: I really like the record from Romy (from The xx). Favourite track so far is The Sea 💯 …
: If the political left ignores this underlying systemic issue, it would end up echoing European …
: Waves Day 3: The Crab Apples, Laura, Soft Loft, Anna Mabo, Night Tapes
: Waves Day 2: Ferielle, Moira and Oscar Lang
: Waves Day 1: Cousines Like Shit and Annie Taylor
: This is the essence of the North America-centric ‘Europecore’ trend that exploded this summer. This …
: Waves Vienna does not share a playlist with all the artists on Apple Music, so I made one. Or to be …
: Daisy The Great at Chelsea, Vienna
: Liza Anne at Chelsea, Vienna
: This is awesome. A list of the most foundational blog posts on web development esif.dev
: I also photographed some pretty moss
: We went hiking and foraging on Saturday in Styria and we found a lot of chanterelles and saw so many …
: When you take the train from Vienna to Villach or Graz you will reach after one hour one of my …
: For some, that’s a welcome invitation to test the autonomous vehicles’ limits. Megan, a woman in her …
: AMP was, in many ways, a step backward for the web. […] But it was fast. And to Google, that was all …
: Because what we are witnessing is the wealthiest companies in history (Microsoft, Apple, Google, …
: Roughly three months ago I stopped smoking and this means I saved some money, which I used to buy …
: Recently I discovered some new Austrian artists I like and thought I share them: …
: Finished reading: Harlem Shuffle by Colson Whitehead 📚
: How will these smaller groups of happier people be monetized? This is a tough question for the …
: Rather than feel impotent and useless, you must come to terms with the fact that as a human being …
: ChatGPT is, in technical terms, a ‘bullshit generator’. If a generated sentence makes …
: 📝 New blog post: Effective Remote Work by James Stanier (2022)
: 📝 New blog post: Engineering Management for the Rest of Us by Sarah Drasner (2022)
: I’m preparing a job posting at the moment and I’m going to replace every instance of …
: Finished reading: High Output Management by Andrew S. Grove 📚 However influential and innovative …
: 📝 New blog post: My Favorite Albums of 2022
: Your personal website is a place that provides immense creative freedom and control. It’s a place to …
: Finished reading: RCE by Sibylle Berg 📚
: A foggy day at Lainzer Tiergarten, Vienna
: Exactly five years ago. There was still snow back then.
: 📸 New blog post: Budapest in December
: Sometimes you discover a band through the news of their breakup. Today that would be For Tracy Hyde.
: And lastly my top track of 2022 was Cellophane (Brain) by Middle Kids, followed by Working for the …
: The top album was Laurel Hell (Mitski), followed by Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe in You (Big …
: In 2022 the artist I listened most to was Angel Olsen. Followed by Mitski, TORRES, Japanese …
: Before you continue, pause and consider: How would you prove you’re not a language model …
: 📝 Book Report 2022 florian.ec/blog/book…
: A quick walk before midnight to get my steps in
: Finished reading: Engineering Management for the Rest of Us by Sarah Drasner 📚 ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
: Zola Jesus at the Desertshore Festival in Vienna
: Anika at the Desertshore Festival in Vienna
: Dlina Volny at the Desertshore Festival in Vienna
: New Twitter will be hostile to anyone queer, or non-white, or slightly to the left of Ronald Reagan. …
: If posts in a social media app do not have URLs that can be linked to and viewed in an …
: I thought people were joining, but no, you are actually fighting against a car, not a car Pokémon in …
: Finished reading: The Mirror and the Light (The Wolf Hall Trilogy, Book 3) by Hilary Mantel 📚 Like …
: I’m horny for backpacks all the time, but Black Friday week is the worst.
: I‘ll reached the first town and already caught 13 Pokémon in Violet. Looks like there will be more …
: First winter walk of the season ❄️
: The new Weyes Blood album is chefskiss weyesblood.bandcamp.com/album/and…
: Klimaticket year number 2 starts now
: Nintendo sent me an email that the physical copies of Scarlet & Violet will not arrive today. …
: They are not cool. They are not sexy. But they are an essential tool to save gas when you live on …
: I haven’t heard anything since the order confirmation and the tracking link is not leading to a 404 …
: The plan was to finish the Pokédex in all the other games before Scarlet & Violet are released …
: 🔗 Marie Kondo your software stack with open source by Mike Melanson Some great points on keeping …
: Going for Punsch for the first time this year.
