Kangax ECMAScript compatibility table
A comprehensive list of ES5 and ES6 feature support in a variety of web browsers, compilers, and runtimes: The kangax ECMAScript compatibility table.
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Do we really need this JAMStack thing? And what even is it?
Phil Hawksworth is pointing out the benefits of the JAMStack in this excellent presentation. It´s from 2019, but still relevant. Do we really need this …
zl-fetch, a simplified fetch
Zell Liew has written a simplified wrapper around fetch, named zl-fetch, that looks promising. From the current v4.0.0 onwards, zl-fetch is a ESM library. It …
Building the main navigation for a website
Manuel Matuzović prepared a tutorial on web.dev: Building the main navigation for a website. This tutorial describes how to build an accessible main navigation of …
List of ECMAScript 6 features
A list of lists: Luke Hoban (+27 contributors) compiled a comprehensive list of the features new with ES6 on GitHub. Another list, which puts ES6 …
Accessible names and descriptions
How to name a label (for example) to make it effective from an accessibility standpoint: ARIA Authoring Practice Guide has a section Providing Accessible Names …
Capture media on mobile devices with just HTML
Capture media with HTML # With the HTML attribute capture, you can do on mobile web browsers:[1] <div> <label for="sound">Capture sound for upload:</label> <input type="file" …
Londrina
The heading font used on THE Eleventy Meetup website sprang to my eye. The font is named Londrina and it is a beautiful and interesting …
Disc brake hacks by Dave Arthur
I didn´t know the first one of pulling and fixating the brake leaver over night to stop the leaver being mushy. In the past, in …
Coder Ipsum
Lorem Ipsum for coders: Coder Ipsum. It´s made by Sia Karamelegos and she says about the tool: Thought-leadership synergistic programming filler text for your next …
Designing better error messages
Vitaly Friedman wrote Designing Better Error Messages UX on Smashing Magazine. That is an extremely well prepared article! Vitaly is not sure if a form …
monitorEvents and monitor
monitorEvents # monitorEvents() allows to observe events from the web browser console for Safari, Chrome and Edge. Firefox doesn´t support it. Events will be logged …
testmysite.io
testmysite.io is a website speed test tool by Netlify that measures site performance for different locations: San Francisco New York Frankfurt Sao Paulo Sidney Tokio …
What did I learn?
In a daily standup meeting, consider telling your team mates What did I learn since our last standup? There is also other advice for structuring …
A walk before dinner
Git Cheat Sheet
@hasanstack came up with a Git Cheat Sheet. I like the command flow overview. Git Cheat Sheet by @hasanstack: Download.
Stack Overflow Developer Survey
This week a colleague shared the Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2022. Admittedly, I wasn´t aware they have such a thing. It´s interesting to read through …
tabindex
WebAIM Tabindex contains an excellent description of how to use the HTML tabindex attribute. The attribute can have three distinct uses: tabindex="1" (or any integer …
Paderborn, Velmerstot, Silbermühle, Externsteine, Gauseköte, Kohlstädt, Neuenbeken
Mountainbike tour: 71km and 1445 m up. A beautiful cross country ride. Exactly on the route are two options to have a rest and get …
Questions for setting up a new team
Jason Yip is asking: https://twitter.com/jchyip/status/1562797626369515522 Diana Larsen, author of Liftoff: Launching Agile Teams and Projects, comments to start teams by understanding purpose, alignment, and context. …
eleventy-embed-tweet
Kyle Mitofsky wrote the eleventy-embed-tweet plugin to fetch tweets during build time, optionally cache the tweets on the file system, and render them by accessing …
:has()
Jen Simmons wrote an excellent article about the new :has() CSS selector on webkit.org, titled Using :has() as a CSS Parent Selector and much more. …
Reduce PDF size on a Mac
You can use the Mac Preview app to reduce the size of any PDF file. The default steps are Open the PDF with the Preview …
JetBrains Mono
JetBrains Mono is my coding font and it has been for years. It´s easy enough to configure VSCode to use the font. What I noticed …
MathJax on the server with Markdown
Eric Meyer[1] made me aware of MathJax. On their site you find the claim: A JavaScript display engine for mathematics that works in all browsers. …
How Can We Make Presentations Better?
The second part of iA´s take on presentation work: How Can We Make Presentations Better?. I´m curious to see their autolayout feature in action! The …
The Effects of Nuclear Weapons
From the preface: For more than four decades, the 1977 edition of The Effects of Nuclear Weapons has been a mainstay for anyone doing unclassified …
Mozilla SSL Configuration Generator
That´s quite useful. A generator from Mozilla to create proper SSL configuration files for various http servers (Apache, nginx, Tomcat, …). Visit ssl-config.mozilla.org.
