Today's music: Mary Chapin Carpenter - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_eZurp5iNO4

Today's project (completed successfully): integrate hypothes.is accounts into CList annotation functionality

Today's music: Tori Amos - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uq_Vgey0QX4

As I design CList I'm removing incentives to use it for marketing or PR. Eg. There is no `followers` visibility tier. It would require the annotation server to query the follower's private social graph, which violates the data ownership principle (the follow list belongs to the follower, not to […]

(It's still a work in progress)

New slogan for CList:

Mixing annotations servers and RSS feeds is a recipe for grief...

Looking Down #dailyphoto #photography 2026365, monttremblant May 21, 2026. Back up the mountain. We're along the front side, looking down through some brush at Lac Tremblant and the resort village Really feeling a lack of energy today, so we didn't hike very far. It was cold, but beautiful […]

Tremblant #dailyphoto #photography 2026365 May 20, 2026. The view from the top of Mont Tremblant. We woke up early and drove to the mountain to pick up our summer gondola passes and have a short visit. Now that I'm retired we don't have all the time constraints, so we can do more frequent […]

The Road Home #dailyphoto #photography 2026365 May 19, 2026. Intersection at the Warwick Forest about 15 km from Casselman. Cycled back home in the morning, then went into the city for a doctor's appointment (follow-up on weight-loss program). Got back home and took a well-deserved nap […]

Stone Silo #dailyphoto #photography 2026365 May 18, 2026. Farm just a bit south and east of Maxville on the road to Warina. It was another beautiful day for cycling - started cold but got quite warm in the afternoon. 50 km day with a full load, a lot slower than I would like (need to address […]

Long weekend bikepacking video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0sdIzrOvVGY I took advantage of the really nice weather from Saturday to Tuesday that I went on a bikepacking loop north to the Ottawa River and south to Avonmore, staying at a couple of Hipcamp sites along the way.

My proposal , 'Personal Learning in the Age of AI' has been accepted by OTESSA. Online conference (June 8-9) https://otessa.org/news/final-call-for-proposals-otessa-online/ I will be summarizing work to date on CList and outlining my community-based approach to learning while everyone else is […]

My office for today

I had some posts saved up from the last few days & I was entering them so quickly I accidentally banned my newly rotated IP address from my own server! Nice to know my own security works. :)

What's verification on the open social web for? With @gui.do and @emily.space we put together a draft statement and roadmap for democratic account verification. For everyone, without IDs. The draft is here, please contribute and comment. Open until 31 May tangled.org/sherif.euros...

178 km and 708 m elevation over the four days. Yes, I know, some people do that in one day. But me, I'm pleased to have done it all all.

May 16, 2026. Whispering Pines. First day out on the trail this year. :)

May 12, 2026. Today's bike ride took me past this barn on my usual route to St Albert and back. I focused on my RSS reader today and wrote a post on integrating DID with it.

May 11, 2026. Hail. I was thinking bike ride today, but the hail persuaded me to spend the day indoors and work on my software project. So it was a fun productive day.

I think we should rebrand one of our sports leagues (doesn't matter which one) and make these the logos.

Adding DID to RSS and Atom Feeds https://halfanhour.blogspot.com/2026/05/adding-did-to-rss-and-atom-feeds.html

Today's music: Joni Mitchell - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvR7Dkg4NQU

Topday's music: Fleetwood Mac - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5X6Gr-ZkwA

May 10, 2026. Egret. We went for our hike along Black Rapids Creek in the Greenbelt just west of the Rideau River in Ottawa. I expected a lot of flowers, but instead we were treated to numerous wading birds, including this Egret. Weather was cool, grey, and sometimes rainy. #sddaily

I've been building again today. What I'm able to do with Claude as a coding partner leaves me a bit breathless. Don't get me wrong - Claude is not building my app, I am. Claude is the key that lets me solve problems that would take me days in just a few minutes.

May 9, 2026. Seeding. Out for a longer ride on the gravel bike today. A little cool and windy, but still a beautiful day, and the farmers were all out sowing seeds or fertilizer. More progress on CList today - probably nobody will ever use it but I'm still […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Worth a mention. But why limit it to science? https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/science-without-papers-adaptive-knowledge-network-francesca-colaiori-fxgcf/

It's only one piece - but I think simple low-overhead decentralized personalized federated authentication is a useful thing. Still under development, but it seems to be working pretty well for me. Have a look: https://github.com/Downes/kvstore/blob/main/README.md p.s. if you find security […]

May 8, 2026. Ottawa Titans. We went to the home opener today - we had to arrive early to get the free jerseys and then we settled on to enjoy a ball game in a sold-out ballpark (something that hasn't happened in Ottawa for a long time). #sddaily

Deep in discussion with Claude on federated identity

May 6, 2026. Cart Corral. Seen at the Metro here in Casselman as we picked up stuff to make curry. Other than this brief trip, it was another indoor day working on CList. #sddaily

March 5, 2026. Chinese food. Andrea and I had dinner with Bernine and Debby at the Embrun Asian Express this evening (the blurred people in the photo are strangers, not us). It doesn't look to busy but it picked up, and they did a constant delivery business […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Today's music: Mary Chapin Carpenter - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_eZurp5iNO4

Hello Dollydid:key:z6MktjWjn5QHWHN7chfryeYQ6CK5Efb9RWQMaz2Ed1jf92LE/Hello Dolly (view only) https://collab.mooc.ca/doc/did%3Akey%3Az6MktjWjn5QHWHN7chfryeYQ6CK5Efb9RWQMaz2Ed1jf92LE/Hello%20Dolly/read

did:key:z6MktjWjn5QHWHN7chfryeYQ6CK5Efb9RWQMaz2Ed1jf92LE/Test1 https://collab.mooc.ca/doc/did%3Akey%3Az6MktjWjn5QHWHN7chfryeYQ6CK5Efb9RWQMaz2Ed1jf92LE/Test1/edit