: I will be today and tomorrow at LeadDev in Berlin.
: Oh hai Berlin. It’s been too long…
: 🔗 Elon Musk’s First Move Is To Fire The Person Most Responsible For Twitter’s Strong Free Speech …
: 🔗 Welcome to hell, Elon by Nilay Patel
: The center of Vienna knows neither climate nor energy crisis. Restaurants are happily heating …
: Finished reading: The Gates of Europe by Serhii Plokhy 📚
: I saw Efterklang at Theater Akzent, Vienna yesterday. It was the first concert of their tour and …
: 🎸 Angel Olsen at Wuk, Vienna
: Finished reading: Circe by Madeline Miller 📚 Wow. This was perfect.
: Finished reading: Beautiful World, Where Are You by Sally Rooney 📚 Vacations are for reading.
: Finished reading: The Silmarillion by J. R. R. Tolkien 📚 A week in between new episodes of The Rings …
: They look a bit bored at the Huawei store today.
: I love the new color backgrounds on the Modular Apple Watch face. Instead of trying to simulate the …
: Maps in iOS 16 still does not have cycling directions for Vienna. ☹️
: “Queen Elizabeth II – a role model for startup founders?” Okok.
: The Arrogance of the Anthropocene by Peter Brannen
: I played around with Stable Diffusion last night and this still haunts me.
: I sign up to new services using FastMails Masked Email feature. Now I receive emails like this:
: Running errands on my bicycle and the clouds are looming dark behind me.
: Mobile-First CSS: Is It Time for a Rethink? Interesting approach. When writing CSS with defaults in …
: This is neat. A map that shows how far you can travel by train in 5 hours across Europe …
: It’s the time of the year where every day I wear a jacket when going to the office and every day I …
: Today I got my hair and beard shaved professionally for the first time ever. Doesn‘t look very …
: Finished reading: Matrix by Lauren Groff 📚
: A first look at Bun: is it really 3x faster than Node.js and Deno? TLDR: Competition is good, even …
: The web is a harsh manager Dave Rupert on the increasing demands of the frontend.
: 👨💻 I released a new minor update for @fec/gatsby-plugin-advanced-feed. v3.0.1 fixes the engine …
: When buying software you are also paying for the developers vacation time, sick leave, care leave, …
: Apparently I’ve become the kind of person who irons their shirts on a Sunday morning.
: Bright Eyes at Arena Open Air, Vienna
: The results of three hours of foraging in the Styrian woods:
: Later today I will spend three hours in a train and I forgot my book at home 😭
: Software architecture does not always solve technical problems. Micro-services and micro-frontends …
: The best part of my job as a manager is telling people that they got a raise they haven’t asked for.
: I finished reading The Mountains Sing by Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai. A sad, but beautiful historic novel …
: 📸 New blog post with photos from my trip to Trieste in May florian.ec/blog/trie…
: Watched the first episode of Prehistoric Earth on Apple TV+ and this is so well made. Perfect …
: Klarna used a prerecorded video message to lay off 10 percent of employees Filed under Classy.
: How it started: I want to play a sound effect during a video call How it ended: I have an …
: When a Google Meet preview page is open in the background, the sound quality of the music I’m …
: The Smile at Gasometer, Vienna
: I received my Mark Two. Such a nice pen, the magnetic snap is glorious.
: I’m going on my first ever business trip to visit my colleagues in Barcelona 👔🏖
: From last Saturday: Julien Baker live at Arena in Vienna. My first concert in months.
: 📝 New blog post: Post to Eleventy from iOS with Drafts, Shortcuts and Working Copy
: Released a new version of remark-images, my responsive images in Markdown plugin for remark. It now …
: Prism Music is a music player for iOS that can be connected to Plex and Apple Music. This is exactly …
: I listened to the new live album from Zola Jesus and I miss live concerts so much. I was supposed to …
: The quaking of the duck is a nice change from the pigeon sounds we normally hear.
: We got a taste of spring, but winter is not yet done with Vienna.
