Style Guide
A few people I know have a style guide for their blog/website, so here are my thoughts on a Style Guide for this site. Read more on the site…
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Museum + guestbooks
I was at one of the local museums last weekend, because it was the last day of their exhibit on "clouds in art", that I'd been wanting to check out since March. At the museum, I took pictures using a kids camera that instantly prints on thermal paper. I got this because Max had one at IWC Nürnberg and I thought it was cool — he also has a cool post about a thermal printer camera project ,…
I just finished War and Peace, here are some thoughts
On my 22nd birthday, two years ago, I had a pretty pleasant day. I don't really remember what about it was good, I probably had an enjoyable task at work and a good time with collegues; and in my good mood, I also went down to the book shop right outside my workplace and picked up War and Peace. The cashier made a little comment as he scanned the book, apparently impressed or surprised. Why'd I…
How my images are dithered
I don't know much about dithering. But when I visit other people's sites and they dither their images in cool ways I always wonder how they do it. So in case anyone is wondering, here's my current method for dithering these pink images. Edit: Almost like I know myself too well — the pictures now look like this instead: Which is covered in the post. Read more on the site…
One week of using Plan 9
This was posted at about 01:30am so it's probably full or errors but whatever I never back out of writing a post all in one go. If I've spoken to you in the past week, I probably mentioned playing around with Plan 9 . After getting an old PC on ebay for 30€ (~40€ with shipping) I thought "if I was ever going to install this, now is the time". Shout out to Matt for the hint of what to look for to…
Why I don't use AI
Here's an attempt to answer questions I get about why I don't use AI, and any more I could think of that may also arise. I'll try to get into it as honestly as possible, without just falling back on "it sucks and is bad" and leaving it at that. Read more on the site…
A computer that's just a keyboard, no screen
Oh you mean like with audio output instead Nope. No output at all. Just input. With the keyboard. Why Short answer: why not? Long answer: James floated this idea at IWC / BTconf of a PC that's just a keyboard for taking notes; and I said that's totally doable and probably not hard at all to do, since computers that are inside a keyboard already exist. So here's me putting my money where my mouth…
Why should I care?
Today was a really nice and sunny day, so I went out with some friends from uni. We went to a Café (no shops open on International Workers' Day) and decided to go to the museum next to it because museums are free with our student ticket thing. The main exhibit in the museum atm is " WOMEN IN THE DARK " by Franziska Greber ; an exhibit about misogyny and violence. Not very fun and whimsical, like…
IndieWeb Book Club: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
Posted to Indienews I'm hosting the IndieWeb Book Club for next month. I've picked the first fiction book so far: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency by Douglas Adams. Wikipedia | OpenLibrary What do a dead cat, a computer whiz-kid, an electric monk who believes the world is pink, quantum mechanics, a chronologist more than 200 years old, Samual Taylor Coleridge (poet), and pizza have in…
Running my first fanzine
Share of Doctor Who fanzine: In All But Name Last year for Doctor Who's birthday (23.11.1963, for the uninitiated) I uploaded a fanzine I'd organized to the internet archive. The PDF is in DIN A4 format and has 100 pages, with fanworks from 30ish people. The journey there began almost a year before, in December 2024. I have to give a huge shoutout to the other people who helped me organize the…