Every so often, I open up a blank HTML document and work on a concept design for my website. Sometimes I have a theme, like my blueprint-inspired design, whereas other times I play around and see what I can make. Today I thought: what would my blog look like if it were pink? I came up with this concept design: A two-column layout for my website that has a light pink background colour and darker pink text. The typeface is a serif font. I use the "Transitional" font stack from Modern Font Stacks, and a combination of pink and purple colours that I made through trial-and-error with an RGB colour wheel. The background is light pink. The text colours are a darker pink that is somewhat close to red. I am unsure whether I will use this design on my blog, but I had fun playing around and exploring this direction for a bit.
Feeds from people participating in the IndieWebCamp Düsseldorf, April 2026.
Jeremy Cherfas
• Jeremy Cherfas
The 'Accessibility' link is a Lie: My Adventures in Weaponizing Corporate Virtue Signaling, Sightless Scribbles
🎬 Totally Killer
Back to the Future meets Scream. This was quite silly, but also quite enjoyable. Just the right thing to chill on the couch and relax after a long day.
🎬 Bibi & Tina: Perfect Pandemonium
Also, oberflächlich eigentlich wieder ganz gute Unterhaltung. Aber das Thema selbst fand ich doch einfach eine sehr sehr seltsame Wahl für diese Filmreihe. Und die Klischees, die die Charaktere bedienen waren schon zum Augen rollen und "Echt jetzt!??" denken.
Matthias Ott
• Matthias Ott
Echoes of Connection
In 1977, NASA launched two spaceships carrying two golden records into the void of interstellar space. The Voyager Golden Records contained instructions for playing its contents, finding Earth in the cosmos (oh my …), as well as images, a variety of natural sounds, musical s...
Matthias Ott
• Matthias Ott
Linear() Is Not Linear
My gut feeling tells me that not that many people have yet heard of or used the linear() easing function, one of the most exciting newer additions to CSS. Looking at the stats in the State of CSS survey, this is somewhat confirmed: only about 30 percent of respondents have u...
Two minutes.
April 2024
Düsseldorf mix: concerts, beach, work, food, flea market, poker. (33 photos)
Photographic Fixer
Lately, I’ve been thinking a lot about my photographs, why I take them, why and where I share them, and how to do that from now on.
One trigger has been Instagram’s slow slide into irrelevance. I regularly miss photos from the people I follow, and vice versa, plus if I wan...
Ten Pointless Things About Me | Zachary Kai
After reading James’ version of the challenge created by David from Forking Mad here we are! To quote Keenan, “I saw Robb James do it, so I wanted to, too. I’m very impressionable.” (Also, the...
📄 FeedCity now supports RelMeAuth/Web Sign-in
FeedCity has been now been registered as a client for indielogin.com (thanks, Aaron!), and so now I can offer the option for people to login and sign-up using their own website URL via RelMeAuth/Web Sign-in: → FeedCity Sign-up ←.
Matthias Ott
• Matthias Ott
View Transitions: The Smooth Parts
Now that cross-document view transitions are gradually making their way into modern browsers, now seems like the perfect time to explore them, if you haven’t already. They are, in fact, surprisingly straightforward to implement. And just like we’ve seen with modern images, v...
Ten facts about me
As I write, it is the late evening. I am getting ready to go to bed. The room is illuminated by fairy lights. I have been trying to go to bed at more reasonable hours of late, but I just saw the ten pointless facts about me blogging challenge and felt inspired to write someth...
"retailers say profits this past christmas were lower than expected ... why are people not buying more shit?"
Could also be that there is less and less people left that still have a job (robots / AI):
Gel on Salt-preserved Lemons
A couple of days ago I tackled some salt-preserved lemons I had made about a year ago, just my terrace-grown lemons and salt. I had failed to notice that the air-trap fell out some time ago and the top layers, where more oxygen was available, had played host to a grey-green ...
RE: https://mastodon.social/@btconf/115416552988043760
This is going to be the last beyond tellerrand in Berlin for a while 👇
Matthias Ott
• Matthias Ott
Adding AVIF and WebP Support to My Craft CMS Site
Five years ago, I wrote about AVIF: A New Image Format (back then). Since then, I’ve implemented WebP and AVIF support on numerous client sites for considerable performance improvements – but my own site was still serving JPEG, PNG, and GIF images only. So it was time to fix...
I Can See Clearly Now
“It’s a lot like the old days of trying to get a good colour print at home,” was the best I could come up with. “You print one of those test images that came with the printer, with all those different skin colours, and you discover that the pretty pink baby actually has a sl...
Matthias Ott
• Matthias Ott
Challenge
It’s the early nineties. Legendary comic book artist Frank Miller had just broken away from the major publishers, after creating titles like Daredevil: Born Again, Ronin, and The Dark Knight Returns. He was now working with the then-young Dark Horse Comics, when he decided t...
@hdv just read your post on workslop and I couldn't agree more! One thing I constantly run into are tickets written via AI that are either overly detailed or describe a task without taking into account the overarching picture (like project guidelines/design guidelines). I think they are good cue givers for writing tickets as they often come up with good points but you have to filter out and correct a lot.