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I am off to New York to meet the SmashingConf team and run another edition after a break of a year.

Greetings from FRA and see you there!

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Happy October!For some reason this month has a plethora of daily blogging or other creativity prompts. Here’s a list of the ones I found so far:* #Blogtober (consider this post my first for this, retroactively day 1)* Inktober — https://inktober.com/* LOLtober - https://weblo...

Last week I participated in #w3cTPAC 2024¹ in Anaheim, California. It was quite packed, and often started early, from 8am informal breakfast meetings at a nearby IHOP, to Working Group, Community Group, and other small group meetings every day (but Wednesday) til 18:00.Midwee...

I enjoyed this. It had me constantly wondering and wanting to know what happens next. I really liked the quirkiness of it all. But then in the end it left me kind of empty and wondering “why all this?” and “what for?”. All the stories had the same subjects it dealt with, but I couldn’t find any purpose (if there is any), and why it had to be three episodes. So I had the suspicion the movie is just weird for weirdness sake. But maybe that’s just Lanthimos’s thing and I shouldn’t complain. What never seems to disappoint, though, is how he films everything. It’s just fun to watch. Emma Stone was superb once again, but so were all the other actors.

What do events/conferences/design festivals/younameit mean to you? I'd be interested in a conversation. Speaking to a lot of event organisers recently, one issue is one they all share these days: less and less people attend their in-person events. But why? ❓ Are people gener...

I am a Mac user since I am working with computers professionally. My first Macintosh I was working with had OS 7 running and ever since I am using Apple products myself at home professionally and for private use and so does my whole family. Once you are caught in an ecosyste...

Dear Creative Commons (@creativecommons.org @creativecommons@mastodon.social @creativecommons@x.com), Can we have CC-NT licenses for no-training (ML/LLM, GenAI in general), just like we have CC-NC for non-commercial?My previous post¹ reminded me that I’ve been creating, writi...

20 years and two weeks ago, I came up with undohtml.css and unknowingly invented the mechanism of CSS Resets (AKA reboot or reset style sheets¹) which spawned numerous variants, many still in broad use on the web today.https://tantek.com/log/2004/09.html#d06t2354A one sentenc...

For years and years I am looking for a way to change the email address on my mac to not use the icloud email to send invites from out of my calendar. Now finally I got it working. While I was looking for a way to change it on macOS, I now stumbled over a way where someone ch...

Another Mondo Bizarr flick. Reading the summary, I was actually expecting something way worse than this. This was actually high quality and looked a lot like more famous American movies from that time. But rightly so, it's not as highly regarded: it's just all a bit off and wacky at times. But that doesn't mean it's less entertaining! Just more bizarre. The chase scene is fantastic, the musical part at McD is just great and the ending is just the whimsical cherry on top.

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Uff. Ein Außerirdischer hat mit seinem Ufo ein Panne und strandet im Wald unweit eines bayrischen Dorfes. Xaver entdeckt und kümmert sich um ihn. Die Einheimischen sind skeptisch und die Böse-Buben-Gang ist auch noch hinter Xaver her. Aber dann stellt raus, der Mann vom anderen Stern ist eine regelrechte Biervernichtungsmaschine. Damit gewinnt er nicht nur die Herzen der Dorfbewohner sondern auch den Biertrinkwettbewerb im Festzelt. Es gibt Verfolgungsjagden zu Fuß und mit Gefährten und am Ende gibt es ein Heidendurcheinander, aber alles geht nochmal gut aus.

Tja, was soll ich sagen. Hat irgendwie Spaß gemacht das mit der Truppe im Mondo Bizarr zu schauen. Prost!

If you, like me and many, often complain about websites being soulless these days, then check the new website of Nic Chan. I love it.

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In this article Sophie Koonin encourages you to attend events. She summarises a lot of the things I talk and write about for a while, which are:

• Buy your tickets early
• Conferences need sponsors!

She also lists a few events and gives a short overview what they are about and what the price tag is.

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That was our 2024 edition of Smashing Conference in Freiburg. 12 years at the place where it all started and here are some impressions.

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Happy #8bitday — 256th day of the year! Here’s some reasons to celebrate:bit = portmanteau of binary digit8 binary digits can represent 256 different numerical values8 bits are also a byte, the fundamental unit of computer storage — 'B' is for byte in 'GB' or 'TB' as an amoun...

Came up with and tried a three phase pomodoro technique yesterday for working thru tasks and projects.This three phase pomodoro cycle repeats and resyncs hourly. The three phases I came up with:* physical tidying/cleaning* physical processing* digital processingThis worked qu...

Another classic where I don't know whether I had seen this as a teenager. But I really couldn't remember any scenes. This was fantastic, though. Apart from obvious technological or cultural clues, you wouldn't think this is such an old movie. It really holds up.

Now, the film actually manages to portrait Christine as and actually evil car. The stunts are top-notch - oh my, the whole scene at the gas station! - and the special effects when Christine repairs herself are an absolute sensation. Great characters, too - it's been quite clever how the evilness progressively affects Arnie's own mood.

Bonus was seeing this on the big screen, getting to fully experience the film's awesome sound and music.

Has tons of atmosphere and Nicolas Cage as Longlegs is actually really creepy. Lovingly filmed. And great acting. I thought the plot pace was a little odd (it's high-paced in the beginning and the end, and in the middle quite slow), and the resolution was not all that satisfying. Overall, though, I was really into it, and didn't notice how time flew by at the cinema.

Tip: use the W3C Link Checker and fix any errors before federating with Bridgy Fed.https://validator.w3.org/checklinkIf you are using Bridgy Fed to federate your posts from your personal site, I highly recommend you first run the W3C Link Checker on a post, and verify there a...

Twenty years ago this past February, Kevin Marks and I introduced #microformats in a conference presentation.Full post: https://tantek.com/2024/044/t1/twenty-years-microformatsAside: This is an even shorter summary of that post from ~200 days ago, which #Mastodon readers never got due to a Mastodon #federation bug (details in https://tantek.com/t5Yo1).Since early 2023, here are the top three updates & interesting developments in microformats:1. Growing rel=me adoption for distributed verification (✅ in Mastodon etc.) * Wikipedia, Threads, omg.lol2. Proposal to merge #microformats2 h-review into h-entry, since in practice (e.g. on #indieweb) reviews are just entries with a bit more.3. #metaformats adoptions, implementations, iteration