New this year: Join the c't slam on Nov 19 at 6 pm! C’t Editors give entertaining 10-min talks on their expertise, and you vote for the winner. Open to all — tickets available for external visitors. Includes catering. In English. ct-webdev.com/ct-slam/ #ctwd25

"5 useful JS APIs that you've never used": Peter Kröner (bsky.app/profile/did:...) aims to drag a few unknown JavaScript features into the limelight and help developers solve some of the more esoteric challenges that can crop up in web development. full agenda: ct-webdev.com/agenda-2025/ #ctwd25

Frameworks solved real problems – but also created new ones. Wolfram Kriesing (bsky.app/profile/did:...) will show how browser-native capabilities can deliver fast, modern, and maintainable experiences without the overhead. Full agenda here: ct-webdev.com/agenda-2025/

c't <webdev> 2025 starts in two months. Time to breathe life into this account. #ctwd25

ur LLM when you ask it to write CSS

Gruselig. "Bild sprach zuerst mit dem Toten" war mal ein geflügeltes Wort, wenn die Zeitung mal wieder Quatsch berichtet hat. Jetzt kriegt das eine ganz neue Bedeutung ...

Ihr könnt "KI" nicht mehr hören? Kann ich nachvollziehen, aber was will man machen. Agentische KI mit dem Model Context Protocol ist das nächste Ding, schaut es Euch an. Unter www.heise.de/ratgeber/Hil... beschreibe ich, wie die KI mehr erledigt hat, als ich ihr aufgetragen hatte (Paywall).

Das gibt's zu ähnlichen Konditionen auch in vielen deutschen Städten, hier in Hannover zum Beispiel.

God bless the weird internet. pointerpointer.com

Die Riesenmaschine ist 20. Falls jemand sie noch nicht kennt: Lesen! "Riesen" ist übrigens wörtlich zu verstehen. Das Jubiläums-PDF hat 9298 Seiten.

One positive thing: You don't know what to do with the stupid memo of your boss? Maybe you print it out and build a paper airplane with it. Fold'NFly has the instructions. www.foldnfly.com

One positive thing: Not so long ago, dear children and teenagers, boomers like your parents still had to manage their electronic music collection themselves. A very popular so-called MP3 player was WinAMP. You can find an online replica at webamp.org.

One positive thing: Street Art Cats from all over the world: streetartutopia.com/2025/01/22/s...

The world needs more of this and less of most other things

Ganz normaler Montag.

Hanns Dieter Hüsch wäre gestern 100 Jahre alt geworden. Ich finde, so einer wie er fehlt heute. Was er wohl zu Social Media zu sagen hätte? Oder zu Trump? Hier ein Stück über den Niederrheiner: "Der Niederrheiner weiß nichts, kann aber alles erklären". www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAUZ...

One positive thing: The mini photo editor halps you with quick photo edits in the browser. mini2-photo-editor.netlify.app

One positive thing: Der Wettbewerb um die besten Bilder der Hommingberger Gepardenforelle ist vorbei und die Teilnehmer haben tolle Werke kreiert. www.heise.de/news/20-Jahr...

One positive thing: Heute vor 20 Jahren startete ein Wettbewerb, bei dem es darum ging, Seiten für den Begriff „Hommingberger Gepardenforelle“ unter den Top-Treffern bei Google & Co. zu platzieren. Wir feiern das Jubiläum des Fisches – mit einem neuen Wettbewerb. www.heise.de/news/20-Jahr...

One positive thing: Polish artist Ksawery Kirklewski took the track Symphony in Acid from the album Unspoken Words by Max Cooper, the words from Ludwig Wittgenstein and made a beautiful interactive experience from it. Content warning: Flashing lights and images. symphonyinacid.net

One positive thing: You want to improve your typing? www.keybr.com will help you learn touch typing, which means typing through muscle memory without using your eyesight to find the keys on the keyboard. It’s free and if you give them some bucks it’s ad-fee, too.

One positive thing: Would you like to get to know new music? Then subscribe to the Tiny Desk Concerts, short live concerts at a desk on the NPR Music station - a very nice, intimate setting. www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

One positive thing: "This is the official rapid response page of the Democratic Party, holding Trump and MAGA extremists accountable." bsky.app/profile/fact...

