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@[email protected] #IndieWeb #WebStandards @Mozilla. W3C AC+AB CSSWG #IndieWebCamp #microformats. #trailRunner #ultraRunner
Joined November 2006
You (web devs / designers) asked for it:. #CSS Container Queries effort has been restarted in the @W3C #WICG!. Join and contribute! Let’s see how much we can move this foward in 2018. Thanks and @marcosc! (ttk.me t4sZ1).
@t @keithjgrant @jensimmons @firefox @mozilla @paulhhowells @rachelandrew @FullStack_Jimmy @brkemper @ZeeCoder @innovati Shouldn't it move to WICG for more traction?.
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js;dr = JavaScript required; Didn’t Read. Pages that are empty without JS: dead to history (archive-org), . http://t.co/gFPMTOkPTf.
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#WebSub is now a @W3C Recommendation!.Supported by @Google @WordPress etc. #implementnow.Congrats @Julien51 @aaronpk!. So stop polling so much,.start SUBscribing to WEB pages for changes!. #openweb #indieweb #webstandards…
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Team @microdotblog has done it again. * * cost: $1 a month. Simplest & cheapest way to own your identity & posts. Stop posting in someone else’s garage. Export your Twitter and migrate your Mastodon to your #indieweb home. More:
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To live longer*.1 Keep learning.2 Visit new places.3 Meet new people.4 Do new activities.5 Be spontaneous.*. http://t.co/KuF36FXl4L.
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"Isolate him enough that he remains creative — otherwise he'll adopt the system here and we'll lose him." #EndersGame (ttk.me t4QNB).
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Start with.1. Your content must be viewable w/o images, CSS, or JS.2. Your links, buttons, & inputs should work w/o JS (ttk.me t4ip3).
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I was traveling when I heard the news about Molly Holzschlag (@mholzschlag). Her #CSS #accessibility #OpenWeb contributions are well documented. May she be at peace. Appreciated @Zeldman.com’s note:
Terribly sad news. Farewell to a tireless advocate for a kinder, more accessible, more open web. Your pain is over, now you may rest. #webstandards
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Hey friends,. @Mozilla is eliminating some roles as announced: Lots of amazing folks. Please check the #MozillaLifeboat hashtag ( for posts from affected individuals, and posts from folks reaching out.
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2+ yrs of self-hosted tweets with nav: http://t.co/6mmxsGcW. Make it a 2012 goal to join the #indieweb and #ownyourdata (ttk.me t4Fg1).
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15d. Picked up a new iPod 6 Touch yesterday with custom engraving. Normalize refusal. #RESIST #latergram #nofilter…
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🏅🏃🏻♂️I did it. 9:34:44 @thenorthfaceECS #TNFECS #ECSCA “50k”(53k😂). 50k distance PR in 8:59:41 according to Strava. My first #ultramarathon race. Yes I trained for this, and so many things had to go right to make this possible. Clean air. Ideal…
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Ten years ago to the hour, @KevinMarks and I introduced #microformats at an #ETech BoF session: http://t.co/g2tbdWYlIY (ttk.me t4UY2).
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great read: @AaronGustafson's Adaptive Web Design. modern progressive enhancement #HTML5 #CSS3 #JS: http://j.mp/webdpe (ttk.me/t4Dg1).
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Thanks @zeldman @absalomedia @adactio @meyerweb @SaraSoueidan @keithjgrant @benwerd @pdxposhy @bastianallgeier @m_ott @ohhelloana @jackyalcine @ken_bauer @jgarber @tomcoates. If my boring account can be falsely suspended, what of those less privileged? .
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▶ watched President @BarackObama’s Message to the #ClassOf2020.Appreciated:. 1. Don’t be afraid. 2. Do what you think is right. 3. Build the communty. Leave behind old ways of thinking that divide us. #DontGoBackToNormal
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"Minority Report" with programs not precogs: Santa Cruz sent cops.where crime likely to occur, arrested 2. NYT: http://t.co/13CcRLG.
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Google’s new mission: organize the world’s information, universally neglect it, & delete it. #googlecode #youhadonejob (ttk.me t4aD1).
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#Innovatecon: my slides from: #HTML5 and #microformats2: the next evolutionary step for web data: http://t.co/1L7SCKLB (ttk.me t4K22).
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Cater vegan by default (per Guardian environment article^1). Defaults matter, and changing them works (changes behavior). Instead of making "vegan" or "vegetarian" a special meal option, flip it around, and cater vegan by default, with special meal…
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"when u dont create things, u become defined by ur tastes rather than ability. ur tastes only narrow+exclude ppl. so create." -_why 2008-221.
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June #trailRunner #ultraRunner weekends.3 finished #MUC50k @InsideTrail #RodeoBeach 9:38:28, my 3rd #50k #ultraMarathon #trailRace.11 volunteered @TheDipsea #DipseaRace at #MuirWoods.18 finished @BrokenArrowCA #BA23k 5:22:54 #RingDasBell, my 1st #skyRace.…
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It seems 99% of devs are building ephemeral apps, whether "native" or single-page, not #longweb
http://t.co/EhwzH4qI7A (ttk.me t4Xu1).
