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The first Homebrew Website Club Düsseldorf Schepp and I co-organised turned out well. We gathered at Düsseldorf’s central library inside its “Xafé” café. We had 7 participating adults and 2 children. ;)

The meetup was more exchange and discussions than actual work on one’s websites. Discussed topics included:

• “I want to build my own website”
• Opinions on tooling
• RelMeAuth
• Podcast metric aggregation
• WebSub
• Personal publishing workflows and tools
• Image hosting
• RSS feeds
• …and probably even a few more.

Very enjoyable evening!

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I am with Daniel on this: The new Fujifilm X half looks quite interesting, concept-wise. I love that Fuji is making these quirky cameras that allow you to just be creative and where specs are not the main reason for buying it.

Honestly, the new Fujifilm X half looks really appealing. I think there should be way more playful digital cameras, too - like this one.

Florian made a public “Photography Channels” list on FeedCity. Already (re-)discovered some great YouTube channels and bookmarked a bunch of videos.

Next Thursday, May 22nd at 6 pm, there’s going to be a Homebrew Website Club Düsseldorf. Co-organised by Schepp and myself, we plan this to be the first HWC event in a series of regular events.

I quote from the IndieWeb wiki page to explain what an HWC is:

Homebrew Website Club is a growing world-wide network of meetups for everyone who wants to take back their web experience from social media silos, and own their online identities & content, or just want support with blogging!

So, if you’re interested in this sort of thing, and can make it to Düsseldorf, you’d be very welcome to join. (We still have to confirm the location, and will update the event page as soon as possible.)

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Had a wonderful day attending A-Tag in Vienna. The (accessibility) talks were fantastic and it was a great pleasure meeting old and making new friends 👏🏻😍

@MadeMyDay @sir_pepe WTF!

We all should use the term "pollywoppus" more often. Especially to characterize politicians.

En route to Vienna along the beautiful river Rhine. ✨

Weeknotes 2025-05-12 May 12, 2025, Jochen The thing about being wrong is that before you know you’re wrong, it feels •exactly• like being right. --Roman Mars Beyond Tellerrand 2025 ...

Here it is, the full gallery of my #BTConf coverage, 152 images in glorious monochrome. It is truly a special event and I can’t wait for the next one in Berlin in November!

I am in the process of editing my beyond tellerrand photos. I usually begin by adding images to a folder as a first draft. Then I start removing photos, usually similar ones (or ones that are just not as good – whatever that means, it’s all very subjective and by feeling anyway), then proceed with ones that do not fit the flow. Finally – and I’ve learned this over the years – the last 10 photos have to really hurt to delete. Only then do I know that I have found the final selection.

The email delivery problems seem to have eased and from what I can see, emails seem to get delivered again phew. I’ve also now improved the look and content of said emails. And for every list’s feeds - such as IndieWeb feeds - there’s now an OPML version/export available.

Weeknotes 2025-05-05 May 5, 2025, Jochen I'm not passive aggressive unlike *some* people --Benack OBena Getting back to work after a conference week. Barely had time for anything else. ...

After four days of events, I’m feeling energized and exhausted at the same time. Had lots of great conversations and a fantastic time at both IndieWebCamp and Beyond Tellerrand! 👉 Florian’s photos: Monday, Tuesday. 👈

Already made the mistake of accidentally keeping the sign-up form for FeedCity live for a little too long without sufficient spam protection. Emails getting delivered to spam folders now. grrrr

I made a new thing: a feed reader called FeedCity, available at https://feed.city. The main reason for adding yet another feed reader to the already huge pile, is that I couldn’t find an existing one with the features I’d like to have. Here’s how FeedCity is different, I believe:

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On my way to beyond tellerrand. So much looking forward to the next two days! 🤗

Ok, one more time testing WebSub.