FeedCity

Since my Flickr account is not publicly accessible because I don’t want to pay for a Pro account (and there are apparently a couple of “unsafe” images somewhere in my account), I republished my WordCamp Frankfurt photos from 2016 (!) as a gallery on my photoblog.

I also updated the original blog post about the event, and replaced all of the old Twitter links with people’s website/blog URLs. 💪 (Now I want to find and replace ALL Twitter links…)

Let that be a reminder to myself to always post on my own website and link to people’s websites instead of social media profiles whenever possible!

I tried to do these monthly posts for a while because I like to read them when others post them. But I always forget to write down things I’ve been watching or doing, so at the end of the month, it feels like too much work to try to remember everything and then write a post about it. I tried to make it a habit to log my thoughts for these posts, but it does not come naturally to me. So I am renouncing any further monthly posts.

Remember my call for adding your email address to your RSS feed? Jeremey Hervé made a plugin for WordPress which does just that: RSS Reply via email

Very cool!

I want to make a suggestion: Please add your email address to your RSS feed. You see, Daniel has implemented a simple yet powerful feature in his feed reader Feed.City (which I’ve been using for a couple of months now): He has added an email link below every feed item, which...

Only thing I am bummed about going to #WCEU is the Switch 2 getting delivered later today and I won’t be there to set it up with my daughter. We’ll make good on that on Sunday (or Monday).

The journey to #WCEU starts now! My train has an on-time rate of 35%. 😬 Let’s hope for the best. 🤞

My friend Daniel is running FeedCity, a feed reader I have been using for a couple of months now. (I’ll write a post about it sooner or later.)

When using FeedCity, you get all kinds of information about a feed, e.g., whether they are valid (many are not, strangely enough). Naturally I wanted all these icons to turn green/be active for my own feeds as well.

The most recent icon he added was WebSub.

I had heard about it, but never really looked into it. Thankfully Daniel puplished a post about how he implemented it on his site.

While working on it for my photo blog I thought, why not build it as a plugin from the start? So I did.

Here it is on GitHub: WebSub Plugin for Kirby

It is very straightforward and lightweight. I hope it is useful for some of you Kirby users out there.

Let me know if you find any issues – or if you have suggestions on how to improve on it.

WebSub test.

I am with Daniel on this: The new Fujifilm X half looks quite interesting, concept-wise. I love that Fuji is making these quirky cameras that allow you to just be creative and where specs are not the main reason for buying it.

Here it is, the full gallery of my #BTConf coverage, 152 images in glorious monochrome. It is truly a special event and I can’t wait for the next one in Berlin in November!

I am in the process of editing my beyond tellerrand photos. I usually begin by adding images to a folder as a first draft. Then I start removing photos, usually similar ones (or ones that are just not as good – whatever that means, it’s all very subjective and by feeling anyway), then proceed with ones that do not fit the flow. Finally – and I’ve learned this over the years – the last 10 photos have to really hurt to delete. Only then do I know that I have found the final selection.

On my way to beyond tellerrand. So much looking forward to the next two days! 🤗

An archive page for my photo blog was never anything I wanted to do, simply because I don’t want people to look at tiny images and quickly scroll by à la Instagram. (I've written about it and it still stands.) On the other hand, I understand that it can be tricky to get into...

We recently bought a (used) car online. Just got their newsletter suggesting more cars like the one we got. I don’t know… How many cars do people usually buy in a month? 🤔

This is a bit late, but I haven’t gotten around to anything other than family time and work in the last couple of weeks. Blogging – or sharing much of anything in general – does not come naturally to me and is one of the first things that immediately takes a backseat when mo...

The lack of updates on this here website is directly proportional to the amount of family obligations and my work work load. I barely managed to post images in the last couple of days. I hope I’ll at least be able to finish the March review post soon. 🤞

TLDR; Hold down the “Mode” and “Zoom” buttons during startup to do a reset. I’ve had the Canon 580EX II speedlite for over 15 years. A couple of years ago it just didn’t turn on anymore. Full batteries. No dice. Dead. Not sure why I kept it, probably because I very rarely ev...

Oh my way to Zürich (via Basel) to meet Claudio. We do this every couple of months to get on the same page and talk shop. Despite communicating every day it’s important to do thi in-person meetings every once in a while. Also: A welcome change of scenery (it has been a while) which should hopefully result in some different photos from the usual.

How is February over already? Time is moving way to fast for my taste. Photography Went out to Landschaftspark Duisburg with my friend Daniel. Love getting out there for the sole purpose of taking photographs (and having great conversations) – instead of the day to day ...

Had an interesting discussion earlier during the first KrautPress Website Club meetup. Since Matthias is the OG of WordPress ActivityPub integration, he is obviously a huge fan of bringing your blog into the fediverse. (He’s the main developer of the ActivityPub WordPress pl...

I originally planned to post regular updates about my Linux experiment. I should not make such promises. But I can report, that I am quite happy with Ubuntu and the ThinkPad so far. I have been using it exclusively to do all of my work for the last couple of weeks. I think, I even might like the keyboard better, than the MacBook’s. The webcam is pretty shit, though. Anything photography-related still requires me to use the Mac, and as I mentioned before, this is not going to change any time soon. But all considered, it is nice to know that relying on 100% free and open source software (and a comparatively cheap laptop) will allow me to do my job just fine.

I am one email away of sending anything mentioning „LinkedIn“ straight to the spam folder.

I recently asked around for links to 365 photography projects and I got some feedback. (🙏 Thanks for that!)

I collected them on this page: https://florianziegler.com/365-projects

I am still looking for more projects. Please share if know any!

Just realized, since I have all the colors in CSS custom properties it is pretty easy to create new color schemes for the blog: How about hot pink, purple or jungle? (Reset to b/w with the theme switcher controls at the bottom. 👇)

Yiğit has written a lovely post about how I inspired him to start his photo blog! 🥹 We met at WordCamp Europe in Turin last year, although very briefly at a bus stop on our way home. Check out his blog, where he’s currently doing a 365 project. Oh, and he also has a stats page!

Thinking about removing the social media integration from my photo blog. 🤔 Not sure it adds anything meaningful to be honest. Don’t get me wrong: I currently enjoy using Mastodon and the interactions there, but I enjoy direct conversations (mostly via email) with people that I follow or people that follow me (mostly via RSS) much more!

I though, I try my hand on a monthly recap post. I enjoy reading other’s posts (eg. Jasper's) so, why not? Photography Technically I ordered these ☝️ prints on the last day of the last year, but they arrived at the beginning of this month: Small format prints of my “A...

Since finishing the 366 project I have not been posting regularly to the photo blog. It’s kinda nice, not having that pressure, but then again, feels kinda lazy not to post anything. I love posting there! So I decided to create some new rules. Here they are: Post daily All...

About calling your photography “work”: I mostly agree with Cedric's post, though I think sometimes calling it work also can give it special meaning, as in “I put some special effort into this”. I think of it more in terms of “I worked hard on this”, without it becoming my work (as in profession or obligation). I wholeheartedly agree that photography should spark joy and you should do it for yourself first and foremost.

I want to compile a list of people doing a 365 photo project, preferable if they use their own blog to do so. Other platforms (Mastodon, Pixelfed, Glass) are fine, too, as long as I am able to follow via RSS/Atom. So if you are doing a project yourself or know of a project, let me know! Please share for more reach. 🙂