: I used this occasion to update the Apple Touch Icons for my site, but I’m still not super …
: 📝 New blog post: Generating Apple Touch Icons with Eleventy
: FastMail and 1Password are promoting their integration of Masked Email, but it does not work for me. …
: I’m not sure what I should think Epic Games buying Bandcamp. Bandcamp has been my favourite …
: Yes! Laurel Hell, the new Mitski album is out.
: Today I spent an hour on optimising how CSS is generated on my blog. Saved a couple of KB by not …
: 📝 New blog post: Convert Audio Files to MP3 with ffmpeg in Fish Shell
: I was updating the categories on some of my old blog posts today in Nova and I noticed a couple of …
: 📝 New blog post: The Innovator’s Dilemma by Clayton M. Christensen (2016)
: After breaking my streak yesterday, I got lucky today. Wordle 220 3/6 ⬜⬜🟨🟨⬜ ⬜🟨🟨⬜🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
: I still don’t like Hawkeye (the character), but we finished Hawkeye (the TV show) yesterday …
: Wordle 209 5/6 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ () ⬜🟩🟨⬜⬜ (1 partial, 1 perfect) ⬜🟩🟩⬜🟩 (3 perfect) ⬜🟩🟩🟨🟩 (1 partial, 3 perfect) …
: Upgraded Eleventy to 1.0.0 for florian.ec and everything worked. Nice release 👍
: Did another PCR test this morning. According to my email archive this is the 39th since Vienna …
: Wordle 208 4/6 ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨 (1 partial) 🟨🟨⬜⬜⬜ (2 partial) ⬜⬜🟨🟨⬜ (2 partial) 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 (Wordle done on Line 4)
: There is so much I love about Obsidian, but I cannot use ⌘+↑ and ⌘+↓ to go to the beginning and end …
: 📝 New blog post: Books I Read in 2021
: Released v3.0.0 of eleventy-plugin-remark, which finally supports ESM and works with newer, ESM-only …
: 📝 New blog post: My Favourite Albums of 2021
: 📝 New blog post: Humble Inquiry by Edgar H. Schein and Peter A. Schein
: 📝 New blog post: Sustainable Web Design by Tom Greenwood
: 📝 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 …
: 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 …
: 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. …
: 📝 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 …
: 📝 New blog post: On File Management Where I describe how I manage my files. One of these blog posts …
: A lot of applause for The Verge to update there background policy: From now on, the default for …
: 👨💻 Minor update for @fec/eleventy-plugin-remark: v2.2.2. Includes some updated dependencies and …
: 📝 New blog post: Kissing in the Rain by Sloppy Jane & Margot Nijhuis. The story of a happy …
: 📚 I swear, I bought this book before the real-life chancellor that inspired this novel was ousted in …
: 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 …
: 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. 👏 …
: 🎸 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 …
: 📸 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 …
: This weekend I went to my first concerts since February 2020 at the Waves Festival in Vienna. So …
: 🎸 TORRES, my favorite artist for the last couple of years, released her new album on Friday and …
: 📚 I recently read The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai. One of these books that makes you feel all …
: […] recently surpassed a “strategically significant” benchmark of 69,420 active users, Musk told …
: 🔗 Organize your CSS declarations alphabetically
: 🔗 React Architecture: How to Structure and Organize a React Application Pretty good introduction …
: 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 …
: Bat For Lashes released a Livestream album, it’s beautiful and so 2021: Livestream at Home. …
: 🔗 A Love Letter to HTML & CSS by Ashley Kolodziej for CSS-Tricks.
