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Less than 10 days until I’ll speak at @smashingconf 😱&&🤩
I’m so much looking forward to this – and can’t wait to meet so many nice people in Freiburg! 💚🥳

This week I have been making several small improvements to Artemis, the calm web reader I maintain. First: the website now has a footer that links to important pages, from the privacy policy to the API documentation. Many of these pages have been added over time and, until no...

Wow. 😮 Dann wird aus #Woltemade mit dem Wechsel zu #Newcastle ja wohl doch noch Konntemade. Und nach Wirtz die nächste Transfer-Blamage für Eberl.

“We found that the tipping point where the [AMOC] shutdown becomes inevitable is probably in the next 10 to 20 years or so.”

Fuck.

#Climate #ClimateAction
https://fediscience.org/@rahmstorf/115107959526900112

And yet another “in case you’re interested in audio plugins”: Universal Audio is giving away their classic LA-2A compressor as part of their Labor Day flash sale (until Sept 1st).

https://www.uaudio.com/products/teletronix-la-2a-tube-compressor

Yoah… the acting was quite good, and I liked the partly suspenseful editing, too. But the plot is bonkers and for this to be entertaining, it's not enough action for my tastes.

This week was another Homebrew Website Club here in Düsseldorf. Mark and Jochen came around. It was mostly chatting about IndieWeb and AI topics, but each of us also managed to get some work done on one or more of our projects.

I, for example, published a new photo journal entry. And I registered that site with a WebSub hub and send out WebSub notifications for this new post.

I’m also having fun creating these little animated AVIFs of our little group.

What are the things on your bucketlist that being a billionaire would make no difference?When I was in Berlin at the end of last month, I was chatting with my pal Mo, and noted a sticker I’d seen that said “ELON MUSK DIDN’T GET INTO BERGHAIN” with a QR code that linked to: ht...

If you’re into #audio #plugins: you can currently get the Purafied Everything Bundle for –99 % = 2 € (🤯) with the (explicit) code FUCKUADANDGUITARCENTER

The bundle includes a Distressor-like, modern VCA comp, an 1176/LA-3A hybrid comp, an SSL-like channel EQ, a room reverb, and many more plugins, with several of them developed by Eddie Lucciola from Kiive Audio:

https://purafied.com/products/the-everything-bundle

Gamescom! 🤩

With every passing night, I find myself thinking how the sun now sets a little bit earlier each day. Whereas the sun sets late in the peak of summer – at around ten o' clock at night – the autumn sun falls earlier. I notice change in the air as we move from summer to autumn. ...

While Silicon Valley is training their models on everybody’s copyrighted content and seems to get away with it, UMG is obviously using AI to flood YouTubers with automated copyright claims. Including people like Rick Beato who is doing interviews with the musicians who wrote those songs and talk about them. What does UMG think happens after people watch those videos? Exactly. They open Spotify and listen to the artist. It’s free advertising to >5 million subscribers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBq_krhKbW4

When I watch Local Hero, I am reminded of how much I love home. Indeed, the movie is a story of someone falling in love with Scotland. The beaches may be cold, but they are beautiful. The skies may be dull, but you can sometimes see the Northern Lights. The phone service in t...

I mean … 🤯
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpkRtzNUQtE

I just arrived at Them Crooked Vultures.
🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🔥😮

Those recurring, intrusive popups in Photoshop and Illustrator are driving me nuts tbh! You’re working and want to get stuff done quickly with a pro tool – but suddenly, your mind needs to process a “useful” tip about how to use the brush tool? WTF. 😂

I haven't found a way to turn them off other than turning off the contextual task bar completely…

In "Mashups", I explored the question "what is the blog equivalent of a mashup?" The post itself was a mashup of several other posts chosen to complement the ideas I was thinking about. (What better way to figure something out than to try it?) The topic of mashup pertains to ...

Writing HTML on a phone is difficult. To write HTML – like all programming languages – you need to use a lot of symbols. The main symbols that you need for HTML are the open and closing angle brackets (< and >, respectively). On iOS, these are in the tertiary keyboard....

Mastodon shows an "Alt" button in the bottom right of images that have associated alt text. This button, when clicked, shows the alt text the author has written for the image. Here is an example of a post with an attached image that has alt text: The Mastodon user interface s...

Under the blanket of the late evening, having been in awe at the beauty of the sunset, I looked to the sky and saw a star – a single star. There are other stars out there, but they are not yet visible. My eyes fixate on the first star, feeling awe at the sparkle in the night ...