Filed my 2025 taxes today (electronically). Payments mailed (physically). Earliest in at least a decade, maybe two. Took a very conscious and deliberate effort to get here. Prioritizing, cutting or postponing anything non-urgent, iterating and improving systems year over year (especially in coordination with an accountant), collecting clustering materials earlier, and more. Completing these kinds of "required" tasks/projects sooner feels like it frees up mental (and emotional) bandwidth (not having them occupying daily thoughts) to dream, brainstorm, and make more creative things.

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The Snooze Tabs browser add-on is a key technology I use for category 2, defending focus (and prioritizing) from my previous post (link in footer). I noted in the #indieweb informal cafe chat that "I am going to snooze the tab for a month and re-evaluate then" (about purchasing a potentially focus-enhancing electronic device), and was asked how do I snooze a tab for a month. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/snoozetabs * later today * tomorrow morning * the weekend * a week from now * a month from now * or a custom date and time I have used it for years and as someone who opens LOTS of tabs, it has been essential for quickly closing tabs (for now) that are not my current (now, today, this week) priority. A few regular use-cases which are all one-click from my Firefox toolbar: * snooze work-related tabs until the next day, when I'm wrapping up work for the day * snooze personal projects tabs until the weekend * snooze lower priority work-task related tabs for a week * snooze product tabs for a mon Three areas of insights for improving focus, from this afternoon’s long run: needs, defense, techniques. 1. Make sure your "needs" are met. If your needs are not being met, you will be distracted from whatever you are trying to focus on by those unmet needs. 2. Defend against and filter sources of distraction. Anything (or anybody) that is notifying you, messaging you, emailing you, or worst, getting you to react and argue or fight that has nothing to do with your goals or what you want to focus on, is a distraction. The more you can turn off such notifications, mute or leave chat channels, delete content scrolling apps, unsubscribe from lists, and procrastinate responding to people posting about things that are not a priority for you, the better you will be able to focus on the things that are a priority for you. 3. Tools and techniques to reduce the focus needed for essential or required tasks, like chunking and checklists. If you have tasks that must be completed (like to meet needs, or preconditions for g Sometimes it’s good take a step back and re-assess things from the immediate like daily routines & habits, to how to focus on goals whether within weeks, months, or years. Taking bits of time off to reflect on these and related topics. The grayscale phone interface has helped me get here: https://tantek.com/2026/124/b1/may-the-focus-be-with-you-iphone-grayscale #focus #dailyroutines #habits #goals Ran my 14th Bay to Breakers race in 1:57:12 this past Sunday. Almost 2min behind last year, from needing a 5min+ pitstop at the Panhandle. I skipped public transport (see previous years), and left at 7am to jog to the start. After ~3.5 miles I found my way to corral A and serendipitously my pal Henri, dressed in the purple grape costume he’s known for. Beautiful day for a run, cool and sunny blue skies from the start. The South of Market (SoMa) area seemed cleaner than usual which was a nice change. High-fived the Midnight Runners Raccoon Riot cheergang on Hayes street. Hayes hill was a jog / power hike slog like recent years with a pleasant downhill after. Except by the time I got to Fell street I felt uncomfortable enough to run out to the portapotties and took a while to deal with the discomfort. The prior evening’s dinner out at Thee Parkside was perhaps too much of a change for my system. Novel eats the night before a race a minor rookie mistake. The parties on Fell Street seemed particularly loud and cr Please update your Firefox to 150.0.3. Details why: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2026-45 * open your Firefox application * choose/click menu "Firefox" * choose/click menu item "About Firefox" If it says: ✓ Firefox is up to date then you’re all set. If there is a button that says: ( Check for updates ) then click that. Or you may see it automatically download an update and see: * Downloading update — nn.n of nnn MB * Applying update… If you see a button that says: ( ↻ Restart to Update Firefox ) then click that! Aside: #pwn2own is TOMORROW and they hit capacity for the first time in their 19-year history. https://hackread.com/pwn2own-berlin-2026-hits-capacity-hackers-0-days/ Today’s a good day to get/install OS and browser updates on all your critical devices. Consider turning off wifi on non-critical devices (putting to sleep is no longer enough because many devices still listen to or contact the internet while asleep) until you have had a chance to safely update their software (perha Citrus Club on Haight Street has closed for good. :( I walked by earlier this evening to order some takeout and all the signage was gone and a large metal gate was lowered. https://fastly.4sqi.net/img/general/720x720/476_uYk-qzGyysStoBDA3dUepauh4d9uNJIs7V_Zpc4tdn8.jpg (A storefront with a blank white sign, blank black signage, and metal gate over the entrance.) https://fastly.4sqi.net/img/general/720x720/476_uYk-qzGyysStoBDA3dUepauh4d9uNJIs7V_Zpc4tdn8.jpg A notice of application for ownership change was posted including a license for “On sale beer & wine eating place”. Looks like it was sold sometime in the past two weeks. New name: Grind and Unwind https://grindunwindsf.com/ #CitrusClubSF is no more. I have been eating here and getting take out for a long time. Lots of memories with so many friends. Citrus Club was my favorite neighborhood noodle place. They had numerous vegan and vegetarian dishes. My favorite dishes were the BBQ tofu spring rolls, and marmalade coconut shrimp without the shrimp, substituti May the Focus Be With You! "web joy" — the joy you experience when visiting a website with joyful content and/or have a joyful experience (as a user) on a website, or the joy of creating such a website. During the beyond tellerand conference this past week, someone mentioned “responsive web design” and having just completed IndieWebCamp Düsseldorf, the thought popped in my head that joyful web design should be a named thing, since many of us spent the weekend at IndieWebCamp doing just that. I mentioned it to @jamesg.blog at a break between talks, we discussed it a bit and agreed that joy is a good motivator, and as creatives we both like creating things that are joyful to experience, and ideally joyful to create. James blogged it before I got around to it: https://jamesg.blog/2026/05/01/joyful-web-design That and a zoom chat today was inspiration to name that specific joyful experience “web joy”. It’s a nod to “moon joy”, a mere weeks old phrase many have heard and been inspired by, coined by Mission Control science officer Angela Gar 4 conferences across 3 cities in 10 days: * 4/20 W3C AC Meeting (Huangzhou) “Challenging how we see the web” future of web browsers panel participant (remotely from San Francisco, on the evening of 2026-04-19) * 4/21-23 Mozilla Leadership Summit (Boston) * 4/25-26 IndieWebCamp Düsseldorf * 4/27-28 beyond tellerand Düsseldorf Somehow squeezed in a few personal events too: * 4/20 Boston Marathon cheering — managed to hike a half marathon myself that day! * 4/26 Balu Brigada concert in Cologne * 4/29 Cologne Cathedral tower climb In total: 7 events across 4 cities in 12 days including travel time. Saw, heard, spoke/designed/coded with so many inspiring people. So many notes, photos, and a few videos. Overall an incredibly positive (if exhausting) experience. It was highly illuminating contrasting the different sets of people, talks, practices etc., some overlapping, across all the events. An incredibly valuable overview perspective. @NASA.gov has lots of short Artemis videos on their YouTube channel (@NASA@YouTube.com), however this 10h10m video of the Artemis II lunar flyby appears to be the closest to a continuous long-form recording of the live stream during that period. https://youtu.be/z-j1uxBmis0 After almost 14 minutes of intro footage, this live recording has some amazing moments in context such as when the Integrity crew named the two craters on the moon, the forty minute “Loss of Signal” (LoS) as Integrity went behind the moon, came back out, then into a solar eclipse, and of course all the very efficient (and competent) communications between the astronauts and Mission Control (with video of both). And quotes like Christina's “We do not leave Earth. We choose it.” Lots of long durations of silence as well. Fitting for a recording of video from space. Also great for putting on in the background while working. The crew comms with control competency alone is inspiring. Note: the #NASA and #SpaceflightNow YouTube livestreams I lin NASA Artemis II live stream update: Spaceflight Now has the raw feed of Houston and Integrity comms and video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8m9YdxgJ5g The official NASA live stream (posted previously), has switched to a NASA spokesperson and interviews of folks on the sea/ground as part of splashdown recovery operations. Choose your live stream: * Houston, space, and astronauts talking: https://youtu.be/M8m9YdxgJ5g * Spokespeople/interviews talking: https://youtu.be/m3kR2KK8TEs or pull them both up on separate side-by-side monitors like they have on the desks at Mission Control. About an hour left til splashdown! #NASA #liveStream #Artemis #Artemis2 #ArtemisII #Integrity #Earth #Houston #MissionControl #SpaceflightNow What I’m watching for the next 3 hours: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3kR2KK8TEs #NASA #liveStream #Artemis #Artemis2 #ArtemisII #Earth “Choice. The solution is choice.”