📝 New blog post: Like the casual blindness toward the cruelty of man

Haha, there is also Pokémon to Scale.

This is fun: Emoji to Scale, from Mosquito to the Sun.

No surprises in my 2021 Switch Year in Review:

This is great: Vinegar is a Safari extension that replaces the crappy custom YouTube video player with the native one 💯

If you know me, you know me like this:

Received my booster shot this morning. Not sure if I’m tired because of the vaccine or the 8am appointment 🤔

I brought the coins I collect in my drawer to the bank… 💰

Tried out the new background removal in Pixelmator Pro and it works incredibly well.

www.macstories.net/reviews/p…

📝 New blog post, with a clickbait-y headline: Automating Meditation

The only positive thing about the lockdown is that it is well times with the release of the new Pokémon games.

📝 New blog post: On File Management

Where I describe how I manage my files. One of these blog posts I wanted to write for a long time and finally did.

A lot of applause for The Verge to update there background policy:

From now on, the default for communications professionals and people speaking to The Verge in an official capacity will be “on the record.”

www.theverge.com/press-roo…

👨‍💻 Minor update for @fec/eleventy-plugin-remark: v2.2.2. Includes some updated dependencies and official (that is, tested in CI) support for Node 16.x and Node 17.x

However, still waiting for Eleventy to support ESM to make the plugin work with the latest versions of Remark.

https://github.com/florianeckerstorfer/eleventy-plugin-remark/releases/tag/v2.2.2

📝 New blog post: Kissing in the Rain by Sloppy Jane & Margot Nijhuis. The story of a happy namespace solution accident.

📚 I swear, I bought this book before the real-life chancellor that inspired this novel was ousted in real life. Salonfähig turns dark and twisted at the end in a very different way than real life did.

Today I finally achieved the 730 days streak in Pedometer++.

As a user I’m just happy that Safari 15.1 brings back proper tabs, but as someone who has been creating software for the last 15 years, I would find it interesting to know how this whole Safari 15 thing played out at Apple.

Yesterday was the perfect autumn day at Pötzleinsdorfer Schlossplatz. 💯 would recommend

🔗 Radiohead put all of their albums on Bandcamp, which is my favourite way to buy music. 👏

radiohead.bandcamp.com/music

🎸 Yes! New song from Mitski: Working for the Knife

I started reading the Neapolitan saga by Elena Ferrante and after a couple of pages I’m already falling in love with the language.

📸 Photos from our road trip through Tuscany in August 2021

Alex and Merlin keep talking about it on Do By Friday so it was only a matter of time until I fall into the black hole that is Obsidian.

This weekend I went to my first concerts since February 2020 at the Waves Festival in Vienna. So good to hear music live again.

🎸 TORRES, my favorite artist for the last couple of years, released her new album on Friday and it’s glorious. I would love to hear these songs live someday soon.

Thirstier on Bandcamp

📚 I recently read The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai. One of these books that makes you feel all the emotions.

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[…] recently surpassed a “strategically significant” benchmark of 69,420 active users, Musk told MWC.

Am I the only who finds it odd that Grimes is in a relationship with a 15 year old boy? (source

🔗 Organize your CSS declarations alphabetically

Ready for my vacation.

🔗 React Architecture: How to Structure and Organize a React Application

Pretty good introduction into setting up a clean architecture for React apps by Tania Rascia.

Oh yeah. I got my vaccination appointments today. First shot on June 28. 💉💉💉

I finally added a second Sonos One to my desk setup and a stereo pair sounds so much better. The improvement is definitely more than 2x.

Bat For Lashes released a Livestream album, it’s beautiful and so 2021: Livestream at Home. Los Angeles, 2021

🔗 A Love Letter to HTML & CSS by Ashley Kolodziej for CSS-Tricks.

