The kid while we waited for my wife:

“How much longer is this gonna take? Oh noes, that was a mistake, there’s a bookstore in there!”

(We stopped at Shakespeare and Sons, a combined bagel and book shop)

I want a beautiful Icon for http://bookpile.org . It should be made by a human. Where should I go and look? It's a private side project, so I have a tight budget, but still want to pay someone.

I updated a lot of my private websites to @bridgetown from Jekyll this weekend. It's really really good and if you haven't made the switch yet, do it! Thank you @jaredwhite and everyone else involved with it 🥰

The German summer holidays are ending soon. If you have a long car/train ride ahead of you, you might be interested in my recommendations for German kids radio channels.

We love them when we have to do a longer car ride. Kids save music that does not drive us nuts. Win for everyone.

https://papiberlin.de/en/pages/kids-radio

I am collecting online resources for parents (mostly) living in Berlin here:

https://papiberlin.de/en/resourcen/

Do you have something that is missing there? What is *the best* thing you would love other parents to know about (can also be not Berlin-specific)?

Thank you @plexus , this was a really great summer vacation read

https://bookwyrm.social/user/Bitboxer/reviewrating/12289596

And to every white person who comes to me with “it’s better to cancel the event to protect the children!”:

What the fuck? It’s the job of the city and the police to make events like this possible. If you cannot protect kids who want to swim for two hours, what are you doing?

Can white folks please open up some books written by Black people in the USA if you cannot even read German history books?

And yes, CDU and AfD politicians called this "racism against white folks!!1!"

The Black community in Berlin wanted a couple of hours of peace in a swimming pool for kids. Sadly some racist assholes did not want this to happen. And forced it to cancel.

https://taz.de/Volksbad-in-Berlin/!6204324/

I am so sad for those kids who just wanted fun in a pool without racism.

> Future Apple Watches Might Ditch the Screen

Please tell me it’s called Apple Watch Shuffle

Does anyone know someone at bookshop.org ? I really need help to add all those indie stores to bookpile.org.

Please boost for reach 🤗

🔥 New blog post: "Dark mode toggles: two states are enough"

Dark mode toggles that expose three visible states (system, light, dark) seem like the best option.

Until you think about user goals, that is.

Before rushing to disagree, hear me out.

https://lea.verou.me/blog/2026/dark-mode-toggles/

PS: As a data point, @jaffathecake was converted after reading this 😅

Update on https://bookpile.org:

I added shops from https://genialokal.de and https://bookmanager.com/ to the system. These are all added using the new importer script architecture we added:

https://codeberg.org/bitboxer/bookpile/src/branch/main/importers

I really would love to add https://bookshop.org, but I don't find a way to import the shops in a way that I can link to them. If you want to help, please look here:

https://codeberg.org/bitboxer/bookpile/issues/111

Thanks 🤗

Today I finally received my @paperlesspaper and it is amazing. I've already integrated it into my home assistant, and it's creating a new image every day with a calendar at the bottom and a photo at the top. This will help our family soo soo much.

Addressing a queer audience with "Ladies and Gentleman" shows exactly what that chancellor of Germany is thinking about Queer folks. They will use this for their hate. I will continue to fight for all my queer friends. Love wins.

🌈🫂

Holy fuck. I am speechless. Hope you all are safe #csd.

Fascism wants my parents to be dead. For me not to exist. Sounds weird because I look and behave like the most German German. My parents are deaf. The Nazis killed deaf people or castrated them. I saw the number tattoos on the deaf friends of my parents. Don’t try to tell me it’s okay to separate “private” blogposts with what the Rails core is doing.

There are still people pleading with the Rails Core members to speak up. They all work closely with DHH. For decades. At this point you have to assume that they share his values. That they all also are fascists. That framework is lost. Do try to migrate away from it.

I need a T-shirt that just says “Antifa” but in a bubbly, cheerful font/design. All I can find is punk aesthetics. Nothing wrong with that, but I want to wear something that makes people think a bit more about the person wearing it. Does this exist? Please link them to me. Otherwise, I need to design one myself.