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        "html": "<p>From on, around the festive period or shortly afterwards, I\u2019m going to give back to the open source developers that have made life more productive and less intrusive. The first of which is <span class=\"h-card\"><a class=\"u-url\" href=\"https://mastodon.social/@paulrobertlloyd\">@<span>paulrobertlloyd</span></a></span>\u2019s Indiekit, the utterly superb IndieWeb server. <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/OpenSource\">#<span>OpenSource</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/IndieWeb\">#<span>IndieWeb</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/Reciprocity\">#<span>Reciprocity</span></a></p><p><a href=\"https://benjamin.parry.is/writing/2025/01/my-new-festive-habit/\"><span>https://</span><span>benjamin.parry.is/writing/2025</span><span>/01/my-new-festive-habit/</span></a></p>\n<a class=\"u-mention\" href=\"https://mastodon.social/@paulrobertlloyd\"></a>",
        "text": "From on, around the festive period or shortly afterwards, I\u2019m going to give back to the open source developers that have made life more productive and less intrusive. The first of which is @paulrobertlloyd\u2019s Indiekit, the utterly superb IndieWeb server. #OpenSource #IndieWeb #Reciprocity\n\nhttps://benjamin.parry.is/writing/2025/01/my-new-festive-habit/"
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        "html": "<p>New on <a href=\"https://mastodon.me.uk/tags/WellMadeWeb\">#<span>WellMadeWeb</span></a>: Melonking</p><p>Enter the mellow realm of the Melonking. A living embodiment of the lost spirit of the early Web.</p><p>This is high effort, the unmistakable work of many painstaking hours, quaint, quirky, definitional and raw. Its mere existence is a refutation of responsive design, AI slop, paywalls and cookie banners.</p><p>A visit to the Melonking is hard to describe and it can only be experienced.</p><p>Full details here: <a href=\"https://wmw.thran.uk/eclectic/melonking.html\"><span>https://</span><span>wmw.thran.uk/eclectic/melonkin</span><span>g.html</span></a></p><p><a href=\"https://mastodon.me.uk/tags/indieweb\">#<span>indieweb</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.me.uk/tags/discoveries\">#<span>discoveries</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.me.uk/tags/oldweb\">#<span>oldweb</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.me.uk/tags/art\">#<span>art</span></a></p>",
        "text": "New on #WellMadeWeb: Melonking\n\nEnter the mellow realm of the Melonking. A living embodiment of the lost spirit of the early Web.\n\nThis is high effort, the unmistakable work of many painstaking hours, quaint, quirky, definitional and raw. Its mere existence is a refutation of responsive design, AI slop, paywalls and cookie banners.\n\nA visit to the Melonking is hard to describe and it can only be experienced.\n\nFull details here: https://wmw.thran.uk/eclectic/melonking.html\n\n#indieweb #discoveries #oldweb #art"
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Manton Reece www.manton.org

The long goodbye for Tim Cook

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        "html": "<p>Tim Cook <a href=\"https://www.axios.com/2025/01/03/tim-cook-apple-donate-1-million-trump-inauguration\">gives $1 million</a> to Trump\u2019s inauguration committee. I think this event will be a turning point in how we view the Apple CEO.</p>\n<p>Let\u2019s start with John Gruber <a href=\"https://daringfireball.net/linked/2025/01/03/allen-tim-cook-1m-trump-inauguration\">writing at Daring Fireball</a>:</p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>It seems pretty obvious that it was Apple/Cook that leaked this to Axios, not Trump\u2019s side, given the eye-roll-inducing \u201cproud American tradition\u201d spin, but more especially the nugget that only Cook personally, not Apple as a company, is contributing. That\u2019s Cook asking for any and all ire to be directed at him, personally, not Apple. Good luck with that.</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>Marco Arment <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/@marcoarment/113767105643404447\">on Mastodon</a>:</p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Why do we think Tim Cook couldn\u2019t possibly support Trump, while all of these other billionaires support him for their own billionaire self-interests?</p>\n<p>Why do we keep making excuses for him?</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https://pxlnv.com/linklog/trump-inaugural-fund/\">Nick Heer</a> adds:</p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>We have become accustomed to business leaders sacrificing some of their personal principles to support their company in some way \u2014 for some reason, it is just business is a universal excuse for terrible behaviour \u2014 but all of these figures have already seen what the incoming administration does with power and they want to support it.</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>Daniel Jalkut, on all the social places <a href=\"https://danielpunkass.micro.blog/2025/01/03/on-the-occasion-of-apples.html\">including Micro.blog</a>:</p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>On the occasion of Apple\u2019s slithering CEO Tim Cook donating $1M to a neo-fascist insurrectionist, it\u2019s FINALLY time to deploy the often overused expression \u201cthis never would have happened if Steve Jobs were still in charge.\u201d</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>Principles don\u2019t mean much if you throw them away for money. Whatever folks might think of how I\u2019ve run Micro.blog, I\u2019ve rooted all my business decisions with an IndieWeb ethos, sticking to the original vision for the platform to take back content ownership from huge centralized platforms. Look no further than the new $1 <a href=\"https://micro.one/\">Micro.one</a> subscription.</p>\n<p>Tim Cook has led Apple to incredible success, but his words are hollow. Even the principles he seems to care most passionately about, like user privacy, are in doubt. I\u2019m increasingly thinking it\u2019s an act.</p>\n<p>I\u2019ve been an Apple developer since the 1990s when the company was doomed. Fans propped up the company because we believed they were different. They focused on design and creativity. They were the rebels and troublemakers, trying to push the human race forward through technology.</p>\n<p>Most of the employees at Apple still care about these things. Tim Cook cares about appeasing a would-be autocrat and taxing developers in an app distribution monopoly. It\u2019s time for new leadership.</p>",
        "text": "Tim Cook gives $1 million to Trump\u2019s inauguration committee. I think this event will be a turning point in how we view the Apple CEO.\nLet\u2019s start with John Gruber writing at Daring Fireball:\n\nIt seems pretty obvious that it was Apple/Cook that leaked this to Axios, not Trump\u2019s side, given the eye-roll-inducing \u201cproud American tradition\u201d spin, but more especially the nugget that only Cook personally, not Apple as a company, is contributing. That\u2019s Cook asking for any and all ire to be directed at him, personally, not Apple. Good luck with that.\n\nMarco Arment on Mastodon:\n\nWhy do we think Tim Cook couldn\u2019t possibly support Trump, while all of these other billionaires support him for their own billionaire self-interests?\nWhy do we keep making excuses for him?\n\nNick Heer adds:\n\nWe have become accustomed to business leaders sacrificing some of their personal principles to support their company in some way \u2014 for some reason, it is just business is a universal excuse for terrible behaviour \u2014 but all of these figures have already seen what the incoming administration does with power and they want to support it.\n\nDaniel Jalkut, on all the social places including Micro.blog:\n\nOn the occasion of Apple\u2019s slithering CEO Tim Cook donating $1M to a neo-fascist insurrectionist, it\u2019s FINALLY time to deploy the often overused expression \u201cthis never would have happened if Steve Jobs were still in charge.\u201d\n\nPrinciples don\u2019t mean much if you throw them away for money. Whatever folks might think of how I\u2019ve run Micro.blog, I\u2019ve rooted all my business decisions with an IndieWeb ethos, sticking to the original vision for the platform to take back content ownership from huge centralized platforms. Look no further than the new $1 Micro.one subscription.\nTim Cook has led Apple to incredible success, but his words are hollow. Even the principles he seems to care most passionately about, like user privacy, are in doubt. I\u2019m increasingly thinking it\u2019s an act.\nI\u2019ve been an Apple developer since the 1990s when the company was doomed. Fans propped up the company because we believed they were different. They focused on design and creativity. They were the rebels and troublemakers, trying to push the human race forward through technology.\nMost of the employees at Apple still care about these things. Tim Cook cares about appeasing a would-be autocrat and taxing developers in an app distribution monopoly. It\u2019s time for new leadership."
