the one with the next highest sorting order, and the \"previous\" is the one with the next lowest.\nWhen you click on a \"next\" or \"previous\" webring link from a member site, your browser tells* the webring where you're coming from with a \"referrer\" header. If the webring recognizes the referer as an active member site, it'll look up the next - or previous - site in the ring to redirect you.\nWoah, woah, I see that asterisk\nWay to stay sharp! Referrer headers can leak potentially sensitive information, so over time browsers have added ways to restrict how and when referrer headers are sent between sites.\nMost of the time, the webring will only see the referring URL up to the first slash after the domain. For folks whose site on the webring has a path component, the webring won't be able to match it against most referrers.\nIt's also possible that your site is configured to not send referrer headers at all - in that case, the webring has nothing to go on to figure out that the visitor came from your site.\nIf the webring can't figure out where a visitor came from, they'll just get directed to a random active site.\nThat feels kinda broken if you ask me\nWell, it's no worse than before!\nIsn't there a way to improve it?\nThere is! Or... was. The first version of the webring included unique identifiers in the webring \"next\" and \"previous\" links for each member site. These unique IDs would have made it straightforward to figure out where a visitor is coming from.\nOh, don't tell me-\n\n Yeah, I removed that feature last year. \ud83d\ude05\n \n\nThe emoji-based IDs were hard to manage, added messy unintended meaning, and made it easy to mess up the webring links (or spoof someone else's) when copy-pasting!\nYou're going to link us to some code, aren't you?\nYou bet! You can find today's updates to the code here on my git hosting.\nThanks, I guess. So, what's next?\nI'm not sure! I feel like this update has the webring in a pretty good place. It's simple enough that I understand it and it works. I might look into some updates for the directory or the site layout, or help surface more information about member sites, like whether they advertise RSS feeds.\nOkay that's it, for now! Thanks for reading, imaginary interlocutor! As always, feel free to reply to this post on your own site, or feel free to drop me a line in the #indieweb chat (I\u2019m schmarty there)!",
"html": "<p>Are you a member of the <a href=\"https://xn--sr8hvo.ws/\">\ud83d\udd78\ufe0f\ud83d\udc8d IndieWeb Webring</a>? Perhaps one of many who <a href=\"https://github.com/martymcguire/indiewebring.ws/issues/17\">noticed that the \"previous\" and \"next\" links were actually going to random active member sites</a> in the ring?</p>\n<p>I'm pleased to announce that the \"next\" and \"previous\" links between webring member sites should now be, more or less, deterministic! For example, if you visit <a href=\"https://gregorlove.com/\">gRegor's site</a>, scroll to the webring links at the bottom, and click \"next\", you'll be taken to a site like mine! (at this moment, it <i>is</i> mine!) From my site, if you click the \"previous\" link, you'll be taken back to gRegor's site! This should m-</p>\n<h2>Wait, did you say \"more or less\"?</h2>\n<p>Well, uh, yeah, good spot. At a high level, the update works like this:</p>\n<p>Each active member site gets a pseudo-random \"sorting\" number. For a given site, the \"next\" site is the one with the next highest sorting order, and the \"previous\" is the one with the next lowest.</p>\n<p>When you click on a \"next\" or \"previous\" webring link from a member site, your browser tells* the webring where you're coming from with a \"referrer\" header. If the webring recognizes the referer as an active member site, it'll look up the next - or previous - site in the ring to redirect you.</p>\n<h2>Woah, woah, I see that asterisk</h2>\n<p>Way to stay sharp! Referrer headers can leak potentially sensitive information, so over time browsers have added ways to <a href=\"https://web.dev/articles/referrer-best-practices\">restrict how and when referrer headers are sent between sites</a>.</p>\n<p>Most of the time, the webring will only see the referring URL up to the first slash after the domain. For folks whose site on the webring has a path component, the webring won't be able to match it against most referrers.</p>\n<p>It's also possible that your site is configured to not send referrer headers <i>at all</i> - in that case, the webring has nothing to go on to figure out that the visitor came from your site.</p>\n<p>If the webring can't figure out where a visitor came from, they'll just get directed to a random active site.</p>\n<h2>That feels kinda broken if you ask me</h2>\n<p>Well, it's no worse than before!</p>\n<h2>Isn't there a way to improve it?</h2>\n<p>There is! Or... was. The first version of the webring included unique identifiers in the webring \"next\" and \"previous\" links for each member site. These unique IDs would have made it straightforward to figure out where a visitor is coming from.</p>\n<h2>Oh, don't tell me-</h2>\n<p>\n Yeah, I <a href=\"https://martymcgui.re/2023/05/20/rebooting--an-indieweb-webring/\">removed that feature last year</a>. \ud83d\ude05\n <br /></p>\n<p>The emoji-based IDs were hard to manage, added messy unintended meaning, and made it easy to mess up the webring links (or spoof someone else's) when copy-pasting!</p>\n<h2>You're going to link us to some code, aren't you?</h2>\n<p>You bet! You can find <a href=\"https://git.schmarty.net/schmarty/gem-diamond/compare/d0ed04...38ac424507\">today's updates to the code here on my git hosting</a>.</p>\n<h2>Thanks, I guess. So, what's next?</h2>\n<p>I'm not sure! I feel like this update has the webring in a pretty good place. It's simple enough that I understand it and it works. I might look into some updates for the directory or the site layout, or help surface more information about member sites, like whether they advertise RSS feeds.</p>\n<p>Okay that's it, for now! Thanks for reading, imaginary interlocutor! As always, feel free to <a href=\"https://indieweb.org/reply\">reply</a> to this post on your own site, or feel free to drop me a line in the <a href=\"https://chat.indieweb.org/\">#indieweb chat</a> (I\u2019m <code>schmarty</code> there)!</p>"
