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A public list by dan.

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The Timeless Way of Building

The book for this month’s IndieWeb Book Club, hosted by Nick, is Christopher Alexander’s book The Timeless Way of Building. The book is about architecture, but its principles have broader application to any discipline involved with building something. The idea of a “pattern...

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Landscape by Moonlight

Whenever I visit an art gallery, there is inevitably a painting that sparks joy, or otherwise leaves me with an impression that sticks with me. Peter Paul Rubens’ Landscape by Moonlight was one such painting. The painting depicts a landscape at night time. The ground and the...

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Library memories

One of the ideas Frances shared when we exchanged blog post titles was to write about a memory from a library. While the prompt “Sparking joy” is the one I ended up writing about, as soon as I started to think about library memories a few ideas came to mind. One memory in par...

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Space

Two years ago, I visited Greenwich in London. I had been to London before, but Greenwich was that bit further out so I hadn’t made the trip. What drew me to Greenwich was the Royal Observatory and the Prime Meridian line. The day I visited, I had great joy standing over the P...

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Ideas for managing post volume in web readers

As I subscribe to more web feeds, I am starting to think about whether there are features that a “calm” web reader should have that are designed specifically for managing the number of posts in one’s reader. I recently introduced Artemis roll-up to “roll up” a week’s posts f...

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Blossom

When I write about nature, I sometimes go to my archives and search for what phenomena I am thinking about. I was looking at my previous posts on blossom and saw that I last wrote about the topic on the 5th of April, 2025. I started my post with “One of my favourite times of ...

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Sparking joy

I am trading blog post titles with Frances. Frances wrote Where art exists in my life. I will be writing “Sparking joy”. On the top right corner of my bedroom whiteboard, written in orange pen – one of my favourite colours! – reads: Have a great day xxx Whenever I read this ...

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Starting; playing; maintaining

I think back to how I used to think about how my finger tips would hurt if I learned to play the guitar. I was right: my fingers do get a bit sore. But with practice playing for longer gets easier. I am so glad I started to play. I have been continuing to learn new Taylor Sw...

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Rewriting

This weekend I started work on rewriting the static site generator that I use for this website, Aurora. I was looking over the codebase and wondered if I could make the code a bit more efficient and easier to understand. I had ideas for new abstractions – things I could do to...

Matthias Ott Valid

Added a feature to the Webmention plugin for @craftcms that I’ve wanted to add for a long time:Threaded Webmentions 😍...

Added a feature to the Webmention plugin for @craftcms that I’ve wanted to add for a long time:

Threaded Webmentions 😍

I still need to fine-tune the logic for matching the in-reply-to URL a bit (Mastodon’s URLs vary, and there’s often also Bridgy in between). But overall, the feature works. 🥳

https://github.com/matthiasott/webmention/releases/tag/v1.1.1

Dan’s Polaroids

15.03.2026

Photo of a torso of a guitarist on stage. Next to him and in the background, further musicians are partly seen.
"These Are The Days" live @ Pitcher Düsseldorf.

Dan’s Polaroids

14.03.2026

Black and white image from a car to the outside. Cars in the rain outside and building in the rear view mirror.
"...hier schon wieder tief tanja mit sieben grad graupelschauer..."

Dan’s Polaroids

13.03.2026

A black and white image of a cheeseburger on a plate.
It was Burger Friday.

Matthias Ott Valid

RE: https://w3c.social/@timbl/116218139512953309

Still vague, but still so exciting …

Dan’s Polaroids

12.03.2026

A girl with sunglasses in front of bamboo bush, in a very contrasty and rather dark black and white photo.
Zoe and the bamboo.

Dan’s Polaroids

11.03.2026

A white sphere-like shape with texture, lit on the right half, looking similar to the moon.
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Dan’s Polaroids

10.03.2026

Black and white photo of three different beer cans hold into the camera by the guys of Forkalyst, which are themselves barely present on the picture.
What can I say? We rehearsed. We had beer.

Matthias Ott Valid

Ahh, Jira is dark now!

Dan’s Polaroids

09.03.2026

View from higher up over trees, a street and a factory with 2 chimneys in the sun. Silhouettes of people walking in the foreground.
A view from Halde Hoheward.

Matthias Ott Valid

I’d really love to work with more clients from the clean energy, climate tech, and green startups sectors going forward. If you know someone, let me know. 💚