.gitignore an already committed folder
I accidentially committed a folder that is generated during each build automatically. It´s not necessary to have that folder under git control. To not have …
Strael images
My Strael without its rider
How to picture a bicycle
I´m planning to take pictures of my Fairlight Strael. Here are my thoughts to prepare the shooting: Find a location. I want to make pictures …
Funny Figures
Emil spent some time creating these tiny figures by following the book Finger-Stempeln für kleine Künstler
A summer evening with my Strael
It´s the kind of evening to remember.
How we think about browsers
The GitHub engineering article How we think about browsers shows their progressive enhancement attitude. My takes: Make fast sites: At GitHub, we believe it’s not …
Wasps nest
We have a wasps nest under the terrace roof. At first the wasps have been inside the roof and I closed the whole they were …
Rumbeck, Freienohl, Berge, Eslohe, Fretter, Meinkenbracht, Hellefeld
Road bike tour: 92 km and 1435 m up. The first half of the tour has too much traffic, I couldn´t enjoy it. The second …
Around Bad Driburg
Road bike tour: 82.16 km and 1391 m up. A very beautiful ride. Calm streets mostly but a lot of climbing. Bike Router Track GPX …
Being boring
iA has an interesting article about business presentations, titled Being Boring. The text is introducing their new coming product named Presenter. I´m quoting their claims …
Fairlight Strael Learnings
A short summary of what I´ve learned from my Fairlight Strael Build. Ride quality: The ride quality of the Strael frame is beautiful. The tall …
Meet Web Push for Safari
From the Apple intro: Bring better notifications to your websites and web apps in Safari on macOS with Web Push. We’ll show you how you …
Expanded Apple San Francisco Font Family
The system font of the Apple platforms is available for download at developer.apple.com/fonts/. There are the sans serif SF Pro, SF Mono, SF Compact, and …
Yoga for cyclists
Taylor Phinney shares the yoga poses that help him both on and off the bike: Yoga for cyclists
Why Apple Notes may be the best note taking app
Today I came across this interesting video by Steve Dotto. There are 3 features that set Apple Notes apart from most other note-taking apps: Siri …
Accessibility checklist for WCAG compliance
The A11Y project has a checklist to verify a website for WCAG compliance. This checklist targets many, but not all level A and AA concerns. …
cached-commit-date
A npm package to get the latest commit date for a given file path. As getting the commit date is a time consuming step (like …
Fairlight Strael Build Log
A Log of my Fairlight Strael Build Process
Tire pressure calculator
Calculate your optimal tire pressure based on surface, tire width, wheel diameter, tire type, avg. speed, and weight distribution on your bike, with the Silca …
markdown-it-cooklang
A markdown-it plugin that provides an incomplete implementation of cooklang.org. I used the logic for a different thing than a cooking recipe. Instead, I described …
We want peace on earth
Emil created this sign in the Kindergarten. He has seen news about the war in the Ukraine together with us.
Fairlight Strael Build Notes
I´m building up a new road bike with a Fairlight Strael steel frame. Here is my thought process for choosing the parts.
Understanding the War in Ukraine
Bret Devereaux is providing a lot of perspective with his article Understanding the War in Ukraine.
Übungen gegen Knieschmerzen beim Radfahren
Übungen gegen Knieschmerzen beim Radfahren: Das hilft! YouTube
Bike gearing calculator
Use bikecalc.com to calculate the best chainring/sprocket combinations for your speed and cadence and what your speed will be at various cadences.
Building like it's 1984. A comprehensive guide to creating intuitive context menus.
An extensive guide by Michael Villar. It contains a lot of examples showing what good context menus are about.
smard.de
smard.de ist die von der Bundesnetzagentur betriebene Plattform zur Veranschaulichung der Stromerzeugung und des Strommarktes in Deutschland.
How to change an inner tube
Follow the two principles: create slack into the tire and work towards the valve! An incredibly well made YouTube video about how to change a …
Monochrome house
Emil found a black felt-tip pen. The desk that was under the painting is now also black and white.
The doll
Emil made it in the Kindergarten. It is not a voodoo puppet.