One positive thing, probably more for the older people here - Webamp is a replica of Winamp that runs in the browser: webamp.org. You can even upload your own tracks to play. For the younger ones: This is what it looked like listining to music before Spotify.

One positive thing: Happy Cow helps you find vegan or vegetarian restaurants worldwide, on the web and via app www.happycow.net

In Duisburg arbeiteten Ikea und das lokale Tierheim zusammen. Im Möbelhaus finden sich Bilder von schwer zu vermittelnden Tieren inkl. Infos zb auf Nachttischen. 🐶🐱🐶 Es gibt zu viele negative News, deswegen poste ich jeden Tag eine #guteNewsdesTages.

Die größte weltanschauliche Gruppe in Deutschland ist übrigens die der Konfessionslosen, auch wenn man Protestanten und Katholiken zusammenzählt: hpd.de/artikel/erst...

One positive thing: Too many bad news? At goodnews.eu you can get your daily dose of optimism. They collect the best good news and most important solution-oriented news every day (from Monday to Friday) and make it available free of charge. In english and german.

If you need a distraction: 368 Chickens. Line up the chickens to rescue them. (via @legalnomads.com) [368chickens.com]

oof they did PHP real DIRTY

Sometimes positive things are so easy to realize ...

🔑 under-discussed point — why they were on signal:

One positive thing: xkcd stands for sharp-witted comics. From time to time, you can also find more complex content that can quickly become time-consuming: The Machine, for example, is an interactive game in which you have to maneuver balls using all kinds of equipment. xkcd.com/2916

One positive thing: Verrückte Fakten gefällig? Florian Aigner schreibt "an jedem seiner Bluesky-Tage" welche auf: bsky.app/hashtag/vfdt

One positive thing: 100% d'accord with the colleagues. I use Kagi for more than a year and don't go back.

One positive thing: Viewing other people's desks at www.workspaces.xyz has a voyeuristic quality that satisfies curiosity. But at the same time, it offers the opportunity to get ideas for your own workplace.

One positive thing - heute auf Deutsch und zum Mitmachen: Drüben bei Reddit entsteht gerade ein Restaurantführer. Du kennst Dich in der Gastroszene Deiner Stadt gut aus? Dann geh' mal dorthin und schreibe Deine Empfehlungen auf. www.reddit.com/r/de/comment...

Disgusting. Tesla Grünheide questions the validity of sick notes and refuses to continue paying wages in the event of illness. The company threatens to reclaim payments made. According to Handelsblatt, anyone who wants to continue receiving salary is supposed to disclose personal health data.

One positive thing: Most people will already know Grumpy Cat. But what about the B-list celebrities of internet cats? Tombili for example was immortalized with a Wikipedia entry. Cats of the Web portrays dozens of feline internet celebrities with profiles and social media links. catsoftheweb.com

One positive thing: You've got broken hardware? Don't throw it away. Bring it to a Repair Cafe and learn to fix it. www.repaircafe.org/en/visit/

The Atlantic has a good piece about Trump, including a proposal what to do www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

One positive thing: In diesen Zeit hilft oft nur Ironie. Der Postillon zum Beispiel, der einer aktuellen Nachricht einen schönen Spin gibt (auch immer sehenswert - die Bilder des Tages): www.der-postillon.com/2025/03/ex-r...

One positive thing: At the website "Sounds of the Forest" you can acoustically dive into forests. The site collects the sounds of woodlands and forests around the world. timberfestival.org.uk/soundsofthef...

One positive thing: If you've been on the web for a while, you may still be familiar with Geocities, which was once a virtual home for millions of users. Neocities wants to “bring its lost creativity back to the web” - free of charge. The operators are also here at Bluesky. bsky.app/profile/neoc...

One positive thing: Book Radio is a front end for the audio books at LibriVox: you select a language, a genre and the approximate length - and the website presents you with a selection of titles. The desired book can then be played back chapter by chapter in the browser. bookradio.vercel.app

One positive thing even if the occasion is a sad one: Everybody loves the sunshine. Rest in peace, Roy! www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSBW...

A brilliant Banksy.

One positive thing: With tasteatlas you can embark on a culinary journey around the world. The website of Croatian journalist Matija Babic not only presents the recipe that are typical for the regions you travel, but also matching and similar dishes. www.tasteatlas.com