2025 Two hundred and ninety-two posts

I posted 292 times in 2025 using WordPress. 120 were PESOS'ed from Instagram—about a third. The total word count for 2025 was 64,782 words with about 255 images and approximately 93 external links. I posted 131 posts tagged "swim2025". I made 2 comics that year. I made 6 headers.

29-Dec-2025

Flat but fun

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28-Dec-2025

I got in the ocean today after several day drought. I caught some waves and I found a plastic Christmas ornament in the gutter. Of course I saved it. I am a scavenger and a survivor.

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18-Dec-2025

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17-Dec-2025

Memories of Blogger Getting Bought Richard MacManus mentions Ev Williams posting about when Google bought Pyra/Blogger in The Blogosphere Blossoms in 2003 As RSS Readers Catch On. I mentioned it in my post/page Blogosphere Part 2: Musings/Blogosphere: 22 years ago: …so I’ve not had a net connection in about 16 hours. The HUGE news from last night announced was that...

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17-Dec-2025

Feckless and Useless and Totalitarian and Liars “What a terrible thing it is,” said Donald Trump, “And all we can do right now is pray for the victims, and for those that were very badly hurt.” Such was the president’s reaction to the mass shooting at Brown University. We are inured to these clichéd formulations. But they are an essential element of...

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16-Dec-2025

This year it’s been all about OB. Home sweet home.

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14-Dec-2025

Happy Chanukah from the IndieWeb Camp San Diego 2025, which I’ve been a co-organizer of for 3 years now. It was a great weekend of camaraderie, code, and ideas.

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14-Dec-2025

LIFE HAPPENS (an incredible talk on open source maintaining) For the last year I’ve been pointing people to click through to a talk by Juliette Reinders Folmer called “Resurrecting the Dead.” It was via this Mastodon Post from @lauchgott. The talk is online, and starts at 3:59:23, on YouTube, at the Neos Conference 2025. I’ve listened to it a few times and what’s wonderful...

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13-Dec-2025

IndieWeb Camp San Diego 2025: Typewritten Checkin! Thanks Chris Aldrich for this typewritten checkin to IndieWeb Camp at San Diego Public library Mission Valley!

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13-Dec-2025

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