When you install a PWA on iOS (and iPadOS) via “Add to Home Screen”, you can make the status bar – i.e. the area at the top around the notch/dynamic island – transparent yet blurry (so that you can still read its infos like the time or battery status).
Feeds from people participating in the IndieWebCamp Düsseldorf, April 2026.
How Artemis polls web feeds
RSS readers mostly 1 work by "polling" web feeds to retrieve posts. At a specified interval, the server will try to download every feed to which a user is subscribed, and add any new posts to the database. These posts are then displayed in a user's reader.
Building a web rea...
🎬 Black Water
Actually not bad at all. Good action, and a terrifying crocodile, surprisingly brutal. Has suspense too. Entertaining little Aussie movie.
🎬 Paris, Texas
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Beautiful! The pictures, the soundtrack, the story, Hunter. The (quite long, but never boring) ending, where they tell their stories and motivations, separated by a one-way window is just great. I did not cry, I swear!
🎧 Slaughter of the Soul – At The Gates
Man, Tompa died. So let’s listen to some At the Gates. Listened to this a lot as a teenager. And it’s still so good. RIP.
Björn Stierand
• Björn Stierand
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Immer wenn Du denkst "Schlimmer kann die User Experience jetzt wirklich nicht werden" findet Ticketmaster einen Weg, es doch noch schlimmer zu machen.
Happy #8bitday yesterday! It was the 256th day of the year.See last year’s post for why the 256th day is 8-Bit Day: https://tantek.com/2024/256/t1/happy-8bitday-binary-byteSince last year, the related Wikipedia article on “Programmer’s Day” (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prog...
A 255 byte web page
Tantek, in celebration of 8-Bit Day (the 265th day of the year), published a blog post with the following challenge:
[…] build an entire website where each resource fits into at most 8-bits worth of bytes. 255 bytes maximum size HTML, and maximum size of any linked external ...
Second person birds
I remember the feeling of the light shining around and through the curtains. Then there was music: melodies in chirp. I wanted to close my eyes and go back to sleep for just a while longer, enjoying the warmth of my bed, but I didn’t want to forget the light and the music – there was a moment so wonderful just behind the curtain. Bird song plays the role that so many people do and have done in my life: the bird song is the music that starts my day. I wonder if the birds know how far their songs carry, how we notice the patterns and changes in their tone, how we find both wonder and joy in figuring out from where the song calls, how their song starts and adds life to the day. This is my entry for the September 2025 IndieWeb Carnival, hosted by Sophia at toground.link. The topic is "second person birds".
Rain
I don’t think it’s going to rain that much I thought to myself before going out yesterday. I took my summer jacket: a light blue denim coat that brings me a lot of joy. My jacket keeps me warm.
However, my jacket doesn’t have a hood.
Later in the day, when I got to my desti...
Björn Stierand
• Björn Stierand
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@jkphl Alles Gute zum Geburstag, Joschi! 🎂
Emerging Writers Festival (2025) | Zachary Kai
Notes from various workshops and discussions at the Emerging Writers Festival 2025, held virtually. Events are organized chronologically and by type. Table Of Con...
Walking
When did I stop walking as much? I realised this week after having found the motivation to go out for a few walks. I knew that I didn’t want to spend the whole day inside. I want to see the world. With each passing day, I felt more confidence in going out. My usual walk seeme...
Raindrop
The autumn rains are here. I have been looking forward to a bit of rain. There is something delightfully cosy about sitting inside reading or writing or watching television while the rain falls outside. And, rain means the opportunity for rainbows. This week, I have seen at l...
Creating a searchable archive page
One of the pages I use most on my website is the page that lists the titles of all of my blog posts. I made this page for two reasons: (i) for quick reference to all of my recent posts beyond those on my home page, and (ii) so that I can search the page by post title. I often...
Artemis Changelog #7
Artemis, the calm web reader I maintain, has a few new features. Below is a summary of the features now available to all users.
Also, I have started a Discord server for the project in which I can both answer questions and will potentially share some stories of the behind-th...
Designing a new button to visually show and hide alt text
In Developing an alt text button for images on my website, I wrote about how I made a button for visibly showing and hiding alt text on my website. I enjoy reading alt text. Alt text is great.
My implementation method used a combination of a HTML checkbox and the CSS :has se...
📄 FeedCity updates September 2025
There have been a few things happening recently in FeedCity land:
🎬 28 Days Later
While this might have a little bit of shitty digital quality, I think otherwise this really holds up well and is a great entertaining zombie film. The story is great, the characters and the acting is there, the infected are menacing, the action is good. And it just has a lot of great scenes. Was again looking forward to that blood-drops-in-the-eye shot.