Webrocker – Seite 5 – Survival in Frankfurt, Germany. Music, Bands, Design, Illustration, and all that. And code, too. Sometimes.

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?

Simplicity (II) - Bastian Allgeier

Bastian reflects on a topic that's very close to (my) home -- the supposedly unavoidable Tooliganismn that is involved with working on the "modern" web.

Skating Polly - Stop Digging

Die 90er sind wieder da und ich feiere das! (und who needs guitars anyway?)

React - Charlie Owen

Please read this post on why there's not only a problem with this popular JS framework, but how it actually hurts 'the web' (that was, as Charlie put it). It echoes my stance and resentiment against all client-side only JS 'app'ification, and that is even without the meta aspects about society and representation that Charly…

You Pay (Or Maybe You Don’t) - Heydon Pickering

Aside from the fact that Heydon and Andy have published a very interesting work regarding the art of (writing less) CSS "Every Layout" - and want to get paid for the value this will bring to your arsenal - this blog post is a very good read.

Using Framework Powers For Good - Marcus Herrmann

Marcus has compiled a great collection of ways how (js) frameworks, which are often blamed for being responsible for unaccessible sites, can actually help in getting things right, a11y-wise.

The Web Has Turned …

The web has turned and left me here Just where I was before it appeared And in its place an empty space Has filled the void behind my face I just made love with its sweet memory One thousand times in my head it said it loved it more than ever it said it remains…

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