Tantek Çelik

Independent technologist, writer, teacher

  1. ran #RnRSF 5k fun run non-stop. feeling ready. signed up for my first 2 half marathons: #RnRSF, and Kaiser in 22 days.

  2. skipped my run yesterday, feeling it today. #running is the best way I've found to clear your head, heart, maximize the rest of the day.

  3. @kidhack iPod Touch 5 has good chip speed, front/back cams, mic, motion(eg Nike+). Crossed a threshold. Touch ID? Meh.

  4. 2014: left phone at home every day. iPod+wifi/mifi works. delete x-5278 #. #iamnotanumber #nophone #future Exception: I may start bringing my #FirefoxOS test phone with me for dogfooding, but I'm still not going to share or use the number. How to go #nophone summary: Text Messages: * iMessage * Facebook Messenger * Google+ Hangouts * AIM * Twitter DM Audio/Video calls: * FaceTime * Skype Calling the old world (government or businesses like restaurants and doctors) * G+ Hangouts, phone icon, free outbound US phone calls, no Google Voice needed. Filling in dumb web forms that require a phone number: * +1.800.555.1212 (or pick a geo-specific area code)

  5. Nice potluck brunch. Warm park day. Random kindness of strangers at the grocery store. Today was a good day.

  6. In the land of the distracted, the singularly focused person is king.

  7. First Thursday = another month of classes start tonight @920Special. Come #swingdance at 21:20 at 2460 Sutter & Divis.

  8. 2014 work day 1: not even close to catching up on email backlog. Need to handle ever fewer emails ever more tersely.

  9. ...starting with a bug fix to a @Falcon storage edge case. First post of the year late POSSE. Back to normal.

  10. 2014 This is the year we change things. #vulnerabilities #respect #indieweb Game on.