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A presentation Hidde de Vries gave at Smashing Conference yesterday. Very interesting points throughout, also very entertaining, even if we only have the slides to look at online so far. He touched many topics I work on and I could especially relate to this chart \u2026<\/p>\n
talks.hiddedevries.nl\/6qLmAh<\/a><\/p>\n","content_excerpt":" A presentation Hidde de Vries gave at Smashing Conference yesterday. Very interesting points throughout, also very entertaining, even if we only have the slides to look at online so far. He touched many topics I work on and I could especially relate to this chart \u2026<\/p>\n talks.hiddedevries.nl\/6qLmAh<\/a><\/p>\n","has_more":false,"content_text":"A presentation Hidde de Vries gave at Smashing Conference yesterday. Very interesting points throughout, also very entertaining, even if we only have the slides to look at online so far. He touched many topics I work on and I could especially relate to this chart \u2026\n\nhttps:\/\/talks.hiddedevries.nl\/6qLmAh","image":"https:\/\/knot.tilman.me\/content\/posts\/2026\/09\/2026-09-10_10-39-16_five-essential-ingredients-for-a-web-that-serves-us-all\/hiddedevries-slides.jpg","tags":["news","link"],"date_published":"2026-09-10T10:39:16+02:00","date_modified":"2026-09-10T10:39:16+02:00"},{"id":"6aa02649dbd43","title":"Publications","author":"https:\/\/tilman.me","url":"https:\/\/knot.tilman.me\/post\/publications\/?utm_source=knot_feed","content_html":" I started a new section on this site: A collection of my academic design research: tilman.me\/pub<\/a> Google Scholar, here I come!<\/p>\n","content_excerpt":" I started a new section on this site: A collection of my academic design research: tilman.me\/pub<\/a> Google Scholar, here I come!<\/p>\n","has_more":false,"content_text":"I started a new section on this site: A collection of my academic design research: https:\/\/tilman.me\/pub\/ Google Scholar, here I come!","image":false,"tags":["research","news","design"],"date_published":"2026-09-08T17:14:17+02:00","date_modified":"2026-09-08T17:14:17+02:00"},{"id":"6a9fbfa6d6f0b","title":"","author":"https:\/\/tilman.me","url":"https:\/\/knot.tilman.me\/post\/overnight-hiking-trip\/?utm_source=knot_feed","content_html":" Overnight hiking trip. \ud83d\uddfb\u2600\ufe0f\ud83c\udfd5\ufe0f<\/p>\n","content_excerpt":" Overnight hiking trip. \ud83d\uddfb\u2600\ufe0f\ud83c\udfd5\ufe0f<\/p>\n","has_more":false,"content_text":"Overnight hiking trip. \ud83d\uddfb\u2600\ufe0f\ud83c\udfd5\ufe0f","image":"https:\/\/knot.tilman.me\/content\/posts\/2026\/09\/2026-09-08_09-56-22_overnight-hiking-trip\/IMG_6008-low.jpg","tags":["life","art"],"date_published":"2026-09-08T09:56:22+02:00","date_modified":"2026-09-08T09:56:22+02:00"},{"id":"6a9aa23991dd0","title":"Crossposting to Bluesky and Mastodon","author":"https:\/\/tilman.me","url":"https:\/\/knot.tilman.me\/post\/crossposting-to-bluesky-and-mastodon\/?utm_source=knot_feed","content_html":" Knot, our little microblogging system, can now crosspost to Bluesky and Mastodon. I admit this is more news for me than for anybody else \u2014 but in the long run you can expect more quality content from my side on these platforms!<\/p>\n Another step towards a more solid POSSE strategy: post to my own site first, then syndicate as well as possible to where the audience still lingers. Testing it in real life conditions now. If that holds up, it goes into the Knot repo next week.<\/p>\n","content_excerpt":" Knot, our little microblogging system, can now crosspost to Bluesky and Mastodon. I admit this is more news for me than for anybody else \u2014 but in the long run you can expect more quality content from my side on these platforms!<\/p>\n Another step towards a more solid POSSE strategy: post to my own site first, then syndicate as well as possible to where the audience still lingers. Testing it in real life conditions now. If that holds up, it goes into the Knot repo next week.<\/p>\n","has_more":false,"content_text":"Knot, our little microblogging system, can now crosspost to Bluesky and Mastodon. I admit this is more news for me than for anybody else \u2014 but in the long run you can expect more quality content from my side on these platforms!