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Ran my 13th Bay to Breakers race in 1:55:31 today! 4min+ faster than last year.Once again the Midnight Runners crew cheered runners in Hayes Valley at the park a couple of blocks before the hill.Felt better than I did last year, more able to sustain a moderate pace.One quick ...

I have co-hosted a lot of online events as part of the IndieWeb, the 32-Bit Cafe, and other communities. A few months ago, I reflected on how events don’t happen without organisers. Organisers put in the time to make events happen – they do all the coordination and prep work,...

… done! ✅ 🥳

Enjoying my Freelancer’s Sunday™ aka doing the taxes … 🫠😂

Poetical Works of Scott read one of the titles on the shelf in the Poetry section. The word “Poetical” stood out to me; we would say “poetic” now. Language changes over time., I thought to myself. We simplify words; we make new ones; some words fall out of fashion; some are m...

Whenever I go to an art gallery, I strive to make sure I have time to see any Impressionist exhibits. Impressionism is my favourite type of art. Today, with no plans for the afternoon, I went into the National Museum of Scotland. I have been a few times, so I headed directly ...

The sky is wonderfully blue. I can’t see a single cloud. I wrote as I was walking through the park this morning. When I see the sky so blue, I cannot help but crane my head around to see whether I can spot a cloud. I couldn’t! Maybe there was one hidden behind the tall green ...

This morning I woke up early. I like to wake up early on weekends and do some reading. I usually go to a coffee shop. There is nothing like reading a book with a coffee in hand. I’m reading Before Tomorrowland right now, which tells the story before the world in which the Tom...

@webrocker 😅🦅🖤

Sometimes when someone is talking I will hear a word and think I haven’t heard that one before! If I hear – or read – a word I haven’t heard before, I usually look it up. I wonder what this word means!, I think to myself. If I read a fun word, I used to make it my “word of the day” which I would share with friends. I don’t do this much anymore, although I had a lot of fun doing it – listening and spelunking for words in the veritable caverns of English to find a cool word. With that in mind, I have a word of the day for today! The word of the day is: haar. The Cambridge Dictionary defines haar as: a cold mist coming from the sea to the east of Scotland or northern England: Besides being a useful word to describe a weather condition common to Scotland – fog! – it is also fun to say. Haar. Said like a pirate would say arr, except with a “h” at the start.

I write my daily notes in Notion. I keep one long document called “Today” in which I keep track of TODOs and all my notes and observations from the day. While the page is called “Today”, it is a living document that often ends up getting very long. There have been a few times...

I publish both blog posts and wiki-like pages on my website. The difference between these two types of pages is that the former is written at a point in time whereas the later grows over time. One of my main uses for wiki pages are lists: of ideas, of movies to watch, of note...

And this is probably @matuzo‘s favorite slide… 🤫😉

(Once again, I’m sorry you had to see this, @jpamental! 😆)

Thanks to @florianziegler for taking so many amazing photos at @btconf last week! 📷🖤😍

https://beyondtellerrand.com/photos/dusseldorf-2025

Last week, I had the immense honor of speaking at one of my favorite events, @btconf. (🤯)

My talk “Painting With the Web” is now available on YouTube. I hope you like it! 🤗💚

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Pq7VqNrtk4

And if you are a person who likes slides, here are the slides for the talk. 😁

https://noti.st/matthiasott/31ArQI

Next Thursday, May 22nd at 6 pm, there’s going to be a Homebrew Website Club Düsseldorf. Co-organised by Schepp and myself, we plan this to be the first HWC event in a series of regular events.

I quote from the IndieWeb wiki page to explain what an HWC is:

Homebrew Website Club is a growing world-wide network of meetups for everyone who wants to take back their web experience from social media silos, and own their online identities & content, or just want support with blogging!

So, if you’re interested in this sort of thing, and can make it to Düsseldorf, you’d be very welcome to join. (We still have to confirm the location, and will update the event page as soon as possible.)

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the rhythm of writing.

Seeing someone wear an Eras Tour t-shirt (if you know you know). Writing with the glow of the sunset radiating through the window. The detail of the hand-painted illustration on the wall in a coffee shop. Saying something that makes someone laugh. A colleague leaving a sticker on my desk. Dream big., it read. Basking in the sun at lunchtime on a warm spring day. Sharing ideas with friends. Writing stories. Imagining.

After a long day, one of my favourite things to do is to get a sandwich from a supermarket. Today I was tempted by a meal deal: a sandwich, some fruit, and a bottle of water. The sandwich to fill me up, the fruit for something sweet (I love fruit!), and a bottle of water to n...