The news of the shut-down of one of (my) oldest got-to places on the web, the "Fender Discussion Pages", has made me think, again, about how the web has changed. Hey Hey, my my content on the web will never die… I am a strong advocat for 'owning your content' and having a personal web…
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WebrockerRIP Fenderforum
The Fender Discussion Pages have shut down right now, after being online for 20+ years. This forum, not affiliated with the official Fender brand, was active since 1999 and one of my main sources when I got my first Fender Offset Guitar, a Jaguar, around that time. Info on these was so rare back then,…
BahnMining - David Kriesel @36c3, Leipzig 2019
Extrem sehenswerter Statistik-Vortrag zu einer Auswertung der Daten, die David Kriesel knapp ein Jahr lang aus den Fahrplan- und Änderungs-APIs der Deutschen Bahn gesammelt hat. Direktlink | Folien etc Aber fast noch sehens- und bedenkenswerter sind seine Worte zum Abschluss der Vortrags und dem Ausklang der Dekade (ab Minute 47:00): [die maßgebliche gesellschatliche Veränderung der…
1978: Hoimar von Dittfurth demonstriert den Treibhaus-Effekt.
… aber anscheinend hat niemand zugehört. Die Kommentare unter dem Youtube Video lassen ahnen, dass man auch 40 Jahre später nicht wirklich weiter gekommen ist.
Artists' Materials and Architects' Supplies - F.W. Devoe & Co., 1914
Ich habe ja eine große Schwäche für alles, was mit Grafik zu tun hat. Stifte, Lineale, Schablonen, Messscheiben, Papier, Pinsel - in einem Schreibwaren- oder Künstlerbedarfsladen darf man mich nicht alleine lassen, sonst werden alle Taschen vollgestopft :-) Hier ist Zeichenbedarfporno aus dem Jahr 1914: Ein Katalog der damals schon ältesten Zeichenbedarf-Ladens der Welt (nach…
Cybertruck in CSS
This morning, my timeline on Twitter was full of pictures and remarks about Tesla's new "Cybertruck" with the futuristic and plain look, brutal even. One of the first things that came to my under-coffeed mind then was "hm, this looks so angular, this was maybe designed with CSS?" As one does, a tweet followed: "css…
The Layers Of The Web
Jeremy Keith's talk at Beyond Tellerrand Berlin 2019 about the "layers of the web" (be sure to watch this!) inspired me to a quick css animation experiment on codepen: See the Pen Web Layers Of Pace by Tom (@webrocker) on CodePen. Be sure to look at it in the full screen mode, the thing currently…
The Special AKA - Racist Friend
If you have a racist friend Now is the Time Now is the Time Now is the time for your friendship to end
Escaping The Social Media Trap - Kiki Thaerigen
Social Media wants your constant attention. Social Media wants your time. Social Media is stealing your time, time you could better be using for your creative work and/or well-being. But Social Media also today is the way to advertise and display said work, and possibly get feedback, recognition even. And once you have kind of…
(Digital) Climate Strike - September 20th, 2019
My site here will join the digital climate strike on this friday. For this I made a small WordPress plugin that will display a placeholder page with infos on the ClimateStrike actions for all requests but for a list of urls that can be configured (for privacy policy and legal info pages) and the admin…
2050: The Fight For Earth - Bill McKibben | time.com
How the earth would look in 2050 if we solved climate change - What if the US came around and acted swiftly on climate change?