Start a #blog. Start one because the practice of writing at length, for an audience you respect, about things that matter to you, is itself valuable. Start one because owning your own platform is a form of independence that becomes more important as centralized platforms become less trustworthy. Start one because the format shapes the thought, and this format is good for thinking.

The blog won't save us. But it's one of the tools we'll need if we're going to save ourselves.

- Joan Westenberg, The Case for Blogging in the Ruins https://www.joanwestenberg.com/the-case-for-blogging-in-the-ruins/ #IndieWeb

My Year in Sport, using data from my Strava, Swarm, and personal notes & recollections, assembled into a simpler summary on my personal site.

2025 activities according to Strava:
🏃🏻‍♂️1354mi + 160,077' hiking+running
 👟 823mi + 119,453' running
  ⛰ 485mi trail running
  🛣 337mi road running
 🥾 526mi + 40,624' hiking
🧘🏻‍♂️ 8h27m yoga
💪🏻 some number of weight-lifting sessions (less than one a week)
🚲 4.6mi + 413' bicycling — only one ride all year somehow(?)
🪨 1 bouldering session (at Movement)

Races:
🏁 3 races, finished 2
🌳 12k Bay to Breakers 1:55:31 https://tantek.com/t5c61
⛰ 50k Skyline: 9:34:51 https://tantek.com/t5dQ1

2025 was a more difficult year than expected, in many ways, and it cut both the hours and frequencies of many physical activities.

My hours and frequency of yoga, weight-lifting, bicycling, and bouldering all dropped from 2024 to 2025. My goals for 2026 are to find sustainable regular rhythms for each of those, either by myself or with friends.

Despite that, I made several improvements in 2025 over 2024:
* Overall: 160,077' climbed, +9.4k' over 150,676' in 2024
* Running: 823mi + 119,453', +20mi +8.3k' over 803mi + 111,155' in 2024
* Hiking: 526mi just barely (+6mi) over 520mi in 2024
* Finished a 50k! First since mid-2023.

I have a few running goals for 2026:
* incrementally faster Bay to Breakers over 2025
* Broken Arrow 23k Skyrace, finish and ideally beat my 2024 time (6h52m)
* finish a 50k trail race, my fifth 50k

I don't have specific metrics goals, like total distance, or feet climbed, or any specific race times (other than beating last year’s times). Those are all secondary to my goals.

Based on how the past few years have gone, I believe these are reasonable goals, yet will take focus and hard work to achieve them.

Lastly, this personalized, #indieweb “year in sport”, reflects much more of what matters to me than any summary from an online service. It’s not perfect and doesn’t need to be. It’s a start and I expect to iterate and improve it next year.

This is post 4 of #100PostsOfIndieWeb. #100Posts #yearInReview #yearInSport

https://tantek.com/2026/003/t1/seek-2025-year-in-review
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Glossary:

Year in Review:
  https://indieweb.org/year_in_review
#indieweb #100PostsOfIndieWeb #100Posts #yearInReview #yearInSport

No new posts on my blog since 2026 began... because I've been adding new features on my Hugo site instead!

I have 5 new pages:
- All (aka Firehose feed)
- Sitemap
- Stats
and 2 IndieWeb pages:
- Notes (aka microblogs)
- Photos

A page I really enjoyed making was the Statistics page. I added a new line graph from #ECharts and used Hugo inbuilt calculations.

➡️ https://burgeonlab.com/stats

#BurgeonLab #blogs #blogger #hugo #staticsites #indieweb #microformat #apache #ApacheECharts #webdev

few things endear me towards the internet again as curated and catalogues lists of links do: https://url.town/

i've really enjoyed setting up a tiny internet bio that is just plain cute, at https://catileptic.omg.lol/

and a tiny repository of silly things that occupy my mind & hands, at https://catileptic.omg.lol/now

now, how does one become part of a webring?

#indieweb #tinyweb

My Year in Sport, using data from my Strava, Swarm, and personal notes & recollections, assembled into a simpler summary on my personal site.

2025 activities according to Strava:
🏃🏻‍♂️1354mi + 160,077' hiking+running
 👟 823mi + 119,453' running
  ⛰ 485mi trail running
  🛣 337mi road running
 🥾 526mi + 40,624' hiking
🧘🏻‍♂️ 8h27m yoga
💪🏻 some number of weight-lifting sessions (less than one a week)
🚲 4.6mi + 413' bicycling — only one ride all year somehow(?)
🪨 1 bouldering session (at Movement)

Races:
🏁 3 races, finished 2
🌳 12k Bay to Breakers 1:55:31 https://tantek.com/t5c61
⛰ 50k Skyline: 9:34:51 https://tantek.com/t5dQ1

2025 was a more difficult year than expected, in many ways, and it cut both the hours and frequencies of many physical activities.