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"text": "I\u2019m back at home. They did a CT scan but there wasn\u2019t anything too concerning, it just seems that I was coughing hard enough that I had a minor bleed in my lungs, exacerbated by the blood thinners I take due to my clotting disorder. The prognosis is to just not take my blood thinners for a few days and to do the usual hydration/plenty of rest/etc.\n\nThe CT scan did find a couple of probably-unrelated nodules on my lungs which are probably nothing but will need a followup.\n\nAnwyay tomorrow my prescription for molnupiravir should finally come through. It\u2019d have been nice if I could have started on it yesterday when it was prescribed but supplies are limited right now. But it should at least help me to recover much more quickly.",
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"text": "Jay has a recent post up called \u201cNot The Sort Of Person I Want To Be Online\u201c, and it strikes pretty close to home. It\u2019s worth the click, in my opinion. It opens with:\n\n\n\n\nIt would be so so easy for me to open my blog editor every week and vent and rant about the state of the world. About how crazy everything is, how detached and divorced from reality so much of the media is, how the Internet isn\u2019t\u00a0real life. But I don\u2019t.\nJay Springett\n\n\n\n\nAnd yeah, basically. If I want to spend my time online complaining and writing scathing takedowns of one thing or another, there is no shortage of topics (and the list gets constantly refreshed). It\u2019s so easy to dwell on all the shit going on. But that\u2019s not who I want to be, online or in person.\n\n\n\nI also liked this bit:\n\n\n\n\nI don\u2019t want to be part of a negative Internet, so I choose not to add to it. I don\u2019t see any value in doing cynicism as a service. There\u2019s enough negativity out there without me piling on. Instead, I aim to post things that I think is going to be beneficial for both my readers and myself.\u00a0\n\n\n\nI want to only have things online that I can stand by. The thoughts I\u2019ve had in public should be useful to me and others 3/4/5 even 10 years down the line. Referenced, revisited, and built upon. I don\u2019t write anything here thats written specifically for clicks and likes. Which being negative an Internet cheat code for.\n\n\n\nOf course it\u2019s nice when other people do link to my writing and when people share my blog with others \u2013 it\u2019s always a thrill \u2013 and\u00a0of course\u00a0I\u2019m interested in growing my audience online \u2013 who isn\u2019t?\nJay Springett\n\n\n\n\nI\u2019ve commented before that I\u2019m not particularly interested in \u201cgrowing my brand\u201d, and how freeing it has felt to be writing here because I want to, and maybe a few folks find it useful or interesting. If there is a magic formula for building an audience and becoming an online personage, I\u2019m sure as hell not doing it \u2013 my site traffic is largely stable (low, but stable) and has been for years at this point. I get the occasional brief spike when someone more notable happens to link to me (and there was one point a few months ago where I suddenly got about a thousand times more visitors for like two days, and I never figured out why \u2013 if it was a botnet I don\u2019t know why it landed on me, if it was someone big/popular linking, they must\u2019ve had noreferrer turned on, as analytics were useless). But Jay is right that it is nice when I get linked to or new folks start reading.\n\n\n\nIt\u2019s a conscious decision and effort, you know. When the default state you see when navigating online discourse is hate and cynicism, oneupmanship and takedowns, not only yucking other people\u2019s yum but declaring them bad people for thinking it was yummy in the first place\u2026 it\u2019s easy to let that become your default as well. But it\u2019s not healthy, it\u2019s not useful, at best it may give you a quick endorphin hit if you\u2019re lucky.\n\n\n\nThere\u2019s a bit from Charlie Mackesy\u2019s The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse that has made it into a few songs and elsewhere, and I think about it sometimes:\n\n\n\n\n\u201cWhat do you want to be when you grow up?\u201d\n\n\n\n\u201cKind,\u201d said the boy.\u201d\nCharlie Mackesy\n\n\n\n\nMe too, kid. Me too.",
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"text": "i\u2019m in the ER because I started coughing up blood this morning. so much for releasing my\nnew avatar today\u2026",
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POSSE (Publish on your Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere) has grown steadily as a common practice in the #IndieWeb community, personal sites, CMSs (like Withknown, which itself reached 10 years in May!), and services (like https://micro.blog) for over a decade.