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2024 in review

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        "html": "<p>Before the new year gets into full swing, time to recap the year gone by.</p><p>Like many before it, a morning in early January began with breakfast at Moe\u2019s, the friendly, art-filled coffee shop at the end of my street, albeit one declining into a smoke-filled, greasy spoon (it\u2019s now Curio, a fancy cafe-come-wine-bar).</p><p>It was here that, upon hearing <em>1234</em> by Feist I fondly remembered <em>This Is My Jam</em> and wondered how I might share the songs in my head. I added a new section to this site, created a web component to display Apple Music embeds, <a href=\"https://paulrobertlloyd.com/2024/005/a1/jams/\">wrote a blog post about it</a> and\u2026 only posted 4 jams since.</p><p>This is a good summary of my year; lots of early activity and excitement, only to end it feeling largely ambivalent.</p><p>During the first four months of 2024, I:</p><ul><li>helped <a href=\"https://paulrobertlloyd.com/2024/056/a1/indieweb_dents/#updated_design_for_indie_web_org\">update the design of the IndieWeb wiki</a></li><li>designed <a href=\"https://paulrobertlloyd.com/2024/056/a1/indieweb_dents/#icons_for_micro_blog_s_companion_apps\">app icons for Micro.blog\u2019s companion apps</a></li><li>added <a href=\"https://paulrobertlloyd.com/2024/107/a1/indiekit/\">several new features and improvements to Indiekit</a></li><li>co-organised <a href=\"https://paulrobertlloyd.com/2024/032/a1/indiewebcamp_brighton/\">IndieWebCamp Brighton</a></li></ul><img src=\"https://paulrobertlloyd.com/media/2024/069/p1/1.jpg\" alt=\"26 people gathered outside a building smiling for a group photo in the sun.\" />Attendees at IndieWebCamp Brighton in March. A professional highlight.<p>In July, I gave <a href=\"https://paulrobertlloyd.com/2024/201/s1/peckham_digital/\">an hour-long introduction to the IndieWeb</a> at Peckham Digital\u2019s Festival of Creative Computing, with a number of attendees telling me afterwards that they were inspired to create their own websites.</p><p>In August, I subtly refreshed the design of my own, simplifying and refactoring large parts of the codebase while introducing a bit more colour into the design (putting pay to an earlier attempt to re-platform and re-design it).</p><p>And yet, I ended the year feeling a bit disillusioned by the social web, independent or otherwise.</p><p>My presentation deliberately focused on the different things you can publish on your own website, ignoring any of the IndieWeb building blocks. In doing so I may have inadvertently convinced myself that, beyond having your own domain and publishing whatever you like on it, the rest is just noise.</p><p>I remain astonished by what I\u2019ve built with <a href=\"https://getindiekit.com/\">Indiekit</a>, but its drifted from my original vision. I imagined a way to link together different publishing platforms and protocols, but have so far ended up with a sub-par CMS. Perhaps this explains my reluctance to ship 1.0?</p><p>As per usual, I attended a few web conferences and left shrugging my shoulders. I remain <a href=\"https://paulrobertlloyd.com/2024/135/a1/conferences/\">conflicted about such events</a>; neither happy if I attend or content if I avoid. It\u2019s tempting to say I\u2019m hard to please (this is true), but CSS Day once again <a href=\"https://paulrobertlloyd.com/2024/161/a1/css_day/\">enthused and enlightened</a> me. This can\u2019t be entirely attributed to the Bitterballen, can it?</p><img src=\"https://paulrobertlloyd.com/media/2025/004/a1/inverness.jpg\" alt=\"View across the River Ness at low tide, with 4 church spires reflected in the water.\" />Inverness<p>My first trip of the year was to <a href=\"https://paulrobertlloyd.com/2024/073/i1/inverness/\">Inverness in March</a>. This provided me with a welcome change of scenery and a delightful meal at <a href=\"https://mcbainsbytheriver.com/\">McBain\u2019s</a> (more so than the one served at <a href=\"https://www.mustardseedrestaurant.co.uk/\">The Mustard Seed</a>, a pretentious restaurant further along the river bank). I\u2019m tempted to make a similar trip north again this year.</p><p>In May, after spending the weekend at IndieWebCamp in D\u00fcsseldorf and then popping over to Wuppertal to <a href=\"https://paulrobertlloyd.com/2024/135/p1/\">ride its monorail</a>, I travelled south to Vienna. For much of the trip I was overwhelmed by the number of attractions, yet only a few were of interest. The large concrete <a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flak_tower\">flak tower</a> near my hotel was disorienting and distressing; the architecture of <a href=\"https://hundertwasser.com/en\">Friedensreich Hundertvasser</a> fascinating and fantastic. On my last day in the city I visited the <a href=\"https://www.belvedere.at/en\">Belvedere</a> and found several art galleries I could have spent the entire trip immersed in.</p><ul><li><img src=\"https://paulrobertlloyd.com/media/2025/004/a1/flak_tower.jpg\" alt=\"A large concrete tower, partially hidden by a tree, next to a children\u2019s playground.\" />Flak Tower VIII G-Tower in Arenbergpark, Vienna.</li><li><img src=\"https://paulrobertlloyd.com/media/2025/004/a1/hundertwasser_building.jpg\" alt=\"Brightly coloured apartments, with trees growing out from some of them.\" />Hundertvasserhaus, Vienna.</li></ul><p>If that was the highlight of my Viennese waltz, the lowlight was being taken off the S-Bahn by ticket inspectors. The weekly ticket I\u2019d brought was valid for the <em>following</em> week. Pleas of being a clueless tourist and of poorly designed ticket machines went unheard and I got a \u20ac100 on-the-spot fine. An evening <a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rPyIsJfk4zw\">watching model trains deliver burgers</a> at <a href=\"https://www.vytopna.com/en/branch/vienna-naschmarkt\"><em>Vytopna</em></a> just about made up for it.</p><p>My summer holiday in late September was inspired by Duolingo. I\u2019ve been continuing to learn German (or be easily manipulated by Duolingo\u2019s game mechanics) and repeated mentions of <a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuschwanstein_Castle\">Neuschwanstein Castle</a> prompted me to visit it and spend a week in nearby F\u00fcssen.</p><p>Again, I was underwhelmed. I also felt out-of-place at the Bavarian spa resort I was staying at (realising too late what that might entail \u2013 I sheepishly visited the sauna at the quietest time of day). No matter what time I arrived for dinner at the restaurant, I was apparently too late, or sat at the wrong table. I still get a thrill being around the angry-sounding friendliness that is German hospitality.</p><p>More to my taste was the swanky aparthotel I stayed at in Munich, a city I last visited in 2009. This was an opportunity to experience another topic of discussion among Duolingo\u2019s characters: Oktoberfest. A cross between a massive fairground and beer festival, with large temporary venues home to nightclubs with table service, with seemingly the entire city in attendance. I\u2019ve never seen so much lederhosen!</p><img src=\"https://paulrobertlloyd.com/media/2025/004/a1/oktoberfest.jpg\" alt=\"A desert stand called \u2018S\u00fcss &amp; Fruchtig\u2019 lit up with neon signage.\" />My favourite photo from Oktoberfest.<p>The nearby transport museum, <a href=\"https://www.deutsches-museum.de/en/verkehrszentrum\"><em>Verkehrszentrum</em></a>, was one of the best I\u2019ve visited; a wide range of vehicles and all brilliantly laid out and documented. The <a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Munich_Residenz\">Munich Residence</a> was another royal palace in which you could lose yourself in its endless opulence, though much of it a post-war recreation, for obvious reasons. I\u2019d love to have seen more information about the restoration process.</p><p>Before arriving in Bavaria, I stayed in Stuttgart for a few nights. Here I saw an exhibition of Sarah Morris\u2019 paintings and films, and was immediately drawn to her <a href=\"https://sarahmorris.com/\">gigantic, glossy, graphic prints</a>. And then I almost bumped into her on the stairs! Turned out this was the first day of the exhibition, and she was giving a talk later that day. I\u2019d realised too late that I could have got a ticket, so purchased the catalogue instead. Leafing through photos of her public murals, I spotted one I had seen earlier in the year in D\u00fcsseldorf:</p><img src=\"https://paulrobertlloyd.com/media/2025/004/a1/sarah_morris.jpg\" alt=\"Four young men kicking a ball about in front of a brightly coloured wall made up of blue, orange, yellow, black grey and white shapes.