Simple hashtag proposal for dates: datetags for the #indieweb
In summary by example: * #2026_08_04 ISO8601 YYYY_MM_DD date of this post * #2026_216 ISO8601 YYYY_DDD ordinal date of this post * #2026_08 ISO8601 YYYY_MM month of this post
Many of us posting on the indieweb often post about things in the past. Photos, events, or sometimes throwback posts. Hashtags communicate and aggregate what posts are about. Posts about the past are usually about a specific date in the past, or sometimes an entire month. Thus it makes sense to use hashtags for those dates and months.
I have been hashtagging such posts about the past for several years, and with some iteration have developed a convention that works for international readability, and is linked and indexed in #federated #hashtag systems like #ActivityPub (e.g. #Mastodon etc.) and #ATProto (e.g. #Bluesky etc.).
Additional possibilities to explore: * yeartags — hashtags for entire years * timetags — hashtags for specific times, undated/floating times
After several web searches I didn’t find any prior proposals for hashtags for dates or times. Hopefully by hashtagging this post, future web searches will find this proposal.
Have you hashtagged your posts with dates or times? Share your examples!
This is post 11 of #100PostsOfIndieWeb. #100Posts #dateTag #dateTags #monthTag #monthTags #yearTag #yearTags #timeTag #timeTags #August #Blaugust #Blaugust2026
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📀 watched “The Dark Knight” on Blu-ray, still holds up.
I saw it in the Metreon IMAX theater when it came out in 2008. About 28 minutes of it was filmed in 70mm film using IMAX cameras. The movie switched aspect ratios when it switched from IMAX to normal film. The 2-Disc Special Edition Blu-ray also switched aspect ratios roughly at similar times. Nice to see that that was preserved.
The movie has incredible pacing. No extra moments. I had forgotten how many quotes originated from The Dark Knight. https://enwp.org/The_Dark_Knight
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Silo just dropped the biggest bomb in the series thus far. Cards on the table! Next week should be a fun one, and then it’s a race to the finish in the final season. Still don’t love some of the adaptation choices, but some of them are starting to make sense…
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I'm slowly closing in on a completist collection of Royal standard typewriters.
Here's most of my collection so far. Only a few major must haves left, but also still a few to finish refurbishing. Seven are fully refurbished, though two still need some small tweaks; all type but two need some reasonable work, and the rest need a full clean/oil/adjust.
From bottom to top, left to right: 1935 H (with 5 key decimal tabulator), 1935 KH, 1936 KHM; 1945 KMM, 1946 KMM-18 (with a 10-key decimal tabulator), 1950 KMG-P; 1950 KMG-E, 1955 HHE, 1954 HHS (pica double gothic); 1957 FPP (cameo pink smooth), 1961 FPE (sandstone), 1959 FPP (sea blue smooth); 1960 FPE (light green smooth), 1961 FPS-18 (clarion double gothic, pearl light gray smooth).
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Two new additions to the Royal FP collection this year give me most of the major colors. Anyone want to join me for a type in?
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1971 was a year of change. It brought out boxier typewriter designs like the dense plastic body shells of this French manufactured Hermes 3000 and a very similar, but rarer Sears Newport, which was manufactured by Messa in Portugal.
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Anyone with a nice Royal 10, please inquire within.
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