Nicolai Schwarz
Nicolai Schwarz
@talesof.me
Freelancer. Web Development. Frontend & Design – with Drupal & Backdrop CMS. Author | talesof.me | textformer.de
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Nächster Termin der #Drupal User Group Ruhr: Jetzt Donnerstag, 8. Oktober. Ab 19:30 Uhr. Wir treffen uns wieder online, unter: meet.drupal.de/dugruhr Geplante Themen: * Peter: Intro to Kern UX * Tobias: Playwright Refresher * Tobias: Mystery-Frontend-Minithema * Nicolai: Intro to VersaTiles
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Nächster Termin der #Drupal User Group Ruhr: Jetzt Donnerstag, 8. Oktober. Ab 19:30 Uhr. Wir treffen uns wieder online, unter: meet.drupal.de/dugruhr Geplante Themen: * Peter: Intro to Kern UX * Tobias: Playwright Refresher * Tobias: Mystery-Frontend-Minithema * Nicolai: Intro to VersaTiles
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Nächste Woche Donnerstag, 8. Oktober, treffen wir uns wieder online. Ab 19:30h. Videocall unter: meet.drupal.de/dugruhr Geplante Themen: * Peter: Intro to Kern UX * Tobias: Playwright Refresher * Tobias: Mystery-Frontend-Minithema * Nicolai: Intro to VersaTiles
Work in progress. An old idea for another »if you know you know« t-shirt. A mashup of drupal.org and en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unknown... #Drupal #music #tshirts
Nothing to do? Like #riddles? Here is another page to ̷w̷a̷s̷t̷e̷ ̷y̷o̷u̷r̷ ̷t̷i̷m̷e̷ play round. thesecretsproject.com
Finally managed to write down my best-of list for this year’s Reeperbahn Festival. talesof.me/en/2026/rbf26
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⏰ Last call for Fronteers Dark Mode 2026! Ticket sales close tomorrow, Saturday at midnight, and there are just 13 seats left. So if you’ve been thinking about joining us in Dordrecht next Friday, this really is your last chance. 🌑✨ 🎟️ www.fronteersconf.org We’d love to see you there! ❤️
Disclosure Day (2026): I should have read the reviews first. What an utter disappointment! A lame story. People do stupid shit all the time. Laughable action scenes. An unnecessary emphasis on religion. Lots of Space Magic. And the most disappointing ending I have seen in a long time. 0/10 stars.
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I am still in my #Sudoku #riddle phase. This foggy one here is fun: »Minimum Maximum« by Marty Sears. Should take around 60min, maybe. sudokupad.app/ohqf2rxsno
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Wer zum DrupalCamp Frankfurt möchte, 27.-29. November, kann nun auch einen Sessionvorschlag einreichen: ffm26.drupalcamp.de#sponsors
Another nice & easy Sudoku variant for the lunch break: »Clueless Minimax« by Alf Smith. Should take around 30min. #riddles sudokupad.app/l7tcebgv6n
Here is a nice little Sudoku variant: »Region Reconstruction« by BlueToast001. This one is on the easy side. You can probably solve it in around 30min. #riddles sudokupad.app/czw6xzqvg2
Late at night. Still making my way through »Sudokuvania: Digits of Despair«. Slow, but steady. One of the best puzzles I've ever stumbled upon. sudokuvania.com
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An diesem Donnerstag, 13.08., findet unser nächster DUG-Ruhr-Termin statt. Ab 19:30 auf meet.drupal.de/dugruhr Geplante Themen: * Tobias: HTMX * Peter: Intro to Kern UX. Was? Wie? Warum? * Tobias: Kurzes Surprise Frontend-Thema
It’s been a while since I solved Thermo Sudokus. But this one here – Thermo Xtreme by Qodec – just took me sooooo very long (around 2h45min). Well, that is one way to spend a Friday night… www.f-puzzles.com?load=N4Igzgl...
I have finally finished my blog article about our implementation of content-visibility, including some performance numbers. You can save a bit of rendering time with just a few lines of CSS. There is no reason not to use it. talesof.me/en/2026/08/l...
