Jeremy Cherfas
• Jeremy Cherfas
River
The verdant foliage on the steep hillside, the path that you know was made just for this place — the wooden planks delineating where to walk, the stairs up and down following the ebb and flow of the hill, the bridges that wove through the trees and over the edge of the river...
20.03.2026
Another HWC Düsseldorf has taken place this week, where we shared what we’ve been up to with our personal sites. Nina continued to write more and more for her homepage as well as work on the code. She started adding music to her blog posts. Jochen continues to make selfhosted tools and recently added a (private) “Archive” site where he adds podcasts episodes to, and transcribes the audio into text. I recently added the latest Polaroid to my homepage.
We also talked about Kagi’s Small Web initiative, AI, how much personal information to share online, and easter eggs. Links mentioned:
- Kagi Small Web
- lynnandtonic.com/archive/ (re: general inspiration)
- florian.photo/2025-11-20 (re: sound on websites)
- zachleat.com (re: easter eggs)
Tinkering
I love making incremental improvements to my website. All the changes I make to this website build up to what you see. This has me thinking that websites are both a place to reflect on, discuss, and make change, as well as being something that can, and does, change over and ...
Matthias Ott
• Matthias Ott
The Shape of Friction
Dave Rupert just wrote a piece called People are not friction and I just had to write a short reaction blog post, because Dave names something I’ve been thinking about for a while now. His main argument: the AI marketing dream of a “frictionless” workflow – where you automat...
Saturday
When I woke up this morning, I knew I wanted to open the blinds early – to let the spring light in. The previous night, I had made sure the book I wanted to read was sitting by my bedside, ready for me in the morning. I enjoyed the soft yellow light shining through the room ...
BurgeonLab: Main Feed Full-Text
• Naty S
Offline LanguageTool: Free Open Source Grammarly Alternative
As a long-time user of LanguageTool’s offline server on macOS, I thought I’d share how I set it up. It’s a great way to get a pretty accurate grammar and spell checking / proofreading software without relying on online services. I’ll go through how to configure this open source tool, get extra optional improvements like n-gram data processing, and script shortcuts.
BurgeonLab: Main Feed Full-Text
• Naty S
Offline LanguageTool: Free Open Source Grammarly Alternative
Learn how to set up LanguageTool's offline server mode on macOS, to get an unlimited Basic tier for a free, fully offline, private grammar & spell checker.
BurgeonLab: Main Feed Full-Text
• Naty S
Offline LanguageTool: Free Open Source Grammarly Alternative
Learn how to set up LanguageTool's offline server mode on macOS, to get an unlimited Basic tier for a free, fully offline, private grammar & spell checker.
Six hours in Heathrow
I had been looking forward to today for a couple of months now as we were flying to Stockholm in Sweden, to see Leftfield.
We left East Ham at 10am to get to Heathrow in time for our flight at 13:20. Once through security we went and got some food from Wagamama.
We finished ...
Crescent
I love watching the sun set, from golden hour to the moment when the last pink hues fade from the sky. Every moment is magical. As I write, there are bands of purple radiating behind the ripples of thin clouds on the horizon.
I periodically look out the window when the sky ...
🌸
When I loaded my website this morning – an hour or two after having woken up with great joy to rays of golden light radiating through the edges of the curtains – I noticed the cherry blossom emoji (🌸). It must be the first day of spring! I love moments like this when my webs...
🎬 In the Mouth of Madness
Hm. Somehow, the plot was a bit unsatisfactory. But there's still lots to like: the theme song is one of my favourites by Carpenter, the gory practical effects are great, I liked the characters, the humour, the atmosphere. Good one, but (after first watch) not my most-liked Carpenter film.
👍 Recommended!
19.03.2026
18.03.2026
Colour
Hues of red and lavender blended together in the clear evening sky. I don’t think I have seen the sky like this before. I write with my laptop propped up on one lap as I gaze out the window, trying to find the words to describe the sky. As the minutes pass, the sky changes. ...
Björn Stierand
• Björn Stierand
maxhaesslein-gestern-noch-kalender-gesehen-prompt
@maxhaesslein Gestern noch im Kalender gesehen, prompt aber wieder vergessen zu schreiben. Alles Gute nachträglich zum Geburstag! 🥂
Monkigras 2026
Monkigras is my favourite conference of the year, sorry to all the other conference friends I have, and it is not even truly my industry. Every year the conference has a theme and this year's is about being prepared.
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The Monkigras conference is attended every year by ...
Journey to Monkigras 2026
Instead of getting the tube today I chose:
- Walk
- Bus
- Tube
- Train
- Walk
- Boat
- Walk