In its 12th year, POSSE broke through to broader technology press and adoption beyond the community. For example:
In its 19th year, the microformats formal #microformats2 syntax and popular vocabularies h-card, h-entry, and h-feed, kept growing across IndieWeb (micro)blogging services and software like CMSs & SSGs both for publishing, and richer peer-to-peer social web interactions via #Webmention.
Beyond the IndieWeb, the rel=me microformat, AKA #relMe, continues to be adopted by services to support #distributed #verification, such as these in the past year:
* Meta Platforms #Threads user profile "Link" field¹ * #Letterboxd user profile website field²
For both POSSE and microformats, there is always more we can do to improve their techniques, technologies, and tools to help people own their content and identities online, while staying connected to friends across the web.
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"text": "Happy 12 years of https://indieweb.org/POSSE #POSSE and\n19 years of https://microformats.org/ #microformats! (as of yesterday, the 20th)\n\nA few highlights from the past year:\n\nPOSSE (Publish on your Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere) has grown steadily as a common practice in the #IndieWeb community, personal sites, CMSs (like Withknown, which itself reached 10 years in May!), and services (like https://micro.blog) for over a decade.\n\nIn its 12th year, POSSE broke through to broader technology press and adoption beyond the community. For example:\n\n* David Pierce\u2019s (@pierce@mas.to) excellent article @TheVerge.com (@verge@mastodon.social): \u201cThe poster\u2019s guide to the internet of the future\u201d (https://www.theverge.com/2023/10/23/23928550/posse-posting-activitypub-standard-twitter-tumblr-mastodon):\n\u00a0 \u201cYour post appears natively on all of those platforms, typically with some kind of link back to your blog. And your blog becomes the hub for everything, your main home on the internet.\nDone right, POSSE is the best of all posting worlds.\u201d\n\n* David also recorded a 29 minute podcast on POSSE with some great interviews: \u00a0https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-posters-guide-to-the-new-internet/id430333725?i=1000632256014\n\n* Cory Doctorow (@craphound.com @doctorow@mamot.fr) declared in his Pluralistic blog (@pluralisticmamot.fr) post: \u201cVice surrenders\u201d (https://pluralistic.net/2024/02/24/anti-posse/):\n\u00a0 \u201cThis is the moment for POSSE (Post Own Site, Share Everywhere [sic]), a strategy that sees social media as a strategy for bringing readers to channels that you control\u201d \n\n* And none other than Molly White (@mollywhite.net @molly0xfff@hachyderm.io) of @web3isgoinggreat.com (@web3isgreat@indieweb.social) built, deployed, and started actively using her own POSSE setup as described in her post titled \u201cPOSSE\u201d (https://www.mollywhite.net/micro/entry/202403091817) to: \n\u00a0 \"\u2026 write posts in the microblog and automatically crosspost them to Twitter/Mastodon/Bluesky, while keeping the original post on my site.\"\n\u00a0 \nCongrats Molly and well done!\n\n\nIn its 19th year, the microformats formal #microformats2 syntax and popular vocabularies h-card, h-entry, and h-feed, kept growing across IndieWeb (micro)blogging services and software like CMSs & SSGs both for publishing, and richer peer-to-peer social web interactions via #Webmention.\n\nBeyond the IndieWeb, the rel=me microformat, AKA #relMe, continues to be adopted by services to support #distributed #verification, such as these in the past year: \n\n* Meta Platforms #Threads user profile \"Link\" field\u00b9 \n* #Letterboxd user profile website field\u00b2\n\n\nFor both POSSE and microformats, there is always more we can do to improve their techniques, technologies, and tools to help people own their content and identities online, while staying connected to friends across the web.\n\nGot suggestions for this coming year? Join us in chat:\n* https://chat.indieweb.org/dev\n* https://chat.indieweb.org/microformats\nfor discussions about POSSE and microformats, respectively.\n\n\nPreviously: https://tantek.com/2023/171/t1/anniversaries-microformats-posse\n\n\nThis is post 15 of #100PostsOfIndieWeb. #100Posts\n\n\u2190 https://tantek.com/2024/151/t1/minimum-interesting-service-worker\n\u2192 \ud83d\udd2e\n\n\nPost glossary:\n\nCMS\n\u00a0 https://indieweb.org/CMS\nh-card\n\u00a0 https://microformats.org/wiki/h-card\nh-entry\n\u00a0 https://microformats.org/wiki/h-entry\nh-feed\n\u00a0 https://microformats.org/wiki/h-feed\nmicroformats2 syntax\n\u00a0 https://microformats.org/wiki/microformats2-parsing\nrel-me\n\u00a0 https://microformats.org/wiki/rel-me\nSSG\n\u00a0 https://indieweb.org/SSG\nWebmention\n\u00a0 https://indieweb.org/Webmention\nWithknown\n\u00a0 https://indieweb.org/Known\n\n\nReferences:\n\n\u00b9 https://tantek.com/2023/234/t1/threads-supports-indieweb-rel-me\n\u00b2 https://indieweb.org/rel-me#Letterboxd",
