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Tilman @tilmn.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

Cursor Camp wins Tiny Awards 2026! (and my minor gripe) The Tiny Awards celebrate “the small, poetic, creative, handmade web”: non-commercial websites by individuals or small groups, nominated and voted on by the public. For me, they have become an important […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

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Tilman @tilmn.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026

Slow Web is still slow I had some digging into the "slow web" movement again: I re-read the Jack Cheng’s original post (2012), his own review post (2022) and found out about the Ben Grosser's Minus social network, where you are allowed only 100 post for life. All linked and more on the updated […]

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Tilman @tilmn.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026

Kagi Small Web An initiative by the alternative search engine Kagi, launched in September 2023. It surfaces recent posts from personal, non-commercial websites that the big search rankings tend to bury: kagi.com/smallweb Also added to the Small Web […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

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Tilman @tilmn.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026

Official Electric Every now and then you find someone who really owns their corner of the web. AJ Gonzalez (ajgenerated.com) is one: he builds his own universe on his own sites, and itch.io, Instagram, YouTube and TikTok feed into it instead of […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

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Tilman @tilmn.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026

Years of students' work in the field of Digital Experience — compressed into 30 seconds. Interaction design, web design, UX/UI, game design, creative coding and experiments: this is what our Bachelor Design students at the Ohm build!

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Tilman @tilmn.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026

1-Bit Symphony Tristan Perich's 1-Bit Symphony (2015) is a beautiful, raw piece of art. Five movements, played by a single microchip in a clear CD case — not a recording at all, but a circuit that performs the music live when you switch it on, straight out […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

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Tilman @tilmn.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2026

Tilman.me v5.0 I relaunched my homepage! Much more informative and actually a good introduction into what I am up to at the moment: supporting the independent web. Be my guest! tilman.me Feedback is very welcome! knot.tilman.me/post/tilmanme-v50

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Tilman @tilmn.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026

Five essential ingredients for a web that serves us all A presentation Hidde de Vries gave at Smashing Conference yesterday. Very interesting points throughout, also very entertaining, even if we only have the slides to look at online so far. He touched many […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

People who have something interesting to say: 97%. People who know how to post content on their own site: ~3%.

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Tilman @tilmn.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/09/2026

Publications I started a new section on this site: A collection of my academic design research: tilman.me/pub Google Scholar, here I come! knot.tilman.me/post/publications

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Publications — Tilman Zitzmann

Publications by Tilman Zitzmann.

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Tilman @tilmn.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/09/2026

Crossposting to Bluesky and Mastodon Knot, my little microblogging system, can now crosspost to Bluesky and Mastodon. I admit this is more news for me than for anybody else — but in the long run you can expect more quality content from my side on these […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

BlueSky and Mastodon plushies, the first is speculative AI slop …

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Tilman @tilmn.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/09/2026

Every year Tiny Awards hand out a prize for the best of the small, poetic, handmade web — personal projects, built by one or two people, far away from commercial mainstream. The public nominates, a selection committee picks a shortlist, and then the public votes. If you want to see what's […]

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Tilman @tilmn.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/08/2026

Jim Mitchell's IndieWeb Is Punk Manifesto: eight theses reading the personal site as DIY culture. I hope new perspectives like this can help getting new audiences interested in independent web publishing! indiewebispunk.net

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Tilman @tilmn.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/08/2026

This is what I packed for the holiday in Milan and Corsica this year. Not that I ever thought I would it read it ALL … Read on: knot.tilman.me/post/my-summer-holid…

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Tilman @tilmn.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/08/2026

Just write ––– At the moment there are two initiatives running in the world of weblogs and blogging: Blaugust and 100 Days to Offload. They differ in the details. The first is about a month of posting, the other about a hundred posts in a year. But the aim is the same: to get people writing on […]

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Tilman @tilmn.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/08/2026

It’s holiday time! Spend our first day in Milan. There might be more travel photography here in the next days. Or maybe not. Because I’m on holiday!

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Tilman @tilmn.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/08/2026

How can creative practitioners publish on the web today? Options, pitfalls, and trade-offs I just published a long essay on a question that nagged me for years. I always felt that more creatives should run their own self-hosted websites — but I was never sure I was right. So I examined every […]

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Tilman @tilmn.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/07/2026

Geoffrey Litt has a great new perspective on how we work with AI-generated code. We're not bound to prompting and moving on. We can have the AI explain what it built — teaching the background, building intuition before showing code, even ending with an […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Meme: Wait, the point of computers is to create new dynamic simulations to help people understand complex concepts? Source: https://x.com/geoffreylitt/status/2071362040346955777

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Tilman @tilmn.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/06/2026

I just put together a »web feed roll« for my website — a hand-picked list of blogs I actually read, each with a short intro and their latest posts pulled via RSS/Atom. It l is a static flat HTML file. When you click on "Update feeds" a PHP script refreshes the content from the actual feeds […]

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Tilman @tilmn.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/06/2026

I spent the weekend at IndieWebCamp Nuremberg, the fifth edition in this city — two days at the tollwerkstatt as part of Nürnberg Digital Festival, in good company with a bunch of IndieWeb folks. Here is the blog post: knot.tilman.me/post/indiewebcamp-nu…

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Tilman @tilmn.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/06/2026

I love Daniel Eatock’s website! The way he publishes his art and ideas for decades on this beautifully simple website is a tremendous accomplishment. And very inspiring. That is why I wrote a page on my digital garden about it […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

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Tilman @tilmn.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/06/2026

Another Homebrew Website Club Nuremberg last night — and I'm still delighted that this friendly, diverse group of practitioners meets monthly in my city. Interesting, inspiring, relaxed, and funny, as always. Thanks to Björn for documenting everything […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

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Tilman @tilmn.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 31/05/2026

I vibe-coded a mobile camera web app, because I miss the old days when mobile photography was such a great creative field. Surprisingly the Snapseed app is still around, so I used it for additional layering. #photography #design

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Tilman @tilmn.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/05/2026

I used my post from last week as my first proper test of POSSE-style publishing. A long form text on my digital garden first, then a link post on this microblog, then cross-posted to Bluesky and Mastodon. Here is how it went: knot.tilman.me/post/posse-the-first…

Screenshot of Plausible Analytics of website traffic last seven days.

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Tilman @tilmn.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/05/2026

Platformer Game Jam 2026: Only three of 16 design students had used a game engine before. Three days later they'd shipped ten platformer games — all playable in your browser, built on Godot + WebAssembly. Full write-up […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

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Tilman @tilmn.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/12/2024

Trying phanpy.social to post something on my blog.tilman.me. Does that work? Let’s be bold and also attach an image!

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