FeedCity

Had a handful of new FeedCity signups in the last 24 hours. Need to fix some code for the OPML imports (and still need to fix some bugs related to this). But from what I can see, it worked for most people. And they seemed to have tolerated my still very basic onboarding.

Lots more feeds in the DB now. For now, the feed-fetching still seems to cope.

But I need to adjust the workflow for validating feeds: I use the W3C Feed Validation Service, but you only get a very limited amount of validation requests (per day, I believe). I ran way past this limit in the last 24 hours, and - rightfully - get a lot of 429 responses. Really need to behave better, or run the validation process myself.

Doing a quick UX/UI audit of a website for a client. And what can I say…… 🤔

Ping … hello? …… is this … the internet? 😁

… the fibre internet?

(I don’t feel any difference 😂)

🥁 … Ich klicke jetzt mal auf
„Jetzt einrichten“

Glasfaser-News! ✨ Letzte Woche kamen doch tatsächlich (nach erneuten Telefonaten meinerseits) noch mal zwei Techniker bei uns vorbei um den Anschluss, der im Februar mit APL montiert wurde, endgültig zu aktivieren.

Sie stecken also ihr Modem an – es macht keinen Mucks. Auch nicht an einer anderen Steckdose, auch nicht mit einem anderen Netzteil.

„Wir kommen nächste Woche noch mal.”

🥹

Aber jetzt kommt’s: Heute waren sie dann tatsächlich noch mal da und … diesmal lief alles glatt. Der Glasfaser-Anschluss ist aktiviert! 🎉

Jetzt muss nur noch ich die Einrichtung mit meinem Modem abschließen. Das läuft sicher jetzt komplett problemlos durch … 🫣🤞

Seeing the DFB-Pokal final through the refcam is such an amazing perspective. Great stuff! 👏
(Also: 🥳🏆🤍♥️)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ItflsaeSKA

🏆🤍♥️

At this weekend’s Homebrew Website Club, the topic of Taylor Swift came up (I wonder who brought that up!). One person shared the layers in the song exile; how they became more perceptible with different pieces of audio equipment. The song has layers. Today I have been list...

During IndieWebCamp Düsseldorf this year, I implemented sending WebSub notifications, to immediately notify potential subscribers, whenever my feeds update. Here's how I implemented this.

In other news, I can’t concentrate because tomorrow ………… 😱🤍♥️ #VfB #dfbpokal #wirholendenpokal

Alright, so … websites.

The first Homebrew Website Club Düsseldorf Schepp and I co-organised turned out well. We gathered at Düsseldorf’s central library inside its “Xafé” café. We had 7 participating adults and 2 children. ;)

The meetup was more exchange and discussions than actual work on one’s websites. Discussed topics included:

• “I want to build my own website”
• Opinions on tooling
• RelMeAuth
• Podcast metric aggregation
• WebSub
• Personal publishing workflows and tools
• Image hosting
• RSS feeds
• …and probably even a few more.

Very enjoyable evening!

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I have spent the last fifteen or so minutes exploring the newly-released Internet Phone Book. The book is a collection of hundreds of websites, as well as stories of the web. When I first saw the book online, I knew I would love it: it’s a mix of old and the new. Holding the...

Just gave @penpot a try for a project. It is much more mature than I had expected! But there are still quite a few bugs, quirks, and inconsistencies that make working with it very cumbersome. Still a way to go until this is a serious alternative to #Figma IMO.

Just to name just a few bugs: text is suddenly jumping to different positions, some gradients are flipped in the opposite direction while editing, I get sudden color changes for multiple elements although I was changing the color for just one element, and my collaborator can’t see images I added to the layout. Also, the color picker just stopped working completely in my project – whenever I want to pick a color, Penpot crashes.

And as the project has grown a little, zooming and panning is now starting to get really laggy… 😕

Hope the team fixes most of those issues quickly, because overall it definitely is an impressive open-source tool. 👏💚

One of my favourite parts of working with the web is the developer tools available. With browser developer tools, we can inspect individual elements on a page. We can even move, edit, and remove elements. We can change styles, inspect the values of scripts, and more. There a...

Honestly, the new Fujifilm X half looks really appealing. I think there should be way more playful digital cameras, too - like this one.