Cooklang
This is brilliant. Cooklang, a language for personal cooking recipe management. Here’s how the Cooklang ecosystem makes that happen: All recipes are human-readable text files. …
Monday morning
It´s Monday morning 7 am and I want to kick work off. This is what my desk looks like. Emils weekend drawing at my working …
markdown-it-trimmer
A markdown-it plugin to trim some whitespace from the resulting markup. The trimming occurs during the rendering process of the markup. Opening list items with …
Manrope
Manrope, by Mikhail Sharanda, is a free and variable sans serif font. It might be interesting for screen interface and fast load times, because it …
Soylent Green is 2022
Do you remember that movie? This is a film poster of Soylent Green with Charlton Heston. It´s from 1973 and the story play is in …
Training materials for the seahorse badge
24 Dec 2021 Emil´s swim goggles, a diving ring, and soap. The training materials we need to get him the seahorse badge. That´s our project …
SVGOMG
To optimize SVG´s easily, Jake Archibald made SVGOMG to be The missing GUI of SVGO In the demo of SVGOMG you can see an 8.54k …
Happy Holidays 2021
Drawing of a family with a Christmas tree and presents.
Google Font Icons
Only recently I learned that Google Fonts hosts a set of free Material Icons. You can have them as SVG, PNG and of course as …
Unobtrusive and smart Sticky Footer
It is as simple as html, body { height: 100%;}body > footer { position: sticky; top: 100vh;} Silvio Rosa made a CodePen about it, which …
Fonts Knowledge
The Google Fonts Knowledge library of original guides to the world of typography contains articles about Introducing type Choosing type Using type There is a …
Privacy trumps metrics
A web user’s need for privacy trumps our need for analytics. This is especially the case for people with disabilities, who rightly don’t want their …
Two kites
Inspired by Emil´s kite-steering unicorn, my colleague Rike, who is sitting next to me, drew even two kites. Rike, of course.
The Christmas Collection
Christmas Tree Snowman Heart Castle
How to Avoid Death by PowerPoint
David Phillips, How to Avoid Death by PowerPoint My takes from the presentation: One message per slide (not more). With more than one message per …
Learn Responsive Design
Learn Responsive Design is A course exploring all aspects of responsive design. Learn how to make sites that look great and work well for everyone. …
Zusätzlich abgehängt
Die Schere zwischen arm und reich geht immer weiter auf. Aber kaum einer sagt, was das für Kinder bedeutet. Carolin und Christoph Butterwegge wissen es.
Use Visual Studio Code in the Browser
How great is that? Now we can use VS Code in the Browser by navigating to vscode.dev. It´s possible to create and edit documents in …
Axiomatic CSS and Lobotomized Owls
* + * Read Axiomatic CSS and Lobotomized Owls, an article by Heydon Pickering about creating vertical rhythm with very little CSS.
Inclusive Components Pattern Library
A blog trying to be a pattern library, with a focus on inclusive design. Each post explores a common interface component and comes up with …
The Alt Tour
Watch Lachlan Morton riding The Alt Tour to Paris.
18 days, 5509 km, 66831 m of climbing, 225 hrs of riding.
::before and ::after
::before and ::after add a first child before the other children and a last child after the other children of the element. Rachel Andrew, How …
A smiling unicorn steering a kite with its horn
HTML with Superpowers
It has to have a hyphen in it. Dave Rupert Excellent slide deck by Dave Rupert about Web Components. Find the deck on Notist. Within …
Expandable sections within a CSS Grid (Quickview)
Kev Bonett gives an excellent example of how to style expandable CSS Grid sections with only some lines of CSS. Check out his CSS-Tricks article. …
Tour Divide
Lael Wilcox trying to ride the Tour Divide, 2750 miles, in under 14 days. A Rapha Gone Racing film on youtube.
Analysis and design are about making sure we understand, and are solving, problems
My notes from Rich Hickey´s talk Hammock Driven Development: There is no guarantee that if you put together a feature list, even if coming from …
The hairy guy
Hairs are made with a straw
Checkbox webcam filter
Bryan Braun created a webcam filter out of HTML checkboxes. Try by yourself at webcam-test. It´s part of his checkboxland."Checkboxland is a JavaScript library for …
Early sunday morning, walkride with Emil
Onboard the Transcontinental Race
Onboard the Transcontinental Race from Ahstudio Filmmakers on Vimeo.
Two castle ghosts having fun flying around
Quetzalcoatlus and others
Flying and walking dino´s
Data URL Generator to create a URL out of a small data object
Data URL Generator Tool by David Wilkinson. Upload a file, provide a URL, or a text, and the tool will create a URI that contains …
Early morning before starting work off
Having a quick walk to start into the day.
Bundestagswahl 2021
Die SPD ist nach dieser Wahl die stärkste Kraft. Nach einem Wahlkampf, der in bezug auf die Klimakrise meiner Meinung nach oberflächlich und durch Positionen …
Sketch of a pirate
Objectified
Objectified from Film First on Vimeo. Objectified Bonus Footage from Film First on Vimeo.