* You should download Firefox 148 (released today!) and explicitly set the new "AI Controls" to your preferred choice. * https://www.firefox.com * https://blog.mozilla.org/en/firefox/how-to-use-ai-controls * NOSCRIPT: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/noscript/ * EFF Privacy Badger: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/privacy-badger17 * https://tantek.com/2025/069/t1/ten-years-jsdr-javascript-required-didnt-read * https://indieweb.org/js;dr A subtler form of JavaScript failure is when a site’s content is displayed, however its buttons or even simple hyperlinks fail to function due to scripts not loading: * https://tantek.com/2012/073/t4/js-ajax-only-tired-waiting-bloated-scripts-sxsw-wifi Progressive Permissions On sites that I do allow scripts, I still limit their access to cookies using the Privacy Badger add-on, and only selectively enable them if I’m logging in or otherwise customizing my experience on that site. When websites immediately request us Happy Twin Peaks day to those who celebrate! In Agent Cooper’s first appearance in the show, he’s driving a car, right hand on the steering wheel, left hand holding a small black box (a microcassette recorder), that, if you don’t look too closely, could easily be mistaken for a regular sized black iPhone with a flush battery pack attached to its back. You may search the web for a screen capture or video if you like, or continue with this plain text description. He's keeping his eyes on the road, and dictating audio. “Diane, 11:30 a.m., February 24th. Entering the town of Twin Peaks.” In 1989 he’s dictating a log entry to his presumably human assistant, Diane, for her to transcribe after the fact. In 2026 (notwithstanding safety and legal concerns while driving) it’s not a stretch to say he could (would likely) be dictating to his (perhaps renamed) digital assistant, Diane, or at least a speech-to-text feature in a note-taking application that would automatically transcribe his words in real time. Those transc at the @CSSWG.org (@CSSWG) F2F (face to face) meeting^1, hosted by @Apple.com (@Apple) in Cupertino. Not counting at #w3cTPAC, the prior #CSSWG F2F meeting I went to was 2.5y ago, also in Cupertino, and before that 2019 in SF. Good to see so many longterm colleagues in-person. #W3C #CSS #webStandards ^1 https://wiki.csswg.org/planning/cupertino-2026 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" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Take_California) — first music related * "West Coast Health Alliance" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Coast_Health_Alliance) — first health related * "Northeast Public Health Collaborative" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northeast_Public_Health_Collaborative) * "RaptureTok" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RaptureTok) — first hashtag article * "Governors Public Health Alliance" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Governors_Public_Health_Alliance) * "Stephanie D'Agostini" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephanie_D%27Agostini) — first comedian * "Mic Drop Comedy" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mic_Drop_Comedy) — first comedy club * 2 Category: articles created — first ever for me. In creation order: * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cate 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 (https://jamesg.blog/) 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: * https://jamesg.blog/daylists With a single real world #indieweb example, it was enough to stub a wiki page: * https://indieweb.org/daylists A little over two months later, during the weekend of 2025 IndieWeb Black Friday Create Day: 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 I 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 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 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: https://tantek.com/2025/020/t1/seek-2024-year-in-review 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 (https://www.inaturalist.org/pages/seek_app), Seek works: 1. works without creating an account 2. works completely offline to identify species 3. adds new species to your local collection on your device Those first two capabilities (no login wall, offline first) are what we should aspire to when we build #indieweb apps or websites for ourselves and our fr 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: STRAVA YEAR IN SPORT and a black triangle play button on a white disc background. https://indieweb.org/images/0/0f/2025-strava-profile-year-in-sport.jpeg (screenshot of Strava iOS native app showing the “You” screen with Progress, Activities, an orange Year in Sport banner, various activity types Hike, All Run, Run, and a “This week” heading with Distance, Time, Elev Gain column headers bel 2026 goals I’ve heard: * Dry January — avoid alcohol * Meatless January — avoid meat If you have a personal website, how about also: * No Socials January — avoid #socialMedia silos No 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 #IndieWeb folks https://indieweb.org/ can help! Join https://chat.indieweb.org/ Once again I am restarting a #100PostsOfIndieWeb #100Posts project for the year. This is post 1. Previously: * https://tantek.com/2025/001/t1/15-years-notes-my-site-first ← ✨ → https://tantek.com/2025/002/t1/find-export-strava-year-in-sport 2025 #donation suggestions. I #donated to these, #donate to those that resonate: @ACLU @CalAcademy @NAACP @deYoungMuseum @ExperienceCamps @Exploratorium @EFF @Wikipedia @InternetArchive @SFMOMA @KQED @MontereyAq @SPLCenter @LongNow @RPF_EB @GardensofGGP @PPact @Mozilla** **Disclosure: I work for #Mozilla, on & with open web standards & communities @IndieWebCamp @microformats @WHATWG #W3C supported by @Firefox to provide a more human-centric, private, and secure web for all users. Previously: https://tantek.com/2024/366/t2/last-donation-please-donate-tonight

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