: Girlfriend: “I need to tell you something very important… … … … … … 🎵 Back in the 90s I was I in a …
: Socialized streaming would not be a fix-all, but it would be a step away from a culture shaped by …
: 📝 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 …
: 1Blocker 4 is amazing. It can block trackers in apps by setting up local network filtering. You no …
: 🔗 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 …
: 👋 Want to work with me? At mySugr we’re looking for a frontend developer. We have an awesome …
: 📝 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 …
: 🔗 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 …
: 🔗 Why The IndieWeb? by Heydon Pickering
: 📝 To celebrate the 15th anniversary of my Last.fm account I revisited my article on Last.fm and …
: Silence facilitated blame, she would decide later. In the absence of an other person’s account, the …
: I’ve read The Third Hotel by Laura van Den Berg this week and it’s beautiful. Confusing, …
: 🚀 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 …
: 🔗 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 …
: After cancelling my Setapp subscription I switched from Renamer to A Better Finder Rename for all my …
: 🔗 How Web Components Are Used at GitHub and Salesforce by Richard MacManus The Tab Container Element …
: 🔗 Kara Swisher interviews Franz Leibowitz about technology, the pandemic and New York City: Fran …
: 🚀 I released @fec/remark-a11y-emoji v3.1.0, which directly includes a Gatsby plugin and deprecates …
: 🔗 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 …
: I’ve been using Nova as my only code editor/IDE for the past two weeks and it’s great. …
: Super interesting investigation how favicons can be used to track users, circumventing VPNs, private …
: 🔗 The web didn’t change; you did by Remy Sharp Sure the choices might be overwhelming, but …
: 🔗 MacKenzie Scott’s Remarkable Giveaway Is Transforming the Bezos Fortune by Sophie Alexander and …
: Today the Biathlon World Championship finally started and Austria surprisingly won the silver medal. …
: 🎸 forwards beckon rebound by Adrianne Lenker
: European touring made Radiohead the band we are. Brexit must not destroy it by Colin Greenwood for …
: 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 …
: 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 …
: 📝 New blog: Books I Have Read in 2020 A bit late to the recapping 2020 (aka the shittiest year), but …
: Computers don’t necessarily have to be grey or silver rectangles. Modern Retro Computer …
: He will leave no legacy beyond the stench of rank incompetence. The Last Day of Disco(rd) by …
: I really like the single from Julien Baker Hardline and the amazing video from Joe Baughman. …
: I think I never stopped accidentally using the previous year when writing the current date earlier …
: Whoa, the 7 day incidence in Vienna is slowly down towards 100 cases per 100.000 residents. The last …
: When I want to watch a movie, I always go to Letterboxd first. Nice portrait in the NYT and good to …
: 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. …
: Sometimes I think a single sneeze could be the end of us I noticed this line in Dead Fox by …
: Zeynep Tufekci: Is It Safe to Hold a Holiday Party? We cannot guarantee the future, but just as the …
: Fascinating how normal people use computers fact of the day: when they need to record their screen, …
: Maureen Ryan: Bring Ted Lasso Energy Into Your Life!
: The Correspondent will stop publishing on January 1. This makes me sad since it has been one of the …
: This shortcut from Federico Viticci to import screenshots from a Nintendo Switch to an iPhone is …
: 🎸 My album discovery of the week: Superstar by Caroline Rose
: Ceija-Stojka-Platz, Vienna, last Wednesday a few hours before the first snow of the winter.
: Amy Collier: How Dating During a Pandemic Is Like Being in a Jane Austen Novel
: We’re celebrating our anniversary in a classic 2020 way: Covid19 mass screening in the …
: Lu-Hai Liang: The psychology behind ‘revenge bedtime procrastination’
: Dave Rupert: Technical debt as a lack of understanding
: Rebecca Solnit: On Not Meeting Nazis Halfway
: Unlocked Achievement #11 in Pedometer++. This was the hardest to achieve this year so far.
: Adult Alternative is a genre. Is Alternative just for kids?
: Yesterday I made my one year 10k steps/streak with a boom.
: Night Mode is so good. (I know, I’m a year late to the party.)
: New toy, my first three camera phone. November in Vienna is also the Perfect time to try out Night …
: I finally got Newton‘s Principia print from KroneckerWallis and it’s beautiful.
: 📝 Deploying a Static Website to S3 with Github Actions
: I wrote four blog posts this month already. I think there have been years were I have published …
: 📝 New blog: Firefox cannot render Source Code Pro in colour Fixed a bug on my site where the colour …
: 🚀 I have updated @fec/remark-images to avoid layout jumps and show a blurred version while an image …
: 📝 New blog: Eleventy and Responsive Images
: Frederick O’Brien for Smashing Magazine: Developing For The Semantic Web
: 📝 New blog: Testing a React file upload component with Jest
: Great news: At mySugr we are currently looking for a Frontend Developer. If you want to work with me …
: 🚀 I have released @fec/eleventy-plugin-remark v2.0.0 last night. You can now set options for Remark …
: Zeynep Tufekci for The Atlantic: This Overlooked Variable Is the Key to the Pandemic
: Cate Huston of DuckDuckGo on building a high-aspiring career without burnout
: Yanis Varoufakis for The Correspondent: How progressives could still win the 21st century
: This is so cool: Pixelmator Pro gets AppleScript support
: 🚀 I have released @fec/remark-a11y-emoji v2.0.0. It adds support for skintones.
