Tim Berners-Lee: “This is for everyone” I recently read “This is for everyone” by Tim Berners-Lee. This book is a very good reminder about how we got to ’the internet’. Why did Tim Berners-Lee develop the World Wide Web. And which decision did lead to this beatiful thing that we take for granted today? I especially enjoyed it to read about this topic in the light of all the recent AI developments.

Setting up Hugo with Ananke Theme as Module The intention of this post is to walk through the steps I performed set up a static website with Hugo, add the Ananke theme as module, and deploy the website via AWS Amplify. The reason for me to write this blog post is that I was hoping to find exactly this documentation somewhere online. But as I could not find it and worked my way through different blogs and videos, I thought, maybe other people might benefit from such a summary.

Holznudel - DIY Letter Press In this post I want to describe and highlight a funny DIY project named “Holznudel”. It is an open source letterpress which allows you to make prints with lego tiles. It was a lot of fun to build and it is a great activity for the kids - but also for grown-ups. This post is divided into five sections: 1/ discovery 2/ construction 3/ pieces 4/ cleaning 5/ next steps.

Verify Mastodon Profile With this post, I am trying to verify my Mastodon profile. Here is the link to my Mastodon presence: @davidbeck auf hachyderm.io You can find the official documentation on this topic here: Verification on Joinmastodon.

New Website: pegel-konstanz.de As a tangible outcome of my data analytics mentorship, I created website pegel-konstanz.de. The focus on this website will be on individual analyses of the water level of Lake Constance (Bodensee). But first, I had to get the table stakes functionality right. You cannot discuss the level of the lake without also providing the current level. And that was a lot more work than I expected it to be.

How to turn Epoxy remains into tools This post describes my journey from 3D printing to a silicone mat for epoxy upcycling. For a short description of the project together with the 3D printing files, I recommend to check my GitHub repository on this subject: https://github.com/davidbeckonline/epoxy_tool_mat What to do with epoxy remains Over the last couple of month, I tinkered quite a lot with epoxy. It started with some Kintsugi experiments.