Hauptzweck der Erneuerung von Infrastruktur ist, die Leute reich zu machen, die sie in Auftrag geben oder bauen
Mit Krieg geht es immer schlimmer aus, als man denkt
Three hedgehogs
One of these has six legs. But all of them are smiling :-).
Fairy with wings
The stripling man with a black forest cherry tart
Emil visited the black forest and the cherry tarts impressed him to a great extent! It´s not clear where the stripling man is coming from. …
A walk before dinner
How beautiful the place is where we are living now. I step out of the door and it takes only a short walk to be …
A Pirate
Bike Geo´s
Geometries of bikes I find interesting. For comparison my reference is the Rose XEON TEAM GF 57 road marathon bike, which I´m riding for multiple …
Alphabet
At the age of five, Emil for the first time is writing down the alphabet.
Waldbegeisterung
Gerald Klamer is hiking 6000 km through the forests of Germany, mostly also spending his nights in the woods. He writes about his journey at …
Lunch walk in our beautiful home area
Flexbox sizing mental model
The following explanation from Anna Monus is taken out of A Comprehensive Guide to Flexbox Sizing and I find Anna´s text most helpful. Anna has …
Working on grid layout
Emil is colorizing the columns of a newspaper. Maybe to provide a more pleasant reading experience? The resulting grid looks interesting.
Archiv Deutsches Atomerbe
Archiv Deutsches Atomerbe. "Mehr als 60 Jahre Atomforschung und Atomenergienutzung in Deutschland und fast ebenso lange dauert die gesellschaftliche Auseinandersetzung darum. Die Anti-Atom-Bewegung hat Geschichte …
Bilder, die bleiben
Comics als Medium von Journalismus und Reportage: Bilder, die bleiben. der Freitag Nr. 28, 15. Juli 2021. Am Ende des Artikels ist eine kleine Bibliothek …
A name plate for my room
Emil wanted to write "Papa" but somehow the characters swapped.
My favorite HIIT workouts
Please also check favorite yoga flows. Bauch HIIT Workout | 15 Minuten Core & Abs Toned Arms, Abs & Back Workout Fat Burning HIIT Workout …
Colorful homes
Three peaks and in between
Three Peaks & In Between from Stephan Wieser on Vimeo.
On our home route
Pre-work morning ride
7:30 in the morning, riding Paderborn plateau with my mountain bike.
HTML elements reference
The MDN Web Docs HTML elements „…are grouped by function to help you find what you have in mind easily. An alphabetical list of all …
House with rainbow
sotable
Make any HTML table sortable
Using TextEdit as default git editor on a Mac
As a default editor for git you want something that opens up fast and is fairly simple to use. On my Mac I believe this …
The green rooftop
Yesterday our two flat roofs received their sedum sprouts. The quality work has been carried out by Gartenbau Beil. Now I´m curious to see it …
Syncthing
Syncthing is a tool to synchronize multiple folders between different computers with same or different operating systems. It is open source, the synchronized data is …
Eleventy starter project for WCAG reports
Hidde de Vries describes his Eleventy starter project for Web Content Accessibility (WCAG) reports, which is published on GitHub as eleventy-wcag-reporter. The basic idea is …
Get the version of any npm package in JavaScript
Getting the version of a different package Getting the version of your current package Getting the version of a different package # The version of …
Anatomy of a typeface
Do you know about Aperture, Arm, Bowl, Counter, Hairline, and the like? Anatomy of a typeface is a visual explanation of the terms which allow …
Die Pflanzen und ihre Rechte
Die Pflanzen und ihre Rechte – Eine Charta zur Erhaltung unserer Natur von Stefano Mancuso. Ohne Pflanzen überlebt nichts auf unserem Planeten, der über nur …
Design systems for everyone
Ethan Marcotte has four new courses on design systems, available for free at Aquent Gymnasium. These are my notes about the excellent first course, Design …
Remove unwanted scrollbars
Detect CSS Overflow Elements is a tiny hack by David Walsh to detect the root cause of unwanted scrollbars on a web page. Use the …
Found Color
Found Color is an exploration of accidental color schemes, curated by Eighth Day.
Remove git history
Make the current working directory into the only commit and remove the complete git history. Found on stackoverflow. git checkout --orphan newBranchgit add -A # …
Uniwidth typefaces for interface design
Uniwidth is not the same as monospace! Monospace is non-proportional, meaning each letter occupies the same amount of space. Uniwidth is proportionally spaced, meaning each …
Web Interface Handbook
The Web Interface Handbook „is a book about the fundamentals of creating a good web interface. You will find out how to make effective forms, …
CSS Tips
CSS Tips by Marko Denic is a compilation of things that can be done with CSS. It contains A typing effect drop-shadow for transparent images …
Zippel the castle ghost is flying around
Practicing Yoga
This is Emils understanding of what it´s about when his father is practicing Yoga.