: Alona Ferber interviews Judith Butler for New Statesman: Judith Butler on the culture wars, JK …
: I just found out you can change the color of your Memojis shirt by changing the color of the …
: Emily Willingham: The Condoms of the Face: Why Some Men Refuse to Wear Masks The irony is that …
: Alex Hope: When you browse Instagram and find former Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott’s …
: Emily Ratajkowski for The Cut: Buying Myself Back - When does a model own her own image?
: I know that Yubikey is about authentication, not encryption, but it would be so awesome if Yubikey …
: I bought one of the new Yubikey USB-C + NFC auth keys and it works great. Unlocking Mac OS with key …
: The Winamp Skin Museum brings me back so many good memories of my early computer days. I wish we …
: Mark Serrela for CNET: The secret Avengers video game the world never got to play
: We went to Kirchberg am Wagram today and had some excellent Grüner Veltliner from Michael Bauer.
: Ana Rodrigues for Smashing Magazine: Autonomy Online: A Case For The IndieWeb
: Zeynep Tufekci for The Atlantic: Why Aren’t We Talking More About Ventilation?
: Jesse Frederik for The Correspondent: Blockchain, the amazing solution for almost nothing
: I love the SoundSource update. With video calls all day it’s super handy to have the new …
: 🎸 Thumbs up for the music video for I Know the End by Phoebe Bridgers.
: The UX of LEGO Interface Panels – George Cave
: 🚀 I finally released cocur/chain v0.9.0 It adds strong typing, three new methods and some bugfixes.
: Yesterday we had dinner at Hotel am Brillantengrund. Amazing Filipino food and a very cozy patio.
: Super Expressive: Super Expressive is a zero-dependency JavaScript library for building regular …
: Caroline Randall Williams for The New York Times: You Want a Confederate Monument? My Body Is a …
: 🎸 I’m enjoying the new album from Diet Cig: Do You Wonder About Me?
: Thirty-six Thousand Feet Under the Sea by Ben Taub for The New Yorker
: If someone could pay Doordash $16 a pizza, and Doordash would pay his restaurant $24 a pizza, then …
: As I look out of my window in lockdown, my attention is fixed on these birds, rather than trees or …
: The Confessions of Marcus Hutchins, the Hacker Who Saved the Internet - WIRED Fascinating story.
: This is incredible cool. The Pudding investigated The Infinite Monkey Theorem Experiment and looked …
: The Bumpy Road Code Smell: Measuring Code Complexity by its Shape and Distribution | Empear 🔗 The Bumpy Road Code Smell: Measuring Code Complexity by its Shape and Distribution by Adam …
: I needed to get out of the apartment today. There were barely any cars, but lots of people walking …
: 🎸 Waxahatchee covers So Hot You’re Hurting My Feelings by Caroline Polachek youtube.com/watch
: A one hour lunch break at home is actually exactly the same amount of time as a half hour lunch …
: Today I finished reading Weapons of Math Destruction by Cathy O‘Neil. Great book on how algorithms …
: We watched Detective Pikachu last night. Wow. What a weird ride. The story made no sense at all, but …
: 🎸 Another new release today: The Caretaker by Half Waif.
: 🎸 Saint Cloud, the new album from Waxahatchee is out today.
: On a related note: I enjoy The Correspondent very much right now. They don’t have real-time …
: 🔗 The Correspondent: The coronavirus is reminding us that anxiety is good – as long as it doesn’t …
: 🔗 Good explainer of herd immunity from The Correspondent: thecorrespondent.com/356/what-…
: You can clearly see on which day we were not supposed to get out anymore. On a related note: it …
: Yesterday the Austrian government announced that due to Corona all social life should be reduced to …
: 🔗 I love this kind of posts: The Siege of Gondor, Part I: Professionals Talk Logistics
: I hope that the palace Bezos bought is comfortable, but I also hope it’s full of angry ghosts. Has …
: 🎸 Today TORRES released her forth album, Silver Tongue.