\n\nAnother step towards a more solid POSSE strategy: post to my own site first, then syndicate as well as possible to where the audience still lingers. Testing it in real life conditions now. If that holds up, it goes into the Knot repo next week.","image":"https:\/\/knot.tilman.me\/content\/posts\/2026\/09\/2026-09-04_12-49-29_crossposting-to-bluesky-and-mastodon\/crossposting-visual.jpg","tags":["research","news"],"date_published":"2026-09-04T12:49:29+02:00","date_modified":"2026-09-04T12:49:29+02:00"},{"id":"6a99c9bb8664d","title":"","author":"https:\/\/tilman.me","url":"https:\/\/knot.tilman.me\/post\/every-year-https-tinyawards-net-hand-out-a-prize-for-the-best-of-the-small-poeti\/?utm_source=knot_feed","content_html":" Every year tinyawards.net<\/a> hand out a prize for the best of the small, poetic, handmade web \u2014 personal projects, built by one or two people, far away from commercial mainstream. The public nominates, a selection committee picks a shortlist, and then the public votes.<\/p>\n If you want to see what's possible on the web if you have some time, some dev skills and a huge amount of daring creativity, look here!<\/p>\n Eleven sites are on this year's shortlist, and voting is open until September 25th. Go click! tinyawards.net<\/a><\/p>\n","content_excerpt":" Every year tinyawards.net<\/a> hand out a prize for the best of the small, poetic, handmade web \u2014 personal projects, built by one or two people, far away from commercial mainstream. The public nominates, a selection committee picks a shortlist, and then the public votes.<\/p>\n If you want to see what's possible on the web if you have some time, some dev skills and a huge amount of daring creativity, look here!<\/p>\n Eleven sites are on this year's shortlist, and voting is open until September 25th. Go click! tinyawards.net<\/a><\/p>\n","has_more":false,"content_text":"Every year https:\/\/tinyawards.net hand out a prize for the best of the small, poetic, handmade web \u2014 personal projects, built by one or two people, far away from commercial mainstream. The public nominates, a selection committee picks a shortlist, and then the public votes.\n\nIf you want to see what's possible on the web if you have some time, some dev skills and a huge amount of daring creativity, look here!\n\nEleven sites are on this year's shortlist, and voting is open until September 25th. Go click! https:\/\/tinyawards.net","image":false,"tags":["research","life"],"date_published":"2026-09-03T21:25:47+02:00","date_modified":"2026-09-03T21:25:47+02:00"},{"id":"6a91eeb910745","title":"","author":"https:\/\/tilman.me","url":"https:\/\/knot.tilman.me\/post\/jim-mitchell-s-indieweb-is-punk-manifesto-eight-theses-reading-the-personal-site\/?utm_source=knot_feed","content_html":" Jim Mitchell's IndieWeb Is Punk Manifesto: eight theses reading the personal site as DIY culture. I hope new perspectives like this can help getting new audiences interested in independent web publishing!<\/p>\n indiewebispunk.net<\/a><\/p>\n","content_excerpt":" Jim Mitchell's IndieWeb Is Punk Manifesto: eight theses reading the personal site as DIY culture. I hope new perspectives like this can help getting new audiences interested in independent web publishing!<\/p>\n indiewebispunk.net<\/a><\/p>\n","has_more":false,"content_text":"Jim Mitchell's IndieWeb Is Punk Manifesto: eight theses reading the personal site as DIY culture. I hope new perspectives like this can help getting new audiences interested in independent web publishing!\n\nhttps:\/\/indiewebispunk.net","image":"https:\/\/knot.tilman.me\/content\/posts\/2026\/08\/2026-08-28_22-25-29_jim-mitchell-s-indieweb-is-punk-manifesto-eight-theses-reading-the-personal-site\/Bildschirmfoto%202026-08-28%20um%2022.19.22.png","tags":["research"],"date_published":"2026-08-28T22:25:29+02:00","date_modified":"2026-08-28T22:25:29+02:00"},{"id":"6a89c5eb83658","title":"Corse 4","author":"https:\/\/tilman.me","url":"https:\/\/knot.tilman.me\/post\/corse-4\/?utm_source=knot_feed","content_html":" This is what I packed for the holiday in Milan and Corsica this year. Not that I ever thought I would it read it ALL \u2026<\/p>\n Robin Sloan, \u201cThe Writer & the Witch\u201d<\/strong> \u2013 On top sits the smallest and by far the most beautiful object of the pile: Robin Sloan\u2019s short story The Writer & the Witch, printed, folded, stapled and trimmed by Sloan himself in his Penumbra Print Shop<\/a>. Italian paper with a gritty tooth, endpapers made from radish leaves by the Awagami Factory \u2014 you can see the speckled green sheet peeking out in the photo. Sloan claims the paper smells amazing. It does.