Tag: Blogging

Vintage Temperature Waves

There might be three people among my active followers who still remember when this blog was primarily about hard science and tech – without artistic adornments. These were the glory days of the internet, in the early 2010s. When social media had not yet defeated small blogs. We had our German heat pump and energy…
Unearthing a Time Capsule and Preserving a Fading Cathedral

My first creative endeavors (as an adult) were not drawings or paintings. It was the early web that made me pick colors by hand and stitch together HTML code snippets. The web of the early 2000s was a very different place from the modern social media era, built from many small independent sites and blogs,…
$Hello to the Fediverse :)$

Hello to the Fediverse :)

Hello, people out there on Mastodon, Pixelfed, or whatever platform you use! You might have seen a weird collection of old posts reposted by my account today! Sorry :) This has been just me cleaning up minor stuff – not knowing that I have to turn off federation explicitly to avoid blasting out these old…
Circles to Circles #4. Stereographic Retrospective.

Circles to Circles is a series of six geometric watercolor pencil drawings. I have revealed number one, two, and three, and this is number four: On this blog, I have probably said anything I had to say about stereographic projection … using words, mathematical symbols, and drawings. Today, I rather create a retrospective: This is…
Let Them Go

Those hyperlinks did a lot for me, in nearly two decades. But I have let them go. There was a time I had opinions on this blog – about the corporate world, science writing, academia. But I trod carefully (or so I think). But there was one subject I was passionate about: Link rot. I…
End of the Eclipse (and There Is So Much to Unpack)

I am often searching for the simplest, sparsest way to express an idea with code, using lines and limited colors. This was an attempt at maximum simplicity: Just white lines on black! Title: Complex Alien Eclipse (2021). Created with python code, using SageMath, a math framework combining several open source math libraries. It was a…
Blogging Anniversary: Art, Not Cyber

Looking at my blog statistics, I see that that post is trending again. The last article on cyber security, written end of March 2023. There is a bunch of older tech blogs that seem to have become evergreens. I cannot do anything against it, sorry. But this has been an art blog for more than…
Why Art?

… or: Blogging like its 2012! This website has been (one of) my virtual playground(s). Every time I figured it has found its purpose, I felt the urge to change something yet again. However, the dedication to art seems to be more stable. I felt confident about adding (yet another) domain, and I am happy…
On the Fringes of Colours

I am turning Thomas Young’s sparkling language into poetry! Raw material: The Bakerian Lecture, Experiments and Calculations relative to Physical Optics, 1803. It’s really Colours, not Colors in this case! I am picking a single line from the first page of this historical article, two lines from each other page. No editing and rearranging allowed!…
Found Prose: Retrospective 2012-2022

You will not want to read this. Nobody does, me included. But creating it has been an interesting experiment. I have been scouring this blog for sentences, one from each blog post. In chronological order, starting in 2012. I had permitted myself to re-order sentences, but I have rarely used that option. The fountain pen…
Technology and Technics. Flolloping Floopily.

Once I started to create spam poetry and search term poetry, and I believed it was original. Then I discovered that great poets of the virtual scrapyard had come before me. Finally, I found serious articles about so-called Found Poetry and I found poets publishing their spam poetry in earnest. I learned about the Sokal…
Connectedness and Independence

My websites ebb and flow. After 23 years of writing online, I am recognizing recurring patterns. I am keeping ancient hyperlinks intact. All articles I had published here before 2020 are still available elsewhere, also under the former main domain used at WordPress – elkement . blog. My frustration about other referenced websites’ ever changing and abandoned…
Let Your Hyperlinks Live Forever!

It is the the duty of a Webmaster to allocate URIs which you will be able to stand by in 2 years, in 20 years, in 200 years. This needs thought, and organization, and commitment. (https://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/URI) Joel Spolsky did it: I’m bending over backwards not to create “linkrot” — all old links to Joel on Software…
Bots, Like This! I am an Ardent Fan of HTTPS and Certificates!

This is an experiment in Machine Learning, Big Data, Artificial Intelligence, whatever. But I need proper digression first. Last autumn, I turned my back on social media and went offline for a few days. There, in that magical place, the real world was offline as well. A history of physics museum had to be opened,…
The Stages of Blogging – an Empirical Study

… with sample size 1. Last year, at the 4-years anniversary, I presented a quantitative analysis – in line with the editorial policy I had silently established: My blogging had turned from quasi-philosophical ramblings on science, work, and life to no-nonsense number crunching. But the comment threads on my recent posts exhibit my subconsciousness spilling…
Anniversary 4 (4 Me): “Life Ends Despite Increasing Energy”

I published my first post on this blog on March 24, 2012. Back then its title and tagline were: Theory and Practice of Trying to Combine Just Anything Physics versus engineering off-the-wall geek humor versus existential questions IT versus the real thing corporate world’s strangeness versus small business entrepreneur’s microcosmos knowledge worker’s connectedness versus striving…
Google-Mediated Self-Poetry – Holiday Edition

A new sub-genre of my experimental internet poetry! Is Google able to capture the essence of this blog? Rules: This is so-called poetry from the first three pages of search results, as usual combined with my images. I’ll stay away from social media for a while so you have time to digest it! ~~~ Nothing…
Shortest Post Ever

… self-indulgent though, but just to add an update on the previous post. My new personal website is live: elkement.subversiv.at (Voice from the future – 2025: This hostname now points to the blog you are just reading. The old site is still there: Enter a non-existing URL for this site and follow the instructions :)…