First of May is a bank holiday in Germany, this year it’s in the middle of the week and it has 25 degrees Celsius. Fantastic! The light is a little hazy because there’s a lot of Saharan dust in the air again, but what should Thomas care … he’s in the garden and I have the opportu … | Continue reading
3:5 Sunday’s home game against Fürth was the highest scoring and also my last of the season. What a spectacle and rollercoaster of emotions! I don’t think I’ve ever been so loud or so quiet in a game. The boys really got on my nerves. There’s not much to report from the run-up to … | Continue reading
It's almost impossible to keep track of all the wonderful tips and tricks about CSS, because hardly a quarter goes by without new functions being introduced by the W3C and browser manufacturers. I diligently collect everything I can find in order to try it out at some point, but … | Continue reading
Over the last few years, I have taken a lot of photos in the garden of my neighbour and friend Thomas, many of which I also use here on the blog. Thomas is a gifted gardener for me, being completely clueless in this respect, and he has a very clear idea of when to plant what and … | Continue reading
1:1 It’s weekend again and my SV Wehen-Wiesbaden, promoted to the 2nd Bundesliga last season, have to face a legendary German club: 1. FC Kaiserslautern, against whom we won 2:1 at home in the first half of the season. But now away, in Kaiserslautern, in the no less legendary Fri … | Continue reading
0:2 I still owe you the game from the weekend, in which most people probably had little expectation because it was at home against Fortuna Düsseldorf, who are currently in the relegation place for promotion to the 1st Bundesliga and are managing to keep HSV, my favourite club fro … | Continue reading
Everyone collects a lot of things over time. This applies to the basement at home, where old coffee machines in their original packaging (they’re still good and I might need them again), 3 generations of old laptops, boxes of cables (power, CAT, HDMI, USB, VGA, you name it) and t … | Continue reading
The best ideas always come to you at the most inopportune moments and places. Whereas you used to grab a piece of paper and try to capture the idea in illegible handwriting, today it is often a mobile app or a desktop application into which you hammer the most important key point … | Continue reading
0:1 Matchday in Wiesbaden! On Easter Sunday! I managed to convince my wife to drive home a little earlier from our visit to her mum so that I could get to the stadium on time and watch SV Wehen Wiesbaden pick up the all-important 3 points against bottom-placed Osnabrück. At least … | Continue reading
My wife is a childcare worker and looked after a small number of the Wiesbaden-based dwarfs aged 1 to 3 until 2022 with some very nice people, all of whom I had the honour of getting to know. Although almost all the staff from back then (like my wife) have since moved to another … | Continue reading
1:2 Matchday … and another evening game and this time against SC Paderborn, who had to endure quite a debacle (4:0) against Kiel last week, but are still knocking at the top of the table. This time I also got some extra tickets for friends and my wife, because one of them is from … | Continue reading
UI is the first building block for UX. Build a user interface that is easy to understand and use and your users will have a good experience and enjoy your website or web app. In this new edition of Discoveries (after three long months without), we look at UI elements that are wor … | Continue reading
The photo section on my blog, the main page of which I have now named COLLECTION, initially only served as an overview of the available or already used hero images for the various pages of the blog, such as posts and others. In the meantime, detailed pages for the individual phot … | Continue reading
To anticipate: I’m a fucking groupie when it comes to seeing Daniel Wirtz in action on stage. My wife (also a long-time fan) and I drove 400 and some crushed kilometres to Leipzig to see his show at the Felsenkeller. FINALLY he is back on tour with his new damn good and loud albu … | Continue reading
In Germany, especially along the Rhine, there is only one thing for many people every February: Fasching, Fastnacht, Fasnet or simply Karneval. Many terms that all mean the same thing: Making party as long as you can. Mainz, on the other (wrong) side of the Rhine from my home tow … | Continue reading
1:1 Tim and I have known each other since we were at school, which is over 40 years now. He has always been a fan of 1. FC Nürnberg and I can still remember him teasing me on Monday mornings at school about my HSV’s poor performance at the weekend and me teasing him when his Nure … | Continue reading
3:1 After four consecutive defeats, the last of which came a week ago away against Magdeburg, the first home game of the year in the second half of the 2. Bundesliga against Hertha BSC was on the programme this Saturday. I was a little tense, as the team was slowly slipping down … | Continue reading
I’ve been collecting imaginative and technologically tricky Codepens on a Trello list for quite a while, primarily to learn and perhaps implement them in a project at some point. A good source for high-quality pens is the recently published list of the Top 100 Pens of 2023 on cod … | Continue reading
