Your Blog is Your Avatar by Ton Zijlstra (zylstra.org)
A few days ago Om Malik blogged about his writing advice, ‘write like a human‘, saying there’s no need for more bland mediocrity like ‘freeze-dried news reports’. Being real will always be as unique as yourself. It coincided with me rereading something I blogged around this time in 2003, s...

Thanks for this article, Ton. This picks up a lot of the web spirits from years ago before everybody went into full self displaying mode. I’m glad that there are still people writing and not just looking for the next cheap Likes acting “a life”.

Also I’m very curious about that couch-surfing initiative for bloggers you mentioned but the server doesn’t seem to deliver any more. I assume this project is gone?

Do What You Can: Liechtenauer’s First Lesson by libertyswordclub (libertyswordclub.wordpress.com)
|Haw drein vnd hurrt [3v] dar  |Rausch hin trif oder la farñ When I started this journey of working my way through the Zettel, I expected that I’d have quite a bit to think about with each line and with each verse. What I didn’t expect however, was the impact that each line would have. I exp...
Stuttgart vergibt dritte Runde an Ladesäulen-Standorten by Sebastian Schaal (electrive.net)
Die Stadt Stuttgart hat im Rahmen der dritten Ausschreibung weitere Standorte für öffentliche Ladesäulen vergeben. Wie schon in der zweiten Runde gingen die meisten Standorte an die Stadtwerke Stuttgart – genau 62 von 145 ausgeschriebenen AC-Ladesäulen im öffentlichen Raum.

Nice. Was bin ich froh dass sich bei (und auch beim 🚴 ;-)) so ins Zeug legt.

Do any Open Source Licences require source history? by @edent (shkspr.mobi)
A question to the void. Are you entitled to get the source history of open source projects? Lots of Open Source licences give the consumer of software the right to a copy of the source code. For example, GPLv3 says that distributors of software have to: give anyone who possesses the object code … ...

I’ve a foggy memory of Apple doing this. Code they used came back altered in a bulk that was hard to get into upstream again. A lot of discussion was going on about this practice but I don’t recall the outcome.

Sunday and way too hot. On top my children kept bugging me: “Boring, I want to do something!”. So what’s better than hiding in the cool basement and build something?

We had this construction kit for an insect hotel laying around for quite some time now and this was the perfect day to assemble it.

The kit was short on pipe objects so in the end we drilled some ourselves to fill the hotel up properly. Such things are usually packed by weight so this can happen.

I’m surprised how well that went. Kids didn’t get into a fight and even sticked around until the end. They even painted it together. That’s quite something for our little circus here.

Now we have to find a good spot in the garden for it.