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#TwitterMigration, first time?. Have posted notes to since 2010, POSSEd tweets & #AtomFeed. Added one .htaccess line today, and thanks to #BridgyFed, #Mastodon users can follow my #IndieWeb site. @tantek.com@tantek.com .
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posted #YUIConf 2010 talk slides: HTML5 Right Here, Right Now: http://tantek.com/presentations/2010/11/html5-now/
http://ttk.me/t48g4.
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Why you should say HTML classes, CSS class selectors, or CSS pseudo-classes, but not CSS classes: http://t.co/sMOmWuDY.
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#oscon: Wikipedia use of data URIs (not files) to embed images in CSS reduced size ~27%, requests 35 to 1. Also: http://ttk.me/t4D41.
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Had a great time @IndieWebCamp Portland this past Sunday — our 10th IndieWebCamp in Portland!. Being a one day #IndieWebCamp, we focused more on making, hacking, and creating, than on formal discussion sessions. #IndieWeb site intros, demos, and more: .
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How I learned to stop worrying and love the main element: http://t.co/Gfu3o6U2 cc: @BrendanEich @stevefaulkner #html5 (ttk.me t4MT2).
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#TBT: 10 years ago today @termie @rk @photomatt @eris @chrismessina & @t created #barcamp.org . http://t.co/wn8M0CcyNz.
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Dear #SanFrancisco friends who went to #SXSW or #Austin #Texas recently, please stay home, isolate for a week, and test on days 5-7. The #SXSWSARS was particularly bad this year. #COVID19 #superSpreader #wearAMask. h/t @KevinMarks
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Just wrote a #Wikipedia stub article on @CindyLi: . Please review, make corrections, and add more notable references. Also needs a good Creative Commons licensed photo. If you have one, please upload to Wikimedia Commons!
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Today is the 10th anniversary of http://t.co/n68anOeayO. Great progress in 6+ years of #microformats2: http://t.co/sZ7eXJE951.
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Nice glyphs. 400 mobile app icons by Actual Objects: http://t.co/FhqSkkn4 via @zeldman. Read the whole post. longURL: http://t.co/0n86dpng.
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Finished #RodeoValley 30k #trailRace in 5:10:43 on Saturday. In the photo I’m massaging a midsection cramp while power hiking uphill, and grinning because I knew I was almost at the top of the last big climb of the course. First race post lockdown was…
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-.Last week’s Homebrew Website Club SF was a bit chaotic. CSS guru Eric Meyer demonstrated float:right, while the…
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there will always be slow connections. minimize HTTP requests from pages and make your bytes count (per Amdahl's law). (ttk.me/t4DZ2).
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#Mozilla’s @davidbaron asked @heycam @ecbos_ and me (@t) to help him with table layout (1). And the finished result (2). @MozToronto preparing for this week’s @CSSWG meeting. #CSS #Tables #TableLayout (
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just spoke on "Open Standards Stories & Practices" at #mozvision 2012: http://t.co/12CshO2M (ttk.me t4Fz1).
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Simply brilliant. "Why I wear the same thing every day, and what I wear." by @Timoni: http://t.co/ZBnuW3WB
#ux #design (ttk.me t4JJ1).
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On this 4/04 day, pour one out for sites & permalinks lost this past year like:.* Google App Maker (site not found).* Yahoo Groups (posts & permalinks gone, subdomain redirects). More 404 Not Found: #404NotFound, day of the #deadweb
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🌧⛰🏃🏻♂️ I did it. 50 miles of #running #MUC50 trails with 11000+ feet of climbing. 🌊🌧⛰🌄⛰⛰⛰🌧⛰🌧⛰🌊 Started on a dark & stormy Saturday morning with @Nov_Project_SF 50k runners at Rodeo Beach, finished with pal @BryanTing on a dark &…
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Simple & beautiful #microformats intro for web authors & devs:. Great work @veganstraightedge (ttk.me t4ov2).
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Just asked for W3C to eliminate the role of the Director (a pseudo-dictatorship), and to resdistribute power & authority from the W3C Team to the members & community. When did I become a web standards anarchist?
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Ten years ago today I started working with Mozilla on #webStandards. Still @Mozilla (now @W3C AC Rep), still working for a more #OpenWeb, and for an #IndieWeb that puts users in control instead of #BigTech.
really excited to work with Mozilla on advancing web standards http://j.mp/tmoz and http://j.mp/ttkmoz longurls: . http://ttk.me/t45v1.
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"no one uses the X in AJAX, XML, everyone uses JSON, but AJAJ doesn't roll off the tongue. " - http://t.co/cP3UvvwS (ttk.me t4He3).
