Geoffrey Litt has a great new perspective on how we work with AI-generated code. We're not bound to prompting and moving on. We can have the AI explain what it built — teaching the background, building intuition before showing code, even ending with an interactive quiz so we don't fool ourselves into thinking we understood. … Read on: https://knot.tilman.me/post/geoffrey-litt-understanding-is-the-new-bottleneck/

Meme source: https://x.com/geoffreylitt/status/2071362040346955777

I just put together a »web feed roll« for my website — a hand-picked list of blogs I actually read, each with a short intro and their latest posts pulled via RSS/Atom.

It l is a static flat HTML file. When you click on "Update feeds" a PHP script refreshes the content from the actual feeds.

This was my work day result at IndieWebCamp Nuremberg 2026 — built in a day among a room full of people doing similar things for their own corners of the web.

→ https://tilman.me/feedroll

I spent the weekend at IndieWebCamp Nuremberg, the fifth edition in this city — two days at the tollwerkstatt as part of Nürnberg Digital Festival, in good company with a bunch of IndieWeb folks.

Here is the blog post: https://knot.tilman.me/post/indiewebcamp-nuremberg-2026/

I love Daniel Eatock’s website! The way he publishes his art and ideas for decades on this beautifully simple website is a tremendous accomplishment. And very inspiring. That is why I wrote a page on my digital garden about it: https://tilman.me/garden/Inspiring+Websites/Daniel+Eatock's+Website. Already part three of a series on inspiring websites.

Another Homebrew Website Club Nuremberg last night — and I'm still delighted that this friendly, diverse group of practitioners meets monthly in my city. Interesting, inspiring, relaxed, and funny, as always.

Thanks to Björn for documenting everything: https://indieweb.org/events/2026-06-10-hwc-nuremberg

And if you're even remotely curious about joining us live in Nuremberg: we're hosting a special edition for the Nürnberg Digital Festival! https://nuernberg.digital/de/events/2026/homebrew-website-club-nuedigital

#indieweb #homebrewwebsiteclub

Skywalker #photography #sky #photographic

I wrote about my first IndieWebCamp: https://knot.tilman.me/post/indiewebcamp-dusseldorf-2026/

#indieweb

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. #photography #design

I used my post from last week as my first proper test of POSSE-style publishing. A long form text on my digital garden first, then a link post on this microblog, then cross-posted to Bluesky and Mastodon. Here is how it went: https://knot.tilman.me/post/posse-the-first-try/

Platformer Game Jam 2026:

Only three of 16 design students had used a game engine before. Three days later they'd shipped ten platformer games — all playable in your browser, built on Godot + WebAssembly.

Full write-up: https://tilman.me/garden/Platformer+Game+Jam+2026

#gamedev #godot #webassembly #indiedev #designeducation

Reactivating https://knot.tilman.me for microblogging!

Ooops, wrong account.

Trying https://phanpy.social to post something on my blog.tilman.me. Does that work? Let’s be bold and also attach an image!

Trying out openvibe, a new mobile app for all decentralized social networks: https://openvibe.social

Wir suchen eine Lehrkraft für besondere Aufgaben (w/m/d) für das Lehrgebiet Coding und Design! Mehr Informationen unter https://karriere.service.th-nuernberg.de/sq8g5

It was pleasure to talk to Sarper Yurtseven at the Day of Mathematics Istanbul yesterday! We talked about my Geometry Daily graphics, my process, inspirations and – or course – geometry. The 45 minutes were recorded and are available on YouTube: https://youtube.com/watch?v=MHp5UOlms-4*

Sarper tried to recreate one of my graphics with generative AI. The results are super interesting and surprisingly three-dimensional: https://youtu.be/MHp5UOlms-4?list=PL7DHNy6n7rOjTTkRtrxbOL7OAVRk4_59O&t=2971*

The team of the Mathematics Day Istanbul (!!) asked me to give an interview about my graphic work on geometrydaily.com tomorrow. It’s streaming live, so tune in on 11.00 CET: youtube.com/MatematikTurkiye. I don’t know if there will be a recording afterwards. Unfortunately the rest of the online event is in Turkish of course …

Our Digital Lab gets a fresh outfit. Ugly computer lab ➔ fancy co-working space!

In Mastodon, if you write more, you get more attention. My feed is full of the same 5 people and the toots of very interesting people get lost in the noise. Is this not what we wanted to leave behind?

Do we need algorithms to sort it out for us? How could we implement them, control them and keep them transparent? Is this something the server hosts should decide, or every user for themselves?

Best Christmas song ever. (Yes, it’s Last Christmas, but in the best way possible.)
https://song.link/i/1443121945

https://www.sueddeutsche.de/politik/musk-twitter-midterms-republikaner-trump-usa-1.5688872

iA worked on screen fonts for iAWriter. You can use them freely!
https://ia.net/topics/a-typographic-christmas