20 posts in 2025
This is a must-listen to episode for any tanguer* about our shared “ body technology” that we call tango. There are so many lines and sentences in there that should become postcards and advertisements for tango, globally. https://leadfollow.buzzsprout.com/1735834/episodes/17539917-what-makes-tango-so-compelling-sharna-fabiano-dan-istrate
“A conference about communities in tango? Can it get more niche than that? I just want to dance.” You probably thought that, when or if you heard about Tango Connects Berlin Conference (which happened for the second time already this year). Well, it happened. And it was great and amazing, and we learned so much, […]
WordPress Calendar Plugins (Oct 2025) Note: this is a deep research done by ChatGPT and should be taken as such. We evaluated leading WordPress calendar/event plugins against the requirements. Key candidates include The Events Calendar, Events Manager, Event Organiser, My Calendar, WP Event Manager, and EventPrime. Below we discuss each, citing their documentation on recurrence, […]
It is a chicke and egg problem: if there are no users and no content, new users won’t come. But if they don’t come, there is no users and content. So: do we need a way to create a big bang roll-out? Not necessarily. Others think alike, for a long time already: http://scripting.com/stories/2008/05/05/boostrappingADecentralized.html I always […]
This is based on ChatGPT DeepResearch (2025-08-04) August 2025 – WordPress Plugin & Theme Development with Copilot GitHub Copilot’s latest agentic features can transform your WordPress development workflow. By combining Copilot’s autonomous Agent Mode and interactive Chat Mode across VS Code and GitHub, developers can offload routine tasks, generate code, and even have Copilot propose […]
The Vision (2025+) Facebook is no longer the only place to learn who’s dancing where tonight. With the open web (not the closed ad-owned social platforms) you can publish once and have your milongas appear: Below is an updated guide that shows the full journey from publisher ? aggregator ? regional calendar ? dancer. 1 […]
Here is the result of a DeepResearch task with the free version of Gemini using the prompt “Create a list with all websites that deal with tango Argentinian, and offer some insight into the culture, experience, or psychology of the dance. I am not looking for teachers or events.”. Argentine Tango: A Cultural, Experiential, and […]
I didn’t know the man.Never saw his face nor knew his name.Beautiful woman in a close embrace,And suddenly only silence and everyone’s eyes. Most of us didn’t know the guy.Everyone gave all the help they could.And five minutes felt like an hour.The milonguero fighting for his life. We all knew the man.Milonguero, traveling for connection.Finding […]
This is part two of my response to Filip’s questions. Apps & Fediverse Oh, what a bummer this is: there are no super polished native mobile apps for most of Fediverse’s platforms and services. Why? Because creating and maintaining mobile apps is expensive, and most of these fediverse services are made by volunteers. Except, for […]
Here is the result of a DeepResearch task with the free version of Gemini about “all existing podcasts for tango”. A Comprehensive List of Podcasts Exploring Argentine Tango Argentine tango, a dance and musical genre steeped in history and cultural significance, has garnered a global following. For enthusiasts and those curious to learn more, podcasts […]
Filip from Brnosaires reached out with some questions. Here’s my long answer: Great questions! I will answer 1, 2 and 3 below. Why ActivityPub over Nostr and Matrix? When I was researching options, the protocol was never in focus. It was the core use cases for tango: Events, Connections, Groups, Sharing, Photos. Additionally, we only […]
What we will need to understand is: a non-Facebook place will not be like Facebook. It may look like it, or similar, but it won’t be that. This means. We will lose some things, and need to change some behavior and customs.
So, you have taken the first step into a friendica server? And you log in, and then what? Here are the first three steps you should take: Step 1: New Members Section After the first log-in, it will ask you for a profile picture. You can do that now, or later. If you skip, you […]
One of the key ideas of a federated and connected Tangoverse is that we can re-use existing web sites and content, and bring that into the social networking apps. The common ways to do that are 1) RSS feeds, 2) ActivityPub extensions and 3) custom code. This post is just about including RSS feeds. RSS […]
I am currently digging deeper into fediverse applications for the tangoverse as described before. It was a great occasion to reset my virtual server and configure it using yunohost, which allows for much more easy management and operations, I hope, than my old setup. Currently in the test bed are the social network apps Friendica, […]
One of the big advantages of Fediverse is that many different services can interact with each other. That doesn’t mean that you can log in and use every server with the same identity, but you can follow and comment on most things you might see in a Fediverse stream in some way. Also, every service […]
It’s 2025 already, and the world is expected to change dramatically (?) this year. I am expecting more #enshittification of Facebook due to the current situation in the USA (trend towards less regulation, and more extreme populism and online sharing of hate-speech and fake news, plus AI-generated content, …). Twitter — now X — has […]
In the last few months, I have been working with different AI tools, from ChatGPT, to Claude, Copilot and Perplexity. Each has their own advantages, but they also have enough disadvantages — and they are all subscription-based, and you don’t really want to subscribe to them all at the same time. Of course, there’s also […]
Wonderful news! Finally, the “Event Bridge for ActivityPub” has been released as a WordPress plugin. It allows for enabling the event post type created by many of the Events plugins for WordPress to be accessed via the ActivityPub feed of a page. I have just installed it on RNT – Rhein-Neckar-Tango, which hosts the event […]