<\/p>\n The story is a modern fairy tale: a young writer in a hurry, an old woman by a bridge, a curse that turns out to be something else entirely. I read it in one sitting, because of course I did \u2014 it\u2019s about 4,000 words. I liked it a lot.<\/p>\n \u201cKorsika\u201d<\/strong> \u2013 The obligatory travel guide for our destination. So we know which road is technically a road.<\/p>\n Alastair Reynolds, \u201cEversion\u201d<\/strong> (German: \u201cDas Schiff der fl\u00fcsternden Tr\u00e4ume\u201d) \u2013 My perfect hard-SF summer novel, and I flew through it.<\/p>\n The premise is wonderful: a ship\u2019s doctor on a 19th-century sailing expedition to a mysterious structure in a Norwegian fjord. Then the same crew, the same doctor, the same structure \u2014 aboard a steam ship before Patagonia. Then again, elsewhere, elsewhen. Each iteration ends in catastrophe. For a long stretch you have no idea what you are reading, and Reynolds is entirely comfortable letting you sit with that.<\/p>\n It resolves. And it resolves well<\/em> \u2014 into an explanation that is, three years after the book first appeared in English in 2022, considerably more thinkable than it must have been at the time. I won\u2019t say more. Absolutely recommended.<\/p>\n Adrian Tchaikovsky, \u201cChildren of Time\u201d<\/strong> (German: \u201cDie Kinder der Zeit\u201d) \u2013 Just started. The first pages are already very good. Report to follow.<\/p>\n Manuel Garand, \u201cMurdoku\u201d<\/strong> \u2013 The pool-and-beach puzzle book. You solve murder cases by deducing where each character was standing on a room-plan grid. It borrows the constraint logic of Sudoku but is far less abstract and considerably less complex. It is about people, not numbers. You can try it at murdoku.com<\/a>.<\/p><\/p>\n","content_excerpt":" This is what I packed for the holiday in Milan and Corsica this year. Not that I ever thought I would it read it ALL \u2026<\/p>\n Robin Sloan, \u201cThe Writer & the Witch\u201d<\/strong> \u2013 On top sits the smallest and by far the most beautiful object of the pile: Robin Sloan\u2019s short story The Writer & the Witch, printed, folded, stapled and trimmed by Sloan himself in his Penumbra Print Shop<\/a>. Italian paper with a gritty tooth, endpapers made from radish leaves by the Awagami Factory \u2014 you can see the speckled green sheet peeking out in the photo. Sloan claims the paper smells amazing. It does.<\/p>\n The story is a modern fairy tale: a young writer in a hurry, an old woman by a bridge, a curse that turns out to be something else entirely. I read it in one sitting, because of course I did \u2014 it\u2019s about 4,000 words. I liked it a lot.<\/p>\n \u201cKorsika\u201d<\/strong> \u2013 The obligatory travel guide for our destination. So we know which road is technically a road.<\/p>\n Alastair Reynolds, \u201cEversion\u201d<\/strong> (German: \u201cDas Schiff der fl\u00fcsternden Tr\u00e4ume\u201d) \u2013 My perfect hard-SF summer novel, and I flew through it.<\/p>\n The premise is wonderful: a ship\u2019s doctor on a 19th-century sailing expedition to a mysterious structure in a Norwegian fjord. Then the same crew, the same doctor, the same structure \u2014 aboard a steam ship before Patagonia. Then again, elsewhere, elsewhen. Each iteration ends in catastrophe. For a long stretch you have no idea what you are reading, and Reynolds is entirely comfortable letting you sit with that.<\/p>\n It resolves. And it resolves well<\/em> \u2014 into an explanation that is, three years after the book first appeared in English in 2022, considerably more thinkable than it must have been at the time. I won\u2019t say more. Absolutely recommended.<\/p>\n Adrian Tchaikovsky, \u201cChildren of Time\u201d<\/strong> (German: \u201cDie Kinder der Zeit\u201d) \u2013 Just started. The first pages are already very good. Report to follow.