My hours and frequency of yoga, weight-lifting, bicycling, and bouldering all dropped from 2024 to 2025. My goals for 2026 are to find sustainable regular rhythms for each of those, either by myself or with friends.

Despite that, I made several improvements in 2025 over 2024:
* Overall: 160,077' climbed, +9.4k' over 150,676' in 2024
* Running: 823mi + 119,453', +20mi +8.3k' over 803mi + 111,155' in 2024
* Hiking: 526mi just barely (+6mi) over 520mi in 2024
* Finished a 50k! First since mid-2023.

I have a few running goals for 2026:
* incrementally faster Bay to Breakers over 2025
* Broken Arrow 23k Skyrace, finish and ideally beat my 2024 time (6h52m)
* finish a 50k trail race, my fifth 50k

I don't have specific metrics goals, like total distance, or feet climbed, or any specific race times (other than beating last year’s times). Those are all secondary to my goals.

Based on how the past few years have gone, I believe these are reasonable goals, yet will take focus and hard work to achieve them.

Lastly, this personalized, #indieweb “year in sport”, reflects much more of what matters to me than any summary from an online service. It’s not perfect and doesn’t need to be. It’s a start and I expect to iterate and improve it next year.

This is post 4 of #100PostsOfIndieWeb. #100Posts #yearInReview #yearInSport

https://tantek.com/2026/003/t1/seek-2025-year-in-review
→ 🔮


Glossary:

Year in Review:
  https://indieweb.org/year_in_review

Added https://rossabaker.com/tags/top4/ to the Top Four directory.

🎅🏻 Christmas Songs
1. “River” — Joni Mitchell
2. “Christmas Card from a Hooker in Minneapolis” — Tom Waits
3. “Christmastime Is Here (Instrumental)” — Vince Guaraldi Trio
4. “Must Be Santa” — Bob Dylan

What is your Top 4?

#top4 #topfour #indieweb #smallweb

Después de varias noches peleándome con Handlebars, CSS , decisiones estéticas y la ayuda de algún LLM, publiqué mi primer tema para el generador de contenido estático Publii.

Se llama Thais:es simple, personalizable y pensado para sitios personales. También es de código abierto y ya está disponible acá: https://gitlab.com/dmurana/publii-theme-thais

#Publii #OpenSource #StaticSite #WebDesign #IndieWeb

Letting your unused domains expire is a form of self-care.

#indieweb #webdev

Yay I finally finished coding my website! It turns out that I was avoiding updating my Wordpress website because I didn't have enough granular control over it to make it mine - and that I actually like making websites.

I think it needs some webrings, favicons, and a status.cafe just to get the real #indieweb aesthetic going.
https://spottyboypress.com/

#website #personalweb #www

📝 New Post: Music I Listened to in 2025

A recap of the music I listened to in 2025

🔥 https://flamedfury.com/posts/music-i-listened-to-in-2025/

#Music #Listening #Personalweb #Indieweb #Blogging

@Amgine on the #indieweb wiki several of us have been trying to document “AI” scraping’s impact - it may be useful to you to click through to the mitigation schemes mentioned. https://indieweb.org/large_language_model_traffic

#IndieWeb question related to scraping and permalinks: has anyone developed a method to reduce/address AI scraping?

I was thinking a more-complicated shorturl which checks the referer, which should match the syndication site else redir to a spider trap/boring page. Also consider(ed|ing) .onion or i2p as I really am not trying to communicate with folk who are not using one or the other.

Grosse mise à jour de mon blog ce soir, avec un nouveau thème. Un retour à la simplicité pour moi. C'est ce que j'avais envie et besoin. Et ça me fait beaucoup de bien. 🙂‍↕️

➡️ https://alyve.be/blog/nouveau-theme-liberation-et-simplicite/

#blog #simplicité #smallweb #indieweb

I’m falling down the rabbit hole of #blogging and the #indieweb. Does anyone know of good resources to get familiar with the core concepts and first steps? I’m a bit overwhelmed by the amount of information out there and not sure what I should focus on or where to start.

Goal: I want my own blog, the ability to easily share my posts on the #fediverse, and a straightforward writing tool I can use to publish them.

You tell an llm to write function but you gotta recheck and possibly refactor it before adding it to your code base. What was even the point then huh?

#noai #llm #programming #testing #enshittification #python #golang #rust #javascript #indieweb

A test page with 2000 randomly generated entries to answer a question from the HN comments section:

https://susam.net/code/test/2k.html

Actual page size is 240 kB and the compressed transfer size is 130 kB.

#webdev #web #indieweb #programming