One of our circles through nature
Now that spring is coming our daily excursions are even more joyful.
Edit on GitHub for an 11ty powered website
Adding a link to edit the contents of any page for an 11ty powered website on GitHub is simpler than I thought.[1] Example: <a href="https://github.com/ulfschneider/11ty.ulf.codes/edit/master/./content/posts/2021-04-27-edit-on-github-11ty.md">Edit …
Fliewatuut chased by airplanes
Letter for iA Writer
An iA Writer template to create letters with correctly positioned address fields.
What Emil calls a graffiti
Form design
Form design by Geri Reid is a comprehensive compilation of best practices for accessible HTML forms. Geri´s site is beautiful, too.
The daily ride to the Kindergarten
Emil sitting in his Bullit. We have the bike for nearly five years now and we had – and still have – many beautiful hours …
Kai
Today I received the sad message about the passing of a colleague, my former manager, Kai Knebel. He has left behind his wife Barbara and …
The fairy flies through the skylight of the house
System fonts
Iain Bean writes in his article System fonts don’t have to be ugly about system fonts vs. web fonts. He is giving an overview of …
GitHub Learning Lab
The GitHub Learning Lab provides online training courses for free about DevOps, GitHub Actions, Languages and Tools, and GitHub 😃.
Snow-world
Early morning on our way to the Kindergarten. Wonderful snow. Emil is excited.
How to pick a typeface for user interface and app design?
TL;DR: Make the Il1 coe test to check whether a typeface is suitable for functional text. Il1 should be easy to distinguish and the apertures …
The Pixi books
While Emil and I were doing the food shopping, he found a book stand with Pixi books.
Japanese Carpentry
Our tiny family is building a house. We are shortly before moving into the new place and I´m exhausted by the entire process. Building a …
Just write the parser
Just write the !%/* parser is one of multiple interesting notes by Tiark Rompf.
A withered flower, a flower, and krickelkrackel
Heart of gold
Traces
Thrush-traces in the snow. This might be a result of Emil and me feeding the birds.
Feeding the birds
A thrush with an apple. During this winter, Emil and I started feeding the birds on our terrace.
Garamond
Georg Duffner provided an open source of EB Garamond, which is a beautiful humanist typeface, originating back to the mid 16th century. Massimo Vignelli has …
Public Sans, Arvana, and Brucker
An interesting compilation of types from Typographica. Resonating: Public Sans Arvana Brucker Public Sans # A neutral sans serif for interfaces, text, and headings by …
Weeknotes 02
Katy DeCorah´s Github read-action „…tracks the books that you’ve read by updating the _data/read.yml file in your repository.“ David Seidman on how to add commas …
Weeknotes 01
The Vignelli Canon. As Massimo Vignelli states in the introduction of the book: „…a useful instrument for a better understanding of typography in Graphic Design. …
ET Book
ET Book, the typeface used in Edward Tufte’s books. Free webfont! It is used for example by Jeremy Keith in his Resilient Web Design. A …
Went with the bike into the snow
Beautiful high beech forest around Neuenbeken Typical Paderborn plateau Me, enjoying nature
Resilient Web Design
Resilient Web Design by Jeremy Keith Resilient Web Design by Jeremy Keith is a pleasure to read. Jeremy has put together context and concept for …
Early morning on our way to the Kindergarten and it´s snowing
Emil writing his name in the snow. It´s on the engine hood of my car and Emil asked "Are we allowed to do that?" Not …
Weeknotes 53
Learned from the Accessible Footnotes article, there is a :target pseudo-class in CSS that allows to select and to style a targeted element on a …
Santa claus with four legs
A tree
markdown-it-scrolltable
A markdown-it plugin to wrap any <table> into a <div> for horizontal scrolling on narrow screens. Examples Install Usage Examples # Column | Column------ | …
Colouring picture
Letterspacing of <code> elements
Widening the letterspacing of <code> elements in the flow of text emphasizes the code-nature of the element without using a different font or a different …
Rainbow in the middle
Autumn with a colorful "Blocksberg"
Weeknotes 52
Sarah Fossheim publishes her new project website ethicaldesign.guide. „… Ethical Design Guide is made to share resources on how to create ethical products that don’t …
A family of three in the winter
Picture with a witch, a house, and flowers with red fairydust
Fairydust and green sun
Witch´s mountain
Sun, sky, trees, ladybugs
Witch´s spell
Weeknotes 51
A CSS utility class for covering elements from CSS in real life. Ellograph monospaced typeface. „Ellograph is a friendly monospaced typeface with a soft, rounded …
Viral typeface
Viral typeface. „A collaboration between four designers/illustrators, this typeface is a recipe for quarantining in 2020: a dash of paranoia, a scoop of cabin fever, …
Unconventional and free stock images
A list of unconventional and free stock images by Mel Choyce in her CSS-Tricks article: British Library (unsplash) New York Public Library The State Library …
HTML Specification
Always beneficial to to visit the root: html.spec.whatwg.org.
