While this site is new and super-simple, I thought I add an automatic “dark mode” real quick.
Websites and blogs of people that attended a Homebrew Website Club Düsseldorf.
Added syntax highlighting now, too. Since Jekyll generates the necessary markup out of the box, it was simply a matter of choosing an additional stylesheet, including it, and making a few more adjustments.
📄 Responsive images
I have now added the ability to display responsive images. And I write a little bit about how I do it using the tools I run the build this site.
A CSS-only Carousel
I've recently read about and discussed CSS Scroll Snapping so often that I felt like I should build a CSS-only carousel based on it. There it is:
Link to Codepen
Here are a few things to note: #
Accessibility is in line with all other CSS-only experiments: it can only be ...
Dealing with Ads in 2020
As you may know, I currently work for a news company in Germany, the Rheinische Post Mediengruppe. My task there is to concept and build the frontend for a bunch of news sites in the form of a white label framework. Sadly, but not surprisingly my client is still depending on...
📄 Hosting on GitLab Pages
A quick overview of how this site is hosted at the moment.
I was actually thinking that I might have seen enough Opeth gigs by now. But no! Last night in Cologne was the best one I’ve been to (yet)! Great setlist, great light show, and – as always – great musicianship. Very happy we went.
It’s the time of year where I generally push my films to ISO 1600. And that means I now need to slightly readjust my brain again for guessing exposure.
And in April it’s all back to ISO 400 again.
🔗 February 2019 – Daniel Pietzsch’s Photo Journal
A tiny bit of street photography again.
📄 Fuck you, Instagram!
I made a little bookmarklet to disable and hide Instagram’s login prompt and re-enable scrolling, so I can keep browsing Instagram web pages when I am logged out. I call it “Fuck you, Instagram!” or “FUI” for short.
📄 Recent film development fuckups
In the last two weeks, I had some bad film development results. This is a little article about what I think went wrong.
Went to see Machine Head yesterday. It was the “Burn my Eyes” 25th anniversary tour and so they played that album in its entirety, in the almost original lineup: Logan Mader on guitar, Chris Kontos on drums, and of course Robb Flynn. Would have loved to see Adam Duce, too, but I guess one can’t have everything. Anyhow: I had a great time, even joining a few circle pits.
📄 New website
I have a new site! It’s truly indie now. No more reliance on Tumblr. And I’m pretty happy about that! So, danielpietzsch.com is going to be my virtual home for the foreseeable future.
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Carbon footprint and veganism
A while ago, a friend posted a video from Spiegel Online, in which the author claims that 18% of global greenhouse gas emissions were due to meat production, which would be more than the amount produced by transportation. He literally claims that "someone who eats less meat ...
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Fixing a fridge WITHOUT using an Arduino :-)
If your fridge breaks, chances are that you don't have an Arduino, a Dallas temperature sensor, and relays lying around. At least I didn't when mine broke and unfortunately, it was a very hot summer day when it did. So, here's the most simple fix:
Use a timer switch.
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Fixing a fridge using an Arduino microcontroller
Our fridge broke during the summer of 2015, more or less on the hottest day. It had only been five years old and we had bought it to be eco-friendly but affordable, so it has an A+ rating (in 2010's standards, more on this below).
It turns out that a typical cause for this ...
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Brexit
Should a personal blog start with politics? Maybe :-) The last year has been very turbulent regarding international politics. Be it Middle East wars, US elections, or the demise of democracy in Poland - it's been bad news all around, most of which was unexpected, at least to...
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New Year resolutions
It might look like a New Year resolution, that I finally started this blog. However, it's merely a coincidence: over Christmas, I've found time to get some projects done (like fixing the fridge using an Arduino - more on that later), which now makes this blog the next entry on my to do list.
So, Happy New Year, little blog, let's get started :-)
CSS Masks – How To Use Masking In CSS Now
Almost one year ago I wrote an article that dealt with an emerging WebKit CSS technique, the CSS filter effects, and the question if we could not have/emulate them in other browsers, too. Turned out we could.
Today I want to talk about another WebKit-only feature and show yo...
Effects for the Web!
In the late nineties CSS 2.1 brought us a basic set of good-enough tools to finally get table-free layouts en route. Then came CSS3 which started off by providing us with more creative tools to carve out the details. Today we finally have embeddeable fonts, rounded corners, ...