FeedCity: Notes – Daniel Pietzsch

Next Thursday, May 22nd at 6 pm, there’s going to be a Homebrew Website Club Düsseldorf. Co-organised by Schepp and myself, we plan this to be the first HWC event in a series of regular events.

I quote from the IndieWeb wiki page to explain what an HWC is:

Homebrew Website Club is a growing world-wide network of meetups for everyone who wants to take back their web experience from social media silos, and own their online identities & content, or just want support with blogging!

So, if you’re interested in this sort of thing, and can make it to Düsseldorf, you’d be very welcome to join. (We still have to confirm the location, and will update the event page as soon as possible.)

IndieNews

Notes – Daniel Pietzsch
09 May 08:37

The email delivery problems seem to have eased and from what I can see, emails seem to get delivered again phew. I’ve also now improved the look and content of said emails. And for every list’s feeds - such as IndieWeb feeds - there’s now an OPML version/export available.

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07 May 07:39

After four days of events, I’m feeling energized and exhausted at the same time. Had lots of great conversations and a fantastic time at both IndieWebCamp and Beyond Tellerrand! 👉 Florian’s photos: Monday, Tuesday. 👈

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06 May 18:51

Already made the mistake of accidentally keeping the sign-up form for FeedCity live for a little too long without sufficient spam protection. Emails getting delivered to spam folders now. grrrr

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04 May 14:54

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04 May 13:32

Ok, one more time testing WebSub.

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04 May 13:15

This is another test post for WebSub notifications.

Notes – Daniel Pietzsch
04 May 11:50

It’s create day at IndieWebCamp Düsseldorf, and I’m trying to make WebSub updates work for my site (and this is an update).

Notes – Daniel Pietzsch
02 May 09:17

Quite a few exciting days lie ahead of me:

There’s the IndieWebCamp on the weekend.
There’s Beyond Tellerrand on Monday and Tuesday.
And I’m going to launch the product I’ve been working on alongside those event.

😅

Notes – Daniel Pietzsch
01 May 08:44

Last Sunday, I’ve been on another photo trip with Florian. We had a great time in fantastic weather at the Tetraeder in Bottrop. He took some fabulous photos:

Notes – Daniel Pietzsch
14 Apr 08:48

I made a thing using CSS to display a four-image slideshow at the top of the Forkalyst homepage. I was (and still am) experimenting with positioning, gradients and animation. It took me longer than I thought it would and I’m still not 100% happy. But I reckon it’s good enough for now.

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12 Apr 18:41

Photography-wise I’ve been fairly unmotivated recently: no posting, no development, no scanning and only taking few photos. But today was finally a good day again: I spent the whole day outside in the sun with the family and friends while shooting two rolls of Foma 100 with my Lomo LC-A.

Notes – Daniel Pietzsch
07 Apr 18:50

A (command line) utility I’ve been using a lot lately is GitUI. It makes all my day-to-day git-related work easy and enjoyable.

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28 Mar 16:11

Here’s Terry B’s highlights following Monstertrack 2025 winner Emma Missale on her fixed-gear no-breakes bike through New York. You can also watch the full race, if you have two hours to spare.

Notes – Daniel Pietzsch
17 Mar 16:45

I started sorting out my blog posting workflow again. Ever since the Git-based CMSes stopped working, I posted considerably less. I’m using Jekyll to build this site; and creating a file, adding all the frontmatter, making a Git commit and pushing the repo is just too much overhead for me.

So now I have started to automate all those above steps. For now, this works on iOS/iPadOS for my Notes. I currently start writing in the Drafts app; then I can trigger one Shortcut which handles everything else for me via the Working Copy app. And Gitlab CI builds the page as usual.

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11 Mar 21:05

Played a very good sounding and good looking gig with Forkalyst at the Sojus7 in Monheim last Saturday.

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06 Feb 09:05

Ok, I took one digital photo at our Landschaftspark outing.

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04 Feb 20:30

Last saturday, I spent a lovely day photographing at Landschaftspark Duisburg with Florian. I can’t share my film photos so quickly, but he can share his - and did. Check it out:

Notes – Daniel Pietzsch
01 Nov 2024

My band Forkalyst has its next live gig coming up: next week, 8.11.2024 at the BrauArt pub in Düsseldorf.

Notes – Daniel Pietzsch
23 Nov 2023

Unfortunately, we had to cancel our gig in Wuppertal this Friday due to illness.

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26 Oct 2023

Struck A Nerve – the Death Metal band I joined last year as a bass player – will be playing live for the first time in November. Here are the Infos:

Bands:

Horseman
Fadead
Struck A Nerve

24. November 2023
Underground
Bundesallee 268 - 274
42103 Wuppertal

Start: 20h
Price: €12 VVK, €18 AK

Tickets and Infos

Now, I only need to get my arm fit again…

Notes – Daniel Pietzsch
23 Sep 2023

I have now integrated the photo journal feed directly into the main feed.

This saves me from manually creating a link post each time the photo journal has been updated.

And I updated both feeds. If you now have a whole bunch of unread articles in your feed reader, I’m sorry.

Notes – Daniel Pietzsch
20 Aug 2023

The music section for the most part now features the Bandcamp embed instead of the one from Spotify. I find this to be much better, because you can listen to a whole album, even without account. And I actually prefer Bandcamp and have been using it more and more lately.

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16 Aug 2023

Uff, it’s been a week already, since I had a great day with Florian at Zeche Zollverein in Essen – photographing and talking. He has the evidence over on his fantastic photo blog:

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24 May 2023

Since my previous CMS forestry.io stopped working, and its successor TinaCMS doesn‘t work with my setup, I replaced it with Decap CMS (previously Netflify CMS). I needed to add some CSS overrides, though, so it actually works on a small phone-sized screen – which to my suprise it didn’t out of the box.

Anyhow, I’m pretty pleased with the replacement and this is the first post using my new CMS.

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10 May 2023

I finally made some prints again. Needing a present is always a good motivator. I probably do not do this so often, because it’s time consuming getting everything ready, and I don’t always have the motivation for it, and/or the bathroom is not unoccupied early enough. Producing a print by hand is so satisfying, though. Both images are in the April photo journal entry.

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06 Oct 2022

This site now has a /feeds page, which lists all the RSS/Atom feeds.

Notes – Daniel Pietzsch
26 Sep 2022

The text for movie posts is now hidden at first, if it potentially contains spoilers (I simply used the <details> element for this). This also applies to the Atom feeds (for movies and for everything). The text is also no longer written in the description and og:description meta tags. All of this should make it harder to accidentally get spoiled.

Notes – Daniel Pietzsch
17 Jul 2022

Finally developed some rolls of film again. It’s been months since the last time.

Made 1.5 litres of fresh fixer, got the 5-reel tank out of the cupboard and developed some HP5 @1600. One of those rolls was from back in December.

A second batch – 5 rolls of APX 400 – is also already hanging to dry. Feels good to make progress on that front again. (But let’s not talk about the scanning backlog or posting to the journal, ok!?)

Notes – Daniel Pietzsch
19 May 2022

Last minute – on Sunday – I bought a ticket for the TOOL concert last Tuesday at Lanxess Arena in Köln. A great decision! What a fantastic (live) band!

Loved how they partly looked at each other to coordinate (or recoordinate) some parts, and how everyone operated their own pedal board and effects. And, of course, how they played their instruments. And I was pretty close at the side of the stage to see a lot of what was going on.

Easily one of the best gigs I’ve been to, and absolutely worth the money!