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Tantek Çelik - 2026-01-07T23:57:00-08:00
- 2026-01-07T23:57:00-08:00
Wikipedia “Edited” 2025 year in review, summarizing from Wikimedia XTools queries, and Wikipedia itself, curated manually for my personal site:* 7 articles created (new personal best), with several firsts for me. In creation order: * "Take California" () — first music related * "West Coast Health Alliance" () — first health related * "Northeast Public Health Collaborative" () * "RaptureTok" () — first hashtag article * "Governors Public Health Alliance" () * "Stephanie D'Agostini" () — first comedian * "Mic Drop Comedy" () — first comedy club* 2 Category: articles created — first ever for me. In creation order: * * * 28 redirects created: and* 1 image uploaded to Wikimedia Commons: In total:* 272 edits (not counting User: page edits) across Wikipedia and Wikimedia commons * 229 main Wikipedia articles edits * 39 Talk: page edits * 2 Category: page edits (above-mentioned articles created) * 2 Wikipedia Commons edits* 329 edits and contributions counting User: page edits: This is my first time posting a Wikipedia “Edited” year in review, despite having edited Wikipedia for 20+ years ().While this # version of a year in review was fun to make and look back on, since all the data is public, there’s an opportunity here for a service (perhaps another XTool: ) or open source project to create such a summary for any Wikipedia editor.Beyond a nicer presentation than plain text lists and numbers, such a summary could include visuals like a graphs of some of these stats over time, like Wikipedia pages created or edits of various kinds each year.Until then, I encourage everyone editing Wikipedia to make their own “Edited” (I made that up, feel free to pick a better term) year in review and post it on your personal site! Feel free to re-use any of the design or separation of numbers that I chose, or make up your own.This is post 7 of #. # # # # # # #← → 🔮
- 2026-01-06T23:42:00-08:00
Beyond aggregated and summarized stats, in 2025 I met a few amazing people (you know who you are), and started a few projects. Most of these projects started with an idea, or recognizing a problem, that inspired invention.Sometimes the ideas came from observations, shared, questioned, distilled into insights, and sometimes new creations.During one such conversation over coffee last year, James () and I noticed that our Spotify “daylist” list names were often quite entertaining, despite their brevity.We mused whether it was worth keeping track of the particularly fun or interesting names, even knowing they were automatically generated.In September 2025, James created a page on his site, a simple HTML list of a few of his fun daylists names, and shared it:* With a single real world # example, it was enough to stub a wiki page:* A little over two months later, during the weekend of 2025 IndieWeb Black Friday Create Day: Build Don’t Buy, I followed James’s example and built my own daylists page with a similar list of names of daylists, adding the datetimes when I had taken screenshots of my daylists.* Realizing it was a page of items listed in reverse chronological order with datetime stamps, it made sense to mark it up as an h-feed so a social reader could theoretically subscribe to it. The list items had the minimum viable information for h-entry markup: content and a datetime. Minimal information meant only minimal markup was necessary: one nested HTML time element, and a couple of class names.The list item of just the daylist name I started with:
- 2026-01-05T18:52:00-08:00
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 GoodIn these cities:* 11x San Francisco* Berlin* Boston* San DiegoAt 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 20In 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 dubThe 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 to 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:* 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 # site.This is post 5 of #. # # # #← →
- 2026-01-04T21:40:00-08:00
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 ⛰ 50k Skyline: 9:34:51 2025 was a more difficult year than expected, in many ways, and that cut into both hours and frequencies of many physical activities.My yoga, bicycling, and bouldering activities all dropped from 2024 to 2025. My goals for 2026 for these are to find sustainable regular rhythms for each, either by myself or with friends.Update: I double-checked my Strava > Progress > See more of your progress, and both my time and frequency of weight-lifting sessions actually increased from 2024 to 2025, from only 17 to 21 activities (~25%), so I am counting that as a minor win that I can build on this year.I made several distance and vertical climbs on feet 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 50kI 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, # “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 #. # # #← → Glossary:Year in Review:
- 2026-01-03T23:49:00-08:00
