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Last month I went to my first IndieWebCamp, in Düsseldorf. After years of Homebrew Website Clubs, this was a big step up. IndieWebCamp? The IndieWeb is a community of people who run their own websites – their own domain, their own content, their own identity online – inste...

I vibe-coded a mobile camera web app, because I miss the old days when mobile photography was such a great creative field. Surprisingly the Snapseed app is still around, so I used it for additional layering.

I published a new garden page one week ago documenting the Platformer Game Jam 2026 – students building games in Godot at the design faculty. (Godot's web export is genuinely great, by the way!) I used it as my first proper test of POSSE-style publishing. A long form text...

16 Bachelor of Design students at TH Nürnberg built a platformer in the faculty's project week. Only three had ever used a game engine before. Three days later, ten games were finished — solo or in small teams, all playable in any browser.

The most interesting part isn't the speed. It's what made it possible. Godot has become a solid open-source engine that students learn in hours rather than days. And the web has quietly grown into a remarkably universal free and open platform for interactive media — built on open standards, no media platforms or app stores in sights. WebAssembly lets compiled engines like Godot run in the browser at near-native speed. A finished game ships as a folder of HTML, WASM, and assets. You just send a URL. A good time to be designing digital things.

→ Full write-up, photos, all ten games: tilman.me/garden/Platformer+Game+Jam+2026

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I managed to squash some tricky bugs with the help of Claude code. Does that mean I can reactivate development of the Knot system? I don’t know …

Thanks go out to Daniel, who I met at IndieWebCamp three weeks ago. In a very friendly and supportive manner he introduced me to the embarrasing truth that my web feeds were utterly and completely broken. He knows a lot about feeds, because he runs FeedCity.

Don’t ever underestimate what can happen, if a bunch of friendly like-minded people spend a weekend together. So thankful for having been a part of it: IndieWebCamp Düsseldorf 2026 indieweb.org/2026/Düsseldorf

www.inkandswitch.com celebrate their 10 year anniversary with a great piece of interactive creative coding on their website. Make sure you activate the ampersand shaped circuit in the upper left …

tools.rmv.fyi

A collection of small, low stakes and low effort tools.

No logins, no registration, no data collection. I can't believe I have to say that. Long live the handmade web.

Onionboots made a very entertaining wrap up about the independent web today: A Web Revival: the Internet didn't die, you're just not on it. This video is about making websites instead of scrolling reels. Also don't miss the follow-up video.

youtu.be/tkUgOT22F5s?si=bRzAv1HOxSwn9gWD

I haven’t heard of Ninajirachi so far, but this video seems to be exactly what electronic dance music must sound and look like in 2026. If you can stand audiovisual hardcore, please check her Infohazard music video. www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2ZdeIKJA8c

OK Kid are back with a three part song. Still angry with the recent developments. Still dry and witty german lyrics. www.youtube.com/watch?v=-potVYEAT5Q

Sorry, I need to post a link so I can see if my Bsky feed on my homepage is working: Tembo is a playful drum machine that thinks it’s a checkerboard. www.theverge.com/gadgets/892973/tembo-playful-wooden-drum-machine

I just moved this Knot instance to its own subdomain, so it gets a nice place here without interfering my work on the homepage.

Bitframes is a generative art project by Matt DesLauriers. Inspired by punched cards and early computer art
Matt coded this open source artwork in 32 bytes of data. After randomly generating a piece you can ”mint it to the blockchain“. I don't really care about this part, but the graphics are surprisingly varied and beautiful! I wish I could download the graphics in high resolution.

I started experimenting with the ActivityPub Plugin in Wordpress. So I currently have TWO blogs, the one you are reading here, running on github.com/knot-system and a Wordpress blog over at social.tilman.me.

Please pardon the mess …

John Provencher, independent artist and image-maker based in New York City. He is very deep into generative graphics, creative coding and glitchy digital aesthetics. His website is equally great: Definitely not easy to navigate first, but the graphics are so interesting that I dug along until I understood it. You can switch between two modes by clicking on the upper left box. One mode shows text info and an overview of the graphics, the other all graphics in a slideshow where you navigate by clicking anywhere left or right. It works beautifully, even on mobile.

johnprovencher.com

Patrik Hübner visited us yesterday for a guest lecture and Q&A. He talked about »Co-Creating With Technology«. His website is chock full of great examples of creative code thoughtfully applied into brands and stories. Great web design too, built on WordPress, check it out: www.patrik-huebner.com

Jay Zuerndorfer started »Weird Web October«, a challenge to make a website each day of October, based on a daily theme. Every one is invited and you can do any technology, as long as it has a URI. October is already ending soon, so there is a lot of entries to check out.

weirdweboctober.website

WWO is using a technology called Octothorpes, which introduces hashtags and backlinks that can be used anywhere on the web across a network of domains. I have to check this out in depth.

I first came across Daniel Eatock’s art on his website back in the 2000s. Today, I revisited the site and was surprised to find that he’s still using the same software (www.indexhibit.org). No design updates, no modern features, no trendy new layouts—just the same, simple structure. He only kept on filling the site with new work, some of it dating back to 1991. The website’s design is as minimal as it gets, yet easy to navigate and still functional after all these years. It’s inspiring to see a website system work so seamlessly for so long with such minimal effort.

eatock.com

Such a nice bunch of nerds. I think this is the best group shot we ever had! – If you are passionate about anything, no matter what … Meet up with like-minded people regularly!

indieweb.org/events/2024-09-11-hwc-nuremberg

Josh W. Comeau just released a new version of his blog at www.joshwcomeau.com. The new graphic and interactive header is such a playful and surprising delight! It unfolds in several steps: 1. A colourful rainbow brightens up the space behind Josh’s CGI-generated toy-like av...

Slightly sad cartoons by Santiago Bará:
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Thanks to all the lovely people joining us for Homebrew Website Club last night! Such an inspiration to meet you all. Keep the web growing! See you next Wednesday, July 10, at LEONARDO co-working space (2nd floor).

Björn’s slides: stierand.org/talks/2024/indieweb-hwc/#

My slides: tilman.me/content/posts/2024/07/2024-07-04_11-22-12_homebrew-website-club-nurnberg-digital/HWC-Talk-2024-07-03.pdf

Max’ photos: photos.maxhaessle.in/2024-07-03_hwc

Homebrew Website Club Gründungsgeschichte: tantek.com/2013/322/b1/homebrew-computer-club-reunion-inspiration

I had a wonderful online moment meeting Paul Graham’s website. I came for the „How to do Great Work“, an essay full of thoughtful advice and interesting thoughts. That kind of wisdom that comes from taking part in the world with an open mind and working hard for several year...