Girlfriend: “I need to tell you something very important…

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🎵 Back in the 90s

I was I in a very faaaaaamous teeeeeveee show 🎵”

Socialized streaming would not be a fix-all, but it would be a step away from a culture shaped by profit motives and a step toward new logics of listening online. And it could seed paradigm shifts for the way we think about cultural consumption and how we value creative labor.

🔗 Free Flowing by Liz Pelly for Real Life

📝 New blog: Responsive SVGs with Constant Font Size

📝 New blog: JSX as Templating Language and Astro

Number of Homes

I will turn 35 this year and this is only the fourth flat I lived in (and the 2nd city):

• childhood flat in Linz
• first flat in Vienna in Meidling
• flat in Alsergrund
• flat in Josefstadt

(I’m not counting the one my parents lived in for the first month of my live.)

Problem and solution

1Blocker 4 is amazing. It can block trackers in apps by setting up local network filtering. You no longer have to run a VPN. Bye, bye Guardian.

🔗 Cryptocurrency is an abject disaster by Drew DeVault

📝 New blog: Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

📝 New blog post: Creating pages from data with Eleventy

🔗 The Infrastructural Power Beneath the Internet as We Know It by Ingrid Burrington for The Reboot

I’ve lately been trying an exercise where, when reading anything by or about tech companies, I replace uses of the word “infrastructure” with “means of production.”

👋 Want to work with me? At mySugr we’re looking for a frontend developer. We have an awesome team, cool projects and a very nice office in the heart of Vienna (because we’re now allowed to think post-pandemic).

📝 New blog article: How to Do Nothing by Jenny Odell

🔗 Embrace the Grind by Jacob Kaplan-Moss

[…] being able to offload repetitive tasks to a program is one of the best things about knowing how to code. However, sometimes problems can’t be solved by automation. If you’re willing to embrace the grind you’ll look like a magician.

🔗 The Healing Power of JavaScript by Craig Mod for WIRED

🔗 Prescriptive software is better than descriptive software by Kilian Valkhof

🔗 NFTs Were Supposed to Protect Artists. They Don’t. by Anil Dash for The Atlantic

Take a second and think about how your tongue lies in your mouth.

I’m so sorry.

🔗 The mess at Medium by Casey Newton for The Verge

🔗 GPT-3 tries pickup lines by Janelle Shane

You look like a stealth assassin from the clouds.

🔗 He got Facebook hooked on AI. Now he can’t fix its misinformation addiction by Karen Hao for MIT Technology Review

🔗 Why The IndieWeb? by Heydon Pickering

📝 To celebrate the 15th anniversary of my Last.fm account I revisited my article on Last.fm and Apple Music from 2015: Last.fm and Apple Music in 2021

Silence facilitated blame, she would decide later. In the absence of an other person’s account, the story you invented for yourself went unchallenged.

The Third Hotel by Laura Van Den Berg

I’ve read The Third Hotel by Laura van Den Berg this week and it’s beautiful. Confusing, but beautiful.

🚀 Released @fec/remark-images v0.5.0-alpha, which adds an option to process captions.

🔗 Everyone Is Beautiful and No One Is Horny by RS Benedict

🔗 Why YKK zippers are the brown M&Ms of product design: look at the little details to judge overall gear quality by Josh Centers for The Prepared

🔗 The Future of Group Messaging by Jarren Horrocks

🔗 A Short History of Bi-Directional Links by Maggie Appleton

🚀 Released @fec/gatsby-plugin-advanced-feed v2.0.0 to ensure compatibility with Gatsby v3.

🔗 Looking Closely is Everything by Craig Mod

🔗 The Unreasonable Ecological Cost of #CryptoArt by Memo Akten

🔗 Great idea: Bookfeed takes a list of authors and generates a RSS feed that notifies you of new releases of these authors. No social features, no algorithmic suggestions.

After cancelling my Setapp subscription I switched from Renamer to A Better Finder Rename for all my bulk renaming needs and this app is great.

