Using Trello as a Super Simple CMS
Phil Hawskworth, CSS-Tricks, 2020
Blog tagged journal
Things I come across from day to day.
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 a little bit sad when you feel the summer is slowly coming to an end. Emil and I are trying to stretch the time.
Swim Skills
Training videos for essential swim skills
We are building a house
Our weed-covered land is starting to transform. This house project might take a time of nearly ten years in the end. We bought the property …
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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 …
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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, 1955. Paul Robert Lloyd, independent …
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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
Open air bathing is possible again (with some corona-constraints)
German Corona App
I think it´s worth installing
Man conquers the cosmos
Mosaic by Fritz Eisel, 1972
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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 …
My favorite Yoga flows
Yoga Ganzkörper Flow | Bauch, Beine & Balance | 30 Minuten für Kraft & Stabilität Power Vinyasa Yoga für Kraft & Willensstärke | 25 Minuten Home …
The first ever website
Tim Berners-Lee´s home page
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 …
Google Webfonts Helper ★
Mario Ranftl has written the Google Webfonts Helper, which makes self-hosting Google fonts as simple as it possibly can be. The service worker of my website …
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I´ve created my first service worker and turned my website into a Progressive Web App 💪. After doing some precaching for static resources (JavaScript, CSS, …
Social distancing while protesting
Picture by Tomer Appelbaum, 2020
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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 …
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 annual accessibility …
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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 …
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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 …