Posts from 2015
Toni-Areal, Zurich
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I am rarely in Zurich and I prefer the countryside and mountains to cities these days. But I like to be in the midst of industrial architecture sometimes, and one of my favourite sites is the former milk processing plant in the industrial area of Pfingstweid. Mainly because of the huge corkscrew ramp leading up to
WordCamp Switzerland 2015
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Lessons learned and presentations seen at this year’s WordPress conference in Zurich.
They didn’t think that the kid had a bomb
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They didn’t think that the kid had a bomb. They didn’t evacuate the school, like you do when there’s a bomb. They didn’t call the bomb squad, like you do when there’s a bomb. They didn’t get as far away from him as possible, like you do when there’s a bomb. They put him and
Silver and light
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It’s about doing what you love. If you’d been searching your whole life for something you love, and you found it, what would you be willing to sacrifice?
G is for Golf
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Before photography and the internet, golf was the major hobby in my life for many years, in all its forms.
The four seasons of St. Niklaus
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Beautiful time lapse sequences from canton Wallis (Valais) by filmmaker Christian Mülhauser.
Melchsee-Frutt to Rothorn
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Experiencing vertigo for the first time on a high-alpine route in the mountains above Melchsee-Frutt.
SEO für WordPress
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Zusammenfassung der Themen bezüglich SEO, die wir gestern an ein WordPress-Meetup in Bern besprochen haben.
Aerial sequence of Brighton’s West Pier
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Filmed by Sam Moore of Visual Air, these are touching sequences of a structure which can’t be much longer for this world.
Reusability thanks to modular coding
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My erstwhile mentor in Brienz taught me throughout our years working together that if a website functionality is worth creating, it’s worth creating so that it can be used in more than one project. Programme once, install many times. This is a credo I’ve maintained since I started programming for content management systems and one…
I’m not a fan of one-page websites, as a rule. But making sure that they load as quickly as possible goes a long way to making them acceptable.
The Leviathan
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Read more about this short film.
The necessary evil
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The Swiss need foreigners to keep their tourism industry afloat, but many resent the fact enough to complain about it, publicly and loudly.
Google Translate App
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Mind: blown. The app isn’t anywhere near as snappy or as accurate as the “fun” promotional video would suggest, but it does optically recognize text in a foreign language of your choice and translate it live for you on your smart phone screen. The translations are a bit hit-and-miss, but if this kind of technology is
Harder to Roteflue
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Hiking in the rain along an unexpectedly steep route from the viewpoint above Interlaken.
Filming in the dark at 4,000,000 ISO
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Canon’s upcoming ME20F-SH can capture digital video at 4 million ISO. At a price.
