Often I wonder why my friends are watching some super niche 60s British sci-fi show no one's ever heard of and the answee is always something something Big Finish
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Stellar Scrapm'n is hauling on the Playdate
Last weekend, I joined forces with my buddy Hunter to make a game for PlayJam 8, a game jam for the adorable yellow Playdate game console.
Introducing: Stellar Scrapm'n! Descend into debt as you ascend to the stars in a clunky little hauling ship. Crank to steer through rock...
Happy #8bitday yesterday! It was the 256th day of the year.See last year’s post for why the 256th day is 8-Bit Day: https://tantek.com/2024/256/t1/happy-8bitday-binary-byteSince last year, the related Wikipedia article on “Programmer’s Day” (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prog...
Good Bye Host Europe
I am with my current hosting partner since 1999 when they still had the name One-2-One. I usually was happy with them and they even sponsor two of my servers. One on which runs everything beyond tellerrand related and one where anything else, like this page, runs on.
Surely ...
A 255 byte web page
Tantek, in celebration of 8-Bit Day (the 265th day of the year), published a blog post with the following challenge:
[…] build an entire website where each resource fits into at most 8-bits worth of bytes. 255 bytes maximum size HTML, and maximum size of any linked external ...
Second person birds
I remember the feeling of the light shining around and through the curtains. Then there was music: melodies in chirp. I wanted to close my eyes and go back to sleep for just a while longer, enjoying the warmth of my bed, but I didn’t want to forget the light and the music – there was a moment so wonderful just behind the curtain. Bird song plays the role that so many people do and have done in my life: the bird song is the music that starts my day. I wonder if the birds know how far their songs carry, how we notice the patterns and changes in their tone, how we find both wonder and joy in figuring out from where the song calls, how their song starts and adds life to the day. This is my entry for the September 2025 IndieWeb Carnival, hosted by Sophia at toground.link. The topic is "second person birds".
Rain
I don’t think it’s going to rain that much I thought to myself before going out yesterday. I took my summer jacket: a light blue denim coat that brings me a lot of joy. My jacket keeps me warm.
However, my jacket doesn’t have a hood.
Later in the day, when I got to my desti...
Emerging Writers Festival (2025) | Zachary Kai
Notes from various workshops and discussions at the Emerging Writers Festival 2025, held virtually. Events are organized chronologically and by type. Table Of Con...
Walking
When did I stop walking as much? I realised this week after having found the motivation to go out for a few walks. I knew that I didn’t want to spend the whole day inside. I want to see the world. With each passing day, I felt more confidence in going out. My usual walk seeme...
Raindrop
The autumn rains are here. I have been looking forward to a bit of rain. There is something delightfully cosy about sitting inside reading or writing or watching television while the rain falls outside. And, rain means the opportunity for rainbows. This week, I have seen at l...
Machine knitting: taking a stand
In my apartment we are lucky enough to have a big countertop, open on three sides, creating a nice flat project surface for even sprawling projects.
However, we also have a lot of projects that compete for this space! Producer Amy is often working on increasingly complex sew...
Creating a searchable archive page
One of the pages I use most on my website is the page that lists the titles of all of my blog posts. I made this page for two reasons: (i) for quick reference to all of my recent posts beyond those on my home page, and (ii) so that I can search the page by post title. I often...
Artemis Changelog #7
Artemis, the calm web reader I maintain, has a few new features. Below is a summary of the features now available to all users.
Also, I have started a Discord server for the project in which I can both answer questions and will potentially share some stories of the behind-th...
Photos From Smashing Conference Freiburg 2025
Another Smashing Conference in Freiburg in the books. This year we added workshop day before the main conference next to the one after the conference days.
I created these photos during our event. Reply via Email
Designing a new button to visually show and hide alt text
In Developing an alt text button for images on my website, I wrote about how I made a button for visibly showing and hiding alt text on my website. I enjoy reading alt text. Alt text is great.
My implementation method used a combination of a HTML checkbox and the CSS :has se...
đź“„ FeedCity updates September 2025
There have been a few things happening recently in FeedCity land:
🎬 28 Days Later
While this might have a little bit of shitty digital quality, I think otherwise this really holds up well and is a great entertaining zombie film. The story is great, the characters and the acting is there, the infected are menacing, the action is good. And it just has a lot of great scenes. Was again looking forward to that blood-drops-in-the-eye shot.
🎬 Final Destination Bloodlines
Haven't seen a movie from this franchise in a long time. Do I like the CGI-to-the-max? No. But otherwise, it's actually pretty entertaining with great humour. Death has once again packed a fine assortment of Rube Goldberg death machines and bloody butterfly effects.