\" />Wall mosaic by Sarah Morris in Paul Klee-Platz, near K20, Dusseldorf.<p>Ordinarily I would have posted more photos from my travels, and certainly written about them. But again, I felt oddly restrained; unhappy with the photos I had taken, and unable to find the creative impetus to write about the places I\u2019d visited in any detail.</p><p><img src=\"https://paulrobertlloyd.com/media/2025/004/a1/mavis_mission_patch.png\" alt=\"A circular badge featuring a polar bear protecting her 2 cubs.\" /> Between side-projects and side-travels, I was working with my Good Machine comrades to deliver an <abbr title=\"National Health Service\">NHS</abbr> service to help immunisation teams get consent for, record and report children\u2019s vaccinations. A small pilot at the start of the year was the perfect opportunity to design a mission patch.</p><p>This year, many of my former <abbr title=\"Department for Education\">DfE</abbr> colleagues \u2013 alongside other familiar faces \u2013 joined sister teams. The likes of <a href=\"https://frankieroberto.github.io/nhsnotes/\">Frankie</a> and <a href=\"https://www.vickyteinaki.com/\">Vicky</a> brought tonnes of energy and enthusiasm, which I seem unable to replicate. I\u2019m happy being a quiet but reliable cog in the machine these days.</p><p>That said, thanks to Frankie, I took part in Services Week, where a few us involved with <a href=\"https://x-govuk.github.io/\">X-GOVUK</a> gave demos of our different projects. I was later arm-twisted into contributing a number of changes to the <abbr title=\"National Health Service\">NHS</abbr> design system. Turns out the way to get my attention is to do something not quite up to my high standards, then point me towards it!</p><p>The rest of the time I was happily rebuilding and then over-engineering our prototype (a word I now surround with air quotes). Perhaps something for a separate post, but a thought that\u2019s been rattling around in my head is that, the better I become at programming, the worse I become at design. These aren\u2019t mutually exclusive skills of course, but there\u2019s something about coding that feeds the more introverted parts of my personality, and this comes at the cost of openness and collaboration.</p><p>In July, aware of my passion for railways, <a href=\"https://clagnut.com/\">Rich</a> kindly asked if I would be interested in joining Clearleft on an upcoming project for <abbr title=\"London North Eastern Railway\">LNER</abbr>. Limited to 10 days, I could potentially slot this in around the 4 days a week I was working on the <abbr title=\"National Health Service\">NHS</abbr> project. By the time everything was confirmed, work was ramping up towards the launch of our beta, yet Jake and Stu graciously allowed me to take some time away to spend on my dream project.</p><p>In September, I got a behind the scenes tour of King\u2019s Cross, spoke to the team at Newark station, and visited <abbr title=\"London North Eastern Railway\">LNER</abbr>\u2019s head offices inside York\u2019s former railway station. However, the reality of working on two projects at the same time soon became evident, context switching over the course of several weekends and evenings. I\u2019m not sure how much value I added (in terms of deliverables, it was less than 30 seconds of a 3:30 minute video) or if I\u2019m suited to the fast-paced, concept-led world of design agencies, if I ever was.</p><p>Back at Good Machine, our beta launched just before Christmas. More teams are soon to be onboarded, and our own small team is set to grow by 150%. New faces, new office, new challenges. Exciting and terrifying, all at the same time.</p><img src=\"https://paulrobertlloyd.com/media/2025/004/a1/lner.jpg\" alt=\"The letters LNER painted on the side of a blue locomotive.\" />A trip to York of course meant a trip to the National Railway Museum.<p>I stayed up all night for the general election results in July, wanting to take advantage of a rare occasion where the results might go the right way. I didn\u2019t stay up for the US election, but before I went to bed, suspecting my fears would be realised, deleted any remaining tweets, likes and favourites prior to closing long-dormant accounts on Elon\u2019s website.</p><p>The election result hit me hard. In response, I started regularly swimming and running again. In September, my personal trainer Jonny returned from China and before long I started weight training again. The final piece of the puzzle is the search for a rescue dog, though the few applications I\u2019ve submitted so far have been unsuccessful.</p><p>All in all, a pretty average, uneventful year, if only personally; the declining state of the world the likely reason for my downbeat tone. The future is unwritten, and the best I can do is control what I can control. There\u2019s something to be said for average and uneventful.</p><p>Reply via email</p>",
        "text": "Before the new year gets into full swing, time to recap the year gone by.\n\nLike many before it, a morning in early January began with breakfast at Moe\u2019s, the friendly, art-filled coffee shop at the end of my street, albeit one declining into a smoke-filled, greasy spoon (it\u2019s now Curio, a fancy cafe-come-wine-bar).\n\nIt was here that, upon hearing 1234 by Feist I fondly remembered This Is My Jam and wondered how I might share the songs in my head. I added a new section to this site, created a web component to display Apple Music embeds, wrote a blog post about it and\u2026 only posted 4 jams since.\n\nThis is a good summary of my year; lots of early activity and excitement, only to end it feeling largely ambivalent.\n\nDuring the first four months of 2024, I:helped update the design of the IndieWeb wikidesigned app icons for Micro.blog\u2019s companion appsadded several new features and improvements to Indiekitco-organised IndieWebCamp BrightonAttendees at IndieWebCamp Brighton in March. A professional highlight.In July, I gave an hour-long introduction to the IndieWeb at Peckham Digital\u2019s Festival of Creative Computing, with a number of attendees telling me afterwards that they were inspired to create their own websites.\n\nIn August, I subtly refreshed the design of my own, simplifying and refactoring large parts of the codebase while introducing a bit more colour into the design (putting pay to an earlier attempt to re-platform and re-design it).\n\nAnd yet, I ended the year feeling a bit disillusioned by the social web, independent or otherwise.\n\nMy presentation deliberately focused on the different things you can publish on your own website, ignoring any of the IndieWeb building blocks. In doing so I may have inadvertently convinced myself that, beyond having your own domain and publishing whatever you like on it, the rest is just noise.\n\nI remain astonished by what I\u2019ve built with Indiekit, but its drifted from my original vision. I imagined a way to link together different publishing platforms and protocols, but have so far ended up with a sub-par CMS. Perhaps this explains my reluctance to ship 1.0?\n\nAs per usual, I attended a few web conferences and left shrugging my shoulders. I remain conflicted about such events; neither happy if I attend or content if I avoid. It\u2019s tempting to say I\u2019m hard to please (this is true), but CSS Day once again enthused and enlightened me. This can\u2019t be entirely attributed to the Bitterballen, can it?InvernessMy first trip of the year was to Inverness in March. This provided me with a welcome change of scenery and a delightful meal at McBain\u2019s (more so than the one served at The Mustard Seed, a pretentious restaurant further along the river bank). I\u2019m tempted to make a similar trip north again this year.\n\nIn May, after spending the weekend at IndieWebCamp in D\u00fcsseldorf and then popping over to Wuppertal to ride its monorail, I travelled south to Vienna. For much of the trip I was overwhelmed by the number of attractions, yet only a few were of interest. The large concrete flak tower near my hotel was disorienting and distressing; the architecture of Friedensreich Hundertvasser fascinating and fantastic. On my last day in the city I visited the Belvedere and found several art galleries I could have spent the entire trip immersed in.Flak Tower VIII G-Tower in Arenbergpark, Vienna.Hundertvasserhaus, Vienna.If that was the highlight of my Viennese waltz, the lowlight was being taken off the S-Bahn by ticket inspectors. The weekly ticket I\u2019d brought was valid for the following week. Pleas of being a clueless tourist and of poorly designed ticket machines went unheard and I got a \u20ac100 on-the-spot fine. An evening watching model trains deliver burgers at Vytopna just about made up for it.