My Seek 2025 Year in Review:* 101 new species observed (down from 141 last year)Top three kinds: * 64 new plants (down from 79) * 14 new insects (down from 20) * 8 new fungi* 4 new challenge badges earned (down from 56)July, June, February were the months I observed the most new species.Last year: June, March, July.Seek also gave me a graph of observations per month, and also a map of where I made my discoveries.As noted last year: Seek is a delightful free (like actually free, free of tracking, free of surveillance) native mobile application for identifying species.Made by the iNaturalist folks (), Seek works:1. works without creating an account2. works completely offline to identify species3. adds new species to your local collection on your deviceThose first two capabilities (no login wall, offline first) are what we should aspire to when we build # apps or websites for ourselves and our friends.This is post 3 of #. # # # #← → Glossary:login walloffline first
- 2026-01-02T16:20:00-08:00
I checked my Strava: Year in Sport 2025 after I did my last run on the 31st, and it felt a bit light. When I checked my saved images/videos from last year’s Strava Year in Sport, it was clear they had dropped several things from 2024 to 2025.First, here’s updated instructions for finding and exporting your Strava Year in Sport 2025:The Strava Year in Sport 2025 is once again only available on the native mobile app (iOS and presumably Android) and not accessible via the website.From the mobile app home screen, tap the "📋 You" button in the lower right corner.Near the top you should see an orange header with white text:STRAVAYEAR IN SPORT and a black triangle play button on a white disc background.Tap that ▶️ play button.Saving Summary SegmentsYou should fairly quickly see an animation start playing, with nine "segments" (like Instagram stories) at the top, gradually filling-in as progress indicators one at a time. The first "segment" is purely intro animation. You can skip it.Every subsequent "segment" you can screenshot using the respective button pressing on your mobile (e.g. volume-up + power on iPhone 14). In addition to taking a screenshot it will put you in a "share" screen with one or more videos or still images to share in a carousel format. For each item in the carousel (if there is more than one)1. tap the item in the carousel2. tap the "[↓] Save" button at the bottom to store it locally on your mobileThen tap "Cancel" in the top right to go back to the "segments".Either wait for that current "segment" to finish playing or tap the video near the right edge of the screen to skip to the next "segment" and repeat the two steps above.The ninth "segment" is your overall summary, and shows all your sports combined.Save it (using the "[↓] Save" button as noted above), then* tap the "✏️ Customize" button* choose an individual sport (e.g. "👟 Run")* tap "Save changes"* save that image (with the "[↓] Save" button as above)* tap customize again* choose the next sport (e.g. "🚲 Ride")* "Save changes" again* "[↓] Save" button againStrava seemingly only reports summaries of (up to?) two of your sports. Those were Run (presumably all running, street and trail) and Ride for me.Cleanup Your ScreenshotsAfter having saved all the videos/images for each "segment", you can:* go back to your mobile’s top level Photos app/stream* delete the screenshotsYou should see all the images you've saved (no videos this year). If anything is missing, go back to the previous steps and save them again, then remove any duplicates as necessary.I have saved all the images from my own Strava Year In Sport, and as I assemble the pieces into my own Year in Sport post, I’ll take more notes, and add to the IndieWeb year in review page accordingly: Previously: # # # #This is post 2 of #. #← →
- 2026-01-01T22:56:00-08:00
2026 goals I’ve heard:* Dry January — avoid alcohol* Meatless January — avoid meatIf you have a personal website, how about also:* No Socials January — avoid # silosNo posting on social media, just for a month (not counting DMs).Instead, since you have your own website, post there, and see how that feels.If you don’t have a personal website, make it your goal for the month to set one up. The # folks can help! Join Once again I am restarting a # # project for the year.This is post 1.Previously:* ← ✨→
- 2025-12-31T11:38:00-08:00
2025 # suggestions. I # to these, # to those that resonate:****Disclosure: I work for #, on & with open web standards & communities # supported by to provide a more human-centric, private, and secure web for all users.Previously:
- 2025-11-18T06:51:00-08:00
Important # lesson in # website setup this morning:Keep your DNS provider separate from your CDN separate from your webhost, so you can swap out any one of them as necessary, whether for economic or as it were today, reliability reasons. And make sure those services themselves don’t depend on each other.This is of course regarding the # #* * * * * # # # # # # # # #This is post 17 of #. #← → 🔮
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