🎸 The Baddy Man by Mitski

🔗 How Web Components Are Used at GitHub and Salesforce by Richard MacManus

The Tab Container Element from Github presented in the article is a really good example.

🔗 Kara Swisher interviews Franz Leibowitz about technology, the pandemic and New York City: Fran Leibowitz Isn’t Buying What Jack Dorsey Is Selling

🚀 I released @fec/remark-a11y-emoji v3.1.0, which directly includes a Gatsby plugin and deprecates gatsby-remark-a11y-emoji.

🔗 Pokémon is a huge hit because it’s cooperative by Jay Castello for The Verge

🔗 Iceberger: Draw an iceberg and see how it will float

🎸 Julien Baker — Everything In Its Right Place (Radiohead Cover)

📝 New blog post: Cache Busting with Eleventy and PostCSS

📝 New blog post: Fixing errors with AWS CLI in Github Actions

📝 New blog: My Favourite Albums of 2021

🚀 Today I released @fec/eleventy-plugin-remark v2.1.1. This release adds an option to disable rehype and gives users more flexibility in which remark/rehype plugins they can use.

I’ve been using Nova as my only code editor/IDE for the past two weeks and it’s great. Such a pleasure to have a native Mac editor again with great support for TypeScript, Prettier and ESLint.

Super interesting investigation how favicons can be used to track users, circumventing VPNs, private browsing and anti-tracking measures.

🔗 Supercookie

🔗 The web didn’t change; you did by Remy Sharp

Sure the choices might be overwhelming, but what you learnt in the mid-2000s still works. Browser bend over backwards to maintain backward compatibility.

🔗 MacKenzie Scott’s Remarkable Giveaway Is Transforming the Bezos Fortune by Sophie Alexander and Ben Steverman for Bloomberg.

Someone is feeling bad about how her ex made all his money.

Today the Biathlon World Championship finally started and Austria surprisingly won the silver medal. Having at least one competition nearly every day makes the lockdown a bit more bearable.

🎸 forwards beckon rebound by Adrianne Lenker

European touring made Radiohead the band we are. Brexit must not destroy it by Colin Greenwood for The Guardian.

What!?

The Pandemic Has Erased Entire Categories of Friendship by Amanda Mull

🎸 Julia Stone — We All Have (feat. Matt Berninger)

Nice, new song from Julia Stone and a new album is coming in April.

I find it oddly satisfying when the months starts on a Monday.

Wall decorations, 2021

Nails, yarn, N95 masks, clothes pins, Sharpie

🚀 I have released v1.2.0 of @fec/gatsby-plugin-advanced-feed. This release consistently handles leading slashes and updates dependencies.

📝 New blog: Books I Have Read in 2020

A bit late to the recapping 2020 (aka the shittiest year), but here we go.

Computers don’t necessarily have to be grey or silver rectangles.

Modern Retro Computer Terminals

He will leave no legacy beyond the stench of rank incompetence.

The Last Day of Disco(rd) by Roxanne Gay

I really like the single from Julien Baker Hardline and the amazing video from Joe Baughman. I’m looking forward to the release of her next album on February 26.

I think I never stopped accidentally using the previous year when writing the current date earlier than this year.

Whoa, the 7 day incidence in Vienna is slowly down towards 100 cases per 100.000 residents. The last time it was that low was September 13.

Jodok-Fink-Platz, Vienna

When I want to watch a movie, I always go to Letterboxd first. Nice portrait in the NYT and good to see that these kind of sites and survive and even thrive.

Finally a bit of snow in Vienna

If I don’t turn on the heating in the morning, my apartment stays cold. Turns out.

Sharon Walker: Finding time for creativity will give you respite from worries

Jenny Volvovski designs new covers for books she reads and they are beautiful.

www.from-cover-to-cover.com

Sometimes I think a single sneeze could be the end of us

I noticed this line in Dead Fox by Courtney Barnett for the first time.