I started the FeedCity blog with a first blog post.
Feeds from people participating at the IndieWebCamp Düsseldorf, May 2025.
the joy of
the joy of: Evening conversations with friends. Making someone laugh while waiting for a coffee. Hearing a song that you haven’t heard yet written by an artist whose music you love. Someone waiting and holding the lift door open for you. Being reminded about an old project while chatting with a friend. Seeing art in surprising places. Humming a song you love. Hearing the birds sing on a warm spring day. The first coffee of the day. Hearing someone say “have a great day!” Seeing a fuschia-coloured car. Eating a good cookie.
Colour
The joy of looking out the window and seeing a beautiful sunset. The sun has set at the intersection of two hills. I am not sure I have seen the sun set at exactly this angle, at this time. A colorful pink hue paints the nearby sky — some clouds on the periphery have a faint lavender tint. The birds are singing. I feel relaxed. I tried to take a picture but my phone can’t express the colours. The world is too pretty.
Well, good luck debugging something in production, when your logging statements put out to debug, but your Rails.logger.level is set to info. Thanks for nothing, past-Daniel.
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: 🥳🏆🤍♥️)
🏆🤍♥️
Layers
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 liste...
📄 Sending WebSub notifications
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!