\n\nMy summer holiday in late September was inspired by Duolingo. I\u2019ve been continuing to learn German (or be easily manipulated by Duolingo\u2019s game mechanics) and repeated mentions of Neuschwanstein Castle prompted me to visit it and spend a week in nearby F\u00fcssen.\n\nAgain, I was underwhelmed. I also felt out-of-place at the Bavarian spa resort I was staying at (realising too late what that might entail \u2013 I sheepishly visited the sauna at the quietest time of day). No matter what time I arrived for dinner at the restaurant, I was apparently too late, or sat at the wrong table. I still get a thrill being around the angry-sounding friendliness that is German hospitality.\n\nMore to my taste was the swanky aparthotel I stayed at in Munich, a city I last visited in 2009. This was an opportunity to experience another topic of discussion among Duolingo\u2019s characters: Oktoberfest. A cross between a massive fairground and beer festival, with large temporary venues home to nightclubs with table service, with seemingly the entire city in attendance. I\u2019ve never seen so much lederhosen!My favourite photo from Oktoberfest.The nearby transport museum, Verkehrszentrum, was one of the best I\u2019ve visited; a wide range of vehicles and all brilliantly laid out and documented. The Munich Residence was another royal palace in which you could lose yourself in its endless opulence, though much of it a post-war recreation, for obvious reasons. I\u2019d love to have seen more information about the restoration process.\n\nBefore arriving in Bavaria, I stayed in Stuttgart for a few nights. Here I saw an exhibition of Sarah Morris\u2019 paintings and films, and was immediately drawn to her gigantic, glossy, graphic prints. And then I almost bumped into her on the stairs! Turned out this was the first day of the exhibition, and she was giving a talk later that day. I\u2019d realised too late that I could have got a ticket, so purchased the catalogue instead. Leafing through photos of her public murals, I spotted one I had seen earlier in the year in D\u00fcsseldorf:Wall mosaic by Sarah Morris in Paul Klee-Platz, near K20, Dusseldorf.Ordinarily I would have posted more photos from my travels, and certainly written about them. But again, I felt oddly restrained; unhappy with the photos I had taken, and unable to find the creative impetus to write about the places I\u2019d visited in any detail.\n\n Between side-projects and side-travels, I was working with my Good Machine comrades to deliver an NHS service to help immunisation teams get consent for, record and report children\u2019s vaccinations. A small pilot at the start of the year was the perfect opportunity to design a mission patch.\n\nThis year, many of my former DfE colleagues \u2013 alongside other familiar faces \u2013 joined sister teams. The likes of Frankie and Vicky brought tonnes of energy and enthusiasm, which I seem unable to replicate. I\u2019m happy being a quiet but reliable cog in the machine these days.\n\nThat said, thanks to Frankie, I took part in Services Week, where a few us involved with X-GOVUK gave demos of our different projects. I was later arm-twisted into contributing a number of changes to the NHS design system. Turns out the way to get my attention is to do something not quite up to my high standards, then point me towards it!\n\nThe rest of the time I was happily rebuilding and then over-engineering our prototype (a word I now surround with air quotes). Perhaps something for a separate post, but a thought that\u2019s been rattling around in my head is that, the better I become at programming, the worse I become at design. These aren\u2019t mutually exclusive skills of course, but there\u2019s something about coding that feeds the more introverted parts of my personality, and this comes at the cost of openness and collaboration.\n\nIn July, aware of my passion for railways, Rich kindly asked if I would be interested in joining Clearleft on an upcoming project for LNER. Limited to 10 days, I could potentially slot this in around the 4 days a week I was working on the NHS project. By the time everything was confirmed, work was ramping up towards the launch of our beta, yet Jake and Stu graciously allowed me to take some time away to spend on my dream project.\n\nIn September, I got a behind the scenes tour of King\u2019s Cross, spoke to the team at Newark station, and visited LNER\u2019s head offices inside York\u2019s former railway station. However, the reality of working on two projects at the same time soon became evident, context switching over the course of several weekends and evenings. I\u2019m not sure how much value I added (in terms of deliverables, it was less than 30 seconds of a 3:30 minute video) or if I\u2019m suited to the fast-paced, concept-led world of design agencies, if I ever was.\n\nBack at Good Machine, our beta launched just before Christmas. More teams are soon to be onboarded, and our own small team is set to grow by 150%. New faces, new office, new challenges. Exciting and terrifying, all at the same time.A trip to York of course meant a trip to the National Railway Museum.I stayed up all night for the general election results in July, wanting to take advantage of a rare occasion where the results might go the right way. I didn\u2019t stay up for the US election, but before I went to bed, suspecting my fears would be realised, deleted any remaining tweets, likes and favourites prior to closing long-dormant accounts on Elon\u2019s website.\n\nThe election result hit me hard. In response, I started regularly swimming and running again. In September, my personal trainer Jonny returned from China and before long I started weight training again. The final piece of the puzzle is the search for a rescue dog, though the few applications I\u2019ve submitted so far have been unsuccessful.\n\nAll in all, a pretty average, uneventful year, if only personally; the declining state of the world the likely reason for my downbeat tone. The future is unwritten, and the best I can do is control what I can control. There\u2019s something to be said for average and uneventful.\n\nReply via email"
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        "html": "<p>\ud83e\udd16 There\u2019s a new post on Michael Burkhardt\u2019s Whirled Wide Web:</p><p>Someone Told Me Once</p><p><a href=\"https://social.lol/tags/Wisdom\">#<span>Wisdom</span></a> <a href=\"https://social.lol/tags/IndieWeb\">#<span>IndieWeb</span></a></p><p><a href=\"https://mihobu.lol/words-of-wisdom\"><span>https://</span><span>mihobu.lol/words-of-wisdom</span><span></span></a></p>",
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        "text": "Yesterday https://last.fm/ (@lastfm) emailed their year in review reports, which they called #Playback24 and Last.Year.\n\nKudos to them for waiting until the new year to do so, and breaking with the pattern of services prematurely posting year in review summaries.\u00b9\n\nThey\u2019re also available on the web, without requiring a native mobile app to view.\n\nMine is here: https://www.last.fm/user/tantekc/listening-report/year\n\nYou can find yours (if you\u2019re a last.fm user) by going here:\n* https://www.last.fm/user/_/listening-report/year\n\nThe page title calls it your #YearInMusic, and the URL your #ListeningReport.\n\nIt has many interesting elements, from various top listened lists (artist, album, track), to what percent of 2024 listens (which they call scrobbles) were new artists, albums, and tracks.\n\nTheir \u201cTop Tags\u201d time chart is quite cool. Fascinating to see the differences in music listening over the seasons and the whole year.\n\nThe report has many interactive features, so it will take me some time to figure out how to save, export, and/or republish my listening report on my personal #indieweb site.\n\nFor now I used Firefox to save the page as an .html page to my laptop, and was quite impressed with how much of the information was available in that one file. Much more than #Spotify\u2019s #Wrapped. \n\nThat\u2019s step 1. Step 2 is figuring out a good way to blog at least some of it.\n\nThis is post 5 of #100PostsOfIndieWeb. #100Posts #LastFM #YearInReview\n\n\u2190 https://tantek.com/2025/002/t1/indieweb-third-place-community\n\u2192 \ud83d\udd2e\n\n\nGlossary:\n\nscrobble\n\u00a0 https://indieweb.org/scrobble\nyear in review\n\u00a0 https://indieweb.org/year_in_review\n\n\n\u00b9 https://tantek.com/2025/001/t2/first-new-year-review-prior",
