It was time to see Versengold again… and for the first time in my hometown of Wiesbaden. It’s great when it only takes a 10-minute bus ride to see your favorite band. Earlier this year, the guys released their ninth studio album, and it rightfully climbed straight to the top of the German album charts. We’ve seen...

I’m 57 and currently hooked on stickers, and AI isn’t entirely innocent in this, combined with a bit of a guilty conscience - but it’s a lot of fun. I recently “retired” my old business laptop after just two short years, with a battery life of 28 minutes after a full charge, and somehow I felt sorry, because the...

Over the past month of March, I’ve collected 22 links for my link journal. 2026-03-04 Light-Dark Theme with Relative Colors codepen.io CSS Colors A "zero-maintenance" theme switcher for the New Colors challenge. It uses a single brand color to automatically generate an entire light and dark theme... 2026-03-04...

It seems like fate that James chose Museum Memories of this month’s Indieweb Carnival, because just recently, by chance, I visited one of the most impressive places from my childhood after more than 40 years: the Deutsches Museum in Munich. My wife and I had traveled to the Bavarian capital for a rock concert by the...

It’s not every day that one of our favourite bands tours Germany and brings along guests that we like just as much. We last saw Alter Bridge in Frankfurt 2016 and had never seen Daughtry before. So there was no question about whether we would go to Munich. Of course we would. And since the concert was on Friday...

Over the past month of February, I’ve collected 11 links for my link journal. 2026-02-07 Drawing Connections with CSS Anchor Positioning rolandfranke.nl CSS A practical exploration of CSS Anchor Positioning and the anchor() function to visually connect related elements without extra markup. 2026-02-07 Honoring...

When I read about this month’s Indieweb Carnival topic (Intersecting Interests by Zachary Kai), I initially misunderstood ‘intersecting’ as interests that cross paths and thus get in the way, but what is meant is rather overlapping interests. As a non-native English speaker, I lack a feel for the nuances of the...

This text accurately reflects the main problem with AI: We are gradually losing our cognitive abilities, because we are ceasing to train our biggest muscle: the brain. “Vibe coding” satisfies the Builder. It feels great to see to pass from idea to reality in a fraction of a time that would take otherwise. But it has...

Over the past month of January, I’ve collected 7 links for my link journal. 2026-01-09 Building an IndieAuth Comment System for Your Static Site brennan.day IndieWeb Authentication A journey through authentication, CORS issues, and the joy of owning your comments! Learn how to build a comment system for your static...

We try to have as much fun as possible in the department, because everyday life is hard enough. A quick-witted and funny response not only immediately lights up conversations, it also helps to create a good working atmosphere in general. Laughter is medicine for everything. I usually can’t write about funny business...

I don’t often participate in the IndieWeb Carnival. The last thing I contributed was in November 2024 with my post You will never know whose butterfly you were on the topic of “Impact.” Maybe I should do it more often, because it’s really exciting to read other people’s posts on the same topic. Different opinions...

On my /stats page, I used the wonderful web component activity-graph to implement an Activity Graph that displays my posts over the entire lifetime of my blog. Now, as is common in Western cultures, the graph starts on the left side and is displayed horizontally. This means that the most recent and interesting...