Yay, I finally got my own domain! Small steps towards the Small Web.

If you happen to want to check it out, it's at https://kaamkiya.dev :)

I'm open to suggestions, and hope to eventually add a photo gallery for my (mediocre) photography.

Oh also, I'm aware that the mobile styling isn't very good, and I'm open to suggestions on how to fix it.

Thanks!

#SmallWeb #IndieWeb #OpenSource #FLOSS #FOSS

Finalmente atualizei meu blog com a lista dos filmes e séries de 2025 que mais recomendo!
#cinema #filme #indieweb #blog
https://ilogi.co/posts/imagens--letras--sons/filmesseries2025/

📸 Update on photos.inlinestyle.it!

We’ve increased the maximum upload size, so you can now upload larger files — including all your New Year’s Eve videos 🎆🎥

Go ahead and back them up → https://photos.inlinestyle.it

#Photos #Immich #FOSS #IndieWeb #DeGoogle #BuyEU

@panzone91 @molly0xfff Try the #Indieweb Carnival for inspiration: https://indieweb.org/IndieWeb_Carnival ! The past topics are great prompts, and should give you plenty of ideas.

Found a discussion on the #indieweb #wiki about using a DB vs files to store the CMS content. I'm leaning towards using a DB. It is easier when building feeds, tag searching, etc.

https://indieweb.org/database-antipattern

I am a blind writer. Typically, I write Romance. I write it not as a guilty pleasure, but as a survival manual. In a world that tells disabled people we are burdens, Romance is the only genre that insists we are worthy of worship. It is a political act to write a story where safety is the ultimate kink. https://sightlessscribbles.com/welcome-note/ #Romance #RomanceLandia #RomanceReaders #Blog #Blogging #IndieWeb

Are there any ethical data centers?

Are there any hosting providers using renewable energy and investing in the same, offering reasonable cost and service to regular (or #Indieweb) type folks? We don't all need blazing fast SSDs and CPUs for small-fry web projects.

I've been a happy DigitalOcean customer for years and years, but I wouldn't mind migrating to a provider dedicated to (more) sustainable tech if such a thing exists.

everyone who wants an #indieweb should give me and winter £1,000 imo

Added https://zacharykai.net/top4 to the Top Four directory.

🎶 Musical Artists
1. Coldplay
2. John Mayer
3. The 1975
4. Mat Kearney

What is your Top 4?

#top4 #topfour #indieweb #smallweb

Love it when I start writing a brief post to blab out here, and it starts becoming a list of ideas, and I quickly realize a blog post needs to happen 🔥

#writing #blogs #blogging #SmallWeb #IndieWeb

Aloe Barbadensis Extract, derived from the aloe vera plant, is celebrated for its soothing and moisturizing properties. Found in skincare, it aids in hydration and sunburn relief and has anti-inflammatory benefits. It's a natural remedy for healthy skin and promotes healing! 🌿✨
#IndieWeb #OpenWeb #DigitalIndependence #Blogging #spotify

"Diderot spent twenty years on his infrastructure. We handed ours to advertising companies and - like Pilate - washed our hands of it."

https://www.joanwestenberg.com/the-case-for-blogging-in-the-ruins/

#Indieweb #Blogging #Blog

I had to delete the Guestbook page on my personal website... 😢

Seems like having a <form> on a page leads to too much spam traffic for a small shared hosting like mine....

Not the energy to investigate solutions right now

#webdev #posse #indieweb

My year in movies in theaters, using Fandango > My Orders > History, my Swarm Timeline, and personal recollection, to aggregate a few lists and stats:

I saw 9 new movies in theaters in 2025, two of them multiple times (dates are first viewing)
* 2025-02-20 👹 Captain America: Brave New World
* 2025-05-22 ℹ️ Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning
* 2025-07-20 🦸🏻‍♂️ Superman (2025)
* 2025-07-26 ⓸ The Fantastic Four: First Steps (2025)
* 2025-10-09 🔺 Tron: Ares
* 2025-11-15 🏃🏻‍♂️ The Running Man (2025)
* 2025-11-19 🧌 Predator: Badlands
* 2025-12-03 🪄 Now You See Me: Now You Don’t
* 2025-12-14 🧹 Wicked: For Good

In these cities:
* 11x San Francisco
* Berlin
* Boston
* San Diego

At the following movie theaters:
* 6x AMC Metreon Dolby
* 2x AMC Metreon IMAX
* Zoo Palast
* Alamo Drafthouse SF HDR BARCO
* AMC Boston Common IMAX
* Regal Stonestown Galleria ScreenX
* Regal Stonestown Galleria
* AMC Mission Valley 20

In the following formats, in rough order of frequency then features/quality:
* 5x Dolby
* 2x IMAX
* 2x Standard
* 3D IMAX
* 3D Dolby
* HDR BARCO
* ScreenX
* Standard German dub

The latter three were new formats for me this year: HDR BARCO, ScreenX, and Standard German dub.

My preferred movie format is still Dolby, in particular in the Metreon Dolby theater. I’ve been other “Dolby” theaters (including other AMC Dolby) and none have measured up. Dolby theater audio quality is significantly better than any IMAX theater I have been in.

3D IMAX can look amazing for the right film (e.g. Tron: Ares). In comparison, I was not impressed by 3D Dolby, or any other 3D projection+glasses technologies over the years.

HDR BARCO was very high quality, however, having seen the same film (Tron: Ares, with lots of dark scenes) in both HDR BARCO and Metreon Dolby, I could not see a discernible difference in the visual quality. Perhaps the light pollution from the Alamo Drafthouse's under-table lights interfered with the quality of the HDR BARCO experience.