<\/p>\n Manuel Garand, \u201cMurdoku\u201d<\/strong> \u2013 The pool-and-beach puzzle book. You solve murder cases by deducing where each character was standing on a room-plan grid. It borrows the constraint logic of Sudoku but is far less abstract and considerably less complex. It is about people, not numbers. You can try it at murdoku.com<\/a>.<\/p><\/p>\n","has_more":false,"content_text":"This is what I packed for the holiday in Milan and Corsica this year. Not that I ever thought I would it read it ALL \u2026\nRobin Sloan, \u201cThe Writer & the Witch\u201d \u2013 On top sits the smallest and by far the most beautiful object of the pile: Robin Sloan\u2019s short story The Writer & the Witch, printed, folded, stapled and trimmed by Sloan himself in his Penumbra Print Shop. Italian paper with a gritty tooth, endpapers made from radish leaves by the Awagami Factory \u2014 you can see the speckled green sheet peeking out in the photo. Sloan claims the paper smells amazing. It does.\nThe story is a modern fairy tale: a young writer in a hurry, an old woman by a bridge, a curse that turns out to be something else entirely. I read it in one sitting, because of course I did \u2014 it\u2019s about 4,000 words. I liked it a lot.\n\u201cKorsika\u201d \u2013 The obligatory travel guide for our destination. So we know which road is technically a road.\nAlastair Reynolds, \u201cEversion\u201d (German: \u201cDas Schiff der fl\u00fcsternden Tr\u00e4ume\u201d) \u2013 My perfect hard-SF summer novel, and I flew through it.\nThe premise is wonderful: a ship\u2019s doctor on a 19th-century sailing expedition to a mysterious structure in a Norwegian fjord. Then the same crew, the same doctor, the same structure \u2014 aboard a steam ship before Patagonia. Then again, elsewhere, elsewhen. Each iteration ends in catastrophe. For a long stretch you have no idea what you are reading, and Reynolds is entirely comfortable letting you sit with that.\nIt resolves. And it resolves well \u2014 into an explanation that is, three years after the book first appeared in English in 2022, considerably more thinkable than it must have been at the time. I won\u2019t say more. Absolutely recommended.\nAdrian Tchaikovsky, \u201cChildren of Time\u201d (German: \u201cDie Kinder der Zeit\u201d) \u2013 Just started. The first pages are already very good. Report to follow.\nManuel Garand, \u201cMurdoku\u201d \u2013 The pool-and-beach puzzle book. You solve murder cases by deducing where each character was standing on a room-plan grid. It borrows the constraint logic of Sudoku but is far less abstract and considerably less complex. It is about people, not numbers. You can try it at murdoku.com.","image":"https:\/\/knot.tilman.me\/content\/posts\/2026\/08\/2026-08-21_22-38-04_my-summer-holiday-reading-stack\/IMG_5815.jpeg","tags":["life"],"date_published":"2026-08-21T22:38:04+02:00","date_modified":"2026-08-21T22:38:04+02:00"},{"id":"6a881d2ecd526","title":"Corse 2","author":"https:\/\/tilman.me","url":"https:\/\/knot.tilman.me\/post\/corse-2\/?utm_source=knot_feed","content_html":" At the moment there are two initiatives running in the world of weblogs and blogging<\/a>: Blaugust<\/a> and 100 Days to Offload<\/a>. They differ in the details. The first is about a month of posting, the other about a hundred posts in a year. But the aim is the same: to get people writing on their personal weblogs more. Quality is explicitly not the point. Neither is spell-checking, nor depth of thought. It is more important to just write.<\/p><\/p>\n Are we really looking for more people chatting away online? Without a clear aim or an eye for quality?<\/p><\/p>\n I think we are, yes \u2014 but that answer only works because the initiatives look for something different here. Nobody is claiming a hundred hasty posts beat one careful essay. What they are after is not quality, but to get more people to use their freedom to run their own website. Turning consumers into creators matters more today than ever, when the web seems taken over by commercial interests (and AI slop). And every writer has to practise, and write a lot of rubbish, before they get the chance to write something worthwhile.