        "html": "Yesterday <a href=\"https://last.fm/\">https://last.fm/</a> (<a class=\"h-cassis-username\" href=\"https://twitter.com/lastfm\">@lastfm</a>) emailed their year in review reports, which they called #<span class=\"p-category\">Playback24</span> and Last.Year.<br /><br />Kudos to them for waiting until the new year to do so, and breaking with the pattern of services prematurely posting year in review summaries.<a href=\"http://tantek.com/#t5_r1_note-1\">\u00b9</a><br /><br />They\u2019re also available on the web, without requiring a native mobile app to view.<br /><br />Mine is here: <a href=\"https://www.last.fm/user/tantekc/listening-report/year\">https://www.last.fm/user/tantekc/listening-report/year</a><br /><br />You can find yours (if you\u2019re a <a href=\"http://last.fm\">last.fm</a> user) by going here:<br />* <a href=\"https://www.last.fm/user/_/listening-report/year\">https://www.last.fm/user/_/listening-report/year</a><br /><br />The page title calls it your #<span class=\"p-category\">YearInMusic</span>, and the URL your #<span class=\"p-category\">ListeningReport</span>.<br /><br />It has many interesting elements, from various top listened lists (artist, album, track), to what percent of 2024 listens (which they call scrobbles) were new artists, albums, and tracks.<br /><br />Their \u201cTop Tags\u201d time chart is quite cool. Fascinating to see the differences in music listening over the seasons and the whole year.<br /><br />The report has many interactive features, so it will take me some time to figure out how to save, export, and/or republish my listening report on my personal #<span class=\"p-category\">indieweb</span> site.<br /><br />For now I used Firefox to save the page as an .html page to my laptop, and was quite impressed with how much of the information was available in that one file. Much more than #<span class=\"p-category\">Spotify</span>\u2019s #<span class=\"p-category\">Wrapped</span>. <br /><br />That\u2019s step 1. Step 2 is figuring out a good way to blog at least some of it.<br /><br />This is post 5 of #<span class=\"p-category\">100PostsOfIndieWeb</span>. #<span class=\"p-category\">100Posts</span> #<span class=\"p-category\">LastFM</span> #<span class=\"p-category\">YearInReview</span><br /><br />\u2190 <a href=\"https://tantek.com/2025/002/t1/indieweb-third-place-community\">https://tantek.com/2025/002/t1/indieweb-third-place-community</a><br />\u2192 \ud83d\udd2e<br /><br /><br />Glossary:<br /><br />scrobble<br />\u00a0 <a href=\"https://indieweb.org/scrobble\">https://indieweb.org/scrobble</a><br />year in review<br />\u00a0 <a href=\"https://indieweb.org/year_in_review\">https://indieweb.org/year_in_review</a><br /><br /><br /><a href=\"http://tantek.com/#t5_r1_ref-1\">\u00b9</a> <a href=\"https://tantek.com/2025/001/t2/first-new-year-review-prior\">https://tantek.com/2025/001/t2/first-new-year-review-prior</a>"
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        "html": "<p>Yesterday <a href=\"https://last.fm/\">https://last.fm/</a> (<a class=\"h-cassis-username\" href=\"https://twitter.com/lastfm\">@lastfm</a>) emailed their year in review reports, which they called <a href=\"https://indieweb.social/tags/Playback24\">#<span class=\"p-category\">Playback24</span></a> and Last.Year.<br /><br />Kudos to them for waiting until the new year to do so, and breaking with the pattern of services prematurely posting year in review summaries.<a href=\"https://tantek.com/2025/003/t1/lastfm-year-in-review-playback24#t5_r1_note-1\">\u00b9</a><br /><br />They\u2019re also available on the web, without requiring a native mobile app to view.<br /><br />Mine is here: <a href=\"https://www.last.fm/user/tantekc/listening-report/year\">https://www.last.fm/user/tantekc/listening-report/year</a><br /><br />You can find yours (if you\u2019re a <a href=\"http://last.fm\">last.fm</a> user) by going here:<br />* <a href=\"https://www.last.fm/user/_/listening-report/year\">https://www.last.fm/user/_/listening-report/year</a><br /><br />The page title calls it your <a href=\"https://indieweb.social/tags/YearInMusic\">#<span class=\"p-category\">YearInMusic</span></a>, and the URL your <a href=\"https://indieweb.social/tags/ListeningReport\">#<span class=\"p-category\">ListeningReport</span></a>.<br /><br />It has many interesting elements, from various top listened lists (artist, album, track), to what percent of 2024 listens (which they call scrobbles) were new artists, albums, and tracks.<br /><br />Their \u201cTop Tags\u201d time chart is quite cool. Fascinating to see the differences in music listening over the seasons and the whole year.<br /><br />The report has many interactive features, so it will take me some time to figure out how to save, export, and/or republish my listening report on my personal <a href=\"https://indieweb.social/tags/indieweb\">#<span class=\"p-category\">indieweb</span></a> site.<br /><br />For now I used Firefox to save the page as an .html page to my laptop, and was quite impressed with how much of the information was available in that one file. Much more than <a href=\"https://indieweb.social/tags/Spotify\">#<span class=\"p-category\">Spotify</span></a>\u2019s <a href=\"https://indieweb.social/tags/Wrapped\">#<span class=\"p-category\">Wrapped</span></a>. <br /><br />That\u2019s step 1. Step 2 is figuring out a good way to blog at least some of it.<br /><br />This is post 5 of <a href=\"https://indieweb.social/tags/100PostsOfIndieWeb\">#<span class=\"p-category\">100PostsOfIndieWeb</span></a>. <a href=\"https://indieweb.social/tags/100Posts\">#<span class=\"p-category\">100Posts</span></a> <a href=\"https://indieweb.social/tags/LastFM\">#<span class=\"p-category\">LastFM</span></a> <a href=\"https://indieweb.social/tags/YearInReview\">#<span class=\"p-category\">YearInReview</span></a><br /><br />\u2190 <a href=\"https://tantek.com/2025/002/t1/indieweb-third-place-community\">https://tantek.com/2025/002/t1/indieweb-third-place-community</a><br />\u2192 \ud83d\udd2e<br /><br /><br />Glossary:<br /><br />scrobble<br />\u00a0 <a href=\"https://indieweb.org/scrobble\">https://indieweb.org/scrobble</a><br />year in review<br />\u00a0 <a href=\"https://indieweb.org/year_in_review\">https://indieweb.org/year_in_review</a><br /><br /><br /><a href=\"https://tantek.com/2025/003/t1/lastfm-year-in-review-playback24#t5_r1_ref-1\">\u00b9</a> <a href=\"https://tantek.com/2025/001/t2/first-new-year-review-prior\">https://tantek.com/2025/001/t2/first-new-year-review-prior</a></p>\n<a class=\"u-mention\" href=\"https://twitter.com/lastfm\"></a>",
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        "html": "<p><strong>Today\u2019s shout out is\u2026 me</strong></p><p>I figure it can\u2019t hurt to promote myself just this once. I\u2019m the geek that runs <a href=\"https://isbrill.com/\">isBrill</a> and a whole lot of other stuff. I really do like making websites.</p><ul><li>My blog: <a href=\"https://lordmatt.co.uk/\">https://lordmatt.co.uk/</a></li><li>Hand-coded about me page: <a href=\"https://me.lordmatt.co.uk/\">https://me.lordmatt.co.uk/</a></li><li>Mastodon: <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/@lordmatt\">@lordmatt@mastodon.social</a></li><li>Health log: <a href=\"https://mattsbigfatarse.com/\">https://mattsbigfatarse.com/</a></li><li>Niche nerdy stuff: <a href=\"https://matrixdreams.com/\">https://matrixdreams.com/</a></li><li>Github: <a href=\"https://github.com/lordmatt\">https://github.com/lordmatt</a></li><li>Experimental short-form blog/ActivityPub thing: <a href=\"https://node.lordmatt.co.uk/\">https://node.lordmatt.co.uk/</a> \u2013 <a class=\"u-url\" href=\"https://node.lordmatt.co.uk/author/lordmatt/\">@<span>lordmatt</span></a></li><li>Also a blog/ActivityPub thing but for music: <a href=\"https://iamthedj.lordmatt.co.uk/\">https://iamthedj.lordmatt.co.uk/</a> \u2013 <a class=\"u-url\" href=\"https://iamthedj.lordmatt.co.uk/author/m/\">@<span>m</span></a></li><li>My wishlist (custom coded by me): <a href=\"https://wishlist.me.lordmatt.co.uk/\">https://wishlist.me.lordmatt.co.uk/</a></li><li>I wrote a book (it\u2019s funny): <a href=\"https://amzn.to/3snBS1B\">https://amzn.to/3snBS1B</a></li></ul><p><strong>More things I made</strong></p><ul><li>IndieWeb