First I saw it on Robb Knight’s website and said to myself “yeah look, another one with a list of his tools”. Then I saw it on Garrit’s blog, then on Chris Coyier’s and today on Cory Dransfeld’s and Chris McLeod’s and I thought: funny trend with the App Defaults. Let’s go for it… … | Continue reading
Today I was listening to Mike McCue’s Dot Social podcast where he talks with Eugen Rochko about Mastodon and ActivityPub. At around 12:30 Eugen talked about Twitter and the fact that Tumblr is willing to join the Fediverse network and he asked a question, which he immediately tri … | Continue reading
I don’t like to call myself a “photographer”, as my friends sometimes do when they are enthusiastic about one of my pictures, but rather a “photo enthusiast”, because I know that I have no idea about real photography and am simply too lazy to take the perfect photo. My current ge … | Continue reading
Coming from a IndieNews post from Simone, I stumbled over Garrit’s post Roast my Site!, to which Simone had referred. I was also just in roast mode again and if someone asks me so kindly, then go for it… A little background … I have often talked about a topic on Mastodon or other … | Continue reading
1:3 Our last home game of the year. The last two away games against Greuther Fürth and Holstein Kiel were unfortunately lost. One 2:0 and the other 3:2, so you could say that our good run had come to an end. But well … anyone who thought it would go on like this should have seen … | Continue reading
Recently I read the blog post “Mastodon on your own domain without hosting a server” by Maarten Balliauw, which dealt with how to become more visible in the Fediverse, more precisely in Mastodon, with your own domain, because in contrast to the Indieweb approach, the Fediverse re … | Continue reading
August in Germany is usually a safe bet when it comes to the weather, so my wife and I decided to relax for a few days on the Mecklenburg Lake Plateau … on a chartered boat. In general, you need a driving license for everything that moves in this country, but there are a few exce … | Continue reading
This month's Discoveries are about small, large, new and somewhat older JavaScript tools that can make life and coding easier for developers. Why reinvent the wheel when someone has already done it. Happy Coding :) Spacing.js - Measuring Ukiyo.js - Parallax Effect IntersectionObs … | Continue reading
In September, my wife and I took a trip to the Museum of Technology in nearby Speyer. I don’t really know why I’ve never been there before, not even as a child, because the collection of cars and aeroplanes is quite unique in Germany. A dream for every boy, even if he’s not as yo … | Continue reading
2:1 Travelling by scooter in Germany in the middle of November is no fun. Just like on Sunday. Light rain at just under 9 degrees Celsius and quite a bit of wind. Brrr… but what can I do, there are no car parks at the arena. Not at all today, because it’s against Kaiserslautern, … | Continue reading
I have been collecting interesting links in various Trello boards for many years and also process some of them automatically, such as my Tiny Tools. However, the official Trello Android App has the problem eversince that, when you want to create a URL as a Trello card in the brow … | Continue reading
A few weeks ago, a blog entry (I can’t remember which one) drew my attention to a font called LEXEND. In this article, the author also went into the scientific background of the font, which was developed to simplify reading and thus support those with reading difficulties. The we … | Continue reading
1:0 Football again. After my little excursion into the Europa Conference League, my team from SV Wehen Wiesbaden was called upon again on Sunday and with them the fans in the stadium. On the one hand because it was raining (and that is sometimes no fun in the front row) and on th … | Continue reading
vs. My newly awakened love for German soccer reached a small peak last Thursday when my colleague Uli asked me, if I would like to go to the evening match of his favorite club Eintracht Frankfurt against HJK Helsinki as part of the preliminary round of the Europa Conference Lea … | Continue reading
Most of the photos that I prepare for this website for example, I take with my big Nikon camera in RAW format and then edit them under Windows in Adobe Lightroom Classic. I always give the image a name and a few keywords, which are then also displayed on the photo page. Lightroom … | Continue reading
The pages of this website are all structured according to the scheme Header, Content, Footer, where the header contains an individual hero image and, like the footer, has a dark gray background color. I chose dark gray at the time because I needed contrast and it matches all the … | Continue reading
1:1 Since my youth I am a (small) fan of the Hamburger Sportverein (HSV). Magath, Hrubesch, Keegan were my sporting heroes back then. This was certainly also related to the fact that the club was one of the best in Europe in the early 80s. Two championships, European Cup victory … | Continue reading
Summer is over and I’m spending some of my free time post-processing in Lightroom the many photos I’ve taken over the past few months. As a casual photographer, I mostly use my vacation and weekend trips to take my Nikon for a walk and let its chip card glow. My better half is co … | Continue reading
Provide Blog Metadata via JSON-LD by Kristof Zerbe. Originally published 10 Feb, 2023.Useful overview of the best way to add an article/blog schema to your site.Reply to this link on my website → | Continue reading