HTML Hell
A collection of bad practices in HTML, copied from real websites. Initiated by Manuel Matuzović and open for contributions.
Split a figure
A responsive technique of splitting a figure equally into an image (one half of the available space), and the corresponding caption (other half of the available space).
Using Trello as a Super Simple CMS
In his CSS-Tricks article, Phil describes a very nice and generic approach to use 11ty data files for fetching contents from Trello. Phil doesn´t talk …
Transform
A Rebel´s Guide for Digital Transformation
Anekdote
Anekdote is a directory celebrating great, independent businesses. These companies are not run by stockholders, layers of bureaucracy or an algorithm. They are full of …
An alphabet of accessibility issues
An Alphabet of Accessibility Issues, by Anne Gibson, is a carefully curated list of situations where proper accessibility of a web site would be in …
Nessy
Nessy, from Robbi, Tobbi, and the Fliewatuut
Impressions from Robbi, Tobbi, and the Fliewatuut
Robbi, Tobbi, and the Fliewatuut
Fairy Dust
Website evaluation tools
Any accessible website must … Tools References Any accessible website must … # use semantic-, standards-based HTML, apply accessibility best pratices (which is a wide …
Six ways to make your site more accessible
Hidde de Vries made this enumeration in this talk. Here is a quick summary. Names Markup Structure Language Text Keyboard References Names # Use link …
Our last day of open air bathing in 2020?
It´s always sad when you feel the summer is slowly coming to an end. Emil and I are trying to stretch the time.
Indicating the focused element
Focus is important for keyboard navigation Do not disable the focus outline How to style the focus indication References Focus is important for keyboard navigation …
Back to Top
A Back to Top link helps users navigate to the top (start) of long pages.
My approach to accessibility
Through a post from Ethan Marcotte I got drawn into the accessibility topic. Web accessibility, like defined by the W3C, was not on my radar …
The High Line Park
A beautiful garden above New York City that follows the principle "simple and slow."
Better Web Typography
Matej´s course on Better Web Typography is structured into seven parts which will be mailed to you, once you subscribed to the course. Matej is …
Beautiful Webtype
A beautiful, and useful site by Chad Mazzola with selected web fonts and font combinations. All open-source! Chad´s site even has an Atom feed 👏. …
13 ways designers screw up client presentations
A lively, enjoyable, and valid talk. Also, I like Mike´s slides very much. Mike Monteiro´s Keynote for Interaction Design Association. Assumptions prior to the client …
Flowing energy
The lines represent energy flows. At the mid-left side one of the flows enlights Emil´s name. At the right side is a control box for …
Damascus, USA. Der Gau.