WebMention-based discovery thing: <a href=\"https://openmentions.com/\">https://openmentions.com/</a></li><li>Hand-crafted old-school directory: <a href=\"https://dir.lordmatt.co.uk/\">https://dir.lordmatt.co.uk/</a></li><li>UK-centric books and publishing community: <a href=\"https://authorbuzz.co.uk/\">https://authorbuzz.co.uk/</a></li><li>A blog about where I live: <a href=\"https://thanetviews.com/\">https://thanetviews.com/</a></li><li>A website for my writing group: <a href=\"https://thanetcreative.co.uk/\">https://thanetcreative.co.uk/</a></li><li>Shrine pages mini sites thing: <a href=\"https://isbrill.com/\">https://isbrill.com/</a></li><li>Evil Password Game: <a href=\"https://password.lordmatt.co.uk/\">https://password.lordmatt.co.uk/</a></li><li>Evil Password Game II: <a href=\"https://password2.lordmatt.co.uk/\">https://password2.lordmatt.co.uk/</a></li><li>I like soft sci-fi and I don\u2019t care who knows it: <a href=\"https://soft-scifi.isbrill.com/\">https://soft-scifi.isbrill.com/</a></li><li>Word counting tool: <a href=\"https://thanetcreative.co.uk/words-counted/\">https://thanetcreative.co.uk/words-counted/</a></li><li>Pixel wall: <a href=\"https://lordmatt.co.uk/about/matts-pixel-wall/\">https://lordmatt.co.uk/about/matts-pixel-wall/</a></li><li>D&amp;D setting: <a href=\"https://matrixdreams.com/tameria/\">https://matrixdreams.com/tameria/</a></li><li>Bingo card generators for YouTube, news, and the end of the world: <a href=\"https://matrixdreams.com/tools-n-toys/youtube-bingo-cards/\">https://matrixdreams.com/tools-n-toys/youtube-bingo-cards/</a></li><li>A comic about beans in D&amp;D dungeons: <a href=\"https://matrixdreams.com/beans-in-dungeons/\">https://matrixdreams.com/beans-in-dungeons/</a></li></ul><p><a class=\"u-tag u-category\" href=\"https://boosting.isbrill.com/tag/hand-coded/\">#handCoded</a> <a class=\"u-tag u-category\" href=\"https://boosting.isbrill.com/tag/me/\">#me</a> <a class=\"u-tag u-category\" href=\"https://boosting.isbrill.com/tag/webmention/\">#WebMention</a> <a class=\"u-tag u-category\" href=\"https://boosting.isbrill.com/category/features/blog/\">#Blog</a> <a class=\"u-tag u-category\" href=\"https://boosting.isbrill.com/category/features/php/\">#PHP</a> <a class=\"u-tag u-category\" href=\"https://boosting.isbrill.com/category/features/rss/\">#RSS</a> <a class=\"u-tag u-category\" href=\"https://boosting.isbrill.com/category/features/wordpress/\">#WordPress</a></p>\n<a class=\"u-mention\" href=\"https://iamthedj.lordmatt.co.uk/author/m/\"></a>\n<a class=\"u-mention\" href=\"https://mastodon.social/@lordmatt\"></a>\n<a class=\"u-mention\" href=\"https://node.lordmatt.co.uk/author/lordmatt/\"></a>",
        "text": "Today\u2019s shout out is\u2026 me\n\nI figure it can\u2019t hurt to promote myself just this once. I\u2019m the geek that runs isBrill and a whole lot of other stuff. I really do like making websites.My blog: https://lordmatt.co.uk/Hand-coded about me page: https://me.lordmatt.co.uk/Mastodon: @lordmatt@mastodon.socialHealth log: https://mattsbigfatarse.com/Niche nerdy stuff: https://matrixdreams.com/Github: https://github.com/lordmattExperimental short-form blog/ActivityPub thing: https://node.lordmatt.co.uk/ \u2013 @lordmattAlso a blog/ActivityPub thing but for music: https://iamthedj.lordmatt.co.uk/ \u2013 @mMy wishlist (custom coded by me): https://wishlist.me.lordmatt.co.uk/I wrote a book (it\u2019s funny): https://amzn.to/3snBS1BMore things I madeIndieWeb WebMention-based discovery thing: https://openmentions.com/Hand-crafted old-school directory: https://dir.lordmatt.co.uk/UK-centric books and publishing community: https://authorbuzz.co.uk/A blog about where I live: https://thanetviews.com/A website for my writing group: https://thanetcreative.co.uk/Shrine pages mini sites thing: https://isbrill.com/Evil Password Game: https://password.lordmatt.co.uk/Evil Password Game II: https://password2.lordmatt.co.uk/I like soft sci-fi and I don\u2019t care who knows it: https://soft-scifi.isbrill.com/Word counting tool: https://thanetcreative.co.uk/words-counted/Pixel wall: https://lordmatt.co.uk/about/matts-pixel-wall/D&D setting: https://matrixdreams.com/tameria/Bingo card generators for YouTube, news, and the end of the world: https://matrixdreams.com/tools-n-toys/youtube-bingo-cards/A comic about beans in D&D dungeons: https://matrixdreams.com/beans-in-dungeons/#handCoded #me #WebMention #Blog #PHP #RSS #WordPress"
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        "name": "#indieweb",
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    "url": "https://caneandable.social/@WeirdWriter/113769114543240009",
    "content": {
        "html": "<p>Anti-tech and alternative media. <a href=\"https://robertkingett.com/posts/6682/\"><span>https://</span><span>robertkingett.com/posts/6682/</span><span></span></a> <a href=\"https://caneandable.social/tags/IndieWeb\">#<span>IndieWeb</span></a></p>",
        "text": "Anti-tech and alternative media. https://robertkingett.com/posts/6682/ #IndieWeb"
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    "published": "2025-01-04T08:22:00+00:00",
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    "author": {
        "name": "#indieweb",
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        "photo": null
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    "url": "https://social.lol/@mihobu/113766781402852220",
    "content": {
        "html": "<p>\ud83e\udd16 There\u2019s a new post on Michael Burkhardt\u2019s Whirled Wide Web:</p><p>2024: The Year in Books</p><p><a href=\"https://social.lol/tags/Books\">#<span>Books</span></a> <a href=\"https://social.lol/tags/IndieWeb\">#<span>IndieWeb</span></a></p><p><a href=\"https://mihobu.lol/books-2024\"><span>https://</span><span>mihobu.lol/books-2024</span><span></span></a></p>",
        "text": "\ud83e\udd16 There\u2019s a new post on Michael Burkhardt\u2019s Whirled Wide Web:\n\n2024: The Year in Books\n\n#Books #IndieWeb\n\nhttps://mihobu.lol/books-2024"
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2024 in numbers

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    "url": "https://paulrobertlloyd.com/2025/003/a1/2024_in_numbers/",
    "published": "2025-01-03T17:20:00+00:00",
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        "html": "<p>Seeing as I <a href=\"https://paulrobertlloyd.com/2023/365/a1/2023_in_numbers/\">counted a few things last year</a>, here are some of those same tables updated with values accrued over the last 12 months.</p><h2>Posts</h2>YearArticlesNotesPhotosTotal202411354288202323385011120221169321122021447771282020127379164<p>After a strong start to the year, motivated by all things IndieWeb, I found myself reluctant to post much at all in the second half of the year. My participation in Micro.blog\u2019s photoblogging challenge in April contributed <a href=\"https://paulrobertlloyd.com/collections/photoblogging_challenge_april_2024/\">30 posts</a>, a third of the year\u2019s total. Still unsure if this is a blip, or indicative of a trend away from publishing as much online.</p><h2>Travel</h2>YearCountriesTripsDistanceCarbon20243158742 km287 kg20236226439 km215 kg20226138093 km263 kg2021141624 km54 kg2020874166 km136 kg<p>Somehow I managed to travel to fewer places but over a greater distance. Much of this can be accounted for by separate trips to Germany and Austria; only my yearly trip to Amsterdam for CSS Day saw me venture elsewhere in Europe. Closer to home, two trips to Yorkshire and a wintery excursion to Inverness rounded out limited travel in 2024.</p><h2>Events</h2>YearCinemaOtherTotal20246142020235131820227916202147112020358<p>Consistent with the year before. I\u2019d like to attend more events and see more films this year; let\u2019s see if I can push past 20.</p><h2>Commits on GitHub</h2>YearCommits202410,11220234087202242952021305020203324<p>This number perhaps best sums up 2024, although I\u2019m not sure if the dramatic increase in commits takes into account the many obsessive compulsive rebases I made to maintain a clean commit history while rebuilding a prototype at work.</p><h2>Activities on Strava</h2>YearWalkingCyclingRunningSwimmingTotal20240h 56m0h  0m3h 26m2h  9m6h 31m20239h  4m0h  0m0h  0m3h 46m12h 50m20228h 32m4h  2m0h  0m6h 21m12h 34m202139h  4m20h 37m19h 50m0h  0m79h 31m20206h 14m13h 40m28h 16m0h  0m48h 10m<p>Possibly a more accurate representation of exercise attempted, given 2023\u2019s figures were skewed by <a href=\"https://paulrobertlloyd.com/2023/290/a1/south_downs/\">a 2-day walk across the South Downs</a>. But these figures don\u2019t highlight a changed attitude to exercise I adopted in late October. I now regularly swim, run and weight train, so hopefully this year\u2019s numbers will be comparable to those of the lockdown years.</p><h2>Check-ins on Swarm</h2>YearCheck-ins202492820231008202294120217852020623<p>Why do I persist with this? Should I stop?</p><p>Reply via email</p>",
