I like these things especially.
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 …
Mit Krieg geht es immer schlimmer aus, als man denkt
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.
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, …
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 einen …
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 …
One of our circles through nature
Now that spring is coming our daily excursions are even more joyful.
Practicing Yoga
This is Emils understanding of what it´s about when his father is practicing Yoga.
Form design
Form design by Geri Reid is a comprehensive compilation of best practices for accessible HTML forms. Geri´s site is beautiful, too.
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.
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 a …
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 …
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 text that …
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.
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 presentation: The work …
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 …
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
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 …
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 Details by …
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. …
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 …
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 and …
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, …
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 …
Into the Personal-Website-Verse
Into the Personal-Website-Verse is a plea for personal websites from Matthias Ott. Excellent stuff! Read it!
The Coronavirus
The gnarly thing has an evil core, thorns, and a tiny head with teeth all through the head.
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. …
Thereabouts 3 – Discovering Colombia
Thereabouts 3: Discovering Colombia from CyclingTips on Vimeo.