<\/p><\/p>\n The web is a vast place and has room for everybody. If nobody comes to visit and read what was written, no problem \u2014 by then the writing has already done its work.<\/p><\/p>\n","content_excerpt":" At the moment there are two initiatives running in the world of weblogs and blogging<\/a>: Blaugust<\/a> and 100 Days to Offload<\/a>. They differ in the details. The first is about a month of posting, the other about a hundred posts in a year. But the aim is the same: to get people writing on their personal weblogs more. Quality is explicitly not the point. Neither is spell-checking, nor depth of thought. It is more important to just write.<\/p><\/p>\n Are we really looking for more people chatting away online? Without a clear aim or an eye for quality?<\/p><\/p>\n I think we are, yes \u2014 but that answer only works because the initiatives look for something different here. Nobody is claiming a hundred hasty posts beat one careful essay. What they are after is not quality, but to get more people to use their freedom to run their own website. Turning consumers into creators matters more today than ever, when the web seems taken over by commercial interests (and AI slop). And every writer has to practise, and write a lot of rubbish, before they get the chance to write something worthwhile.<\/p><\/p>\n The web is a vast place and has room for everybody. If nobody comes to visit and read what was written, no problem \u2014 by then the writing has already done its work.<\/p><\/p>\n","has_more":false,"content_text":"At the moment there are two initiatives running in the world of weblogs and blogging: Blaugust and 100 Days to Offload. They differ in the details. The first is about a month of posting, the other about a hundred posts in a year. But the aim is the same: to get people writing on their personal weblogs more. Quality is explicitly not the point. Neither is spell-checking, nor depth of thought. It is more important to just write.\n\nAre we really looking for more people chatting away online? Without a clear aim or an eye for quality?\n\nI think we are, yes \u2014 but that answer only works because the initiatives look for something different here. Nobody is claiming a hundred hasty posts beat one careful essay. What they are after is not quality, but to get more people to use their freedom to run their own website. Turning consumers into creators matters more today than ever, when the web seems taken over by commercial interests (and AI slop). And every writer has to practise, and write a lot of rubbish, before they get the chance to write something worthwhile.\n\nThe web is a vast place and has room for everybody. If nobody comes to visit and read what was written, no problem \u2014 by then the writing has already done its work.","image":false,"tags":["research","news"],"date_published":"2026-08-15T21:23:03+02:00","date_modified":"2026-08-15T21:23:03+02:00"},{"id":"6a7df6c1b0767","title":"Milano day 3","author":"https:\/\/tilman.me","url":"https:\/\/knot.tilman.me\/post\/milano-day-3\/?utm_source=knot_feed","content_html":" It\u2019s holiday time! Spend our first day in Milan. There might be more travel photography here in the next days. Or maybe not. Because I\u2019m on holiday!<\/p>\n","content_excerpt":" It\u2019s holiday time! Spend our first day in Milan. There might be more travel photography here in the next days. Or maybe not. Because I\u2019m on holiday!<\/p>\n","has_more":false,"content_text":"It\u2019s holiday time! Spend our first day in Milan. There might be more travel photography here in the next days. Or maybe not. Because I\u2019m on holiday!","image":"https:\/\/knot.tilman.me\/content\/posts\/2026\/08\/2026-08-10_22-36-30_milano-day-1\/Unbenannt%20%281%29.png","tags":["life","art"],"date_published":"2026-08-10T22:36:30+02:00","date_modified":"2026-08-10T22:36:30+02:00"},{"id":"6a73415bbee41","title":"How can creative practitioners publish on the web today? Options, pitfalls, and trade-offs","author":"https:\/\/tilman.me","url":"https:\/\/knot.tilman.me\/post\/how-can-creative-practitioners-publish-on-the-web-today-options-pitfalls-and-trade-offs\/?utm_source=knot_feed","content_html":" I just published a long essay on a question that nagged me for years. I always felt that more creatives should run their own self-hosted websites \u2014 but I was never sure I was right. So instead of arguing for it, I examined every option as objectively as I could, with its real advantages and pitfalls, so readers can reach their own informed conclusions!