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#OWC4 #HTML5 #microformats2 @t slides http://t.co/Xo7WIAUZ aside: ~40/50 wrote HTML, ~25 #microformats, only 2 #schema (ttk.me t4Jv1).
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“HTML is my API” @aaronpk on @HackerNews’s HTML vs JSON, reliability, and using #microformats2 (ttk.me t4ah1).
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Linksys firmware auto-update forces owners to use #Cisco Cloud service, enables spying+disabling: http://t.co/ulfDsJCy (ttk.me t4Jm3).
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Sometimes with months of nearly weekly meetings with co-workers & colleagues at other companies debating things, and building upon lots of prior hard work, you can help ship a pretty cool #openweb collaboration.#Interop2022 blog .
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nice Google+Nest article: http://t.co/Iy1IBik44m.Except: there is no "Internet of Things", only silos of things. #iot (ttk.me t4U56).
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I marched & voted AGAINST prop8, strongly support =rights, & I think @BrendanEich will be a supportive inclusive #Mozilla CEO (ttk.me t4VM1).
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11 years ago today, Ryan Barrett (@schnarfed) launched Bridgy ( to copy #socialmedia replies as comments on original blog posts. This meant those of us building #IndieWeb sites could use a service for .
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10w ago: 9:29:05 50k PR, hot #trailRace @ScenaPerform #Skyline50k. Thanks @bryanting @aeables @dtran320 @vivekgowri pics&support, @corrinemalcolm training me back to an ultra start+finish 3y after #ECSCA. #run #trailRun #trailRunning #ultraRunning…
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Interested in web development @Mozilla?. Check out this position for a "Sr. Full Stack Software Engineer" in Emerging Technologies and @MozDevNet:. #Python #Django #MVC #JavaScript #jQuery #HTML #CSS #Nodejs #MySQL #PostgreSQL #Git
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10 years ago today: started posting notes on my site instead of Twitter: Then 25 days to auto-syndicate, catch up: Have a site? Start posting your notes there in 2020. Just start. Ask the #indieweb .
Declaring independence is one thing, building it is another. http://ttk.me/t43W1.
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🎂 #microformats.org turned 12 today!.This year: active community members are blogging on (ttk.me t4ox1).
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use http://t.co/uZ9ze3mz to CC license tweets so others may quote/embed yours independent of Twitter's TOS. #indieweb (ttk.me t4KV1).
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(("00"==false) ? "javascript" : (("0"==false) ? "php" : ((0==false) ? "c" : "ruby"))) #cassisproject @cassisjs: http://t.co/4g5a7b7H.
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Got a personal site? Make sure it has an icon people can add to their home screen. How to & why http://t.co/T3ghqba6n3 (ttk.me t4TM1).
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⚠️ .io domain likely being phased-out (as were .cs & .yu) — 7 suggested steps.1. Avoid buying new #dotIO domains.2. Run a .io service? Make & publicize a transition plan.3. Got an #indieweb .io? Make a transition plan.4. Using a .io e.g. #GitHubPages?.…
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words are not working so here is a photo: http://t.co/8iFEkOuG I can still hear @aaronsw's inspiring laughter: http://t.co/4mdoGKS8.
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Four weeks ago today I celebrated a birthday with friends at Zazie, one of my favorite restaurants. Happy, grateful, and feeling pretty good after running so many miles the day before. It was the night before San Francisco ordered everyone to distance…
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What is the problem with #blockchain jokes?. It can take up to an hour to get the punchline. #blockchainlol #Friyay (ttk.me t4qH1).
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Fully #vaccinated (14d post #JNJ jab). California friends, you (16+) are all eligible, go make your #COVID19 vaccine appointment(s) and get it done!
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made a new favelet because FF, Chrome, IE stopped supporting "javascript:" in URL bar. Get JSeval http://t.co/Qcb8aFvz (ttk.me t4Kj1).
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woman strips to see-through underwear for TSA, records it: http://vimeo.com/17057322 (mild nudity) blog post: . http://ttk.me/t48u4.
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#xoxofest @BaconMeteor:.* Simplify.* Know Yourself.* Persevere.* Write It Down.* Resist.* Eat The Donuts.* Go Outside (ttk.me t4S94).
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ATT wifi injects ads http://t.co/Ifbi6Lx5AR.= I learned+deployed CSP You should too. #security (ttk.me t4cv2).
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Today is the 1 year anniversary of the Webmention REC from the @W3C @SocialWebWG! And over 1 million webmentions have been sent peer-to-peer on the #openweb Come celebrate! 2018-01-24: (ttk.me t4sP1).
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quite a decent essay from @manusporny that debunks a lot about #schemaorg: http://manu.sporny.org/2011/false-choice/ (ttk.me/t4C87).
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10 Tips on Writing http://t.co/X2I8MYgr now at the top of my blog-this.txt to re-read while writing future blog posts. (ttk.me t4LC1).
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Simplifying Standards & Reducing Their Security Surface: Towards A Minimum Viable Web Platform: http://t.co/vpNpNmnRIO.
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