On the ground, arms flap
Tree high parakeets gaze down
Qi Gong in the park
Jeremy Cherfas
• Jeremy Cherfas
Feeds from people participating in the IndieWebCamp Düsseldorf, April 2026.
01.04.2026
31.03.2026
Saturday morning reading
My warm breath steams up my glasses a little bit. I have my cold pillow resting on my chin. I’m still under the covers. I started my morning with a book, Hot Chocolate on Thursday, a cosy tale that took me to Japan and Sydney all without my leaving my bedroom. I love reading ...
🎬 Frankie Freako
After the very positive surprise of Psycho Goreman, this is the second movie from the same director. Unfortunately, this is not even close to the quality of PG. The humour is lame and just silly (well, yes, some things were indeed pretty funny, but that was an exception), the characters are not as likeable and the puppets are not that great either. I’d rather watch PG again!
Matthias Ott
• Matthias Ott
Hello Again, World
On December 24, 1968, Christmas Eve, astronaut William Anders took what would become one of the most consequential photographs in human history. He was aboard Apollo 8, orbiting the Moon for the fourth time, when the spacecraft rotated and the Earth appeared in his window. A...
Jeremy Cherfas
• Jeremy Cherfas
TIL: I have been using the ISO ...
TIL: I have been using the ISO setting on my camera all wrong.
Thanks Tom. https://macwright.com/2026/04/01/recently.html#:~:text=I%20didn't%20understand%20ISO%20either!
Caw 01
Hooded crows are common round here and very entertaining. I took to offering them bits of old cheese, apple cores and the like, eventually settling on peanuts in their shell because they are inexpensive and handy. If the birds are hanging around, they come as soon as they se...
The archive
In The joy of incremental website improvements, I reflected on the idea of building personal websites incrementally:
Making incremental improvements to one's personal website is a joy. Your site can evolve at your own pace, and as you learn. You don't need to set out with a g...
More examples of graduating between mediums of communication
In “Graduating between mediums of communication”, I explored how we can move between mediums of communication to access different affordances. For example, you might “graduate” from a text chat – for example, a Slack thread – to a video conference in a professional context. T...
Using my edit button shortcut
In 2025 I built a browser extension that adds an edit button to your browser. The edit button pages if a page either has:
A rel=edit link;A custom edit link set in the extension preferences, or;A link with an anchor like “edit page” (only available if you enable the setting, ...
Jeremy Cherfas
• Jeremy Cherfas
Checked into Ristorante Scarpone
How software feels
I am interested in how software feels to use. Back in 2024, I wrote:
I want to learn about design, I thought to myself, excitedly. I was interested in why some things feel better to use than others – why do some tools feel like a delight, while others feel rough around the ed...
Jeremy Cherfas
• Jeremy Cherfas
Daring Fireball: Deal With It
I’m annoyed every single time I enter a date in iCal; I actually enjoy entering them in Backpack. It’s as palpable as the difference between going uphill and downhill.
Yes, I first noted this 19 years ago. Yes, it is still true. No, I will not vibe code a solution.
Monthly report: March 2026
It was a toss-up between working on something a little more substantive or documenting February, and the more mechanical option won.
Highlights of the month:
Warm, cold, warm, cold. What's a poor seedling to do?
Tweaked my backup strategy to let Hetzner take care of more
S...
Matthias Ott
• Matthias Ott
This, Still Not for Everyone
The new WebAIM Million report is out, the eighth annual accessibility analysis of the top one million home pages on the Web. And after eight years of data, the picture is as sobering as ever.
In 2019, 97.8% of home pages had detectable WCAG conformance failures. In 2026, tha...
Seven hills
This post is my contribution to the April 2026 IndieWeb Carnival on the topic of “Adventure”. Thank you for hosting, Pablo!
The Seven Hills of Edinburgh challenge invites participants to hike up seven designated hills in Edinburgh within a day. There are official events to p...
My favourite (unconventional) animal
This is my entry to the April 2026 Grizzly Gazette Carnival on the topic “Your favourite unconventional animal".
My favourite animals are cats, undoubtedly [1] [2]. This month’s Grizzly Gazette Carnival invites participants to think beyond cats, however, to “unconventional” ...
Nesting social posts under blog posts in Artemis
In Grouping link posts in a web reader, I described a feature in Artemis to show when someone whose website you are following has bookmarked a post by an author you also follow. The motivation for this feature was to reduce clutter in a user’s reader by grouping shares of a p...
Museum Memories: Roundup
This month I had the pleasure of hosting the March 2026 IndieWeb Carnival on the topic of “Museum memories”, in which I invited participants to write about a memory of a museum. To everyone who participated – we had over 30 participants this month! – thank you. It was a delig...