InVisible

Nik Bärtsch is one of the central figures of the Zurich based, swiss minimal rhythmic music scene. His band Ronin plays every Monday night at Exil. Friends and I have been going there regularly for our dose of Ritual Zen Funk. These concerts each have been wonderful experiences. A couple of weeks ago, Nik announced a Winter Workshop, a long weekend in Tessin. Unfortunately, there weren’t enough attendees, so it had to be shortened to just one Saturday. That was yesterday, and I had the pleasure to take part in a long and intensive movement and rhythm workshop in the Kokoro Dojo where Nik and Andrea led a very small group (just two of us). ...

While my day job is managing a team of 8 engineers (which means a lot of meetings), I do get to work with the CLI from time to time. As you might know, working on the CLI means navigating deep dirctory structures and working with millions of files. It doesn’t matter if you are into operations or into development, working with directories and files are going to be your bread and butter operations. ...

The music of Erik Emil Eskildsen (eee) is not something that naturally would be played on the radio. Which is a shame, and also a good thing (Art!). His music takes time to listen to, and it also needs repetition and intensive listening. I stumbled upon eee via Markus Reuter - both of them play Touch Guitars, an invention by Markus. (Markus, of course, I met via Make Weird Music - a fantastic collection of interviews with musicians, away from the main stream) ...

My quest for a slimmer website is ongoing. The newest addition tackles responsive images. This technique allows the browser to select an optimal format for an image, for example a small image on a mobile phone and a larger one, on a desktop. The technique I use is based off of the works by Laura Kalbag, Adam Wills and Nils Norman Haukås. I use the same Hugo Image Processing techniques as in other parts of the Hugo Chaschper template, this time in a figure shortcut that overrides the Hugo internal one. ...

The Website Obesity Crisis is a wonderful talk about the sheer size that even simple websites have. Thanks to @stilkov for the pointer: 2025-01-06: There used to be a link to twitter here, but somewhere in the last few years since I deployed my blog the twitter API changed/broke/whatever. I have therfore removed the content. That led me to look at the size of this blog and it was scary: The weight of the front page of this humble blog is a whopping 5 MB. When looking for the culprits, I came across two problematic areas: ...

What a nice surprise! My friend Matthias Reinhard De-Roo read a poem by Enid Madaras, played bass and percussion and made a video to go with it. And then there are sounds that come from me (recorded at a jam session we had sometime last year). Check out the other videos by Matthias - wonderful!