I archived the page that Alamo Drafthouse had setup for the HDR BARCO Tron: Ares showing:
* https://web.archive.org/web/20251011173709/https://drafthouse.com/sf/event/special-event-tron-ares-hdr-by-barco?cinemaId=0801&sessionId=74102
Unclear why they took the page down.

ScreenX was an entertaining gimmick for the landscapes of Predator: Badlands. I would consider seeing another suitable movie in the format.

Watching a film dubbed in German was an interesting challenge that pushed and exceeded my German speech comprehension skills. I had to use contextual cues, on screen, sci-fi terminology, and the Fantastic Four subject matter to interpret much of it.

I constructed these summary lists by hand, and having completed them, I think next time it might work better to incorporate the raw data into a table with various columns for date, time, film name, theater, auditorium, format, and perhaps more like seat number(s) and the set of us at the viewing. I would not include classic "IMDB" fields like genre, director, writer etc. because all of those are independent of the particular theater/viewing and can easily be looked up on Wikipedia. Duplicating that info in my own personal notes would merely add noise to the signal of each specific movie theater experience.

I’m curious if anyone else has done something like this / is doing this to keep track of the movies they see in theaters, what info to capture about the viewing, what to note about the particular experience, and what to publish on their #indieweb site.

This is post 5 of #100PostsOfIndieWeb. #100Posts #yearInReview #yearInMovies #yearInTheaters

https://tantek.com/2026/004/t1/year-in-sport
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#indieweb #100PostsOfIndieWeb #100Posts #yearInReview #yearInMovies #yearInTheaters

So, the #IndieWeb and personal websites movements need to figure out their priorities—and their constituencies.

https://bix.blog/posts/2026-01-05-quite-achievable-for-whom/

#Blogging #BixDotBlog

My year in movies in theaters, using Fandango > My Orders > History, my Swarm Timeline, and personal recollection, to aggregate a few lists and stats:

I saw 9 new movies in theaters in 2025, two of them multiple times (dates are first viewing)
* 2025-02-20 Captain America: Brave New World
* 2025-05-22 Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning
* 2025-07-20 Superman (2025)
* 2025-07-26 The Fantastic Four: First Steps (2025)
* 2025-10-09 Tron: Ares
* 2025-11-15 The Running Man (2025)
* 2025-11-19 Predator: Badlands
* 2025-12-03 Now You See Me: Now You Don’t
* 2025-12-14 Wicked: For Good

In these cities:
* 11x San Francisco
* Berlin
* Boston
* San Diego

At the following movie theaters:
* 6x AMC Metreon Dolby
* 2x AMC Metreon IMAX
* Zoo Palast
* Alamo Drafthouse SF HDR BARCO
* AMC Boston Common IMAX
* Regal Stonestown Galleria ScreenX
* Regal Stonestown Galleria
* AMC Mission Valley 20

In the following formats, in rough order of frequency then features/quality:
* 5x 2D Dolby
* 2x IMAX
* 2x Standard
* 3D IMAX
* 3D Dolby
* HDR BARCO
* ScreenX
* Standard German dub

The latter three were new formats for me this year: HDR BARCO, ScreenX, and Standard German dub.

My preferred movie format is still Dolby, in particular in the Metreon Dolby theater. I’ve been other “Dolby” theaters (including other AMC Dolby) and none have measured up. Dolby theater audio quality is significantly better than any IMAX theater I have been in.

3D IMAX can look amazing for the right film (e.g. Tron: Ares). In comparison, I was not impressed by 3D Dolby, or any other 3D projection+glasses technologies over the years.

HDR BARCO was very high quality, however, having seen the same film (Tron: Ares, with lots of dark scenes) in both HDR BARCO and Metreon Dolby, I could not see a discernible difference in the visual quality. Perhaps the light pollution from the Alamo Drafthouse's under-table lights interfered with the quality of the HDR BARCO experience.

I archived the page that Alamo Drafthouse had setup for the HDR BARCO Tron: Ares showing:
* https://web.archive.org/web/20251011173709/https://drafthouse.com/sf/event/special-event-tron-ares-hdr-by-barco?cinemaId=0801&sessionId=74102
Unclear why they took the page down.

ScreenX was an entertaining gimmick for the landscapes of Predator: Badlands. I would consider seeing another suitable movie in the format.

Watching a film dubbed in German was an interesting challenge that pushed and exceeded my German speech comprehension skills. I had to use contextual cues, on screen, sci-fi terminology, and the Fantastic Four subject matter to interpret much of it.

I constructed these summary lists by hand, and having completed them, I think next time it might work better to incorporate the raw data into a table with various columns for date, time, film name, theater, auditorium, format, and perhaps more like seat number(s) and the set of us at the viewing. I would not include classic "IMDB" fields like genre, director, writer etc. because all of those are independent of the particular theater/viewing and can easily be looked up on Wikipedia. Duplicating that info in my own personal notes would merely add noise to the signal of each specific movie theater experience.

I’m curious if anyone else has done something like this / is doing this to keep track of the movies they see in theaters, what info to capture about the viewing, what to note about the particular experience, and what to publish on their #indieweb site.

This is post 5 of #100PostsOfIndieWeb. #100Posts #yearInReview #yearInMovies #yearInTheaters

https://tantek.com/2026/004/t1/year-in-sport
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Clean Label Protein Powders: The Comprehensive Buyer's Guide to Transparent Supplements
https://ingredientsage.com/post/clean-label-project-protein-powder-list
#IndieWeb #OpenWeb #DigitalIndependence #Blogging #spotify

@jon I do. @reillypascal wrote a great overview of them last year. #webmentions #indieweb