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  1. 🎂 Congrats @microformats.org on 20 years! #microformats20

    Even after 20 years, people keep discovering new ways of using #microformats:
    * @artlung.com: "WML, WAP, & Microformats Demo!" (https://lab.artlung.com/wml/faux)
    > Because WML elements may have the class attribute
    Originally posted 2025-06-18: https://xoxo.zone/@artlung/114705990062730513

    That adds to the list of languages with working microformats examples:
    * HTML — modern, unversioned as well as every version since HTML4
    * HTML3 — see https://microformats.org/wiki/html3
    * SVG — see https://microformats.org/wiki/svg
    * XHTML — every version, 1.0, 1.1, 2.0
    and now also:
    * WML — https://microformats.org/wiki/wml

    Literally any HTML-like or XML-like language that has a space-separated class attribute can work with microformats.

    In constrast, every alternative to microformats (most now defunct) required adding new attributes, or worse, entirely new elements, which meant revising every language one at a time (or use of fragile XML Namespaces), resulting in supporting only 1-2 languages at most (HTML and XHTML) in practice, and nothing else.

    Re-using the "class" attribute based on the existing footpath that web designers made for encoding additional semantics into their HTML, and the similarly extensible "rel" attribute, was one of the best design decisions in any extension format ever.

    After 20 years, microformats continue to serve as another example of “loosely joined” approaches being more adaptable, reliable, resilient, and longer lasting than “tightly coupled”.

    More microformats 20th anniversary posts from the #indieweb personal sites (via https://stream.indieweb.org/)
    * @manton.org: "It’s the 20th anniversary of the launch of microforrmats.org!" (https://www.manton.org/2025/06/20/its-the-th-anniversary-of.html)
    * ... hashtag your post #microformats or #microformats20 and #federate (using #Mastodon or any compatible #fediverse server etc.) or webmention this post!

    #20thAnniversary #smallPieces #looselyJoined

    Previously, previously, previously:
    * https://tantek.com/2024/173/t1/years-posse-microformats-beyond
    * https://tantek.com/2023/171/t1/anniversaries-microformats-posse
    * https://tantek.com/2019/171/t1/happy-14th-microformats-org

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  10. Ran my 13th Bay to Breakers race in 1:55:31 today! 4min+ faster than last year.

    Once again the Midnight Runners crew cheered runners in Hayes Valley at the park a couple of blocks before the hill.

    Felt better than I did last year, more able to sustain a moderate pace.

    One quick pitstop in Golden Gate Park, and then picked up the pace to finish with a negative split and well under 2 hours. This time I made sure to keep running until I was well past the last timing strip.

    Other than the Midnight Runners cheer gang, this year I did not see anyone I knew the whole race. Bus + BART + jog to the start. Howard street up to Hayes hill, then by the Panhandle and through Golden Gate park to the finish.

    I did spot a neighbor after the finish and we caught up on the walk to the N-Judah light rail. Seeing the long line I decided to easy run backwards along the race course to see the costumes and a few human carried floats.

    Caught the Midnight Runners crew on the Conservatory of Flowers steps and hiked back to the Panhandle together. After catching up with a few friends I went home to shower and eat before heading back to the Panhandle.

    In contrast to last year, last Friday I only did a short shakeout run — no evening run and staying out late with Midnight Runners. Saturday SFRC was about the same distance.

    Similar to last year I took a bus to Van Ness, then jogged to the Civic Center station and took BART to Embarcadero. It seems that’s the only reliable transit option, no matter what any mapping application (Apple Maps, Google Maps, or Routesy) claims about bus or lightrail times or routes (they were all wrong, yet again, just like last year).

    Despite not seeing any friends running the race, feeling both stronger and more confident in my training was enough to boost my mood for the duration. I was grateful to be out there running on a beautiful day.

    Last year: https://tantek.com/2024/150/t1/ran-baytobreakers

    #SanFrancisco #run #runner #race #roadRace #B2B #Bay2Breakers #BayToBreakers

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  11. Running For Re-election in the 2025 W3C Advisory Board (AB) Election

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    Tantek Çelik is nominated by Mozilla Foundation.
    Nomination statement from Tantek Çelik:

    Hi, I'm Tantek Çelik and I'm running for the W3C Advisory Board (AB) to build on the momentum the AB has built with transitioning W3C to a community-led and values-driven organization. I have been participating in and contributing to W3C groups and specifications for over 25 years.

    I am Mozilla’s Advisory Committee (AC) representative and previously served on the AB for several terms, starting in 2013, with a two year break before returning in 2020. In early years I drove the movement to shift W3C to more open licenses for specifications, and more responsiveness to the needs of open source communities and independent website publishers.

    Most recently on the AB I led the AB’s Priority Project for a W3C Vision as contributor and editor, taking it through wide review, and consensus at the AB to a vote by the AC to adopt the Vision as an official W3C Statement.