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For example:<br /><br />* David Pierce\u2019s (<a href=\"https://mas.to/@pierce\">@pierce@mas.to</a>) excellent article <a href=\"https://TheVerge.com\">@TheVerge.com</a> (<a href=\"https://mastodon.social/@verge\">@verge@mastodon.social</a>): \u201cThe poster\u2019s guide to the internet of the future\u201d (<a href=\"https://www.theverge.com/2023/10/23/23928550/posse-posting-activitypub-standard-twitter-tumblr-mastodon):\">https://www.theverge.com/2023/10/23/23928550/posse-posting-activitypub-standard-twitter-tumblr-mastodon):</a><br />\u00a0 \u201cYour post appears natively on all of those platforms, typically with some kind of link back to your blog. And your blog becomes the hub for everything, your main home on the internet.<br />Done right, POSSE is the best of all posting worlds.\u201d<br /><br />* David also recorded a 29 minute podcast on POSSE with some great interviews: \u00a0<a href=\"https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-posters-guide-to-the-new-internet/id430333725?i=1000632256014\">https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-posters-guide-to-the-new-internet/id430333725?i=1000632256014</a><br /><br />* Cory Doctorow (<a href=\"https://craphound.com\">@craphound.com</a> <a href=\"https://mamot.fr/@doctorow\">@doctorow@mamot.fr</a>) declared in his Pluralistic blog (<a href=\"https://pluralisticmamot.fr\">@pluralisticmamot.fr</a>) post: \u201cVice surrenders\u201d (<a href=\"https://pluralistic.net/2024/02/24/anti-posse/):\">https://pluralistic.net/2024/02/24/anti-posse/):</a><br />\u00a0 \u201cThis is the moment for POSSE (Post Own Site, Share Everywhere [sic]), a strategy that sees social media as a strategy for bringing readers to channels that you control\u201d <br /><br />* And none other than Molly White (<a href=\"https://mollywhite.net\">@mollywhite.net</a> <a href=\"https://hachyderm.io/@molly0xfff\">@molly0xfff@hachyderm.io</a>) of <a href=\"https://web3isgoinggreat.com\">@web3isgoinggreat.com</a> (<a href=\"https://indieweb.social/@web3isgreat\">@web3isgreat@indieweb.social</a>) built, deployed, and started actively using her own POSSE setup as described in her post titled \u201cPOSSE\u201d (<a href=\"https://www.mollywhite.net/micro/entry/202403091817\">https://www.mollywhite.net/micro/entry/202403091817</a>) to: <br />\u00a0 \"\u2026 write posts in the microblog and automatically crosspost them to Twitter/Mastodon/Bluesky, while keeping the original post on my site.\"<br />\u00a0 <br />Congrats Molly and well done!<br /><br /><br />In its 19th year, the microformats formal #<span class=\"p-category\">microformats2</span> syntax and popular vocabularies h-card, h-entry, and h-feed, kept growing across IndieWeb (micro)blogging services and software like CMSs & SSGs both for publishing, and richer peer-to-peer social web interactions via #<span class=\"p-category\">Webmention</span>.<br /><br />Beyond the IndieWeb, the rel=me microformat, AKA #<span class=\"p-category\">relMe</span>, continues to be adopted by services to support #<span class=\"p-category\">distributed</span> #<span class=\"p-category\">verification</span>, such as these in the past year: <br /><br />* Meta Platforms #<span class=\"p-category\">Threads</span> user profile \"Link\" field<a href=\"https://tantek.com/#t5Xa1_note-1\">\u00b9</a> <br />* #<span class=\"p-category\">Letterboxd</span> user profile website field<a href=\"https://tantek.com/#t5Xa1_note-2\">\u00b2</a><br /><br /><br />For both POSSE and microformats, there is always more we can do to improve their techniques, technologies, and tools to help people own their content and identities online, while staying connected to friends across the web.<br /><br />Got suggestions for this coming year? 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At work I’m setting up some documents for micro-credentials, which I call “MC” for short. I entered “MC Debugging” as the title of one without much thought, then realized that would probably be my DJ name.
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