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Yesterday was another Homebrew Website Club.

Nina showed us her newly created Instagram-Archive site using Memento Mori. She also detailed how cumbersome it is to delete one’s Instagram account. We then talked about Dark Patterns for a while.

AI has also always been a topic again. How it can for example be useful to get away from big tech and host services yourself. Jochen told us about how he does just that now. What he previously didn’t have the time for now became possible. He also uses AI to add new feature to the website of his Python Podcast.

We also talked a bit about podcasting and available apps as well as how one might get away from large music streaming services like Spotify. And we made our first money transfer using Wero (instead of Paypal).

The next HWC DUS will be on Mar. 17th.

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Goosebumps. 👏🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

#CFCVFB (But still … 🤍♥️😉)

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A perfect day

Jo and I are trading blog post titles. The title Jo chose for me is “A perfect day.” What would my perfect day look like? Reflecting on this question, I started to think about the days that have brought me the most joy in the past. I realised that the days that stick out in ...

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Scotland’s brightness levels

I am trading blog post titles with Joe. He gave me a few suggestions for what to write about. I chose the title “Scotland’s brightness levels”. Place is a recurring theme when I am writing. Where am I? What do I see? What I write about Nature is what I see here in Scotland. ...

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Yes it does. 🤪

"Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Thinkbot/0.5.8; +In_the_test_phase,_if_the_Thinkbot_brings_you_trouble,_please_block_its_IP_address._Thank_you.)"

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Rhythm

I have been thinking about the rhythm of my writing recently. I wrote in my drafts: I have spent much of this evening writing. I started by working on a draft of a post about clouds that I wrote on my phone using Apple Notes while waiting for the bus. I then explored a few mo...

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IndieWeb wiki pages I really like

I visit the IndieWeb wiki almost every day. The wiki is maintained by the IndieWeb community, documenting everything from interfaces for creating posts to POSSE. I was thinking that, like all wikis, there are pages that are almost “hidden gems” in the sense that, while they ...

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“What's dispiriting is the (lack of) process and care: take someone's carefully crafted work, run it through a machine to wash off the fingerprints, and ship it as your own. This isn't a case of being inspired by something and building on it. It's the opposite of that. It's taking something that worked and making it worse.”

@nvie on how Microsoft continvoucly morged his diagram:
https://nvie.com/posts/15-years-later/

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🎬 Good Boy

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Movie poster for “Good Boy”.

Such a good boy! Really! Best dog ever! :) Very much enjoyed this unique horror drama from a dog's perspective.

👍 Recommended!

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16.02.2026

Men in black red yellow costumes on stilts.
Rosenmontag in Ratingen. Those guys were very impressive!

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🎥 Brutal Unrest - Sarcophagus Aftermath (Live in Aachen)

Brutal Unrest - Sarcophagus Aftermath (Live in Aachen)

One song from our gig in Aachen last weekend.

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15.02.2026

A football field in the morning sun. Long shadows of trees and myself projecting onto it.
Stopped at the football field during the sunny morning bike ride.

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14.02.2026

Holding the soles of our shoes into the camera, you can see lots of confetti and other colourful stuff on there.
Our sticky soles after being part of the child carneval procession.

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Cut off a significant portion of my ring finger‘s tip with a potato peeler today. Can’t recommend. 😂 TIL that an Adrenaline compress will staunch a wound – and that’s what cutmen in boxing use as well.

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A piece of art I would love to see in person

Britt and I are trading blog post titles. The topic Britt chose for me is “A piece of art you would like to see in person”. One of the many joys of art galleries is that you never know what you might see. A few weeks ago, I was surprised and delighted to encounter the J.M.W....

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13.02.2026

A photo of our white Polaroid Go camera.
Lost the photos I took with this camera. :( So, here's just the cam.

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Clear sky

I love winter mornings when the sky is clear. Looking out the window, the sky is a clear blue, interspersed with the occasional white cloud so faint that it is almost invisible. The snowy hills look like they are absorbing some of the blue, their hue a mixture of the snow and...

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12.02.2026

A child in a black and blue cheerleader dress holding its black pompoms in front of the face.
It's Carneval!

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Snow

I wondered if it would snow again this season. The weather has been persistently cloudy, but there has been little snow. Today, the weather changed. Just as I was about to go out for a walk, it started snowing heavily. It has been months since I have seen the snow like I did ...