As I looked through the more than 1,600 photos from our Sweden vacation and edited the best ones in Lightroom, I noticed how fitting the colors of the Swedish flag are. Blue and Yellow. The colors of the sky on a beautiful sunny day, and they are reflected in many of the pictures in the series. But as with my...

For a new section of my blog, I’ve been experimenting a bit with CSS over the past few weeks to find the right layout. Even though I’m not using the following snippet, I want to save my future self from having to research again how to rotate an element with inline CSS in a narrow range around 0: style="rotate: <%#-...

Before my sweetheart and I went to Sweden for a two-week relaxing holiday in August this year, I had honestly never looked into the geographical particularities of the area around Stockholm. All I knew was that they have a lot of water and boats there. I was familiar with the skerries and the tens of thousands of...

3 October is a public holiday in Germany: Unity Day. As it fell on a Friday this year, my wife and I had a relaxed 2.5-hour journey to Stuttgart to see our favourite band, DISTURBED on their 25th Sickness Anniversary Tour. What we didn’t realise, however, was that Europe’s second-largest folk festival, the...