        "text": "Seeing as I counted a few things last year, here are some of those same tables updated with values accrued over the last 12 months.PostsYearArticlesNotesPhotosTotal202411354288202323385011120221169321122021447771282020127379164After a strong start to the year, motivated by all things IndieWeb, I found myself reluctant to post much at all in the second half of the year. My participation in Micro.blog\u2019s photoblogging challenge in April contributed 30 posts, a third of the year\u2019s total. Still unsure if this is a blip, or indicative of a trend away from publishing as much online.TravelYearCountriesTripsDistanceCarbon20243158742 km287 kg20236226439 km215 kg20226138093 km263 kg2021141624 km54 kg2020874166 km136 kgSomehow I managed to travel to fewer places but over a greater distance. Much of this can be accounted for by separate trips to Germany and Austria; only my yearly trip to Amsterdam for CSS Day saw me venture elsewhere in Europe. Closer to home, two trips to Yorkshire and a wintery excursion to Inverness rounded out limited travel in 2024.EventsYearCinemaOtherTotal20246142020235131820227916202147112020358Consistent with the year before. I\u2019d like to attend more events and see more films this year; let\u2019s see if I can push past 20.Commits on GitHubYearCommits202410,11220234087202242952021305020203324This number perhaps best sums up 2024, although I\u2019m not sure if the dramatic increase in commits takes into account the many obsessive compulsive rebases I made to maintain a clean commit history while rebuilding a prototype at work.Activities on StravaYearWalkingCyclingRunningSwimmingTotal20240h 56m0h  0m3h 26m2h  9m6h 31m20239h  4m0h  0m0h  0m3h 46m12h 50m20228h 32m4h  2m0h  0m6h 21m12h 34m202139h  4m20h 37m19h 50m0h  0m79h 31m20206h 14m13h 40m28h 16m0h  0m48h 10mPossibly a more accurate representation of exercise attempted, given 2023\u2019s figures were skewed by a 2-day walk across the South Downs. But these figures don\u2019t highlight a changed attitude to exercise I adopted in late October. I now regularly swim, run and weight train, so hopefully this year\u2019s numbers will be comparable to those of the lockdown years.Check-ins on SwarmYearCheck-ins202492820231008202294120217852020623Why do I persist with this? Should I stop?\n\nReply via email"
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    "author": {
        "name": "#indieweb",
        "url": "https://mastodon.social/tags/indieweb",
        "photo": null
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    "url": "https://josh.tel/@josh/113766192247860837",
    "content": {
        "html": "<p>Alright folks. Struggling to find recent and good documentation on how to setup Mastodon with Docker.</p><p>Any recommendations?</p><p>Current status: in _theory_ it's running, I see the Docker images running and I even got a welcome email to my admin user, but attempts to pull up the web interface from the server throw a 403, and attempts to pull it up from my reverse proxy throw a 502.</p><p><a href=\"https://josh.tel/tags/Mastodon\">#<span>Mastodon</span></a> <a href=\"https://josh.tel/tags/IndieWeb\">#<span>IndieWeb</span></a> <a href=\"https://josh.tel/tags/SelfHosting\">#<span>SelfHosting</span></a></p>",
        "text": "Alright folks. Struggling to find recent and good documentation on how to setup Mastodon with Docker.\n\nAny recommendations?\n\nCurrent status: in _theory_ it's running, I see the Docker images running and I even got a welcome email to my admin user, but attempts to pull up the web interface from the server throw a 403, and attempts to pull it up from my reverse proxy throw a 502.\n\n#Mastodon #IndieWeb #SelfHosting"
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    "published": "2025-01-03T19:58:49+00:00",
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    "author": {
        "name": "#indieweb",
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    "url": "https://mastodon.social/@sol2070/113765906807547881",
    "content": {
        "html": "<p><a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/indieweb\">#<span>indieweb</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/fediverse\">#<span>fediverse</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/blogging\">#<span>blogging</span></a> <br />Federated blog with custom domain for $1/month!<br /><a href=\"https://micro.one/about/pricing\"><span>https://</span><span>micro.one/about/pricing</span><span></span></a><br />via <span class=\"h-card\"><a class=\"u-url\" href=\"https://mastodon.com.br/@antonio\">@<span>antonio</span></a></span></p>\n<a class=\"u-mention\" href=\"https://mastodon.com.br/@antonio\"></a>",
        "text": "#indieweb #fediverse #blogging \nFederated blog with custom domain for $1/month!\nhttps://micro.one/about/pricing\nvia @antonio"
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    "published": "2025-01-03T18:46:14+00:00",
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    "author": {
        "name": "#indieweb",
        "url": "https://mastodon.social/tags/indieweb",
        "photo": null
    },
    "url": "https://stefanbohacek.online/@stefan/113765831195130122",
    "content": {
        "html": "<p>Finally seeing this covered in the news.</p><p>\"This should be illegal and everyone should be upset about this. If that alert was for my child and tons of people couldn\u2019t see it because they don\u2019t have a stupid X account, I would be beyond infuriated.\"</p><p><a href=\"https://www.wired.com/story/amber-alert-paywall-california/\"><span>https://www.</span><span>wired.com/story/amber-alert-pa</span><span>ywall-california/</span></a></p><p>via <a href=\"https://stefanbohacek.online/@drahardja@sfba.social/113765793507097286\"><span>https://</span><span>stefanbohacek.online/@drahardj</span><span>a@sfba.social/113765793507097286</span></a></p><p><a href=\"https://stefanbohacek.online/tags/news\">#<span>news</span></a> <a href=\"https://stefanbohacek.online/tags/SocialMedia\">#<span>SocialMedia</span></a> <a href=\"https://stefanbohacek.online/tags/OpenWeb\">#<span>OpenWeb</span></a> <a href=\"https://stefanbohacek.online/tags/indieweb\">#<span>indieweb</span></a> <a href=\"https://stefanbohacek.online/tags/X\">#<span>X</span></a> <a href=\"https://stefanbohacek.online/tags/twitter\">#<span>twitter</span></a></p>",
        "text": "Finally seeing this covered in the news.\n\n\"This should be illegal and everyone should be upset about this. If that alert was for my child and tons of people couldn\u2019t see it because they don\u2019t have a stupid X account, I would be beyond infuriated.\"\n\nhttps://www.wired.com/story/amber-alert-paywall-california/\n\nvia https://stefanbohacek.online/@drahardja@sfba.social/113765793507097286\n\n#news #SocialMedia #OpenWeb #indieweb #X #twitter"
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    "published": "2025-01-03T18:27:00+00:00",
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    "author": {
        "name": "#indieweb",
        "url": "https://mastodon.social/tags/indieweb",
        "photo": null
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    "url": "https://mstdn.social/@smirklord/113765395112687946",
    "content": {
        "html": "<p>Still, the sting and pangs of longing are inevitable in both ways: that it was always going to come to this, and that it now has and will only be as it is</p><p>And so, in that spirit, I finally arrive at my point: does anyone know any good alternatives to <a href=\"https://mstdn.social/tags/wordpress_com\">#<span>wordpress_com</span></a> ?</p><p><a href=\"https://mstdn.social/tags/AskFedi\">#<span>AskFedi</span></a> <a href=\"https://mstdn.social/tags/IndieWeb\">#<span>IndieWeb</span></a> <a href=\"https://mstdn.social/tags/Blogging\">#<span>Blogging</span></a></p><p>...<br />4/n, fin.</p>",
        "text": "Still, the sting and pangs of longing are inevitable in both ways: that it was always going to come to this, and that it now has and will only be as it is\n\nAnd so, in that spirit, I finally arrive at my point: does anyone know any good alternatives to #wordpress_com ?\n\n#AskFedi #IndieWeb #Blogging\n\n...\n4/n, fin."