<\/p>\n Read here: tilman.me\/garden\/How+can+creative+practitioners+publish+on+the+web+today%3F<\/a><\/p>\n","content_excerpt":" I just published a long essay on a question that nagged me for years. I always felt that more creatives should run their own self-hosted websites \u2014 but I was never sure I was right. So instead of arguing for it, I examined every option as objectively as I could, with its real advantages and pitfalls, so readers can reach their own informed conclusions!<\/p>\n Read here: tilman.me\/garden\/How+can+creative+practitioners+publish+on+the+web+today%3F<\/a><\/p>\n","has_more":false,"content_text":"I just published a long essay on a question that nagged me for years. I always felt that more creatives should run their own self-hosted websites \u2014 but I was never sure I was right. So instead of arguing for it, I examined every option as objectively as I could, with its real advantages and pitfalls, so readers can reach their own informed conclusions!\n\nRead here: https:\/\/tilman.me\/garden\/How+can+creative+practitioners+publish+on+the+web+today%3F","image":false,"tags":["research","design"],"date_published":"2026-08-05T15:57:47+02:00","date_modified":"2026-08-05T15:57:47+02:00"},{"id":"6a59d4454d688","title":"Geoffrey Litt: Understanding is the new bottleneck","author":"https:\/\/tilman.me","url":"https:\/\/knot.tilman.me\/post\/geoffrey-litt-understanding-is-the-new-bottleneck\/?utm_source=knot_feed","content_html":" Geoffrey Litt has a great new perspective on how we work with AI-generated code. We're not bound to prompting and moving on. We can have the AI explain what it built \u2014 teaching the background, building intuition before showing code, even ending with an interactive quiz so we don't fool ourselves into thinking we understood. His sharp point: we do this not to *verify* the agent (it's getting good at that itself) but to *participate* \u2014 to keep enough fluency to grow ourselves and to come up with the next idea.<\/p>\n Geoffrey is talking about code, but I feel like this transfers to concept work, texts, and imagery. But I don't think it transfers *easily*: his techniques work because code is a formal, executable system. What's the steppable micro-world for a generated concept, text or an image? The quiz travels, at least. The rest I'd like to keep thinking about.<\/p>\n Read it: www.geoffreylitt.com\/2026\/07\/02\/understanding-is-the-new-bottleneck.html<\/a><\/p>\n","content_excerpt":" Geoffrey Litt has a great new perspective on how we work with AI-generated code. We're not bound to prompting and moving on. We can have the AI explain what it built \u2014 teaching the background, building intuition before showing code, even ending with an interactive quiz so we don't fool ourselves into thinking we understood. His sharp point: we do this not to *verify* the agent (it's getting good at that itself) but to *participate* \u2014 to keep enough fluency to grow ourselves and to come up with the next idea.<\/p>\n Geoffrey is talking about code, but I feel like this transfers to concept work, texts, and imagery. But I don't think it transfers *easily*: his techniques work because code is a formal, executable system. What's the steppable micro-world for a generated concept, text or an image? The quiz travels, at least. The rest I'd like to keep thinking about.<\/p>\n Read it: www.geoffreylitt.com\/2026\/07\/02\/understanding-is-the-new-bottleneck.html<\/a><\/p>\n","has_more":false,"content_text":"Geoffrey Litt has a great new perspective on how we work with AI-generated code. We're not bound to prompting and moving on. We can have the AI explain what it built \u2014 teaching the background, building intuition before showing code, even ending with an interactive quiz so we don't fool ourselves into thinking we understood. His sharp point: we do this not to *verify* the agent (it's getting good at that itself) but to *participate* \u2014 to keep enough fluency to grow ourselves and to come up with the next idea.