A few people I know have a style guide for their blog/website, so here are my thoughts on a Style Guide for this site.

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I was at one of the local museums last weekend, because it was the last day of their exhibit on "clouds in art", that I'd been wanting to check out since March.

At the museum, I took pictures using a kids camera that instantly prints on thermal paper. I got this because Max had one at IWC Nürnberg and I thought it was cool — he also has a cool post about a thermal printer camera project, you should check that out.

It turned off before I got through the whole exhibit because it was out of batteries, so for the other exhibit they had going on I have pics I took on the phone. In the end I had a really long spool of badly rendered monochrome representations of the art.

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On my 22nd birthday, two years ago, I had a pretty pleasant day. I don't really remember what about it was good, I probably had an enjoyable task at work and a good time with collegues; and in my good mood, I also went down to the book shop right outside my workplace and picked up War and Peace. The cashier made a little comment as he scanned the book, apparently impressed or surprised.

Why'd I pick it up? Well, why would anyone want to read the book? Because it's a classic and everyone says it's good. Was it? Yes! But not in the sort of way I expected it to be.

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I don't know much about dithering. But when I visit other people's sites and they dither their images in cool ways I always wonder how they do it. So in case anyone is wondering, here's my current method for dithering these pink images.

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This was posted at about 01:30am so it's probably full or errors but whatever I never back out of writing a post all in one go.

If I've spoken you in the past week, I probably mentioned playing around with Plan 9. After getting an old PC on ebay for 30€ (~40€ with shipping) I thought "if I was ever goint to install this, now is the time". Shout out to Matt for the hint of what to look for to get real cheap used PCs on ebay; which we talked about a bit on an IndieWeb pop-up about BSD.

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Here's an attempt to answer questions I get about why I don't use AI, and any more I could think of that may also arise. I'll try to get into it as honestly as possible, without just falling back on "it sucks and is bad" and leaving it at that.

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Oh you mean like with audio output instead

Nope. No output at all. Just input. With the keyboard.

Why

Short answer: why not?

Long answer: James floated this idea at IWC/BTconf of a PC that's just a keyboard for taking notes; and I said that's totally doable and probably not hard at all to do, since computers that are inside a keyboard already exist. So here's me putting my money where my mouth is.

Relevant note: Since taking the video I've realized the Raspberry Pi is completely fine with a standard 5V, 2.5A phone charger. It's a bit below the specs but it's not exactly doing much here. So a standard powerbank is completely enough and it doesn't need the fancy charger that came with the PC to make loud noises :^)

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Today was a really nice and sunny day, so I went out with some friends from uni. We went to a Café (no shops open on International Workers' Day) and decided to go to the museum next to it because museums are free with our student ticket thing. The main exhibit in the museum...

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I'm hosting the IndieWeb Book Club for next month. I've picked the first fiction book so far: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency by Douglas Adams.

Wikipedia | OpenLibrary

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Share of Doctor Who fanzine: In All But Name

Last year for Doctor Who's birthday (23.11.1963, for the uninitiated) I uploaded a fanzine I'd organized to the internet archive. The PDF is in DIN A4 format and has 100 pages, with fanworks from 30ish people. The journey there began almost a year before, in December 2024.

I have to give a huge shoutout to the other people who helped me organize the zine, but specifically to ivq for giving me so much info on planning and communication!!

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I just found this one HUNDRED questions webmaster questionnaire! I'll just pick a few I feel like answering right now, thanks.

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All Posts As with any publication online I may run the risk of saying something inconsiderate or untrue. If this is the case I ask you to take my posts in good faith and point this out to me privately. I am happy to learn. If your Internet is slow and the posts are loading ...

Dieser Post erfordert 0 technisches Know-How, was heißt für Leute mit technischem Know-How ist er vielleicht langweilig. Aber weil die deutschen IndieNews so einsam und leer sind sag ich trotzdem mal: auch auf Indienews geposted.(Ursprünglich am 06.11.2025 gepos...

