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Clouds

“No way,” I exclaim with wonder and glee and surprise. I look up and stare for a few moments, transfixed by the delicate wisps of cloud that rest side by side. The wisps move in tandem, as if woven together by an invisible bond. A pink hue is cast onto the periphery of a nea...

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Moments; time

One of my favourite parts of writing – and, by extension, blogging – is that I can, in words, capture a little bit of a day, and keep a little record of the moment. Each post can be a bookmark to a memory, and also part of the story of my life. I love taking notes I walk aro...

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🎬 No Country for Old Men

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This review may contain spoilers. Tap or click to view.This is The Big Lebowski, but in serious and suspenseful. It has a narrator, who’s also appearing in the movie, and who doesn’t know if he (still) belongs there. You have people demanding money from a guy who stumbled in...

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Oh, so Svelte is basically also under the Vercel umbrella? 🙄 (Since 2021? I somehow missed that…)

This is why we can’t have nice things.

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Is there a power law of category use?

I have been thinking a lot about categories over the last week or so. It started by Thomas sharing the work he has been doing to build a category index page, whose design I love. I started to realise that I like to put a lot of my blog posts in one of few categories: moments ...

Dan’s Polaroids

04.06.2026

A man holding the camera and a woman and child with sunglasses on.
Visiting “Die Kleine” at the Kunstpalast.

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Hiding a list with no items in CSS

The Artemis reading interface consists of a section tag for each day for which there are blog posts to show. Each section contains a h2 denoting the date the posts were published, and a ul that lists each post published on that date. Here is what the interface looks like: Th...

Dan’s Polaroids

03.06.2026

A chess board and a hand reaching in, making a move.
I played chess. I lost three times.

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The story of MJ

This is amazing. I could hardly contain my excitement. In one moment, I held James’ latest story in my two paws. In the next, the story was published on the web. “This is the web,” James said; “it’s where dreams can come true.” In that moment, I knew I was in the right place....

Dan’s Polaroids

02.06.2026

A drum set from above. A drumming drummer partially seen.
Drumming

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Digital minimalism

This is my entry for this month’s Bear Blog Carnival, on the topic of staying connected while practicing digital minimalism. Thank you Juni for hosting the Carnival, and for choosing such a fascinating topic! Over the last two years, I have tried to be more intentional about...

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Chat community for web writers?

I have several ideas swirling around for projects I would like to see happen. Sometimes, these ideas manifest as a project. Wonders of Web Weaving was inspired by my interest in having more discussions about the indie web. Other times, ideas make their way onto this blog to s...

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Wonders of Web Weaving, Episode 4

The fourth episode of Wonders of Web Weaving is out: In Episode 4, I chat with Marisabel, the author of Konfetti Explorations. We talk about, among other things, websites as gardens, sharing art on one's personal website, and seasons of making our websites. I hope you enjoy the episode! Wonders of Web Weaving has an RSS feed you can use to follow along from wherever you get your podcasts.

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🎬 BLOOD INCANTATION - All Gates Open: In Search of Absolute Elsewhere

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Movie poster for “BLOOD INCANTATION - All Gates Open: In Search of Absolute Elsewhere”.

They showed this at the local cinema, the Atelier. I always enjoy a good studio documentation - especially one of such an interesting band and one that's as well done as this one. And I'm very glad no one fell off that roof, WTF!?

👍 Recommended!

Next event: Deine Freunde on June 6, 2026, 17:00 at Amphitheater Gelsenkirchen, Gelsenkirchen.

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🎬 Burn After Reading

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Movie poster for “Burn After Reading”.

I wanted a Coen movie, I got a Coen movie. Absolutely hilarious. And another fantastic cast. They were all a delight to watch, but I probably liked John Malkovich's performance the most. Also loved the idea with the CIA guy reporting those summaries of what had happened. Clever and funny.

👍 Recommended!

Next event: Deine Freunde on June 6, 2026, 17:00 at Amphitheater Gelsenkirchen, Gelsenkirchen.

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Distinguishing user and system content

When I was designing the inline message to indicate a link in a user’s Artemis reader has been flagged as malicious, I intentionally designed the system message and state to be distinguished from the user-set author name. Here is what the final design looked like: The Artemi...

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Flagging suspicious websites in Artemis

Artemis now has a feature to flag websites that you have subscribed to as suspicious. This feature appears in two places: In the “Report spam or domain takeover: Report website as suspicious” link that appears on the page where you edit an author you are following, and;On the...

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JUnited 2026

In recent weeks, I have been talking with a lot of people about personal websites. In so many of my discussions, I mention that one of the reasons I love coming back to my personal website is the community around the indie web: people all over the world sharing what interests...

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Creative spaces

In her love letter to creative spaces, Britt appreciates “anywhere that is welcoming to the big table full of slightly chaotic artists who might make a mess of their carpet from time to time.” Reading through the article brought to mind memories of a table in my school that f...

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Waiting; writing

I love to write while I am walking around in the world. I keep a digital notebook in which I write down what I observe: sights, sounds, scents; emotions, hopes, dreams. The smile I see as two friends embrace each other in a hug as the person who has been waiting patiently at ...