Overnight hiking trip. 🗻☀️🏕️

https://knot.tilman.me/post/overnight-hiking-trip/

Crossposting to Bluesky and Mastodon

Knot, my little microblogging system, can now crosspost to Bluesky and Mastodon. I admit this is more news for me than for anybody else — but in the long run you can expect more quality content from my side on these platforms!

Another step towards a more solid POSSE strategy: post to my own site first, then syndicate as well as possible to where the audience still lingers. Testing it in real life conditions now. If that holds up…

https://knot.tilman.me/post/crossposting-to-bluesky-and-mastodon/

Every year Tiny Awards hand out a prize for the best of the small, poetic, handmade web — personal projects, built by one or two people, far away from commercial mainstream. The public nominates, a selection committee picks a shortlist, and then the public votes.

If you want to see what's possible on the web if you have some time, some dev skills and a huge amount of daring creativity, look here!

Eleven sites, voting is open until September 25th. Go click! https://tinyawards.net

Jim Mitchell's IndieWeb Is Punk Manifesto: eight theses reading the personal site as DIY culture. I hope new perspectives like this can help getting new audiences interested in independent web publishing!
https://indiewebispunk.net

Corse 3 & 4
#photography #mobilephotography #photographic

Summer holiday reading stack: This is what I packed for the holiday in Milan and Corsica this year. Not that I ever thought I would it read it ALL …

Read on: https://knot.tilman.me/post/my-summer-holiday-reading-stack/

#books #sciencefiction #puzzles

Corse 2
#photography #mobilephotography #art #life

Corse 1
#photography #mobilephotography

Just write ––– At the moment there are two initiatives running in the world of weblogs and blogging: Blaugust and 100 Days to Offload. They differ in the details. The first is about a month of posting, the other about a hundred posts in a year. But the aim is the same: to get people writing on their personal weblogs more. Read on: https://knot.tilman.me/post/just-write/

Milano day 3 #photography #streetphotography

Milano day 2 (Subway)

It’s holiday time! Spend our first day in Milan. There might be more travel photography here in the next days. Or maybe not. Because I’m on holiday!

How can creative practitioners publish on the web today? Options, pitfalls, and trade-offs

I just published a long essay on a question that nagged me for years. I always felt that more creatives should run their own self-hosted websites — but I was never sure I was right. So I examined every option as objectively as I could, with its real advantages and pitfalls, so readers can reach their own conclusions!

Read here: https://tilman.me/garden/How+can+creative+practitioners+publish+on+the+web+today%3F #indieweb #web

Geoffrey Litt has a great new perspective on how we work with AI-generated code. We're not bound to prompting and moving on. We can have the AI explain what it built — teaching the background, building intuition before showing code, even ending with an interactive quiz so we don't fool ourselves into thinking we understood. … Read on: https://knot.tilman.me/post/geoffrey-litt-understanding-is-the-new-bottleneck/

Meme source: https://x.com/geoffreylitt/status/2071362040346955777

I just put together a »web feed roll« for my website — a hand-picked list of blogs I actually read, each with a short intro and their latest posts pulled via RSS/Atom.

It l is a static flat HTML file. When you click on "Update feeds" a PHP script refreshes the content from the actual feeds.

This was my work day result at IndieWebCamp Nuremberg 2026 — built in a day among a room full of people doing similar things for their own corners of the web.

→ https://tilman.me/feedroll

I spent the weekend at IndieWebCamp Nuremberg, the fifth edition in this city — two days at the tollwerkstatt as part of Nürnberg Digital Festival, in good company with a bunch of IndieWeb folks.

Here is the blog post: https://knot.tilman.me/post/indiewebcamp-nuremberg-2026/

I love Daniel Eatock’s website! The way he publishes his art and ideas for decades on this beautifully simple website is a tremendous accomplishment. And very inspiring. That is why I wrote a page on my digital garden about it: https://tilman.me/garden/Inspiring+Websites/Daniel+Eatock's+Website. Already part three of a series on inspiring websites.

Another Homebrew Website Club Nuremberg last night — and I'm still delighted that this friendly, diverse group of practitioners meets monthly in my city. Interesting, inspiring, relaxed, and funny, as always.

Thanks to Björn for documenting everything: https://indieweb.org/events/2026-06-10-hwc-nuremberg

And if you're even remotely curious about joining us live in Nuremberg: we're hosting a special edition for the Nürnberg Digital Festival! https://nuernberg.digital/de/events/2026/homebrew-website-club-nuedigital

#indieweb #homebrewwebsiteclub

Skywalker #photography #sky #photographic

I wrote about my first IndieWebCamp: https://knot.tilman.me/post/indiewebcamp-dusseldorf-2026/

#indieweb

I vibe-coded a mobile camera web app, because I miss the old days when mobile photography was such a great creative field. Surprisingly the Snapseed app is still around, so I used it for additional layering. #photography #design

I used my post from last week as my first proper test of POSSE-style publishing. A long form text on my digital garden first, then a link post on this microblog, then cross-posted to Bluesky and Mastodon. Here is how it went: https://knot.tilman.me/post/posse-the-first-try/

Platformer Game Jam 2026:

Only three of 16 design students had used a game engine before. Three days later they'd shipped ten platformer games — all playable in your browser, built on Godot + WebAssembly.

Full write-up: https://tilman.me/garden/Platformer+Game+Jam+2026

#gamedev #godot #webassembly #indiedev #designeducation

Reactivating https://knot.tilman.me for microblogging!

Ooops, wrong account.

Trying https://phanpy.social to post something on my blog.tilman.me. Does that work? Let’s be bold and also attach an image!

Trying out openvibe, a new mobile app for all decentralized social networks: https://openvibe.social

Wir suchen eine Lehrkraft für besondere Aufgaben (w/m/d) für das Lehrgebiet Coding und Design! Mehr Informationen unter https://karriere.service.th-nuernberg.de/sq8g5

It was pleasure to talk to Sarper Yurtseven at the Day of Mathematics Istanbul yesterday! We talked about my Geometry Daily graphics, my process, inspirations and – or course – geometry. The 45 minutes were recorded and are available on YouTube: https://youtube.com/watch?v=MHp5UOlms-4*

Sarper tried to recreate one of my graphics with generative AI. The results are super interesting and surprisingly three-dimensional: https://youtu.be/MHp5UOlms-4?list=PL7DHNy6n7rOjTTkRtrxbOL7OAVRk4_59O&t=2971*

The team of the Mathematics Day Istanbul (!!) asked me to give an interview about my graphic work on geometrydaily.com tomorrow. It’s streaming live, so tune in on 11.00 CET: youtube.com/MatematikTurkiye. I don’t know if there will be a recording afterwards. Unfortunately the rest of the online event is in Turkish of course …