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🔗 Petition 113349: Durchführung einer Studie zum "Racial Profiling" bei den Polizeibehörden des Bundes/der Bundesländer vom 06.07.2020

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Mit der Petition wird die Durchführung einer Studie zum "Racial Profiling" bei den Polizeibehörden des Bundes und der Bundesländer gefordert.

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Fading Music in and Out in an Online Workshop (On a Mac)

When it became increasingly clear that running in-person workshops would not be possible for the foreseeable future, the XDI team, which I am a part of, started to work on online versions of our Adobe XD workshops for beginners and advanced users. The resulting workshops are...

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How I Structure My CSS (for Now)

When it comes to structuring CSS, there is no shortage of different naming conventions, methodologies, and architectures. Be it BEM, OOCSS, SMACSS, ITCSS, or CUBE CSS – over the last years, many different approaches to managing modular CSS have emerged. Some are offering str...

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📄 August update

An update on how we have been doing recently.

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Now that Zoe and I got our first band photos, we should probably start an actual band, too. Photos by Sina Frantzen.

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Halftime

This is post number 50 of my 100-days-of-writing challenge. It’s halftime! Time for me to look at how this little (?!?) experiment worked out so far and what I might have learned or experienced since I started back in May. First of all, the obvious: Writing a post every day...

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🎥 3 Minutes Of Basketball

3 Minutes Of Basketball

This morning, I had time to play some basketball. So I went to the court to throw a few throws (like I said I would).

I was pleased to notice that my throwing hasn’t gotten completely terrible after years of not playing. I spontaneously recorded 3 minutes of it.

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Gall’s Law

In 1963, the people at NASA needed a building. And not just any building. It had to be large enough to be able to assemble the enormous space vehicles NASA designed as part of their massive effort to send astronauts to the Moon. The building that was completed in 1966 allowe...

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Finite and Infinite Games

According to James P. Carse, there are at least two types of games: Finite games and infinite games. Finite games have a clear beginning and end, a distinct set of rules and boundaries, and we play them for one purpose: to win. Take any match of chess, tennis, football, or S...

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Range

What is the right strategy to achieve greatness and succeed in a specific domain? If you believe the predominant narrative in many efficiency-oriented societies today, the answer is clear: Focus on one thing early in life to have a head start and invest at least the famous 1...

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📄 Pedalboard update

My pedal board has a new layout.

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Now that I’m running iOS 13 on my new iPhone, I’ve installed the Corona Warn App.

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Lateral Thinking With Withered Technology

One evening in the late 1970s, an engineer from Kyoto was riding home on the Shinkansen, when he recognized the man sitting next to him playing around with his LCD calculator, punching buttons in boredom. The engineer, who worked at a toy and gaming company, had an idea: Wha...

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The Idea Machine

I used to dream of a magical machine. It was about as big as a microwave, all silver metal (with rivets, of course), and it had little knobs, lamps, and indicators everywhere. On the left, there were two buttons: One was green and the other one red. On the right, the machine...

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Hell Yeah or No

Derek Sivers just published a new book. It is called “HELL YEAH OR NO” and you can get it on Derek’s website. Having enjoyed Derek’s blog articles and podcast a lot, buying his book, which also includes an audio version, was a no-brainer for me. Derek is a musician, producer...

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📄 New Macbook Keyboard

Recently, I had my Mac’s keyboard replaced. Because, unsurprisingly, I started having regular double-types, which got increasingly annoying. Luckily, Apple acknowledges the problem and offers a free repair program.

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Progressive

Ethan Marcotte wrote this on Twitter on Monday: Nos­tal­gia for the hey­day of web design has to be bal­anced with the knowl­edge that much of what we did ​“in the old days” was woe­ful­ly, thor­ough­ly...

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📄 Last Week's Purchases

Last week was unusually purchase-rich for me, buying three new items.

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🔗 August 2019 – Daniel Pietzsch’s Photo Journal

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📷 “August 2019” is now up in the Photo Journal: https://photojournal.danielpietzsch.com/2019/August. 📷

Desperately trying to catch up… ;-)

A family gathering near Brussels, commuting photos and the usual documentation.

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Their Fault

It is clearly their fault. The clients just don’t get design. The designers only care about how it looks. The developers have no sense for aesthetics. CSS is broken. The users are just too stupid. It is clearly their fault. Is it, though? Whenever we struggle or ...