Tantek Çelik

Inventor, writer, teacher, runner, indieweb coder

  1. Embrace Joy In The Present

    Sunrise seen from Corona Heights Peak in San Francisco, Saturday morning, 2016-03-12

    Friday night someone asked me if I had any particular insights to share from my previous solar revolution.

    I told them that the one thought that kept coming to mind is: don’t postpone joy. I have also found that positive (re)framing often requires deliberate questioning, reflection, rethinking, even when regularly practiced.

    This past year was full of inspiring perspective-shifting heights and yet not without a few lows, crushing or lingering.

    From both I have learned that gratitude is a conscious choice, practicing it brings joy, calmly and sometimes surprisingly, no matter the day, especially when paired with practicing daily self-care: from ritual essentials, to growth through iteration, to the hardwork of unburdening yourself of past timedebts, to make more room for that joy to flow.

    Fortune favors the prepared and the bold, yet joy is more visible to the grateful. Seeing is just an open door to the present; listen, feel, speak, do, and make to be present. Embrace that joy in the present, letting it illuminate the possible, rather than hesitating from fear of the uncertain or the unknown.

    Looking forward to more adventures, joy, and growth with all of you on this next solar revolution.

    Thank you for being.

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  2. a jpg🌄 Caught the sun Saturday morning just before it disappeared behind a cloud blanket. #latergram #nofilter

    #sun #sunrise #cloudblanket #CoronaHeights #CoronaHeightsPark #CoronaHeightsPeak #landscape #sunrise #Saturday

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  3. a jpgOscar de la Renta? But first let me take a #selfie. #squadgoals #latergram #nofilter

    #deYoung #deYoungMuseum #OscardelaRenta #show #preview #designer #dresses #suit #pin #Tomorrowland

    http://deyoung.famsf.org/exhibitions/oscar-de-la-renta-retrospective

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  4. @PetraGregorova @Malarkey @shiflett @BarnabyWalters @davidmead Thank you!

    @PetraGregorova: Here’s the parsed (using php-mf2 at http://pin13.net/mf2/) JSON from your HTML #microformats2 birthday wish!

    {
      "items": [{
          "type": ["h-event"],
          "properties": {
            "summary": ["Let's wish today @t happy birthday!"],
            "start": ["2016-03-11"],
            "name": ["Let's wish today @t happy birthday!"]
          }
      }],
      "rels": { }
    }

    Well done!

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  5. likes David John Mead’s post “9 years ago…” at , Barnaby Walter’s note at , @shiflett’s tweet at , @Malarkey’s tweet at , and @PetraGregorova’s tweet at

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  6. revolution++

    previously: tantek.com/2015/070/t1/once-more-around-sun https://twitter.com/t/status/575570060917481473

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  7. a jpgMonday evening Embarcadero Mozilla message. #latergram #nofilter

    #Monday #evening #Embarcadero #food #water #shelter The #Internet helps people succeed. #Mozilla spreads know-how globally. #newsstand

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  8. a jpgMonday evening Golden Hour and the Bay Bridge. #latergram #nofilter

    #Monday #evening #goldenhour #baybridge #thatothersfbridge

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  9. @sil Ultraviolet was quite bad (despite Milla Jovovich). Would easily rather watch nearly any IndieWeb video instead.

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  10. @sil right. What would Frank Underwood do when Netflix went down and public opinion turned? https://twitter.com/search?f=tweets&vertical=default&q=netflix%20down&src=typd

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  11. @sil:
    1 IndieWeb videos exist. https://indiewebcamp.com/video#IndieWeb_Examples Just need a *flix-like viewer UI
    2 LOCKSS, POSSE etc.

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  12. While @Netflix is down,
    https://twitter.com/Netflixhelps/status/707699033473585152
    let’s brainstorm an #indieweb ’flix
    What would it look like?
    How would it work?

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  13. going to Homebrew Website Club 17:30 @MozSF 2016-03-09!
    RSVP: https://kylewm.com/2016/03/sf-homebrew-website-club-11
    Facebook https://www.facebook.com/events/555707837940351/

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  14. Two years ago yesterday I started going to track tantek.com/2014/064/t2
    No track workouts for the past 3 monthsish, since injuring my left knee just before last Thanksgiving. But I’m running again, 60 seconds of every 300. Still have ~8 weeks before I can restart speedwork. The wait is long but I know I’ll get there. Focusing on form and steady progress until then.

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  15. Continuing with minneapolisrunning.com/return-running-injury recovery plan: Walk 4 minutes run 1, six times = 30 min total
    #irunbecauseican

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  16. @timoni softer footfall; got ‘glide’ term from the referenced Harvard Gazette article. Sounds like you’re already doing it!

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  17. Running again gradually, I’m learning how to forefoot glide run per http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2016/02/where-runners-go-wrong/
    It’s taking more effort & concentration, and I can feel it working my calf, shin, foot, and core muscles differently.

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  18. Today I run once again, even if only for 30 seconds out of every 300 for 1800.

    Today, I leap.

    #kneerecovery #irunbecauseican

    RECONFIGURE: http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2016/02/where-runners-go-wrong/

    RETURN: http://minneapolisrunning.com/return-running-injury/

    ]RUN PROGRAM

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  19. run, v. to move swiftly by leaping forward, alternating one foot at a time, before the other foot touches the ground.

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  20. @RikMende my @Falcon code uses #Webmention to Brid.gy Publish to POSSE video from my site to Facebook, Flickr, Twitter

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  21. Time to take the portal back out to the real world.

    #ericprydz #finale #TRON #portal #escape #laser #beam #lasers

    I've seen #bluelasers but never before #whitelasers like that. #electronic #music #lights #video #latergram #nofilter

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  22. “Dedicate yourself to getting the disk into the heart of the MCP. This interface is located at its base. We will not be able to communicate again unless you succeed. Go!”

    #ericprydz #TRON #MCP #laser #lasers
    #electronic #music #lights #video #latergram #nofilter

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  23. Clouds rolling in over TRON city.

    #ericprydz #laser #lasers #fog #smoke #cloud #clouds
    #TRON #TRONcity #electronic #music #lights #video #latergram #nofilter

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  24. “I kept dreaming of a world I thought I’d never see. And then, one day … I got in.”

    #ericprydz #laser #lasers #digitize #molecules #suspended in the #laserbeam #voila #TRON #digitizing #enterthegrid #thegrid #grid #video #electronic #music #lights #latergram #nofilter #oontzoontz

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  25. “I tried to picture clusters of information as they moved through the computer. What did they look like? Ships? Motorcycles? Were the circuits like freeways?”

    #ericprydz #video #electronic #music #dance #lights #grid #thegrid #lightcycle #lightcycles #TRON #latergram #nofilter

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  26. a jpgSaturday night a portal opened up into the grid. #ericprydz #latergram #nofilter

    #electronic #music #lights #TRON #TheGrid #MaxHeadroom #1980s #2000s

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  27. a jpgHeaping jungle style açai bowl for lunch last Friday.

    #acai #acaibowl #junglestyle #vegan #lunch #food #learning #latergram #nofilter

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  28. a jpg🗼🌖 last Thursday sunrise Sutro, the moon, and a 1.6 mile fastwalk.

    #Sutro #sutrotower #moon #sunrise #sf #CoronaHeights #CoronaHeightsPark #CoronaHeightsPeak #seenonmyfastwalk #heysweatdaily #kneerecovery #getoutside #nofilter

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