: I just wanted to point out to you that the scientist interviewed in this article about the effect of …
: There were two main reasons while I wanted to switch from Gatsby to Eleventy: 1) Gatsby loads React …
: Yesterday I switched my website from Gatsby to Eleventy and I am super with the results. Page load …
: I just found a fix for the most annoying Apple Music bug so far. When I wanted to listen to an …
: The first book I read in 2020 was Das Flüssige Land by Raphaela Edelbauer. An absurd take on the …
: 📝 In 2019 I missed by 52 books goal, but I managed to read 36. Let’s see if I can do better in …
: 🎸 You can listen to all 15 of my favourite albums of 2019 in this Apple Music playlist: …
: 📝 On my blog I have collected my favourite albums of the year: florian.ec/blog/favo…
: Today we released cocur/slugify v4.0.0. This release includes support for PHP 7.3 and 7.4, Symfony 4 …
: For some reason they dumped a bunch of snow in the center of Vienna
: Matthias Ott: There is one alternative to social media sites and publishing platforms that has been …
: 📝 I posted a Recap of Webclerks Community Conference 2019 on my blog
: I just found this picture I took a couple of weeks ago at Burgring and I miss the sunny part of …
: What the Web Still Is by Eric Bailey: Being a pessimist is an easy thing to fall back on, and I’m …
: I thought I write a short recap from Webclerks and then two hours passed and I am at over 1300 …
: Great article by James Scott on How to write a kickass README
: After Charlie Owens talk at Webclerks yesterday about the “good old days” I remembered …
: I am so excited about Nova, the new code editor from Panic. The previews look extremely promising …
: What is going on with Apple? I can see two female nipples in Apple Music today.
: I want to buy a hair cutter and since this is a product for men the product images naturally show it …
: Shit, I really like 1Password techcrunch.com/2019/11/1…
: Lucy Dacus released an EP with original songs and covers for 7 holidays. …
: At mySugr we are currently looking for a Senior Web Developer in Vienna. You will be working with …
: I was a good steps boy last week.
: The new accessibility tools in Firefox 70 are super awesome. Great stuff. …
: From the makers of my favorite camera app, an excellent analysis of the iPhone 11 camera and its …
: Yes. New Torres album in January ❤️❤️❤️ twitter.com/torreslov…
: I want to be the Andrew Everett of Austria
: We went on a walk with some alpacas today 🦙❤️
: Well, it’s a bit foggy in Vienna today.
: Google: “soften butter quickly”
: This is weird. When I view an Apple Watch only app on iOS 13.0 I can’t buy it because it requires …
: I find it very nice of this toilet paper to tell me that it can be used by both man and woman.
: Getting the TypeScript typings for React Higher-Order Components right is super hard. It took me all …
: Well, it took me quite a while to figure out how to delete an app in iOS 13. (Hint: Long press the …
: The new album from Jenny Hval, The Practice of Love, is amazing. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ …
: Since optional chaining is coming to JavaScript soon, TypeScript is adding support as well. …
: Courtney Barnett at Flex, Vienna on September 4.
: ✏️ New blog post: cocur/chain v0.8.0 released florian.ec/blog/cocu…
: I created a Gatsby plugin for my blog to publish RSS2, Atom and JSON feeds and earlier this week I …
: Yesterday we went for a 13km walk through Prater. Beautiful scenery and reachable by subway.
: Athleisure, barre and kale: the tyranny of the ideal woman Women are genuinely trapped at the …
: ✏️ New Blog Post: Segmentation fault when building Gatsby on Netlify
: Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg on what’s next for Tumblr
: Welcome to Bon Iver, Wisconsin Fantastic profile of Bon Iver in Pitchfork.
: Traunkirchen is probably one oft the most scenic train stations in the world.
: It is August and for whatever reason I found a Pikachu with a Santa hat.
: 📚 I’ve read Serious Sweet by A. L. Kennedy and it’s fantastic. Highly recommended.
