23.02.2026
Wondered why our latest podcast episode didn’t show up on https://workingdraft.de this morning. In our headless WP we preschedule releases and @11ty builds the front facing site daily. Turns out an AI bot broke the build: our log-parsing stats step choked on its UA string:
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Thinkbot/0.5.8; +In_the_test_phase,_if_the_Thinkbot_brings_you_trouble,_please_block_its_IP_address._Thank_you.)
"if_the_Thinkbot_brings_you_trouble" 🖕
22.02.2026
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20.02.2026
14 Days of Being Brave and Listening to My Intuition
🎬 Slingshot
This review may contain spoilers. Tap or click to view.
Good space movie. Has great atmosphere overall (apart from a few soundtrack choices maybe). Liked the themes of the movie. The acting was great for the most part. And it has a good twist (or two?)! The very end is a bit unnecessary, when they could've just ended the movie right with the countdown in the airlock.
👍 Recommended!
Turning a CSS Carousel into a Theme Switcher
Sometimes the web gives you an excuse to play.
When Vasilis van Gemert and the team at CMD Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences announced their free community event The Web You Want, they not only asked for talks, workshops and contributions - they also invited people to...
Modern CSS is no longer just about presentation. It increasingly allows us to explore interaction, state, and progressive enhancement in places that used to be JavaScript territory.
More on that in my blogpost: https://schepp.dev/posts/turning-css-carousels-into-a-theme-switcher/
(and with that post I've fulfilled my duty for 2026 😅)
🔗 Stress-free RSS reader FeedCity debuted last year - ranchero.com
ranchero.com/2026/02/19/stress-free-rss-reader-feedcity.html
OMG. Brent Simmons (of NetNewsWire fame) linked to FeedCity and had nice things to say about it:
This one is not just no-unread-counts but also social, with outbound RSS. Very cool!
Thank you very much, Brent! 🥹
19.02.2026
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17.02.2026
trees of madeira
Bold & Courageous - Do One Uncomfortable Thing Every Day for 14 Days
Happy Fire Horse Year! 🧧
How to Export You Instagram Data
The Alchemy of Inner Fire into Salty Water
Yesterday was another Homebrew Website Club.
Nina showed us her newly created Instagram-Archive site using Memento Mori. She also detailed how cumbersome it is to delete one’s Instagram account. We then talked about Dark Patterns for a while.
AI has also always been a topic again. How it can for example be useful to get away from big tech and host services yourself. Jochen told us about how he does just that now. What he previously didn’t have the time for now became possible. He also uses AI to add new feature to the website of his Python Podcast.
We also talked a bit about podcasting and available apps as well as how one might get away from large music streaming services like Spotify. And we made our first money transfer using Wero (instead of Paypal).
The next HWC DUS will be on Mar. 17th.
