Last Sunday, I’ve been out photographing with Florian again. Photos here and here.
Feeds from people participating at the IndieWebCamp Düsseldorf, May 2025.
… aaaand two months after the warranty expired, the Bosch CityMower is dead. 😔 I had mustered all the choice-supportive bias that’s in me to make me believe for a little while that although the thing felt like plastic trash, it is “lightweight” and that “it’s a Bosch.” I should have known better … ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
🎬 12 Angry Men
Pretty perfect movie, if you ask me. The 12 more or less angry men are all so good. The whole concept of only talking about a murder case after the trial, surfacing ever more details and eliciting more of the jurors characters, was so good. Suspenseful and entertaining. A timeless classic.
🎬 The Blob
This was more high-quality than I expected beforehand. Great story, great acting, great visuals, some good humour, and above all: great special effects. Those kills were really fun and well done. My favourite was the whole action in and around the restaurant. When The Blob gets bigger and bigger towards the end, the effect quality sadly suffers quite a bit, and the end itself lacked a little something. But overall, it's been a very entertaining evening!
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I am convinced that it makes total sense to spend a certain amount of your (spare) time on this planet tinkering around and exploring stuff that seems totally useless or silly compared to what you normally do. And without having a real explanation for why it happened, I’ve b...
✍️ New post: Best Free Synthesizer Plugins in 2025
Not your usual web design or development-related post. But that's what personal websites are for, right? 😉🎶🎹
https://matthiasott.com/notes/best-free-synthesizer-vst-plugins-in-2025
Tumblr-ing
I now have a website on Tumblr.
When I write, I usually have a direction in mind: a point I want to make. Today, however, I find that I instead have the feeling of discovery without yet having the exact words to describe what I want to say. Perhaps if I write a few words I w...
It sparkles on my machine. 😁🪄✨
🎧 All We Love We Leave Behind – Converge
More Converge, more betterer! Certainly one of my favourite discoveries in recent years. While I enjoy everyone here, it’s again Ben Koller’s drumming and Nate Newton’s bass playing that fascinate me most. Just listen to that groovy drum rhythm, together with the rather calm bass in “All we love we leave behind”, or this insane drum fill in “Veins and Veils” (again, with a great bass riff). Putting a ride symbol in there like this makes me absolutely addicted, and makes me happy for days.
CC @flogehring 😉
It’s alive! 🧟♂️🎉😍 (kinda)
[photo] Edinburgh
https://jamesg.blog/assets/images/2025/07/edi.jpeg ALTIn the foreground there is an old street lamp. In the middle ground, there are Gothic buildings in the city of Edinburgh with several turrets and towers, including a University of Edinburgh building. In the background, a tall church spire peeks through the dense fog.
The link router pattern
There are several websites that are devoted to helping you find the right link for a given task. song.link lets you create a link with an album cover, title, artist, and buttons to stream a given song or album on all of the major music streaming services. They have a companio...
Communicating the indie web
As a technical writer, I ask myself a lot of questions as I prepare material. Who is the audience for the document I am writing? What can I reasonably assume they already know? Given that, what background do I need to include? What do I need to explain? What words can I use t...
Reading
I would like to read a book today! I said to myself with enthusiasm this morning. I used to read every Saturday morning, but as I started visiting more museums I stopped reading as much. I had the same feeling that I felt last week when I was inspired to write: I really want ...
Futures for the web
Xandra asked a terrific question on Mastodon:
what does the indie web need the most right now? if that’s kinda hard to answer, to phrase it in another way: if you could snap your fingers and add one of these to the #indieweb, which do you think would have the biggest positiv...
It's a Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not day over here … 🎶🥁🎸
I can’t wait to bring this thing to life! 😁✨
Any ideas for what else I should add? (I already know this will get out of hand quickly … 😂)
Walking
I want to make the most of the sunshine, I thought to myself as I contemplated going on a second walk. I went for a walk earlier today to get groceries. All walks bring my mind space, but meandering on a favourite path feels more conducive to letting my mind wander. I venture...
Mashups
I have had the question “what is the blog equivalent of a mashup?” in the back of my head for a while. Joe’s most recent blog post, “Return to Mashups”, further has me thinking about this question. What does it mean for a blog post – or an entire blog – to be a mashup? My thi...