Only 39 more days until another full year of posting is complete over on the photo blog. The plan is to just keep going this time. 🙌
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Using a Data List With Contact Form 7
I love using the list attribute in combination with a data list.
It just came up in a client project again, where the basic requirement was to only allow a certain combination of post codes and cities in an application form.
My first instinct was to use JS to validate the in...
It is New Photos From Daniel Day! He published his photos from May 2024 and I make an appearance. That is not the reason I am posting this, btw – I just enjoy looking at his images + funny comments. Last year in December, he managed to post five new months! Will he be able to repeat that record-breaking output? Stay tuned.
Two Square Kilometers
My radius here in the city is quite limited. I have the same commute every day, passing the same locations. When I am out with the kids, we have a couple of favorite places we visit (playgrounds, parks, etc.). All in all, it is probably only two square kilometers, so it is no wonder that I start to revisit certain subjects from time to time. A41 is a perfect example of this, but in this particular case, I turned it on its head and made it a series. (The challenge is now to find different angles.) But recently, I find myself recognizing more and more places/landmarks/subjects I have photographed before. Some examples include these trees (1 and 2), the TV tower (1, 2, and 3), or the RWE tower (1, 2, 3, and 4). There’s no conclusion to this, just an observation I made.
About Photographing Daily
There was a discussion on Mastodon a while ago about posting photos daily on a photo blog and the struggle this presents. After all, nobody gets a great shot every day. Should you post work that is subpar – at least according to your own standards?
Robin asked:
So both of ...
Just in case you do not also follow my photo blog, I just want to share the link to the photo gallery for the latest beyond tellerrand in Berlin. I had so much fun making these images!
beyond tellerrand
I’ll be heading to Berlin next week to attend beyond tellerrand. This will be my 13th edition if I calculated it correctly.
If you have never been, and even if you’re only vaguely interested in the topics around web/design/development/typography (and anything adjacent) you s...
MacBook Pro IPv6 Issues
I’ve had this issue with my MacBook for a while now, where – after it wakes up from sleep – I can’t connect to the internet for a couple of minutes. Wifi is on and working, mind you, but I can’t open any websites or sync emails. It’s annoying as hell.
Linux laptop running Ub...
Zeitgeist App
A couple of days ago I discovered a new app called Zeitgeist by Marcel Wichmann.
It’s basically like Twitter – but you only post to yourself! I really like the minimalist but thoughtful implementation.
Day One has been my go-to journaling app for years (current daily streak ...
I could link to each article Cedric writes on his photoni.st blog, because they are all very good.
This last one, titled “Pretty Images Are Dead. Long Live Documentary Photography” is no exception. One of his conclusions within this whole “rise of AI” shit show (my expressio...
My vacation is almost over. I haven’t done anything “productive” with my time. But to be fair, I didn’t feel like checking things off of a list for a while. (The task list at work is pretty much bottomless, there’s always more stuff to do, and I didn’t want the same for my ho...
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!
Add Your Email Address to Your RSS Feed
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. 🤞
WebSub Kirby Plugin
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! 🤗
Photo Blog Archive, Yea or Nay?
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? 🤔
March 2025
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. 🤞
Reset Yongnuo YN560-II and Canon 580EX II Speedlites
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.