Thinky Dailies Season 2 is up:

The artwork for the new @playthebazaar.bsky.social hero Karnok looks phenomenal. I mean, the Bazaar had fantastic art right from the start. But hunter items are just more interesting than the last additions of engines and food. #HypedForRageMode playthebazaar.com

Ah, exactly my kind of trailer: weird & charming. And there’s a demo too. #SomethingForTheWeekend www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aao0...

Ich präsentiere: den vielleicht hässlichsten #Berliner der Welt! Ich nehme an, der soll aussehen wie ein Stück Kohle. Aber warum sollte man sich dieses verkohlte Etwas in den Mund schieben? (Dies ist das 1. Mal in meinem Leben, dass ich etwas gekauft habe, weil ich es außergewöhnlich hässlich fand.)

Morgen, am Do, den 12.02., trifft sich die DUG Ruhr wieder online. Um 19:30 Uhr, unter meet.drupal.de/dugruhr Geplante Themen: * Andreas: Web Components vs. SDCs * Tobias: CSS-Trick * Karsten: schema.org * Karsten: Web Share API * Nicolai: Lazy Content Rendering

Oh look, it’s the best movie trailer I’ve seen this year. (Wait, based on a video game? Hmm, missed that one.) www.youtube.com/watch?v=DlRQ...

Catch up on last year's Thinky Direct here:

Doing Performance Tests with content-visibility: auto. Great: I save 20-40% of rendering time with little effort. Then again: Saving 50ms in rendering time against a total of 2600ms might only be interesting to performance nerds. Of course, results will differ on other sites. web.dev/articles/con...

Das nächste Treffen der DUG Ruhr findet am Do, 12.02. statt (Altweiberfastnacht ist uns egal). Um 19:30 Uhr, online unter meet.drupal.de/dugruhr Geplante Themen: * Andreas: Web Components vs. SDCs * Tobias: CSS-Trick * Karsten: schema.org * Karsten: Web Share API * Nicolai: Lazy Content Rendering

Mein erstes #Drupal Global Contribution Weekend läuft äußerst produktiv. Ich habe einen Blogpost vorbereitet (»Notizen zur Organisation eines DrupalCamps«). Und einen ersten Entwurf für unsere DUG Site gebastelt. Nebenbei mit CSS Snap herumgespielt. Und mir interessante Tools notiert. #nice

In diesem Jahr sind wir als DUG auch beim Global Contribution Weekend dabei. Wir treffen uns an diesem Sa/So im Unperfekthaus in Essen. Aktuell sind wir eine kleine Gruppe von vier Leuten. Wer sich anschließen möchte, findet hier weitere Infos: www.drupal.org/community/ev...

It’s quite impossible to limit 25 years of #Drupal to a mere #Drupal25Words. However, I think I at least managed to add a hint of poetry. Happy Birthday, #Drupal25!

Das nächste Treffen der DUG Ruhr findet am Donnerstag, 15. Januar statt, 19:30 Uhr, online unter meet.drupal.de/dugruhr Themen: * 25 Jahre Drupal * Image Processing mit imgproxy / Karsten * CSS-Trick / Tobias * Global Sprint Weekend / Tobias * Einführung in Drupal Canvas / drubb, Nicolai

Wir starten gemächlich ins neue Jahr. Der nächste Termin der Drupal User Group Ruhr findet nicht morgen statt, sondern erst eine Woche später. Also am Donnerstag, 15. Januar. Ab 19:30. Online unter meet.drupal.de/dugruhr /nic

First week of 2026. And I decided on my personal best/worst video games, movies, comics etc. from last year. talesof.me/en/2026/best...

Here’s a list of interesting #indie videogames of 2025. www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7-R...

I just saw the new movie adaptation of »The Long Walk« by Richard Bachman (Stephen King). And while the movie is decent for a long time, they had the idiotic idea to change the ending?! What a waste of a terrific story. Final verdict, as so often: Ignore the movie, read the novel!

I finally have time to finish a few blog posts that have been lying around on my computer for quite some time now. Here is a mini CSS quiz for frontend developers. #waylaterposted #css #quiz talesof.me/en/2025/anno...

If you like varied short daily #puzzles, try: thinkygames.com/dailies/

Morgen, am Donnerstag, 11.12., findet das traditionelle Jahresabschluss-Treffen unserer #Drupal User Group Ruhr statt. Dieses Mal auf dem Weihnachtsmarkt in Bochum. Wir treffen uns um 19 Uhr am Haupteingang im Bochumer Hbf. /nic

Puh, that Zombie game in »Alice in Borderland« season 3 is hard to watch. They could have easily won that game. What a braindead script.

Still rampaging through some optional content in Pharloom. For my taste / skill, the First Sinner is around 15% too fast to be fun. And I hate it when I have to chase the boss around. Ok, done, next. #Silksong

Morgen, um 19:30 Uhr, trifft sich die DUG Ruhr online. Unsere Themen: - Single-Directory Components – Theorie und Praxis / Nicolai & Jan - Batch-API / Tobias #Drupal #DUGRuhr drupalruhr.de/de/events/on...