\n \nGeoffrey is talking about code, but I feel like this transfers to concept work, texts, and imagery. But I don't think it transfers *easily*: his techniques work because code is a formal, executable system. What's the steppable micro-world for a generated concept, text or an image? The quiz travels, at least. The rest I'd like to keep thinking about.\n \nRead it: https:\/\/www.geoffreylitt.com\/2026\/07\/02\/understanding-is-the-new-bottleneck.html","image":"https:\/\/knot.tilman.me\/content\/posts\/2026\/07\/2026-07-17_09-05-41_geoffrey-litt-understanding-is-the-new-bottleneck\/slide-35.jpeg","tags":["ai","link","teaching"],"date_published":"2026-07-17T09:05:41+02:00","date_modified":"2026-07-17T09:05:41+02:00"},{"id":"6a441f425a1b5","title":"Released my Web Feed Roll \ud83d\udce1","author":"https:\/\/tilman.me","url":"https:\/\/knot.tilman.me\/post\/released-my-web-feed-roll\/?utm_source=knot_feed","content_html":" I just put together a \u00bbweb feed roll\u00ab \u2014 a hand-picked list of blogs I actually read, each with a short intro and their latest posts pulled via RSS\/Atom.<\/p>\n Web feeds are a quiet, open way to follow people online \u2014 no ads, no engagement bait, just posts showing up when they're published. If you've never tried a feed reader, this is meant as a gentle on-ramp \u2014 a glimpse of some worthwhile blogging. If you like it, you might build your own subscription list with something like NetNewsWire or blogsareback.com.<\/p>\n The web feed roll is just one static HTML file. When you click on \"Update feeds\" a PHP script refreshes the content from the actual feeds.<\/p>\n This was my work day result at IndieWebCamp Nuremberg 2026 \u2014 built in a short day among a room full of people doing the similar things for their own corners of the web. That's the IndieWeb spirit in a nutshell.<\/p>\n \u2192 tilman.me\/feedroll<\/a><\/p>\n","content_excerpt":" I just put together a \u00bbweb feed roll\u00ab \u2014 a hand-picked list of blogs I actually read, each with a short intro and their latest posts pulled via RSS\/Atom.<\/p>\n Web feeds are a quiet, open way to follow people online \u2014 no ads, no engagement bait, just posts showing up when they're published. If you've never tried a feed reader, this is meant as a gentle on-ramp \u2014 a glimpse of some worthwhile blogging. If you like it, you might build your own subscription list with something like NetNewsWire or blogsareback.com.<\/p>\n The web feed roll is just one static HTML file. When you click on \"Update feeds\" a PHP script refreshes the content from the actual feeds.<\/p>\n This was my work day result at IndieWebCamp Nuremberg 2026 \u2014 built in a short day among a room full of people doing the similar things for their own corners of the web. That's the IndieWeb spirit in a nutshell.<\/p>\n \u2192 tilman.me\/feedroll<\/a><\/p>\n","has_more":false,"content_text":"I just put together a \u00bbweb feed roll\u00ab \u2014 a hand-picked list of blogs I actually read, each with a short intro and their latest posts pulled via RSS\/Atom.\n\nWeb feeds are a quiet, open way to follow people online \u2014 no ads, no engagement bait, just posts showing up when they're published. If you've never tried a feed reader, this is meant as a gentle on-ramp \u2014 a glimpse of some worthwhile blogging. If you like it, you might build your own subscription list with something like NetNewsWire or blogsareback.com.\n\nThe web feed roll is just one static HTML file. When you click on \"Update feeds\" a PHP script refreshes the content from the actual feeds.\n\nThis was my work day result at IndieWebCamp Nuremberg 2026 \u2014 built in a short day among a room full of people doing the similar things for their own corners of the web. That's the IndieWeb spirit in a nutshell.\n\n\u2192 https:\/\/tilman.me\/feedroll","image":false,"tags":["research","design","life"],"date_published":"2026-06-30T21:55:46+02:00","date_modified":"2026-06-30T21:55:46+02:00"},{"id":"6a416df720f49","title":"IndieWebCamp Nuremberg 2026","author":"https:\/\/tilman.me","url":"https:\/\/knot.tilman.me\/post\/indiewebcamp-nuremberg-2026\/?utm_source=knot_feed","content_html":" I spent the weekend at IndieWebCamp Nuremberg, the fifth edition in this city \u2014 two days at the tollwerkstatt as part of N\u00fcrnberg Digital Festival, in good company with a bunch of IndieWeb folks. <\/p>\n The highlight of Day 1 was Ren\u00e9<\/a>'s session, \u201cMake the web great again.