: Over the weekend I finally finished the new version of my website and it’s now live. Powered …
: This is a great idea: Do nothing scripts. Instead of writing a checklist you write a simple …
: To remind me to re-read certain articles from time to time I just keep them starred in my feed …
: The problem is that nearly every implementation of a date picker is a barrier for some set of users. …
: Photographers, Instagrammers: Stop Being So D*mn Selfish and Disrespectful
: Fast Software, the Best Software
: Since TSLint will be deprecated by the end of the year it is a good idea to switch to ESLint. I …
: Steak with croquettes, asparagus and hollandaise sauce for Sunday lunch 💯
: 📚 While I’m waiting for George R. R. Martin to finish The Winds of Winter I read his history on the …
: 🎸 Oh nice, Honeyblood have released their new album In Plain Sight last Friday.
: Sometimes you need to take a break because you need to charge your mouse
: I’ve been playing the adventure mode in Smash Bros Ultimate for a few weeks now and there seems no …
: The company behind the $16,000 AI-powered laundry-folding robot has filed for bankruptcy No …
: 📚 I read Pachinko by Min Jin Lee and it was fantastic read. This story about a few generations of …
: Wired: 15 Months of Fresh Hell Inside Facebook
: We got a new fridge and I have finally found a proper place for Ron.
: This Giant Ad Fraud Scheme Drained Users’ Batteries And Data By Running Hidden Video Ads In …
: This history of the Array.flat() function in JavaScript is a fantastic read. Yet Another JavaScript …
: The Most Endangered Wildlife in Every US State (via kottke)
: I like this post by Seth Godin about the centralisation of the internet: Clearing the table …
: “Good Code Documents Itself” And Other Hilarious Jokes You Shouldn’t Tell Yourself
: We humans are not very good in generating random numbers. How random can you be? - Lineae ex punctis
: Screaming Females at Chelsea, Vienna
: It looks like we finally get an aspect ratio property in CSS. …
: “What the combined efforts of the Uber-for-X companies created is a new form of servant, one …
: A Meditation on the Open Web from WordPress
: China banned millions of people with poor social credit from transportation in 2018 A lot of people …
: The secret lives of Facebook moderators in America
: The complete story of A New Hope in one extremely long infographic. swanh.net
: Last night in Linz the fog made everything quite spooky
: Chvrches at Gasometer, Vienna
: Very foggy morning in Vienna
: It‘s Sunday evening and I am definitely not old.
: This weekend I finished reading The Storm Before The Storm. Mike Duncan goes through the events that …
: The polishing in the latest update from Fiery Feeds is amazing. The apps looks and feels a lot …
: Yesterday I wrote a couple hundred lines of code in an hour. The last three hours I have worked at a …
: Philip Walton came up with a great pattern (and library) to execute JavaScript when the browser is …
: Pom Poko at WUK, Waves Festival, Vienna
: Mascha at WUK, Waves Festival, Vienna
: Kids N Cats at WUK, Waves Festival, Vienna
: Kovacs at WUK, Waves Festival, Vienna
: WWWater at WUK, Waves Festival, Vienna
: False Advertising at WUK, Waves Festival, Vienna
: The Blind Suns at WUK, Waves Festival, Vienna
: Cléa Vincent at WUK, Waves Festival, Vienna
: Pauls Jets at WUK, Waves Festival, Vienna
: From Thursday to Saturday the Waves Festival takes place in Vienna and I made an Apple Music …
: Pokémon Fusion is the best thing that I saw on the internet this week.
: Budget audiophile Or as I would say as a programmer: false == true …
: It’s always super interesting to read Apples short description of the new version of iOS, after …
: The intrinsicsize attribute is not yet in HTML,, but I would need it for a problem right now. …
: The new interface for Chrome looks really… ah… dumb.
: I got a MacBook Pro with touch bar at work. I don’t have any problems with the keyboard yet, but …
: In July my flight from Costa Rica back to Vienna was late 22 hours. Thanks to the European Union I …
: Rachel Nabors makes a great point for diversity in browsers css-tricks.com
: Waterfall in Montezuma, Costa Rica
: My flight from Costa Rica to Vienna is 22 delayed. I get a nice hotel, but I’m already waiting for …
: Red-eyed frog, Arenal Observatory, Costa Rica
: La Fortuna and Arenal Volcano, Costa Rica
: Santa Elena Reserva, Monte Verde, Costa Rica
: Monteverde Cloud Forest, Costa Rica
: Santa Elena Reserva, Monteverde, Costa Rica
: Night Walk at Monteverde Cloud Forest, Costa Rica
: Arcade Fire at Stadthalle, Vienna
: Arcade Fire at Stadthalle, Vienna
: I will leave for my friends garden party as soon as I have charged my phone, watch and headphones.
