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You know what we need more of on the Web?

Progressive Enchantment.

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Make America‘s Red Cards Go Away Again.

Ridiculous.

https://onefootball.com/fr/news/fifa-overturns-balogun-red-card-white-house-reportedly-intervened-43100409

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05.07.2026

A man with camera on a dam, looking towards the viewer.
Dedicated Photography Time™ with Florian.

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How do I know the system is working?

A few weeks ago, I received a bug report for Artemis that indicated a user’s reader was not being updated as expected. This error was caused by a feed that caused the polling code to error out and stop. My code assumed a value was present and, if it wasn’t, the program would...

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Forest

You look up from your bed of grass flowers, opening your eyes to see the layers of branches grown by the trees in the grove that surrounds you. The blue sky peeks through the gaps between the leaves. The sunlight that shines through and onto the leaves and branches leaves yo...

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Star

First star — in the sky next to the tall Gothic monument in the town square, a square with many outdoor restaurants — people laugh and take pictures, eat ice cream, stroll, enjoy the moment. I love watching the world. Of seeing colours and tenors and of hearing sounds that you can only appreciate when out in the world — the sound of a bike breaking in the cobblestone, manoeuvring with ease through the town square.
Written in Hauptmarkt, Nürnberg.

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What does a blog post sound like?

As I write, I hear the keys on my keyboard pressing down – the sounds are fast, rhythmic, comforting. I hear the whirr of a hard drive in the background, and the occasional car walk past. Every so often, bird song comes into the foreground; I hear the calls of birds in the d...

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Brainstorming a loginless web reader

At IndieWebCamp Nürnberg, Tilman worked on a “feedroll”, a collection of feeds aggregated on a single page that demonstrates the capability of following different websites with a web reader. This, and a discussion with friends, got me thinking about what a “loginless” web re...

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Author/reader interaction on the indie web

Every so often I hear or read about the significance of readers as part of the indie web. Indeed, the indie web is about much more than making personal websites: it is a space where there are many personal websites to explore. You don’t need a personal website to explore the...

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A week in Nürnberg

James’ Coffee Blog has been on a bit of a break while I went on holiday to Nürnberg, Germany. I set off last Friday and returned the Friday after, during which time I attended an IndieWebCamp, an in-person Homebrew Website Club at Technische Hochschule Nürnberg, and spent ma...

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IndieWebCamp Nürnberg 2026

All of the participants of IndieWebCamp Nürnberg, lined up in three rows, one row behind the other. I am in the middle of the back row, wearing my green and grey microformats t-shirt. ALTAll of the participants of IndieWebCamp Nürnberg, lined up in three rows, one row behin...

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Processing feed items without URLs in Artemis

Artemis, the calm web reader I maintain, supports web feeds marked up with h-feed. h-feed allows you to create a web feed in HTML using microformats. A h-feed may contain zero or more h-entries, each h-entry representing an entry in the feed. For example, my longform feed pa...

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Deduplicating posts after URL changes in Artemis

Occasionally, sites that publish web feeds change the URL of a post that has just been published. This can be for several reasons. For example, I sometimes change post permalinks immediately after publishing because I notice a typo, or because the CMS I use calculated a defa...

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Small wishes, II

June 21st, 2026 — After my coffee, a thought came to mind: I hope that one day I can see the countryside from a double-decker bus. It’s a small wish. It may never happen but I hold onto the thought any way. I stood at the bus terminal today thinking that it was only a few we...

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🎬 undertone

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Movie poster for “undertone”.
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Was actually quite well done with not much (effectively just one on-camera actor). But I found the plot too constructed and a little incoherent, which made it less spooky than it could’ve been.


Next event: The Haunted on July 24, 2026, 20:00 at Turock, Essen.

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at my first Homebrew Website Club Nuremberg meetup!Thank you Tilman for hosting!#indieweb #hwc #hwcnue #NUEDIGITAL #Nuremberg

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The day will come when Jürgen Klopp fails spectacularly as coach of the German national team, too. And there will be a name for it.

The Kloppocalypse.

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🎬 Obsession

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What a bloody annoying bitch!

I found this quite entertaining, although it was a little slow to start and it’s really trying hart to be shocking. And I actually found this slightly more funny than terrifying. But it’s a good mix. And the acting was really good!

Loved the ending, which is like the reverse of Romeo and Juliet or something.


Next event: The Haunted on July 24, 2026, 20:00 at Turock, Essen.

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In case you’re into #audio (#plugins): Universal Audio's LUNA Pro DAW is €25.66 at Plugin Boutique atm. 🤯

It includes loads of extensions and plugins like
– 1176, LA-2A, Fairchild, API 2500 compressors
– Pultec EQs
– API Vision Channel Strip & summing
– Studer & Ampex tape recorders
– NoiseWorks DynAssist Lite
– two synths, a piano, their Waterfall B3 Organ
– guitar amps
and a lot more.

https://www.pluginboutique.com/product/3-Studio-Tools/23-DAW/15966-LUNA-Pro-Mk-2

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I am now officially “I fell asleep right *before* the France vs Sweden match” old … 😂

Also, now that 🇩🇪‘s out: Allez les Bleus ! 🇫🇷