\u201d It gloriously derailed into everyone trying to out-do each other with the silliest, most gleefully useless links the web has to offer. I hope there is a blog post soon, but for a starter: esd-systeme.de<\/a>. A reminder that the indie web isn't only specs and Webmentions \u2014 it's also delight.<\/p>\n Day 2 was Create Day and I built a Web Feed Roll for this site. It deserves its own post, so more on that very soon.<\/p>\n Everything is documented in detail on the IndieWeb Wiki: indieweb.org\/2026\/Nuremberg<\/a><\/p>\n","content_excerpt":" I spent the weekend at IndieWebCamp Nuremberg, the fifth edition in this city \u2014 two days at the tollwerkstatt as part of N\u00fcrnberg Digital Festival, in good company with a bunch of IndieWeb folks. <\/p>\n The highlight of Day 1 was Ren\u00e9<\/a>'s session, \u201cMake the web great again.\u201d It gloriously derailed into everyone trying to out-do each other with the silliest, most gleefully useless links the web has to offer. I hope there is a blog post soon, but for a starter: esd-systeme.de<\/a>. A reminder that the indie web isn't only specs and Webmentions \u2014 it's also delight.<\/p>\n Day 2 was Create Day and I built a Web Feed Roll for this site. It deserves its own post, so more on that very soon.<\/p>\n Everything is documented in detail on the IndieWeb Wiki: indieweb.org\/2026\/Nuremberg<\/a><\/p>\n","has_more":false,"content_text":"I spent the weekend at IndieWebCamp Nuremberg, the fifth edition in this city \u2014 two days at the tollwerkstatt as part of N\u00fcrnberg Digital Festival, in good company with a bunch of IndieWeb folks. \n\nThe highlight of Day 1 was Ren\u00e9's session, \u201cMake the web great again.\u201d It gloriously derailed into everyone trying to out-do each other with the silliest, most gleefully useless links the web has to offer. I hope there is a blog post soon, but for a starter: https:\/\/esd-systeme.de. A reminder that the indie web isn't only specs and Webmentions \u2014 it's also delight.\n\nDay 2 was Create Day and I built a Web Feed Roll for this site. It deserves its own post, so more on that very soon.\n\nEverything is documented in detail on the IndieWeb Wiki: https:\/\/indieweb.org\/2026\/Nuremberg","image":"https:\/\/knot.tilman.me\/content\/posts\/2026\/06\/2026-06-28_20-54-47_indiewebcamp-nuremberg-2026\/1000px-iwc-nbg-2026-10.jpg","tags":["life","research"],"date_published":"2026-06-28T20:54:47+02:00","date_modified":"2026-06-28T20:54:47+02:00"},{"id":"6a3e803d047d8","title":"Inspiring websites: Daniel Eatock","author":"https:\/\/tilman.me","url":"https:\/\/knot.tilman.me\/post\/inspiring-websites-daniel-eatock\/?utm_source=knot_feed","content_html":" I love Daniel Eatock\u2019s website<\/a>! The way he publishes his art and ideas for decades on this beautifully simple website is a tremendous accomplishment. And very inspiring. That is why I wrote a page on my digital garden about it<\/a>. Already part three of a series on inspiring websites.<\/p>\n","content_excerpt":" I love Daniel Eatock\u2019s website<\/a>! The way he publishes his art and ideas for decades on this beautifully simple website is a tremendous accomplishment. And very inspiring. That is why I wrote a page on my digital garden about it<\/a>. Already part three of a series on inspiring websites.<\/p>\n","has_more":false,"content_text":"I love Daniel Eatock\u2019s website! The way he publishes his art and ideas for decades on this beautifully simple website is a tremendous accomplishment. And very inspiring. That is why I wrote a page on my digital garden about it. Already part three of a series on inspiring websites.","image":"https:\/\/knot.tilman.me\/content\/posts\/2026\/06\/2026-06-26_15-35-57_inspiring-websites-daniel-eatock\/eatock.com-2026-06-12.png","tags":["research","design","art","news"],"date_published":"2026-06-26T15:35:57+02:00","date_modified":"2026-06-26T15:35:57+02:00"}]}![](\"https:\/\/knot.tilman.me\/content\/posts\/2026\/09\/2026-09-08_09-56-22_overnight-hiking-trip\/IMG_6008-low.jpg\")
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