After a brief project-related trip to Hanover early next week, I will return to Berlin on Wednesday to experience @btconf on Thursday and Friday. Sadly, @marcthiele has announced that this will be the last #btconf in Berlin for the foreseeable future. I am really looking forward to it and can only advise you to grab one of the last tickets quickly. It will be worth it! 👉 https://beyondtellerrand.com/events/berlin-2025 #btconf
Feeds from people participating in the IndieWebCamp Düsseldorf, April 2026.
A short look ahead to my upcoming week of travel and events, where I’d be happy to meet some of you: This weekend, 1-2 November, marks the 9th #IndieWebCamp Berlin — once again at the @mozilla office, co-organised by @tantek.com and me. Participation is free, and we’ll spend the weekend hacking on our personal websites. I’m planning to explore ways to make websites more sustainable and will bring along some hardware for hands-on tinkering. Come and join us! 👉 https://indieweb.org/2025%2FBerlin
Jeremy Cherfas
• Jeremy Cherfas
The Hunger Games Begin
“It sounds crazy to say that Republicans are making children go hungry to protect pedophiles, but it’s actually a reasonable interpretation of the situation.”
Matthias Ott
• Matthias Ott
The Mystery of Storytelling
Humans love stories. Maybe that is because for thousands of years, stories were the way information was preserved and passed on to others, to the next generations. Maybe because they create community and collective culture. Maybe because they capture our imagination and spea...
Matthias Ott
• Matthias Ott
Amateurs!
I have to confess that I am not reading that many books these days. Most of the time, I resort to listening to them in audio form. But every once in a while, a book comes along that is just too interesting not to at least give it a try.
Reading Kai Brach’s excellent newslett...
Tabs
A recording of Alors on danse, news of a new exhibition of Michelangelo’s work, an event on creative writing, and information about art history courses all exist side-by-side in the ever-changing landscape that is my browser tabs. Every one is a train of thought: the tabs on ...
Jeremy Cherfas
• Jeremy Cherfas
2025-10-27
* On foot
* 41.8811, 12.4673
* 27 October 2025
* 425.11 ppm CO2
* OpenStreetMap
I’m glad Rabbit Quest was there to prompt me to get out of the house today, even if it was a very familiar urban circuit. I needed that. Interesting discrepancy in localisation. The image suggests I was between the tram tracks. I was not. I was on the side of the road looking at the marked spot.
Jeremy Cherfas
• Jeremy Cherfas
Eat This Newsletter 286: Cravings Cruising the internet ...
Eat This Newsletter 286: Cravings
Cruising the internet highway seeking nutritious alternatives to slop.
This week, unaffordable healthy diets, undesirable healthy diets, truck stops, forest gardens, and gluten.
https://buttondown.com/jeremycherfas/archive/etn-286-cravings/
Design, in pink
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.
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...