Terrifying. Watch „Damascus, USA.“ Some quotes from the film: Nuclear weapons will always carry the risk of an unwanted detonation. It will happen: Maybe tomorrow, …
How we read
The term readability doesn´t ask simply "Can you read it?" or "How fast can you read it?" It also asks "Do you want to read …
Weeknotes 29
Utopia is an algorithm to calculate fluid type size for responsive websites. It´s made by James Gilyead and Trys Mudford. There’s no program or dependency …
We are building a house
Our weed-covered land is starting to transform. This house project might take a time of seven years in the end. We bought the property in …
Learn eleventy from scratch
Learn Eleventy From Scratch is a training made by Andy Bell. It´s a practical, well organized, and well written course that allows you to get …
Weeknotes 26
„The mystery font that took over Ney York“ is an article about Choc, a typeface designed by Roger Excoffon. Choc specimen cover, 1955. Paul Robert …
Weeknotes 25
I published markdown-it-fitmedia, a markdown-it plugin to set aspect-ratio of responsive images, make images lazy loading, and to make videos responsive. Use it in the …
Open air bathing
Open air bathing is possible again (with some corona-constraints)
How economic inequality harms societies
How economic inequality harms societies, Richard Wilkinson, TEDGlobal 2011
German Corona App
I think it´s worth installing
Man conquers the cosmos
Today I saw this picture in „der Freitag“, Nr. 24, June 4th 2020. "Man conquers the cosmos." Mosaic made by Fritz Eisel in 1972. Located …
A paderstone with beach, house and sun
How the JAMstack enables Canada´s largest food retailer
"What got us here, won´t get us there", by Justin Watts from Loblaw Loblaw is Canada´s largest retailer: 85% of Canadians shop in one of …
I am not your Negro
"Why was it necessary to have a nigger in the first place? I am not a nigger. I am a man. When I´m not a …
Bauhaus Doku in drei Teilen
Vorbereitung und Gründung, ein Film von Gisela Reich Zwischen Weimar und Berlin, ein Film von Walter Rüdel Spuren nach 50 Jahren, ein Film von Walter …
markdown-it-fitmedia
A markdown-it plugin to set aspect-ratio of responsive images, make them lazy loading, and to make videos responsive. Images Wrapping media Install Usage Configuration Images …
Weeknotes 22
Reading „The Details“ by Matthias Ott. convertacolor.com is a minimalistic yet quick way of converting hex, rgb, hsl, and cmyk colors in any direction. I …
The Details
The details are not the details; they make the product. Charles and Ray Eames Never to forget about it! I found the quote in The …
Frauen, seid dankbar
Frauen, seid dankbar. Die Wirtschaftsführer haben über die Jahre einen ganz eigenen Tonfall entwickelt, mit dem sie sich an die Öffentlichkeit wenden: etwas zwischen Drohen …
The first ever website
The first ever website, Tim Berners-Lee´s original home page for the Word Wide Web. Responsive and fast.
My favorite Yoga flows
Please also check favorite HIIT workouts. Yoga Ganzkörper Flow | Bauch, Beine & Balance | 30 Minuten für Kraft & Stabilität Yoga Bauch Workout Intensiv …
Fluid videos with my adaption of FitVids
Embedded videos are not automatically responsive or fluid. They come with a fixed setting for width and height. To make them responsive while keeping aspect …
The 10 Principles of Good Design
Dieter Rams The 10 Principles of Good Design as stated by Dieter Rams: Good design is innovative. The possibilities for innovation are not, by any …
Weeknotes 18
This week I pushed my little website a step further by enhancing the service worker to pre-cache selected pages and by runtime-caching images as well …
Helvetica
See what is in the Helvetica typeface. Listen to interesting typographer personalities, like for example Matthew Carter, who designed Georgia for Microsoft: „When I start …
Google Webfonts Helper
Mario Ranftl has written the Google Webfonts Helper, which makes self-hosting Google fonts as simple as it can be. The service worker of my website …
Weeknotes 17
I´ve created my first service worker and turned my website into a Progressive Web App 💪. After doing precaching for static resources (JavaScript, CSS, Google …
Helvetica Bonus Footage
As Gary Hustwit is currently giving his films for free, I watched his Helvetica Bonus Footage this week. You´re getting to see some very interesting …
Social distancing while protesting
A photo taken by Tomer Appelbaum, showing thousands of Israelis maintain social distancing while protesting Natanyahu in Tel Aviv´s Rabin sq. I took the photo …
Going Offline (book)
Going Offline by Jeremy Keith Going Offline is following the same agenda as Jeremy does in his talk. Of course, the book provides more background …
Weeknotes 16
Emil draws „Ladybirds, fairy dust, and witches on witches broomsticks.“ As of this week, Germany has 138,221 infected people and 4,098 people died on COVID-19. …
Going Offline (video)
With Going offline, Jeremy Keith is giving an excellent talk about how to turn a website into a Progressive Web App (PWA). A PWA is …
Less, but better – Rams
Rams is a documentary by filmmaker Gary Hustwit about the legendary designer Dieter Rams. For decades, Dieter Rams was leading the design department of Braun, …
Making use of old paper
Ladybirds, fairy dust, and witches on witches broomsticks
Today is my birthday, and Emil made this drawing for me
Weeknotes 15
Emil discovers the luxury of whitespace. Kristian Lumme describes the collaborative approach of Fournova, who are the makers of Tower for Git. Article „How We …
Newspaper designs during the pandemic
Some remarkable newspaper designs I got aware of via Twitter. Michael Bierut pointed me towards the handwritten front page designs of the New York Times. …
Website accessibility got worse
Dave Rupert made me aware with his tweet: The average website accessibility got worse during the last twelve months! This is according to the WebAIM …
Emil discovers the luxury of whitespace
Weeknotes 14
Emil draws „Snakes with Poison Dots.“ Max Böck published a boilerplate Emergency Website Kit, which, especially these days, aims to provide a quick way to …
Progressive Web Apps – Where Do I Begin?
