nights lost in darkness.
First pianos
I was listening to a cover of Taylor Swift’s Babylon and, almost immediately, something other than the melody stood out: the resonance of the notes. This sounds familiar. The recording reminded me of the sound my grandparents’ piano made when I would play it as a kid. I sat ...
Ensuring my posts have permalinks using bash
Last month I moved away from using the Ghost CMS to publish pages and posts on my website. I made the move because I realised I was maintaining more than I really needed to make my site work. I had to manage Ghost (and keep it updated) and an intermediary endpoint to which G...
Noooooo! I made a huge mistake. I watched a few minutes of the deranged racist‘s AI ramblings in the Ruby World keynote on YouTube – and now my feed is full of that guy … 🤪
I‘d better go watch that Cumberbatch documentary now! 🌍🌱
Wonders of Web Weaving, Episode 21
The twenty-first episode of Wonders of Web Weaving is out:
In Episode 21, I chat with Joel, the author of joelchrono.xyz about, among other things, writing about video games, weeknotes, homepage and website design, and more.
I hope you enjoy the episode!
Wonders of Web Weaving also has an RSS feed you can use to follow along from wherever you get your podcasts.
Autumn morning
The low clouds glowed with shades of lavender as I opened the window to see the first colours of Day. A field in the distance, yellow from harvest and the drier weather, is coated in a blanket of cool fog; in front of the trees are an almost-but-not-quite transparent haze, m...
The new Queens of the Stone Age album (scheduled for full release on October 30) is coming together really nicely so far! 👏 For instance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAOIpDUDGX4
Thank you so much to everyone who came to my talk at @getkirby’s very first #KirbyKonf! It was a joy to share some thoughts on The Web We Make with such a welcoming audience. 🤗
Here are the slides:
https://noti.st/matthiasott/IQWsYY/the-web-we-make
Thanks again for listening, chatting, and making these two days so special. What a lovely community! 🖤
Autumn walk
The radiant red leaves, the yellow and brown leaves, the feeling of the cold in my hands and in my cheeks.
Leaf-coated pavements. The world, painted with colour.
Music plays. Air breathes. Momentum dances.
leaves, lights
red, amber, green; leaves, lights.
Morning moon
When I opened the window this morning, I was greeted by a white and grey disk, the grey blending into the light blue of the surrounding skies. Clear as Day, and full, the morning moon made me feel a little bit of awe. Wow. When I went to bed last night, the moonlight cast be...
Ordentlich verkloppt. 😬 #GERGRE
Fallbacks
When I published Sunset this evening, I saw the post in my web reader, Artemis, and realised that the title was not what I expected. I clicked through to the blog post and realised I had put the title in the “category” field rather than the “title” field. This meant there wa...
Sunset
Glistening over the hills in the immediate distance, the rainbow made me first pause for breath, then pause for thought.This is the first time in months I have seen a rainbow. I am looking at the spectrum of every visible colour. I followed the rainbow for as long as I could...
🎬 The Martian
It’s a space movie. I like space movies. But this is not the best of its genre IMHO. I can’t complain about how it’s made, really. I definitely enjoyed the acting and most of the visuals and sets. But the story is a bit so-so. I found it a little awkward making everyone explain everything all the time. And Mark Watney’s good mood with its constant funny-cool slogans went a little on my nerves (together with the partly cheese music). The final space scene is just bonkers. So: “ok”, I’d say.
🎬 Big Trouble in Little China
letterboxd.com/danielpietzsch/film/big-trouble-in-little-china/
This is so absurd, you can not not be entertained. And if you just take Jack Burton’s view and go with it, you can just indulge yourself in this. Chinese clans fighting themselves in back alleys? Sure! Superfighters flying in form the sky? Why not! Cursed villains with superpowers? Ok!? Surprise monster? Ok, what the hell!
It’s a weird Carpenter movie. I liked the old-school-ness of it all. The humour was actually pretty great. But it’s not my favourite from him.
Awe
Two people slightly in front of me, to my left, crane their heads to the sky, following the one-hundred-and-eighty-year-old structure to our right. They slowed down as they walked. Does awe have a pace? I walk past the monument often, a reminder of the literary history of th...
Awe
Two people slightly in front of me, to my left, crane their heads to the sky, following the one-hundred-and-eighty-year-old structure to our right. They slowed down as they walked. Does awe have a pace? I walk past the monument often, a reminder of the literary history of th...
Autumn
The sun danced with the clouds in a competition where both the clouds and the sun wins, for there is always light and cloud. The music was the melody of morning, a morning on which I saw the first frost lying on the quiet grass by the river, a few days after having seen the ...
Super important talk by @mrchrisadams at #kirbykonf about how to get to a fossil free Internet. 🌱🌍👏