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    "_source": "8007",
    "_is_read": false
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    "author": {
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        "url": "https://mastodon.social/tags/indieweb",
        "photo": null
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    "url": "https://framapiaf.org/@annso/113765358795112159",
    "content": {
        "html": "<p>Pages : 5<br />Mots : 1737<br />Caract\u00e8res : 10932</p><p>Youpi, encore un gros pav\u00e9 \u00e0 venir sur le blog, que peut \u00eatre 5 personnes liront \ud83e\udd2a\ud83d\ude05</p><p><a href=\"https://framapiaf.org/tags/indieWeb\">#<span>indieWeb</span></a> <a href=\"https://framapiaf.org/tags/blog\">#<span>blog</span></a></p>",
        "text": "Pages : 5\nMots : 1737\nCaract\u00e8res : 10932\n\nYoupi, encore un gros pav\u00e9 \u00e0 venir sur le blog, que peut \u00eatre 5 personnes liront \ud83e\udd2a\ud83d\ude05\n\n#indieWeb #blog"
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    "published": "2025-01-03T16:26:52+00:00",
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    "author": {
        "name": "#indieweb",
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    "url": "https://fosstodon.org/@mirekdlugosz/113765190234278929",
    "content": {
        "html": "<p>Is there a tool/website that I give it a link, and it gives back social media posts by author that contain that link? Or at least gives links to author profile on various social media sites?<br />I mostly read through RSS. Sometimes I read and think \"wow, I would like to share/boost original author post on social media, too!\" And I wonder if there is something that would make that last part easier.</p><p><a href=\"https://fosstodon.org/tags/askfedi\">#<span>askfedi</span></a> <a href=\"https://fosstodon.org/tags/help\">#<span>help</span></a> <a href=\"https://fosstodon.org/tags/rss\">#<span>rss</span></a> <a href=\"https://fosstodon.org/tags/indieweb\">#<span>indieweb</span></a> <a href=\"https://fosstodon.org/tags/web\">#<span>web</span></a> <a href=\"https://fosstodon.org/tags/smallweb\">#<span>smallweb</span></a> <a href=\"https://fosstodon.org/tags/tech\">#<span>tech</span></a> <a href=\"https://fosstodon.org/tags/Support\">#<span>Support</span></a></p>",
        "text": "Is there a tool/website that I give it a link, and it gives back social media posts by author that contain that link? Or at least gives links to author profile on various social media sites?\nI mostly read through RSS. Sometimes I read and think \"wow, I would like to share/boost original author post on social media, too!\" And I wonder if there is something that would make that last part easier.\n\n#askfedi #help #rss #indieweb #web #smallweb #tech #Support"
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    "_is_read": false
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        "html": "<p>I really like personal homepages and have quite a list of them bookmarked. I'll post one every week unless I fall behind this schedule. \ud83d\ude09 So here's Cool Personal Homepages <a href=\"https://mastodon.online/tags/CPH\">#<span>CPH</span></a> Vol. 33: \"shen.land\" <a href=\"https://shen.land/\"><span>https://</span><span>shen.land/</span><span></span></a></p><p><a href=\"https://mastodon.online/tags/SmallWeb\">#<span>SmallWeb</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.online/tags/indieweb\">#<span>indieweb</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.online/tags/smolweb\">#<span>smolweb</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.online/tags/PersonalSites\">#<span>PersonalSites</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.online/tags/homepage\">#<span>homepage</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.online/tags/blog\">#<span>blog</span></a></p>",
        "text": "I really like personal homepages and have quite a list of them bookmarked. I'll post one every week unless I fall behind this schedule. \ud83d\ude09 So here's Cool Personal Homepages #CPH Vol. 33: \"shen.land\" https://shen.land/\n\n#SmallWeb #indieweb #smolweb #PersonalSites #homepage #blog"
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        "html": "<p>Sleep Token Songs You Might Like If You Don\u2019t Listen To Metal <img alt=\":sleeptoken:\" height=\"16\" src=\"https://files.mastodon.social/cache/custom_emojis/images/000/791/384/original/1cbdf4f8cd0fe4ea.png\" title=\":sleeptoken:\" width=\"16\" /></p><p><a href=\"https://blog.shrediverse.net/posts/sleep-token-songs-you-might-like-if-you-dont-listen-to-metal\"><span>https://</span><span>blog.shrediverse.net/posts/sle</span><span>ep-token-songs-you-might-like-if-you-dont-listen-to-metal</span></a></p><p><a href=\"https://dmv.community/tags/music\">#<span>music</span></a> <a href=\"https://dmv.community/tags/indieweb\">#<span>indieweb</span></a> <a href=\"https://dmv.community/tags/smallweb\">#<span>smallweb</span></a> <a href=\"https://dmv.community/tags/SleepToken\">#<span>SleepToken</span></a></p>",
        "text": "Sleep Token Songs You Might Like If You Don\u2019t Listen To Metal \n\nhttps://blog.shrediverse.net/posts/sleep-token-songs-you-might-like-if-you-dont-listen-to-metal\n\n#music #indieweb #smallweb #SleepToken"
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    "published": "2025-01-03T14:52:20+00:00",
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        "html": "<p>Been working on a little <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/IndieWeb\">#<span>IndieWeb</span></a> project; importing some of my online life into my own domain.<br />Currently I have Swarm checkins creating notes on my site. Got music and films coming in from RSS feeds, saving these locally feels like overkill but the end product is my Activity Feed.<br /><a href=\"https://adamchamberlin.info/activity/\"><span>https://</span><span>adamchamberlin.info/activity/</span><span></span></a></p>",
        "text": "Been working on a little #IndieWeb project; importing some of my online life into my own domain.\nCurrently I have Swarm checkins creating notes on my site. Got music and films coming in from RSS feeds, saving these locally feels like overkill but the end product is my Activity Feed.\nhttps://adamchamberlin.info/activity/"
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