Progressive Web Apps – Where Do I Begin? is not mainly about the Service Worker. Aaron is pointing out that a Progressive Web App aims …
Snakes with Poison Dots
Into the Personal-Website-Verse
Into the Personal-Website-Verse is a plea for personal websites from Matthias Ott. Excellent stuff! Read it!
Weeknotes 13
Write personal: „Into the Personal-Website-Verse“ is a plea for personal websites from Matthias Ott. „Advice from Ten Years of Leading Remote Teams“ from Greg Storey. …
How to flatten the curve
„How outbreaks like Coronavirus spread exponentially, and how to ´flatten the curve´.“
The Coronavirus
The gnarly thing has an evil core, thorns, and a tiny head with teeth all through the head.
Weeknotes 12
Emil pictured the virus. I get the case counts from The Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center. At the end of this week we are counting …
This is a web page
At its heart, web design should be about words. Words don’t come after the design is done. Words are the beginning, the core, the focus. …
The Birth of Inter
In „The Birth of Inter“ Rasmus Andersson is explaining his (work)flow and tool usage while developing Inter, a beautiful sans-serif typeface designed for reading text …
Weeknotes 11
This guy Jack McDade knows how to design a web page. Jack made Justin Jackson´s page, which I think is an exceptional piece of work. …
Weeknotes 10
Watched „Thereabouts 3: Discovering Colombia“ again. It´s the best of the series. I can recommend this film for anyone who is into cycling. Restarted my …
Thereabouts 3 – Discovering Colombia
Thereabouts 3: Discovering Colombia from CyclingTips on Vimeo.
The Shape of Design
The Shape of Design by Frank Chimero From the The Shape of Design: … Painting’s near and far states are akin to How and Why: …
It Doesn't Have to Be Crazy at Work
From the book: Chaos should not be the natural state at work. Anxiety isn’t a prerequisite for progress. Sitting in meetings all day isn’t required …
Weeknotes 9
Signed assange-helfen. A state has been caught in a war crime and for that reason the state takes revenge on the person who helped to …
active-toc
Highlight the entries of your table of contents while scrolling
Compose CSS
Compose CSS is a personal investigation and tools-building effort. I´m trying to find out for myself what is useful to have in a CSS library …
stacked-area
A npm package to draw a SVG stacked area chart with a day-based x-axis.
cumulative-flow
A npm package to draw a SVG cumulative flow diagram and predict the anticipated completion of work.
horiz-gauge
A npm package to draw a SVG horizontal gauge. Play with the settings of the horiz-gauge by visiting the horiz-gauge playground.
somap
A npm package with a sorted map and sorted set, implemented as a binary tree.
Drawing
Breakdown for Atom
Breakdown is a package to be added to your Atom editor. It allows you to display and manipulate a breakdown structure of your Jira Scrum …
dheader
A npm package to make the header of your web pages dynamic.
Splitting User Stories
User Stories are short and simple descriptions of a feature told from the perspective of the person who desires the new capability, usually a user or customer of the system. It´s called User Story because you put the user into focus. Therefore a User Story should lead to a product increment that can be seen valuable from the user- or business perspective.
The balanced organization
The agile manifesto defines a collaboration culture. But what if your current environment is not collaborative? This article describes alternatives for moving into the agile direction.
Tracker
File your workout routines and get a nice graphical overview of your achievements and improvements.
Pocket Git Guide
A short entry-level approach to Git
Spitfire
A virtual whiteboard to be shared by multiple people at the same time. Users will be anonymous – so no one needs to sign in.
Supersize
Do not let scaled agile be your scaled snake oil
Self-organization
A force of life
The agile worker
The agile worker exists because of differences between theory and reality, and because insights can be gained through these discrepancies.
The art in our work
Challenging the status quo is art
Five dysfunctions of a team
A non-performing team is not a team
Definition of Done
A contract to begin your agile journey with
Scrum and Architecture
Cooperatively making architecture decisions, at a point in time when they are needed, and not earlier, is a quality-improving paradigm in agile software development. Conceptual integrity in the flow of architecture decisions will only be achieved if one person has the final word regarding those decisions. This is the architect, whose rights and obligations in the context of the Scrum process are being reflected in this essay.
The Box-Bullet-Line (BBL)
Many important aspects of software development are invisible. When creating software we work through different abstraction layers by analyzing symbols and writing code.
A Sprint is not a milestone
A Sprint is a sensor that allows us to see what has been done, what impediments are in our way and how we did better in comparison to previous Sprints.