: Rambla del Poblenou, Barcelona
: The best things always happen at the end 🤬
: Bye bye Primavera Sound. That was a lot of fun 🎸🤩
: Lorde at Primavera Sound, Barcelona
: Carrer de Marià Aguiló, Barcelona
: Chvrches at Primavera, Barcelona
: Carrer de Bac de Roda, Barcelona
: Playa del Bogatell, Barcelona
: On my way to Barcelona. Primavera here I come.
: I have received two kinds of GDPR emails in the last few days: 1) We’ve updated our privacy …
: If you are writing code that generates PDF I recommend Skim. In constrast to Preview, Skim can …
: 🔗 Humans just 0.01% of all life but have destroyed 83% of wild mammals “The world’s 7.6 billion people represent just 0.01% of all living things, according to the study. …
: Preinerwandsteig, Lower Austria
: My allergies were really bad this afternoon and I went through tissues like crazy. I had to go out …
: 🎧 Today I have once again collected some great albums that came out. florian.ec/articles/…
: Since yesterday I am occasionally getting “Secure Connection Failed” errors when going …
: The bird on the Tweetbot 3 for Mac icon looks as angry as I feel when reading Twitter.
: I never dreamt of flying cars, my dream was screens everyone and ways to move stuff around these …
: “In the weeks and months following the terrorist attacks on New York and Washington, D.C., we all …
: Seems like messenger.com is not working when logged out.
: Here is a web bug I have never seen before: messenger.com does not work in Private Browsing (tested …
: Since the Hey Elbow Show tonight was cancelled (😢) I will spend the evening working on the new …
: Because I have been away this weekend, my album recommendations from last Friday are only coming out …
: Memorial to deserters, Ballhausplatz, Vienna
: Maybe I move into a small Italian town and cycle around all day getting coffee and bread.
: 📚 I finished reading Die Hauptstadt by Robert Menasse. A novel with an ensemble cast set in the …
: Personally I hate Instagram Stories because they are a weird mixture of Instagram (beautiful photos) …
: 🎧 Once again I have compiled a list of new albums I like. florian.ec/articles/…
: Let the rain wash all the pollen away.
: 🎙 Whoa. This is a really amazing story about an unlikely bank robber. overcast.fm
: I got a really pretty bicycle basket 🚲
: It happens rarely, but in this case I want the one from Google. Super Soaker ❤️
: Another Android phone, another notch.
: There will be a point in the future where I buy a Nintendo Switch. …
: What are the rules regarding sponsored content on Instagram in the EU? …
: The internet tells me Fidget Spinners are trendy among teenagers, but so far I have seen only adult …
: Ok, this Shot on iPhone ad is really good.
: Russian malware communicates by leaving comments in Britney Spears’s Instagram account What?
: 🎶 New Chastity Belt Album I Used To Spend So Much Time Alone is out today.
: 🎶 Pixx released her debut album The Age of Anxiety today. Beautiful.
: Remember when Googles motto was “Don’t be evil”? They have forgotten that pretty clearly. Eric …
: Haha. Pinboard acquired Delicious
: Are Pop Lyrics Getting More Repetitive?
: Great talk about immutable JavaScript from Anjana Vakil at JSConf EU. www.youtube.com/watch
: I started watching season 3 of Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt last night and it so good. Really funny and …
: Coffee is art www.instagram.com/leekangbi…
: history of the entire world, i guess www.youtube.com/watch
: Photography tips from Apple. The tips are basic advice, but I really like the style of the videos. …
: New e-mail filter: Body contains “Circling back on my previous email” → Mark as Spam.
: Microsofts Fluent Design looks kinda cool, but also like a paper operating system designed by art …
: Microsoft, Amazon, Facebook, Alphabet, Apple If it weren’t for YouTube, I would drop Alphabet third. …
: The Refugees by Viet Thanh Nguyen is as beautiful on the inside as it is on the outside.