It took some time. But just two years later than intended, here are the necessary files if you want to print one of the DrupalCamp Ruhr T-shirts from 2018, 2023, or 2025 for yourself. #drupal #dcruhr25 talesof.me/en/2025/drup...

Year after year, I wrestled with the question of whether I really needed the Creative Cloud. Sometimes I take a little longer than other people. But now I’m finally free! Bye #Adobe! Hello #Affinity Suite! (Well, at least till October 30th, when we’ll see if #Serif will ruin their product as well.)

Just when I was about to find Act II in #Silksong way better than Act I (I really liked the Cogwork Dancers), here comes Mount Fay where you need the trashy, unreliable Clawline mechanic. And I am back to: Wow, who playtested this shit?! #MountFrust

Hmm. It took me around 43 hours to reach Act II in #Silksong. HowLongToBeat puts the complete main game at 27 hours. Don’t those people explore the map? I spend, e.g., over 10 hours hunting for certain abilities (I can’t actually get in Act I). Tzz.

Noch eben schnell ein paar Slides zusammenklöppeln, für die #Drupal User Group heute Abend. 19:30 Uhr. Online.

Wow. Another shop with even more expensive items. If I want them I can now farm, again, another 1.150 rosaries, another 30min or so gone, again. This. Is. So. Much. Fun! #Silksong

TIL: William Moulton Marston, who created Wonder Woman and her Lasso of Truth (with artist Harry G. Peter) in 1941, had also contributed to the development of the polygraph (lie detector) in the years before.

I am amazed at how much I hate #Silksong now. Eighteen hours in, and I only continue to play out of spite.

I’ve put the Nerd Quiz from #dcruhr25 online. 50 questions about pop culture, #Drupal & Web stuff, and some trivia. With a few annotations. This needed to work only on my laptop. So this is not responsive, not optimized, ~50MB. Just zoom in/out. Navigate with arrow keys. talesof.me/nerdquiz/dcr...

Das war nun das siebte DrupalCamp in Essen seit 2010; das Fünfte, das ich mitorganisiert habe. Recht beharrlich für so ein Special-Interest-Camp.

Time for the world to install a gigawatt of solar power capacity 2004: A year 2010: ~ a month 2015: ~ a week Now: A day ourworldindata.org/data-insight... 🧪

Das nächste Nerd Quiz ist fertig gepackt und wartet auf seinen großen Auftritt morgen Abend.

We have published a timetable for DrupalCamp Ruhr 2025. Please note that we have a Barcamp component in the morning, where new sessions, discussions, BOFs etc. will emerge. So some sessions might move around a bit. #dcruhr25 #drupal drupalcamp.ruhr/en/timetable

13h in and I am calling it: #Silksong is one of the most unfun, most annoying games I have ever played! It is beautiful & has lots of good parts. But the annoying stuff overshadows everything else. I will play a bit longer, just to see if I stumble upon the area where they have hidden the fun. #meh

#Silksong #haha Seen on Reddit.

#Silksong: The Bird Wave Challenge in Greymoor is the most unfun shit I have played all year. Those erratic movements are killing me. I already wasted more time on this than on all the bosses that came before. #AllRageNoFun

Seven hours in and #Silksong is more annoying than fun. Everything is way too expensive. Getting hit while healing is such a bad experience. Fetch 25 items quests are lame. And that fucking birds … Still a good game, but boy, Hollow Knight felt much better.

Wow. That Lace fight is draining all the fun out of #Silksong for me.

I am actually looking forward to present my super fancy frontend solution to a backend problem.

Wouldn’t it be nice to have a little add-on for this theme called »Tonic« (but it seems that project name is already taken).

It would have been really funny if Steam had prepared a Silksong reference for this error page. Soemthing like a shrugging Hornet. #steam #error #silksong

Silksong will kick off the weekend for me at 4 p.m. And I am one of those who would have easily paid 30, maybe 40 Euro for the game. #justtakemymoney www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGe...

Muahahaha. Ich habe im Januar 2022 meinen Schreibtisch zusammengebaut. Bis auf ein optionales Element. Das habe ich nun nachgeholt. 5 Minuten Arbeit, es anzubringen. Plus die zwei Stunden, die ich gebraucht habe, um die Schrauben wiederzufinden. #WasDuHeuteKannstBesorgen

Session at DrupalCamp Ruhr 2025 – Peter Majmesku (jepster_, @technergy.bsky.social): »TYPO3 and Drupal in Comparison« #dcruhr25 #drupal drupalcamp.ruhr/en/sessions

Quick reminder: If you want to buy a ticket WITH a T-shirt, you only have till the end of the week to do so, till Friday, 22 August. This will also be the last chance to adjust your chosen T-shirt size. After Friday, you will still be able to buy tickets, just WITHOUT the T-shirt. #dcruhr25 #drupal

Introduce yourself with the last 5 concerts you saw: * Mannequin Deathsquad (at Sonic Waves Festival Dortmund) * TV On The Radio (Berlin) 🎉 * Nine Inch Nails (Cologne) * Curse (at Königsklasse Dortmund) * Dendemann (Dortmund)

Session at DrupalCamp Ruhr 2025 – Tobias Zimmermann (tstoeckler): »Entity API beyond the basics« #dcruhr25 #drupal drupalcamp.ruhr/en/sessions