At an indoor playground with the kids this morning. The noise level is something else…
florianziegler.com
The personal website of Florian Ziegler
- Verified
- Updates via WebSub.
- ● Valid.
Rights: Copyright © 2000-2025, Florian Ziegler
Just deleted my Instagram account. (Yesterday I already closed my Threads account.) I am currently waiting for my Facebook data download (how is this taking so long?) and then I will close this account as well. Now, moving away from WhatsApp will be a bit more complicated. I’ll have to tell a couple of people to install Signal.
Went ice skating with the family today. The kids were hungry so we went into the little snack bar. When my wife asked what kind of meat the sausages were, the answer was a proud “Pork, of course! We are in Germany after all!” 🤦♂️
We didn’t buy any pork sausages.
2024 Retrospective
In 2024 I archived1 16,217 photos, 4,633 of which, I marked as favorites. (2023’s numbers for comparison: 15,705 archived, 4,703 favorites). Pretty consistent output I would say.
28 % of images are tagged “home”, which means I took them at and around my home (30&nb...
Doing some light video editing and exporting this evening and using my wife’s M4 iPad, because it is the most powerful computer we have. Exporting 4k video is screamingly fast. 🤯
Still feeling under the weather. 🙄 And because I couldn’t go out today, I added Bluesky comments to my photo blog. 🤷♂️ With their open API to get likes (just like Mastodon’s) it was pretty straighforward and easy to do. They are now displayed with the Mastodon favorites below every post. I will write it up in a proper post down the line.
366 Days of Daily Posting
I did it again!
I posted at least one image per day for one year straight. I started on January 1st, 2024 and crossed the finish line on December 31st, 2024.
On some days it was really hard, on most days it became just part of my day.
One of the best decisions compared to l...
Yesterday I finished my 366 project. 🙌
It feels very strange not posting today! (It’s not that I haven’t taken any photographs… 🤔)
Yesterday I ordered 853 small format prints from my Aile project. As we didn’t visit Turkey last year, and most likely won’t be able to do so this year either, I thought this longer break might be a good marker to finally start working on this project again. I would love to create a photo book, but in order to do so, I have to live with the work, and that is much easier done with physical prints than with images on a screen.
The Linux Experiment
Today, for the first time in 23 years, I own a computer that is not a Mac.
For a while now I had the idea to break away from – or at least become less dependent on – closed systems, in my particular case: Apple’s eco system.
Don’t get me wrong: It is very cosy here. Everythi...
The 366 zines (part II and III) arrived yesterday! 🎉 Unfortunately half of them are not up to the quality that one can expect. I already contacted Blurb customer service and will hopefully get this resolved quickly. Not worried, as I had similar issues before and Blurb handled it exemplary every time. My guess is that they were (are?) quite overwhelmed with Black Friday / Christmas orders. I’ll sign and ship the good half on Saturday. 🙌
Muscle memory can be a b*tch.
It is my opinion, that not every app needs a “year in review” feature. In the example below, Asana is seriously telling me that Claudio – the only other team member! – was actually the one I most often collaborated with. Not shit, Sherlock! 🤦♂️
Just ordered the second batch of project 366 zines (part II and III). Looking foward to receiving, signing and shipping them! Blurb says they should arrive before December 10th. 🙌
With all the possibilities of connecting online, meeting in person is still the most effective, when it comes to discussing the important stuff. Had a very productive two days with Claudio! 🙂
First hour of home schooling is not going great. SchoolFox is apparently not able to provide a stable video call: kids randomly drop out, jerky video, choppy audio. You would think that this should not be an issue, given that this is a central part of their service. 🤦♂️
Something that’s pretty common here in Essen: My daughter has remote schooling tomorrow because of bomb disposal.
Yesterday they found yet another WWII UXO (British, 250 kg) around 400m from her school. My coworking space is also right inside, at the edge of the security area and will be closed while the KBD (“Kampfmittelbeseitigungsdienst”) is working on the bomb. Usually this is done right away, but they are still in the process of evacuating a nearby hospital.
I’ll be sending out the next newsletter regarding my Project 366 Zines over the weekend. Part II and III are almost ready and there’s also another chance to get your hands on Part I. Subscribe, if that sounds interesting to you!
Woke up, went to get something to drink from the kitchen, saw the oven clock: 6:20 am. Thought: I might as well not go back to bed. Sat down at the computer. After 20 minutes, I realized it’s 5:40 am. We have yet to change the oven clock to winter time…
In other news: I had a very productive morning!
Still on the train, which of course is delayed. However this gave me enough time to finish editing my #btconf images & I even managed to upload them to the website.
The full gallery is available here.
Thanks to all of the speakers for the inspiration!
Added a little theme switcher to the website:
At the doctor’s for a routine check-up and wondering why there is no “AI” for optimizing waiting times. Surely someone has to have thought about this?
New website, who dis? 👀 (Still very much a work in progress, though.)
Just updated my WordPress to Kirby Export plugin to also export pages. Previously it only exported blog posts. Also, it now exports images by reference in the post content - and no longer just if they are uploaded to a post. 👀 Check it out.
My photo blog header states: “A blog where Florian tries to post one photo per day.” When there’s less than 15 consecutive days of posting, it is followed by “He fails most days.” I always loved that, because it meant low pressure. But now that I have almost completed my second year of daily posting, I guess that slogan no longer holds true. So after this current 366 project is done, I need to find something new. Maybe “He does not fail most days”? 🙂
All zines shipped! ✅
🤘👀🤘
„The Legend of Zelda: Echos of Wisdom“ was delightful!
