01.02.2026
Feeds from people participating at the IndieWebCamp Düsseldorf, May 2025.
IndieWeb Book Club: The Art of Explanation
I am hosting the IndieWeb Book Club for this month, in which everyone interested is invited to read and write a blog post about The Art of Explanation: How to Communicate with Clarity and Confidence [Goodreads link]. The book was authored by Ros Atkins, a BBC journalist whose...
Alright my web friends! 👋 Hands up who has experienced a surge in (LLM) bot traffic recently and maybe even had to take steps against them? I’m writing a blog post about this atm and it would be great to hear whether others are experiencing the same with their #blogs and personal #websites. #RT == 💚
31.01.2026
Next week, Sa. 07.02.2026, I’ll be playing my first gig with Brutal Unrest in Aachen. If you want to know what this might sound like, the last album is on Bandcamp.
30.01.2026
29.01.2026
🔗 Another Year Of Daily Posting
Gratulations to Florian for completing his third full year of daily photo posting. He has all the reasons to celebrate this by giving away zines and prints!
And he will keep going this time, so check out his photo blog.
A Celebration Is In Order.
Don’t buy more soft synths you don’t really need. Don’t buy more soft synths you don’t really need. Don’t buy more soft synths you don’t really need … 🎹
https://www.humblebundle.com/software/make-music-change-lives-software
at the @CSSWG.org (@CSSWG) F2F (face to face) meeting^1, hosted by @Apple.com (@Apple) in Cupertino. Not counting at #w3cTPAC, the prior #CSSWG F2F meeting I went to was 2.5y ago, also in Cupertino, and before that 2019 in SF. Good to see so many longterm colleagues in-person.#W3C #CSS #webStandards^1 https://wiki.csswg.org/planning/cupertino-2026
28.01.2026
Really looking forward to going to the gym today. Not only because it is about time again (ahem …) but also because I get to listen to Chris and Dave on the @shoptalkshow talk to @adactio about the Web – and Web Day Out! 🤩
😬 Native Instruments GmbH is in preliminary insolvency
https://cdm.link/ni-insolvency/
27.01.2026
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24.01.2026
Heading out of the weekend with … pancakes for the family. 😂🥞
IndieWeb Carnival: Host Interview
Zachary kindly invited me to answer a few questions about hosting the IndieWeb Carnival. Running for three years now, the IndieWeb Carnival has been the source of endless inspiration for me, sparking both long periods of thinking as well as writing blog posts. Even when I hav...
Kind software
At EdinburghJS this week, Colin mentioned the idea of “kind software.” This got me thinking. What would make software kind? As I write, I notice the word “kind” reminds me of the term “user friendly,” which has associations with software being simple to use in the context of ...