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 :-).
Things I come across from day to day.
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 …
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 exited.
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.
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.
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 between …
Weeknotes 01
ET Book, a webfont of the typeface used in Edward Tufte’s books. Free! It is used for example by Jeremy Keith in his Resilient Web …
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 …
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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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 of New South …
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 about …
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?
Emil alone in the open-air pool
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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 …
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“The mystery font that took over Ney York” is an article about Choc, a typeface designed by Roger Excoffon. Choc specimen cover, …
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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
German Corona App
The German Corona-Warn-App is unique because the code is open source, there is no obligation to install it, and central data processing is limited to what is necessary …
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.
My favorite Yoga flows
Yoga Ganzkörper Flow | Bauch, Beine & Balance | 30 Minuten für Kraft & Stabilität Yoga Bauch Workout Intensiv | 15 Minuten Core & Abs für …
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 means, exhausted. …
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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 …
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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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. A …
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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 …
An RSS feed for GitHub Pages
RSS is a good thing. It simplifies to overview information that is produced by potentially many different sources. If someone has an RSS feed on …
Weeknotes 13
Write personal: “Into the Personal-Website-Verse” is a plea for personal websites from Matthias Ott. That gets a ★. “Advice from Ten Years of Leading Remote Teams” …
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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 …
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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. …
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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 …
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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 …