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Dan’s Polaroids

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🎬 The Revenant

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Movie poster for “The Revenant”.

Saw this for its 10th anniversary at the Metropol. What a treat! Thoroughly enjoyed this one, letting me absorb into its story, atmosphere and grandiose landscapes. It’s like you’re right there with the protagonists (as far as you can from the comfort of one’s cinema seat). There are so many intense scenes and they’re so masterfully captured and choreographed. Leo and Tommy Hardy are so good (but I was very thankful for subtitles, because I would’ve otherwise been lost with the latter’s accent and mumbling). A must-see!

👍 Recommended!

Dan’s Polaroids

02.04.2026

Colour photo of a wooden floor covered in toys.
Just the usual chaos.

Dan’s Polaroids

01.04.2026

A high contrast b&w image of my bike leaning against parts of a building with the number 161.
Back at Studio 161

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31.03.2026

A black and white image of a small plant, shot from overhead, looking fairly abstract.
Window sill plant

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Saturday morning reading

My warm breath steams up my glasses a little bit. I have my cold pillow resting on my chin. I’m still under the covers. I started my morning with a book, Hot Chocolate on Thursday, a cosy tale that took me to Japan and Sydney all without my leaving my bedroom. I love reading ...

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Just released a small but useful update for my little Internet Archive Plugin for Craft CMS. 🏛️

You can now opt individual entries out of automatic archiving via a lightswitch field – and manually send any entry to the Wayback Machine straight from the Craft CP entries index. ✨

https://github.com/matthiasott/craft-internetarchive

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New UNSW Sydney research finds vaping likely causes lung and oral cancer: Carcinogens in e-cigarette aerosols show DNA damage, tumours in mice & cellular harm. Please – tell your children, friends, and loved ones who might believe the “vaping is safe" lie of the tobacco industry. 💚

https://www.unsw.edu.au/newsroom/news/2026/03/vaping-likely-to-cause-cancer-new-findings

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🎬 Frankie Freako

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Movie poster for “Frankie Freako”.

After the very positive surprise of Psycho Goreman, this is the second movie from the same director. Unfortunately, this is not even close to the quality of PG. The humour is lame and just silly (well, yes, some things were indeed pretty funny, but that was an exception), the characters are not as likeable and the puppets are not that great either. I’d rather watch PG again!

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✍️ New post: Hello Again, World

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Hello Again, World

On December 24, 1968, Christmas Eve, astronaut William Anders took what would become one of the most consequential photographs in human history. He was aboard Apollo 8, orbiting the Moon for the fourth time, when the spacecraft rotated and the Earth appeared in his window. A...

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The archive

In The joy of incremental website improvements, I reflected on the idea of building personal websites incrementally: Making incremental improvements to one's personal website is a joy. Your site can evolve at your own pace, and as you learn. You don't need to set out with a g...

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More examples of graduating between mediums of communication

In “Graduating between mediums of communication”, I explored how we can move between mediums of communication to access different affordances. For example, you might “graduate” from a text chat – for example, a Slack thread – to a video conference in a professional context. T...

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Using my edit button shortcut

In 2025 I built a browser extension that adds an edit button to your browser. The edit button pages if a page either has: A rel=edit link;A custom edit link set in the extension preferences, or;A link with an anchor like “edit page” (only available if you enable the setting, ...

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Only like 6-7 minutes left! 🚀

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So “Matt” and “Matt” from Cloudflare used their AI coding agents to slopfork WordPress? Really? 🤔🧐

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How software feels

I am interested in how software feels to use. Back in 2024, I wrote: I want to learn about design, I thought to myself, excitedly. I was interested in why some things feel better to use than others – why do some tools feel like a delight, while others feel rough around the ed...

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I learned in design school in Germany that of course, the percent symbol is separated from the number with a space. B...

I learned in design school in Germany that of course, the percent symbol is separated from the number with a space. Because you could also write 100 Prozent. You also don’t write 100cm without a space, right?

And the careful typographer will make a Jan Tschichold gesture and decrease the space slightly …

But obviously, things are different in written English.

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That’s going to be … interesting 😂

That’s going to be … interesting 😂

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Typography nerds, I need your opinion! (And help 🙏)
Channeling your inner Robert Bringhurst – how would you write a percentage in English correctly?

100 % – with a space, because % is a unit
100% – who needs a weird space here?
100 % – with a thin space, don't half-ass it!
Honestly, who cares, really…