Aha. I'm slowly getting better at this. A rare »4 under the community par«. #riddles Minute Cryptic - 22 May, 2026 "Midrange van crashed into circular intersection?" (4,7) 🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣 🏆 0 hints – 4 under the community par (13.365 solvers so far). www.minutecryptic.com?utm_source=s...

Das nächste Treffen der DUG Ruhr findet wegen des Feiertags nicht an diesem Donnerstag statt (Christi Himmelfahrt). Stattdessen treffen wir uns online am Mittwoch, den 20. Mai, ab 19:30 Uhr auf meet.drupal.de/dugruhr. Siehe auch: www.drupal.org/community/ev...

The little icon on the bottom left corner is now "drag to fill with Gemini." Yeah I guess whatever bullshit can go in a spreadsheet as long as it's filled out, right?

Might be a good time to switch browsers (again) …

I can’t keep up with all this #AI bullshit. Idiotic idea of the day: Asking your AI to »act as my digital wellbeing guardian«.

When you have a lowly blog, you never know if one of your blog posts is even read by more than one person. Now I got a letter regarding an old #Bloodborne post from 2019. Old mail. On paper! With three handwritten pages. Handwritten! And a Bloodborne image drawn on the envelope! Unbelievable!!

I am a bit late to the party. But I finally stumbled upon Minute Cryptic: www.minutecryptic.com Not my usual cup of tea. I guess it will take a few days to wrap my head around it. But today’s puzzle I got pretty fast. #puzzles

Of all the YouTube channels I stumbled upon in the last 12 months, this one is my new favorite: Learn in Tune. (Even though the tune is always the same.) www.youtube.com/shorts/X7bWj...

Nächster Termin der DUG Ruhr: Jetzt Do, 09.04. um 19:30h, online auf meet.drupal.de/dugruhr Geplante Themen: * Andreas: Web Components vs. SDCs * Karsten: Arbeiten mit Claude * Nicolai: Websites mit Claude & Loveable, Codequalität * Evtl. noch was über das focusgroup Attribut und Critical CSS

Today I was reminded: There is a Media Query for display-mode. To check if your site is shown in a tab, fullscreen, etc. I must have read about it years ago, never needed it and forgot about it. But now I want to use it for an Easter egg to one of my websites. developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/W...

Kleine Änderung zum DUG-Meetup im März: Wir treffen uns morgen, am Donnerstag, weiterhin live in Essen. Allerdings erst um 20 Uhr. Im Südrock – maps.app.goo.gl/BhKJn4LG6yVD...

Late Night #Puzzle Time with: Polimines 2 store.steampowered.com/app/2328730/...

Funny. I have this item on my to-do list: Write a proposal for a focustrap attribute. A few months of doing nothing later, and it can already be tested in Chromium! With a better name and many more options than I had in mind. This will make thousands of mediocre implementations obsolete, incl. mine.

Today is the grand reopening of the Spire. My first visit ended in glorious … defeat?! #AnotherRunBitesTheDust #SlaytheSpire2 #Godot

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.