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 …
Things I come across from day to day.
Lunch walk in our beautiful home area
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 geschrieben. …
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 der …
On our home route
Pre-work morning ride
7:30 in the morning, riding Paderborn plateau with my mountain bike.
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 sent peer-to-peer, …
Found Color
Found Color is an exploration of accidental color schemes, curated by Eighth Day.
One of our circles through nature ★
Now that spring is coming our daily excursions are even more joyful.
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 with it :-).
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 …
Snow-world
Early morning on our way to the Kindergarten. Wonderful snow. Emil is exited.
The Pixi books
While Emil and I were doing the food shopping, he found a book stand with Pixi books.
Feeding the birds
A thrush with an apple. During this winter, Emil and I started feeding the birds on our terrace.
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. …
Went with the bike into the snow
Beautiful high beech forest around Neuenbeken Typical Paderborn plateau Me, enjoying nature
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 …
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 …
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 construction …
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 …
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.
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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 …
Weeknotes 26
“The mystery font that took over Ney York” is an article about Choc, a typeface designed by Roger Excoffon. Choc specimen cover, …
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)
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 at …
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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 migrated my …
The first ever website
The first ever website, Tim Berners-Lee´s original home page for the Word Wide Web. Responsive and fast.
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 …
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 …
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. Four …
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 Work.” Stretchy …
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 publish …
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 …
How to flatten the curve
“How outbreaks like Coronavirus spread exponentially, and how to ´flatten the curve´.”
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 22.000 …
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 sports …
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 …