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Overrated: Making predictions by extrapolating a history of data points.
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The higher your post frequency, the lower your reach. Imagine algorithms on social platforms would work like that. Rewarding long thought processes and punishing lazy thoughts
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I’m part of a book, even a whole chapter. 😮 And you can read the chapter and all others for free! 📖 I’m one of the few people, who are really lucky to enjoy democratic freedom at my workplace. Therefore I’m super happy, that I could share my experience of working at Mein Grundeinkommen and my perspective on democratic business design in the new book Doughnut Economics for Regenerative Business…
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In a previous note I was complaining about light-dark() not supporting images. As it turns out, this seems to have come up a lot, and now the function will be extended to also support image types . Great news! 🥳
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Tech reporting has become so bad with LLMs, that proof of concept weekend projects now become big headlines in major media outlets. It’s ridiculous.
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Today I realised that inline JavaScript inside the <head> can change the state of whatever comes in the <body> — even before the HTML is parsed, and without blocking it! Instead of deferring the execution of JavaScript after the <body> is parsed (by using defer/type="module" , waiting for the DOMContentLoaded event or by moving the JS before the closing </body> tag), one can instead use CSS…
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New year, new font! Last year I chose speed over quality and used system fonts on my website. With the LLM-industry pushing “speed over quality” in all areas of our lives, I decided to oppose that and do the opposite. In 2026 my website loads a webfont again! And it was created by a real creative human being. Federico Parra Barrios was inspired by the old metal plaques that can be found everywhere…
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Finally removed the last mention of that single letter plattform from my employer’s website. I kept bringing it up and now it’s done. Today was a good day.
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On January 13, 2026 Firefox 147 will be released, which means all stable versions of browser engines will support CSS anchor positioning. Therefore I gave it a try and was happily surprised how easy the API is and how quickly I could implement the layouts I had in mind. At least until I tested my creation in Safari, which again spoiled the fun: I wanted to implement a tooltip, which was quickly…
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TIL: Cross document view transitions currently break, if view-transition-name is set on a <picture> element in Safari (26.0.1). This is the error that appeared in the dev tools console: InvalidStateError: Multiple elements found with view-transition-name: some-name This error can be fixed by declaring view-transition-name on the <img> element inside the picture tag.
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I think it’s wrong, that light-dark() in CSS only works with colors. When the decision was made to add syntactic sugar for (prefers-color-scheme: dark) , which allows passing different values at the point of definition, why did they choose to only allow it for colors? This breaks the shorthand for common use cases like changing the background-image based on the color scheme. And that also means,…
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I simplified the navigation on my website even further. I liked the previous design of having the navigation in the footer, since it then doubled as a suggestion to further explore the site after reading the main content. But my navigation size is quite small and I prefer categorizing the content in parent pages anyway. That’s why I now decided toput the navigation at the top of the page. No…
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Anyone, who says AI only fails, if it’s used “in a wrong way”, just reveals a lack of understanding about what non-deterministic means.
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With most traffic coming from mobile devices and therefore small screens, are there any websites that have put “desktop” styles in a separate file and only load it, if the media query matches? Something like this? <link href="big-screens.css" media="(min-width: 800px)" > This would remove render blocking by desktop styles when mobile devices visit the website. They are still being downloaded, but…
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I’ve simplified my website’s navigation structure. While I liked the idea of showing everything upfront, the big navigation was also overwhelming. With everything happening right now, I don’t want my website to feel overwhelming. I want the web to feel calm and my personal website is one of the places, which I control and where I can directly contribute to that. Therefore I started by moving the…
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Last time I wrote about my personal keyboard journey , I considered buying a Voyager from ZSA. Today I can tell you that I actually did buy the Voyager and am now completely inside the rabbit hole of ergonomic and fast typing. If you are new to the whole keyboard scene like me, ordering an ergonomic keyboard comes with quite a few unknowns. I didn’t know if my choice of key switches is correct,…
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The fear marketing campaign of the AI industrial complex continues. Latest example is the GitHub CEO claiming, that reading code is the same as writing it. “Embrace AI or get out” is quite a desperate marketing slogan.
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I’ve simplified my website’s layout on bigger screens to put more focus on the content of the current page. On my bookmarks page , the table of bookmarks now fills the whole screen width. The new layout also allowed me to add a little footer at the bottom of the site, which in my experience can add a personal touch to websites. I should probably add my RSS feed links there too. While I was at it,…
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When AI companies find out about making money via advertising: Watch this ad to get 10 more prompts
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I’m currently on the journey of finding the next keyboard for me. In the past years I’ve been using the Microsoft Sculpt Ergonomic keyboard , which seems to have been discontinued. My goal is to improve my typing accuracy and speed, have my arms rest in a natural position, reduce hand and finger movements and get a product that lasts for a long time. I have tried the Nocfree Lite , which is a…