kiko.io
kiko.io
Kristof Zerbe
I've been a passionate software developer for almost 30 years and currently a tech-savvy IT manager. In my spare time, I tinker with things like this blog, because creating software never lets you go.
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To me, my sweetheart is a phenomenon. With two needles and an indefinite amount of wool in various colours, she whips up all sorts of little marvels at a speed that would take me just to get my fingers back in order. Most of the things...
This year, I was late getting started with taking photos in Thomas’ garden. Whereas I’m usually out and about as early as March, I only managed to take the first pictures of his extraordinary plants this weekend, and I’ve probably missed...
Over the past month of April, I’ve collected 16 links for my link journal. 2026-04-03 Introducing view-transitions-toolkit .. www.bram.us CSS/Animation JavaScript Over the past years, I’ve published a bunch of View Transitions contents:...
Lately, there’s been a lot of buzz in my tech bubble about good old RSS/Atom feeds. Not only are people rediscovering them and making them available on their blogs, but new services are also popping up around this 30-year-old technology....
As I wrote recently, I Love Bubbles. The new blog post aggregator (based on the RSS feeds of a curated list of blogs) has become part of my morning routine: making coffee, browsing my blogroll, opening Bubbles, and discovering new posts...
Any new way of interconnecting websites and users on the IndieWeb is not only welcome but also vital for a stable counterbalance to Big Tech’s shitty walled gardens. Yesterday I stumbled across a really good and new one, that integrates...
It was time to see Versengold again… and for the first time in my hometown of Wiesbaden. It’s great when it only takes a 10-minute bus ride to see your favorite band. Earlier this year, the guys released their ninth studio album, and it...
I’m 57 and currently hooked on stickers, and AI isn’t entirely innocent in this, combined with a bit of a guilty conscience - but it’s a lot of fun. I recently “retired” my old business laptop after just two short years, with a battery...
Over the past month of March, I’ve collected 22 links for my link journal. 2026-03-04 Light-Dark Theme with Relative Colors codepen.io CSS Colors A "zero-maintenance" theme switcher for the New Colors challenge. It uses a single brand...
It seems like fate that James chose Museum Memories of this month’s Indieweb Carnival, because just recently, by chance, I visited one of the most impressive places from my childhood after more than 40 years: the Deutsches Museum in...
It’s not every day that one of our favourite bands tours Germany and brings along guests that we like just as much. We last saw Alter Bridge in Frankfurt 2016 and had never seen Daughtry before. So there was no question about whether we...
Over the past month of February, I’ve collected 11 links for my link journal. 2026-02-07 Drawing Connections with CSS Anchor Positioning rolandfranke.nl CSS A practical exploration of CSS Anchor Positioning and the anchor() function to...
When I read about this month’s Indieweb Carnival topic (Intersecting Interests by Zachary Kai), I initially misunderstood ‘intersecting’ as interests that cross paths and thus get in the way, but what is meant is rather overlapping...
This text accurately reflects the main problem with AI: We are gradually losing our cognitive abilities, because we are ceasing to train our biggest muscle: the brain. “Vibe coding” satisfies the Builder. It feels great to see to pass...
Over the past month of January, I’ve collected 7 links for my link journal. 2026-01-09 Building an IndieAuth Comment System for Your Static Site brennan.day IndieWeb Authentication A journey through authentication, CORS issues, and the...