A website without a blog is somehow incomplete. Here's mine.
I briefly mentioned it yesterday: I wasn't really comfortable with my book rating system anymore. So last night, I spontaneously sat down and redesigned it.
I took the opportunity to use a Kirby field now to me: Toggles:
So far, I've given a classic five-star rating using a range slider. As I mentioned in my note, I often found it difficult to decide on a number.
Now I have four options:
ReadWhat does it do to us if we can no longer trust any information?
Hello friend, I hope this e-mail finds you well.
I'm a friend, an acquaintance, a work colleague, your trusted newsletter. But something's wrong. Something seems wrong. The sender is correct, the address is correct. This isn't spam. But something... something is strange.
Much of what we do today is based on mutual trust. We've created ways and means to ensure that we're really dealing with people or entities we trust. But what if that trust is undermined?
ReadThree years ago, I decided I'll just try to develop my own game. Things are slowly taking shape, but first things first.
Over the past few years, I've noticed a certain behavior in myself: I want too much. I'd like to write more, not just technically, but also other forms of writing. And I love making music, both with my band and privately. I listen to a lot of different music and often think: I want to do something like that. And I watch movies and series and then think about the story or the mood, or both: I want to do that too. And I like programming small and large tools and hacks and the like.
The time we all have at our disposal is finite. Viewed as a whole and in relation to the day. I can't do everything, I tell myself over and over again. Programming, writing, music, telling stories. I have to make decisions and set limits...
But that's not true at all!
ReadIt always makes me happy when my desktop widget tells me there are new comments. Yes, I'm all for blog comments. Which isn't exactly common.
In the old days™️, comments could be found on pretty much every blog. Most blog systems included them, or they could be quickly added using plugins. For me, comments belong on every blog.
Today, that's not necessarily the norm anymore. This isn't just for technical reasons. While blogging often involves WordPress, it's no longer standard practice. There are many systems out there, and there are many blogs that no longer have a CMS running in the background. Static pages are generated from text sources.
ReadThis time, Blog Weeks are focusing on the classics of the blogosphere: Blogstöckchen, blog parades, trackbacks, and the like. Are these traditions, or is there a renaissance?
Well, first of all, it should be noted that the Blog Weeks are essentially also a kind of blog parade, and the number of participants recently suggests that such activities are still quite popular.
I also keep stumbling across blog memes (“blog sticks”) when browsing through the blogs I subscribe to. Usually, these involve a handful of questions that one person answers and then nominates others to do the same.
Both ideas foster networking: they help discover new blogs and get to know the people behind them a bit better. Of course, people are happy to take part. On the one hand, topics are practically handed to you, and on the other, such activities always promise new readers.
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