Hear me out: an Aesop Rock lyrics bot. 😊
Feeds from people participating at the IndieWebCamp Düsseldorf, May 2025.
”Little get the cake, little celebrate
Then celebrate again when you give it the hell away.“
👏😎
Tomorrowland (IndieWeb Movie Club)
I have watched Tomorrowland several times. In the movie, it is revealed that a society of geniuses made another world: a place where they could go to invent and explore and wonder without distraction. But the other world – Tomorrowland – invented something they shouldn’t have...
Ice Floes
I saw Monet’s Ice Floes for the first time in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. It stood out among all of the Impressionist paintings in the room, in large part because of its brightness but relative lack of colour. The painting depicts ice on the river Seine, one of Monet’s ma...
Damn. In all their desperation, they’re all falling for those #a11y overlays now. 😔
Ensembles
Last weekend I visited The Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia, an art collection that showcases mainly Impressionist and Medieval art, with some other genres too. The gallery was unlike any other I have visited. The outside of the building was modern: constructed with grey lim...
[photo] Love
A shed in JFK Plaza, Philadelphia, painted with a red background and the city skyline that says, in beautiful lettering, “love”
tending
tending; — to take care of.
🎬 Nightcrawler
In the beginning I thought Jake Gyllenhaal’s character is pretty implausible. But then I just enjoyed his and Riz Ahmed’s performances, the pretty night scenes, the suspense and just his sheer dry ruthlessness. And the film also gives you plenty to think about.
Sounds like Hans had a lot of fun with his synths again doing the F1 movie soundtrack … 😁
Why is MS Teams just soooo bad? 😂
Teams: I need an update!!
[ clicks Download Teams button]
Nothing happens.
[ clicks Download Teams button again]
Teams restarts.
Teams: Welcome! Select an account to sign in.
[ Selects account and enters password ]
Teams: I need an update!!
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TFW you build a site with @getkirby and web platform standards (== semantic HTML, modern CSS, a little bit of JavaScript, and a dash of ARIA) and you look at Lighthouse for the first time …
Looks like industry best practices actually work. (Sorry for using my platform to ruin anyone’s day. 🥰) 🍋
Yesterday, me and Florian participated in a photo walk, organised by the new Fujifilm X-Den space here in Düsseldorf. One could try out their (newest) camera gear, and so I had took the chance to try the X half.
Had a great time walking around the Altstadt, taking photos, and chatting with Florian, Lou and the friendly Fuji staff. → Florian’s post.
🎂 Congrats @microformats.org on 20 years! #microformats20Even after 20 years, people keep discovering new ways of using #microformats:* @artlung.com: "WML, WAP, & Microformats Demo!" (https://lab.artlung.com/wml/faux)> Because WML elements may have the class attributeO...
🎧 Lifeless Birth – Necrot
Just so much great riffing going on in this collection of fantastic songs. They have enough non-4/4-parts and tempo changes to make it interesting without making it hard to follow. There are some tasty guitar solos, too. “Drill the Skull” is my favourite, either this insanely awesome middle section.
This week, the second Homebrew Website Club Düsseldorf took place. This time, 5 people attended. After a round of introducing each other including website, we once more had a good chat about a variety of IndieWeb topics. And this time, we all did some coding, too. For example, Jochen made some commits to his django-indieweb project, Mark added some rel=me links and Microformats markup, and I fixed my Atom feed’s updated date to truly show the date they have been updated (which is quite relevant for example when sending WebSub notifications).
You know the problem when you accidentally or naively committed on the main Git branch, but then you’re too far coding something that turns out to need more and more (unexpected) work, and you find yourself not able to deploy to production? Yep, happened to me today (again).
🎧 Empros – Russian Circles
This was my entry album into Russian Circles. And it’s still my favourite, probably because of being my first. We saw them on tour back then in Auckland, NZ. And I still remember how that end part of “309” blew me away: first that drum beat, and then this thunderous bass. So heavy! And even better live.
aaaaaaaaaa! There it is!
My friend @koeberlin’s brand new typeface Tausend is out. So, so good … 😍
Oh wow! Beyerdynamic is being acquired by a Chinese company called Cosonic. Feels very AKG-esque, but of course, “nothing will change.”