Every now and then, when my sweetheart and I go on a day trip in the region, I sling my camera over my shoulder in the hope of capturing a beautiful scene or two. Last year was no exception. Often, however, I don’t get around to reviewing and editing the photos, but I have now caught up on three events from 2025....

Four years ago, I made this blog fit for IndieWeb. The most important part for me was the integration of Webmentions, which are mainly automated “pings” sent from one website to another, telling the latter: “Hey, I mentioned your post ABC in my post XYZ.” Such a connection between two blogs is certainly not the same...

I’ve known for a while that I want to add a statistics page to my blog. Just for the fun of tinkering with code, without any deeper reason. In the summer, I wrote down my ideas on a few Obsidian pages and looked around to see what options were available for data visualization. It’s nicer and more intuitive to...

Today, we had a visit from an animal that is quite rare in a city, a Gray Heron, which probably needed to inspect our neighbour’s little fish pond with the Kois. What a beauty …

I ‘ve found 2025 to be a particularly difficult and challenging year, quite apart from the political madness that is unfolding in so many parts of the world and which cannot leave a political person like me unaffected. No, even on a personal level, I will not forget this past year. Starting with my return from an...

While preparing this new AppDefaults post for the passing year 2025, I took a look back at the two previous posts from 2023 and 2024 and find it exciting to see how my behavior has gradually changed over time. A slight shift away from the tools offered by large American companies towards small European alternatives...

Since I decided in 2019 to use the static site generator (SSG) Hexo as the foundation for my blog, I have been struggling with the fact that it works with the CSS preprocessor Stylus via a pre-installed plugin. I thought I just needed some time to get used to the simplified but unfamiliar notation and take advantage...

I have been working with OpenStreetMap for a while now from the developers’ perspective, who can use it to conjure up attractive maps, such as my Photo Map, on the web free of charge. However, I am not part of the community, nor have I given much thought to where all the data comes from and how it finds its way into...

Recently, I was greatly inspired by Roma Komarov to add another, audible layer to my blog posts… At the beginning of the month, I complained to myself in my post Stoned Jesus, Bandcamp and the Necessity of Music that I hardly listen to music anymore, even though it seems to help me in stressful times. Just as I...

Earlier this year, my sweetie and I made a little trip to nearby Strasbourg. Not only because I really like the city and its French flair (she has never been there before), but also because I had never set foot in the European Parliament (EP) before. The people there have a big influence on our lives with their...

A few months ago, in my post Using GitHub as Commenting Platform, 2025 Edition, I explained how GitHub Issues can be used quite easily as a commenting platform: Create a GitHub issue for each post that contains at least the post URL Add a syndication link to the issue on the post page Let Brid.gy and Webmention.io...

Since yesterday, I know why I’ve been feeling like something’s been missing. For months, I’ve been trying to deal with work stress by finding little or larger distractions that calm my brain down a bit, take my mind off things, and release some of the happiness hormones. Unfortunately, I was on the path of short...