Today’s soundtrack.
Feeds from people participating at the IndieWebCamp Düsseldorf, May 2025.
Finally developed some rolls of film again. It’s been months since the last time.
Made 1.5 litres of fresh fixer, got the 5-reel tank out of the cupboard and developed some HP5 @1600. One of those rolls was from back in December.
A second batch – 5 rolls of APX 400 – is also already hanging to dry. Feels good to make progress on that front again. (But let’s not talk about the scanning backlog or posting to the journal, ok!?)
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Brain Dump
You know what makes it so easy for many people to just dump their thoughts into a silo like Twitter instead of writing a post on their own site?
You don’t have to come up with a title for your post.
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Level Up Your Headings Game
Providing a proper document outline is one of the most effective things you can do to improve the accessibility of your HTML. Like the headings of the chapters and subchapters in a book, the structure of the heading elements in our HTML should have a semantic, tree-like stru...
🔗 Framed
Another fun daily movie guessing game. And an instant favourite!
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Generating Accessibility Test Results for a Whole Website With Evaluatory
Yesterday, I shared how to test a whole website for accessibility issues with Pa11y and how to output the results as HTML. I also shared the link on Twitter, as I usually do, and Darek Kay chimed in, mentioning an alternative tool he created: Evaluatory.
Just like Pa11y, Eva...
🔗 Red Fang - Hellfest 2022– @ARTE Concert
Red Fang on this year’s Hellfest. The band rocks hard. The crowd goes wild. And all beautifully filmed and edited with great sound.
If you’re short on time, watch “Wires” in the middle of the set. Perfect!
🇫🇷 @Red Fang, c’est un groupe né à Portland, dans l’Oregon. La formation se compose de Brian Giles au chant et à la guitare, Aaron Beam au chant et à la ba...
🎬 Train to Busan
This review may contain spoilers. Tap or click to view.
As far as Zombies movies go, this certainly does not deviate from the usual plot. But the Zombies are filmed in an interesting way, emphasising their insanity and speed. I prefer my Zombies rather slow and clumsy, though. But this definitely had some good scenes! Some special effects were sub-par unfortunately. But overall I was well entertained. The characters were good, and I liked the sad yet beautiful ending.
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Generating Accessibility Test Results for a Whole Website With Pa11y CI
This week, I’m doing an accessibility audit for a client. One of the first steps is to have a general look at the site. You can – and should – do that manually for sure, but another very useful way to get a good fi...
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The CSS Cascade, a Deep Dive
The Cascade is legendary. Legendary because it is the C in CSS. Legendary in how well it works to determine which selector wins when browsers apply styles to HTML. And legendary in how little many of us really know about it.
Bramus van Damme recently gave a fantastic talk ab...
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Eleventy Plus Vite
What’s the single best thing you can do if you want to learn a new tool or evaluate a new technology? Right, it’s getting your hands dirty.
Only by building something tangible, like a realistic prototype or even a real project, you’ll get immediate answers to the questions t...
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You, a Million Times
Who should you write for? Your friends and family? Your colleagues and peers? The people you look up to? Everyone in the community? Everyone on the Internet?
The answer? None of those people. You should only write for one person and one person only: you.
Me? But who would r...
🎧 The Art of Partying – Municipal Waste
“Municipal Waste is gonna FUCK YOU UP! Municipal Waste is gonna FUCK YOU UP!”
Those guys are always delivering a good mood. You wanna crack one open and then party along. Plus, their bass player – Land Phil – also has a mean sound.
🎧 Muse Bass Tab Collection – Muse
I was looking for bass inspiration – both for playing and sound – and decided to check out Muse’s Chris Wolstenhome in more detail. And I ended up listening to that playlist quite a bit recently.
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Updates About Updates
I love reading posts in which people talk about recent updates to their personal sites. It does three things:
It shows the person reading your post that you care about this little corner of the Web and that it is worth doing so.
It (most often) demonstrates why you picked ...
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In and Out of Style
One of the most fascinating things about the Web is how it has evolved. By that, I don’t mean so much the mind-blowing speed of growth, but rather how the foundational languages, APIs, and browsers have been able to adapt to an ever-evolving, ever-changing environment. With ...
🎬 Cube
I thought this had potential. But it was a little boring I’m afraid.Predictable, average acting and the constant wide-angle shots wereannoying. I’m probably too critical, I’m sorry.
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Just Put Stuff Out There
Even if you have been posting on your own site for quite some time, blogging regularly can still be challenging. Ask almost anyone who blogs and they will probably tell you the same: They would very much like to hit that publish button more often, but, somehow, it just doesn...
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How to Delete Your Commit History in Git
Maybe you want to publish a project but don’t want everyone to see what mess you created before your initial release. Maybe you want to hand over a Git repository to a third party who should not peek into your complete git commit history. Whatever the reason, here is how you...
🔗 Metal Heardle
A household favourite at the moment and part of our morning routine.
Guess the metal song from the intro in as few tries as possible.