Muahahaha. A rare bragworthy(?) 3 under par in today’s Minute Cryptic - 2 August, 2026 "Tinkle all over the place after surprise entry... Maybe knock first?" (6,1) 🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣 🏆 0 hints – 3 under the community par (15,440 solvers so far). www.minutecryptic.com?utm_source=s...
Wow. The Figma SignUp riddles are the absolute worst shit I encountered on the web in a long time. You can’t see much on these tiny images. The images change the perspective. The person jumps around on the board. And then you have to solve ten(!) of these little train wrecks. Incredibly incompetent.
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[1/7] For the last 6 months, while searching for a Spotify alternative, I’ve tried all the streaming services, slowly writing a blog post about my experience with each. Now that post is finally live! And here’s a brief thread if you’d like the main points summarised. (Views are my own, obviously.)
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Bitte unterschreiben, wenn ihr ein paar Sekunden Zeit habt - es ist wichtig!
Über 392.000 Unterschriften zur Rettung der Informationsfreiheit. 🤩 400.000 kriegen wir noch voll, oder? Habt Ihr schon Euren Kontakten von den Plänen zur Zerstörung des IFG erzählt? Ich hab z.B. in Familien-Messenger-Gruppe Petition & Erläuterung dazu geteilt, damit noch mehr Leute im Bilde sind.
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Hier das Programm für den nächsten Termin der DUG Ruhr. Jetzt Do, 9. Juli, 19:30 Uhr, online auf meet.drupal.de/dugruhr * Kurzer Bericht vom Drupalcamp Belgien * New in CSS (Session vom Camp) * HTMX * Und wieder ein Surprise Frontend-Thema * Und ggf. noch: Reprise Batch API aus dem November
Here are the linklist and the slides for my session »New in CSS« (and in HTML) at DrupalCamp Belgium 2026: textformer.de/dcbe26/ #drupalcamp #kortrijk2026 #frontend
Muahahaha. For the first time ever, my presentation, essentially a bloated webpage, is so heavily loaded with CSS examples, JavaScript, and some iframes that my new laptop can’t handle the result. I had to split it into two parts.
The slides for my CSS session for #Drupalcamp Kortrijk are progressing nicely. 189 slides so far, in my half-slide format, maybe 30-ish to go. One week left. I am rarely this far ahead.
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Ich dachte mal, nur bei der Klimakrise verleugnen wir die Realität - aber bei KI scheint es auch so zu sein. Hier sind die Zahlen von Ed Zitron über die Verluste von OpenAI wirklich sehr erhellend. Und diese Dimension der Ausgaben ist auch so unglaublich
Exclusive: I have seen OpenAI's audited financials for 2024 and 2025. In 2025, OpenAI had $13.07 billion in revenue and $34 billion in costs. $867 million of its revenue came from SoftBank, and $303 million came from Microsoft. www.wheresyoured.at/exclusive-op...
Gig work: »Once workers are classified as contractors, rather than employees, “you have the rolling back of generations of hard-won workplace protections,” says Ravenelle. “Literally stuff that our great-grandparents died for, all of those protections are gone.”« www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Nach dem letzten DrupalCamp Ruhr hat mich der Drupal e.V. gefragt, ob ich nicht ein paar Dinge zur Organisation zusammenschreiben könne. Hier nun das Ergebnis. Nur ein paar Monate später. Dafür recht ausführlich. Offensichtliches plus ein paar Ideen. talesof.me/de/planung-d...
Aha. A small night-time victory. Minute Cryptic - 16 June, 2026 "My bad mood exposed by follow-up remark" (4) 🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣 🏆 0 hints – 2 under the community par (12,018 solvers so far). www.minutecryptic.com?utm_source=s...
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$ANTH $AVGO $GOOGL $SPY $35B in private credit so Anthropic can buy chips it can’t afford, backed by a chipmaker praying you don’t understand depreciation. 🚨 AI bubble just got a fresh coat of leverage.
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TIL: Some people have /uses pages. And there is a collection of those pages at: uses.tech
Please let me see your /uses pages. I need some inspiration.
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...
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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...
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