Dominik Schwind

Friday, April 18, 2025

SABAI SABAI : Chill Thai Mix by JIRA #

Lovely mix for a calm morning

Thursday, April 17, 2025

House and Indie Dance on a Tuktuk | Rui Tang #

Oh, this is fun.

Wednesday, April 16, 2025

3 rules for life: James Hoffmann #

The format is a bit weird but James Hoffmann is saying smart things

Tuesday, April 08, 2025

Bluesky’s Quest to Build Nontoxic Social Media #

I hardly ever open Bluesky but Jay Graber fascinates me

Friday, April 04, 2025

Poisoning Well #

I love this approach. Let them choke on garbage.

Wednesday, April 02, 2025

How crawlers impact the operations of the Wikimedia projects #

This is why we can't have nice things.

Saturday, March 29, 2025

Ted Danson Thinks Marc Maron Should Run For Office #

This is a very good conversation

Bored of it #

I agree 100%

Apple’s AI isn’t a letdown. AI is the letdown #

Very much so

MetaFilter activity stats #

The downfall of Metafilter is pretty sad. I'm not surprised, though - it got so tedious.

Sunday, March 23, 2025

Reimagining Toxic by Britney Spears as SHOEGAZE #

I enjoyed that. I wish I had a single musical bone in my body.

Saturday, March 22, 2025

Improving My Journal #

This is such a cool idea. Maybe I can get into micro-journaling when I it is digital?

Wednesday, March 19, 2025

Enshittification as a matter of taste #

Taste seems to be out of fashion in general.

Bill Burr (extended interview) | Fresh Air #

I know that Bill Burr isn't everyone's cup of tea, but he's more often right than not.

Friday, March 14, 2025

Something Is Rotten in the State of Cupertino #

Yeah, it's all a bit embarrassing. I still vastly prefer Apple stuff over the other ecosystems but who knows for how long. I already know I probably won't replace my Apple Watch when it gets old and/or breaks.

Thursday, March 13, 2025

Hammond & May FINALLY Return to Top Gear HQ #

Aging is a bit of an ordeal, innit

Why Dua Lipa is so good at asking questions #

This is rather surprising and interesting. And also: I should read more.

Tuesday, March 11, 2025

‘If all I cared about was a career, I’d make listenable music’: Joost Klein on Eurovision, scandal and having the last laugh #

It's absolutely not my style of music but I have a lot of respect for the guy. It was a disgrace what happened to him in Oslo.

Saturday, March 08, 2025

How personal should a personal site be? #

I'm currently (as in: since 1996) redesigning and rethinking my personal website and this question has been in my mind for a long time as well.

Thursday, March 06, 2025

Behind the Scenes of The White Lotus’ Bigger, Wilder, Darker Third Season #

Amazing photos, though a bit spoiler-y.

ZEIT-Kritiker reagiert auf German Brainrot #

Großartig.

Thursday, February 27, 2025

Tumblr in 2012 and How the Gifset Redefined Blogging #

Ah, Tumblr. Those were the days.

Wednesday, February 26, 2025

Notes to self: signing git commits with an SSH key #

I google this every time I need it. Now I can just follow the bookmark to Jan-Piet's artice

Poster's neurosis #

An old article, but I have been thinking about that lately.

This page is under construction #

I liked this as a talk at Beyond Tellerrand and I like it as a blog post. Have yourself a little website!

Sunday, February 23, 2025

New Junior Developers Can’t Actually Code #

Who would have thought.

Saturday, February 22, 2025

Algorithms are breaking how we think #

Yes, he is clearly right about all of this.

Thursday, February 20, 2025

James Bond producers give Amazon full creative control of 007 #

Well, shit.

Saturday, February 15, 2025

Celebrating Thaipusam at Batu Caves (Malaysia, 2025) #

Thaipusam is probably the religious holiday that I understand the least and Douglas here has been invited by a Malaysian Indian family to join them and be right in the middle of it.

The hardest working font in Manhattan #

This is not in fact an ugly font.