I saw Proust’s questionnaire on James' Blog and I thought I should try it out.

Funnily enough I got Proust's "In Search of Lost Time" as audiobook CDs for my birthday, because I thought it was funny that there was actually an audiobook. It's 7 days long, btw.

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The best way to introduce this post might be to reflect on my post from January, where I begrudingly declared some new years resolutions, and see how good I was at keeping them:

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Reply to Help me map the internet! by Tiffany

Also posted to Indienews, maybe more people will draw maps before the end of November.

I saw Sara submit something for this! I think it's a cool prompt and since I'm done with my huge project (for now) I can finally draw stuff for fun again without feeling bad and thinking "I should be creating something else". So I also made it kinda silly.

Here's my map:

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Reply to this months IndieWeb carnival hosted by Alex on Cycles and fluctuations This is a really fitting topic for an autumn month and a month so close to the end of the year! I don't really have a solid vision of where this post is gonna go, just some general thoughts t...

You know this scenario: The printer says that ink is empty and then you take out the ink and there's still plenty in there. A while ago I started keeping the old cartridges, in case there's something I could use them for later.

One idea was to use the old printer ink as a pad for a stamp of my logo. So when I met my friend who once made a linocut print of a bat that looked soo sick I asked her where to get stuff like that because I never did that before (except I think at school when I was 14) and she even bought me these 17€ tools because I was too stingy.

Shout-out to Maxime ily <3

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This post can also be read in German

Subject: "Re-Design and Promotion Strategy for Dead.Garden"
Subject: "About your Dead.Garden"
Subject: "Errors in your Dead.Garden"

Dear Dead,
your website is not good enough, in fact, it is actively bad.
Don't you know that you need Search Engine Optimization?
What are you, some kind of idiot?
Your site is currently ranked on page 1,000,000 of Google,
and if we know anything (in fact, we know everything),
this means that you are wasting not only your time,
but much more importantly
money.

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Last night I went to bed thinking "what if I made business cards for my website". So I spent much of today designing them and cutting them out badly.

My printer is actually a bit messed up right now so the black isn't black so much as weird Cyan. But I like the cheap(?) vibe it gives the cards because it fits with what I kind of imagined for my site redesign, as I described it in a post from a few days ago. I printed them in black (blue-ish) and white and then highlighted each one. I actually used multiple colors to highlight them differently.

I put the paper in the wrong way, the paper has this sort of pattern on one side and now the text's on there and it's a little harder to read.

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A while ago I read a poem that made me reevaluate how I think about the past; or how we in general tend to approach the past as primarily a resource from which we can draw comfort and knowledge. I'll just show you the poem and tell you what I mean, maybe it's a bit strange. ...

Reply to this months IndieWeb carnival hosted by Marisabel on Colors Color—it's more than just the word that I mostly end up spelling in the evil American spelling rather than the proper British spelling that I learned at school. It's a very interesting topic, especially b...

As preparation for the practical exams, our last task at school was a project over which we had almost complete control. The only thing that was set was a brand name and general values, as well as the product they make. That product was beer.

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James and I are doing a collab post, reviewing and sharing thoughts on poems that we sent each other. You can read his post here

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Entry for Aromantics Create Pride 2025

In the desert
I saw a creature, naked, bestial,
Who, squatting upon the ground,
Held his heart in his hands,
And ate of it.
I said, “Is it good, friend?”
“It is bitter—bitter,” he answered;

“But I like it
“Because it is bitter,
“And because it is my heart.”
From: The Black Riders and Other Lines by Stephen Crane, 1895

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Alec and Maxime in front of The School of Athens as a tapestry, immitating the central figures

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Hey all! For this month's IndieWeb Movie Club I encourage people to (re-)watch 1964's Mary Poppins! Especially for those of you with kids this might be a great movie to watch together. Despite being 61 years old I think it holds up very well.

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