    Previously I also co-chaired the W3C Social Web Working Group that produced several widely interoperably deployed Social Web Standards. Mastodon and other open source software projects built a social network on ActivityPub and other social web specs which now require maintenance from implementation experience. As such, I have participated in the Social Web Incubator Community Group and helped draft a new charter to restart the Social Web Working Group and maintain these widely adopted specifications.

    With several members stepping down, the AB is experiencing much higher than usual turnover in this election.

    I am running for re-election to both help with continuity, on the Vision project and other efforts, and work with new and continuing Advisory Board members to build a fresh, forward looking focus for the AB.

    I believe governance of W3C, and advising thereof, is most effectively done by those who have the experience of actively collaborating in working groups producing interoperable specifications, and especially those who directly create on the web using W3C standards. This direct connection to the actual work of the web is essential to prioritizing the purpose & scope of governance of that work.

    Beyond effective governance, the AB has played the more crucial role of a member-driven change agent for W3C. While the Board and Team focus on the operations of keeping the W3C legal entity running smoothly, the AB has been and should continue to be where Members go to both fix problems and drive forward-looking improvements in W3C to better fulfill our Vision and Mission.

    I have Mozilla's financial support to spend my time pursuing these goals, and ask for your support to build the broad consensus required to achieve them.

    I post on my personal site tantek.com. You may follow my posts there or from Mastodon: @tantek.com@tantek.com

    If you have any questions or want to chat about the W3C Advisory Board, Values, Vision, or anything else W3C related, please reach out by email: tantek at mozilla.com. Thank you for your consideration.

    Addendum: More Candidates Blogged Nomination Statements

    Several other candidates (all new candidates) have also blogged their nomination statements, on their personal websites, naturally. This is the first AB election I know of where more than one candidate blogged their nomination statement. Ordered earliest published first:

    And one more candidate blogged about why he is running:

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  12. Last Friday I published my second Cybersecurity Friday post with three more key steps for cybersecurity. In summary:

    1. Different email address for each account, AKA email masking. Use or create a different email alias for each service you sign-up for.
    2. Different password for each account. This is a well known security technique against credential stuffing attacks.
    3. Use a password manager to autofill. Always using a password manager to autofill your login username (or email) and password can be a very effective method of reducing the chances of being phished.

    Full post with details: https://tantek.com/2025/122/b1/more-steps-indieweb-cybersecurity

    #CyberSecurity Friday #cyber #security

    Previously: https://tantek.com/2025/055/t1/three-steps-indieweb-cybersecurity

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  13. Additional suggested pre-read for workshop participants, given the primary topic of this meeting:

    * "C2PA Is Not Going To Fix Our Misinformation Problem" (https://lowentropy.net/posts/c2pa/) by Martin Thomson (@lowentropy.net @github.com/martinthomson)

    I have a conflict for most of the duration of this mini-workshop instance.

    The time of this second instance is also the same as the first, which is exceptionally unfriendly to participants in Asia and Oceania, such as the author of the above pre-read.

    If there is an intention to continue this mini-workshop series, I request rotating future event instances across times that are more friendly and accommodating across timezones in order to be more inclusive of global participants.

    Lastly, here is another suggested pre-read on a fallacy I noted in the prior mini workshop^1:
    * "Politician’s Syllogism" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politician%27s_syllogism)

    Thank you for your attention to both of these suggested pre-reads.

    Stay skeptical, my friends.

    Tantek Çelik, Mozilla Advisory Committee Representative, Member of W3C Credible Web Community Group (https://credweb.org/)

    ^1 https://github.com/w3c/authentic-web-workshop/blob/main/minutes/2025-03-12AuthWeb.md

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  14. May the Fourth be with you!

    There’s a movie discussion podcast that I discovered via my pal Tom Coates (@plasticbag.org @tomcoates@me.dm @tomcoates) when he posted their episode on the movie Gattaca^1 where they had him on as a special guest.

    Originally started in 2020 as “Dune Pod” about all things related to the then upcoming Dune movie, as they covered more and more movies of a certain kind from mostly the 1980s and 1990s, they renamed themselves “Escape Hatch”.

    For their 250th episode which they coincidentally released yesterday or today depending on your timezone, they decided to cover the classic 1980 Star Wars sequel Empire Strikes Back.

    An intelligent, nerdy, well researched, and overall entertaining discussion of what may be one of the greatest movies of all time — certainly the best Star Wars film.

    Check it out: https://www.patreon.com/posts/episode-250-back-128092542

    #DunePod #EscapeHatch #StarWars #EmpireStrikesBack #TheEmpireStrikesBack
    #MayTheFourthBeWithYou #MayTheFourth #MayThe4thBeWithYou #MayThe4th

    ^1 https://open.spotify.com/episode/6BUuNvkhqwdrZGIkKAYBya

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