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Welcome to these pages. Since winter 2023/24 they are part of my journey away from the commercial social media empires, and my renewed interest in blogging and owning the place where my words are crafted and shown.

Here is a list of the most recent posts:

  • The Party Balancer

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    Tagline: Stop Obsessing Over Gender Balance. Start Solving for Role Balance. https://gemini.google.com/share/54e15f8cdb12 1. The Elevator Pitch (30 Seconds) “We’ve all been to dance events where the gender ratio is perfectly 50/50, yet people are still sitting on the bench. Why? Because Gender Balance is not the same as Role Balance. The Party Balancer is an…

  • The Great Debate – Encuentro vs. Marathon (2026 Edition)

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    “Same tango. Different masks.” A few days ago on Facebook (link). The following text is a summary of the discussion that followed. It’s by far from complete, but brings up perspectives that may be unexpected for the naive tango dancer. It doesn’t reflect my opinion or experience fully, but I had a laugh compiling the…

  • What makes tango so compelling – by Sharna Fabiano

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    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

  • Creating a tango community: The origin story of El Corte

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  • Tango Connects Berlin Conference 2025

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    “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)

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    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,…

  • Tangoverse – How to get started?

    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…

  • Best Practices for Using GitHub Copilot’s Agentic Capabilities in WordPress Development

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    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…

  • Tango Events Without the Algorithm

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    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…

  • Gemini’s overview of websites about tango culture

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    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…