Im a bit obsessed with a certain ballet piece which I first saw in my childhood and a lot of times since then. As a matter of fact its playing right now, wile writing these words. It is full of animals and just magical: Tales of Beatrix Potter (1971)

I always imagined living in this world. I would dance with the my fellow pigs and mice out in the summer field. I would smash the dishes and furniture in the dollhouse, because we were hungry and there was only plastic food. The frog and I would jump over the sea petals and try to avoid the big fish. When it would get late me and my squirrels friends would paddle our rafts into the sunset.

I am really thankful that it is available in the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/tales-of-beatrix-potter

A couple of weeks ago I finally started my membership at the local library (@stbibkoeln) and now I wonder: Why didn´t I do that 12 years ago when I moved to Cologne?

I really love the priniciple of renting over buying – libraries feel like the perfect embodiment of that sharing economy. So it was about time.

Since I started my membership I already borrowed a variety of stuff:

• A Steeldrum
• A Korg Volca Synthesizer – which I totally love
• 5 Books – I am reading more regularly now because there is a return date
• 2 Movies – they have a online-media library that kinda looks like netflix

This feels like a membership that I want to keep for the rest of my life.

As children, we were thrilled when we first got a computer—a 286 MHz model, if I remember correctly. I knew that computer games existed, but I had no idea what they actually looked like.

One of the programs I enjoyed was an IBM typing practice tool designed to teach 10 finger typing. My sister and I played it frequently, convinced it was a fun computer game.

Thanks to that experience, I can now type with all ten fingers! Would I still have loved it, when I knew it was primarily an exercise?

Recently I stumbled upon online typing games such as this one https://www.keybr.com/. Instantly hooked again.

Im officially part of the cool kids club of the decentralized web: I federated this WordPress blog with the ActivityPub Plugin by Matthias Pfefferle @pfefferle.

It seems to work: The plugin has created a mastodon profile that anyone can follow. New blogposts are automatically posted there.

Not sure if I can comment or reply with that profile. Time to explore.

This is it: My first blogpost is online. And with it my brand new personal website.

It took me quite a while to get to this point since I started over a couple of times. But I really enjoyed the process of tinkering around and exploring how my website will look. It is not finished yet but I am letting it out in the IndieWeb: Why wait, it will evolve over time anyhow.

I’m looking forward connecting with you folks.