Welcome to these pages. Since winter 2023/24 they are part of my journey away from the monopolistic 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:
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Fediverse and events coming from WordPress
Today, I found out about a new project that wants to bring events management through WordPress into the Fediverse (@blog). Which, if it works, would be amazing, especially because there are so many great event plugins for WordPress already… for example, RNT – Rhein-Neckar-Tango uses the excellent The Event Calendar plugin. The team is collaborating…
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Finding what was lost: the red pill of tango.
One of the blog posts that I personally am still searching for is the last post of the series “The tango matrix”, where the author spills secrets of “what really is happening at the milonga, and once you know that, you can never go back”. The series was written by Dave Donatiu (can’t find a…
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How to get AI to generate a tango dancing couple?
Admit it: if you are a tango dancer, you have tried it. And failed to create something interesting. Usually there are issues with everything that makes tango interesting: the embrace (position, heads, arms, hands), the expressions, the pose. The AI reproduces stereotypes mostly, and doesn’t understand hands and basic dance anatomy. However, with some seed…
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Forgetting things on the internet
Previously (Preventing memory loss for tango blogs) I shared how I wanted to get old tango blogs to be archived on archive.org so we don’t lose the stories and ideas from our collective memory. A reader commented that she also has one of the blogs on my list, and would like some individual posts be…
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Preventing memory loss for tango blogs
Once upon a time there was this great tango blog, but… I can’t find it anymore. It has been abandoned by its owner, and the content is lost forever. Wait, don’t we have https://archive.org for cases like this? Yes, and no. Content is not automatically archived. Someone needs to start the archival process. Let’s make…
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Building a better tango community, one website at a time?
Here’s an idea for making my home tango community better. I have provided the regional calendar since 2007, and it contains a calendar of milongas, workshops, and some lessons, a list of announcements, and everything together not just as a portal website, but also as a regular weekly newsletter that gives an update on what…