Feeds from people participating at the IndieWebCamp Düsseldorf, May 2025.
Jo and I are doing a poetry exchange collaboration. We have each selected a poem for each other that we have never read, about which we will share our impressions. Below are my impressions from reading the poem Jo selected for me to read and write about You can read Jo’s entr...
It’s possible, maybe useful; but is it necessary?
When I started visiting art galleries, I would take pictures of the placards of pieces of work I liked. I would take pictures of the art, too; just enough so that I could map the placard to the painting. I wanted to document the art I really liked; to be able to go back and r...
Keyboards and mice
My wrists have been a bit tense lately so I have decided to try to use my desk more. I had grown comfortable sitting in my armchair using my computer but, if I am to be using my computer several hours per day, perhaps I need a more ergonomic setup.
This week I have changed t...
Notes from the world, part two
When I am out and about, I like to take notes when something makes me wonder, smile, or otherwise makes me think.
Here are a few notes I have taken over the last few weeks.
“How did you find out about us?”; “the internet,” I say. The clerk responds, playfully, “sometimes it...
Berliners: “Sorry, cache only.”
Move fast an cache things.
Cache it till you make it.
The early bird caches the worm.
It don’t mean a thing if it ain’t got caching.
Cache me if you can.
Cache Royale.
Big Beautiful Cache.
Ok, I’ll stop it now.
My Mac ran out of disk space (1 TB). Which felt … a bit weird and unexpected. So I opened up GrandPerspective to have a look…
Oh wait, what’s that?
/Users/matthiasott/Library/Caches/Adobe/AfterEffects is taking up how much space?
317G?!? 😅
That’s a lot of cache!
I really enjoyed the IndieWeb Movie Club May 2025 submissions about the film “Tomorrowland”. Ordered from earliest to most recent:* Paolo Feadin: https://www.feadin.eu/en/posts/tomorrowland* Thomas Vander Wal: https://vanderwal.net/random/entrysel.php?blog=2119* gRegor Morril...
Artemis Changelog #6
Artemis, the calm web reader I maintain, has a few new features. Below is a summary.
You can now use break mode, holiday mode, and night mode to pause your feed. Catch-up mode lets you review posts published in a specified number of days grouped by author. You can show up to...
Designing calm software with breaks in mind
I refer to Artemis as a “calm web reader”. I have designed the software to avoid common triggers that cause people to periodically check a piece of software. There are no notifications. All post titles are on one page; there are no folders. There is a “read” state, but this s...
Hear me out: an Aesop Rock lyrics bot. 😊
”Little get the cake, little celebrate
Then celebrate again when you give it the hell away.“
👏😎
Tomorrowland (IndieWeb Movie Club)
I have watched Tomorrowland several times. In the movie, it is revealed that a society of geniuses made another world: a place where they could go to invent and explore and wonder without distraction. But the other world – Tomorrowland – invented something they shouldn’t have...
Ice Floes
I saw Monet’s Ice Floes for the first time in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. It stood out among all of the Impressionist paintings in the room, in large part because of its brightness but relative lack of colour. The painting depicts ice on the river Seine, one of Monet’s ma...