Thomas Günther

@medienbaecker
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201 Following
252 Posts
Baker’s son turned web developer, kneading pixels and code for 15+ years.
Websitehttps://medienbaecker.com
Kirbysiteshttps://kirbysites.com
Thomas GüntherJun 2
Jason Santa MariaJun 2

Fascinating deep research on the origins of Lorem Ipsum. Lots here I didn’t know, including that there were so many holes in its history. We’ve had it all wrong! What a fun ride:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kL1PDqzqhM4

Plus a @BijouType cameo!

The Unsolved Mystery of Lorem Ipsum

YouTube
Thomas GüntherMay 28
Nico VerbruggenMay 28

I've been pushing out weekly updates for my #kobo tweaking website and I've updated the blog post:

https://nicoverbruggen.be/blog/kobopatch-webui

KoboPatch Web UI

All I wanted to do is customize my Kobo's home screen, and I went down a reverse engineering rabbit hole...

Thomas GüntherMay 13

Another day, another @getkirby plugin: inline SVG previews for my currentColor connoisseurs 🤓

https://github.com/medienbaecker/kirby-svg-preview

Thomas GüntherMay 4

While my social battery is still recharging from #btconf (it was amazing) I got inspired by watching the #2mr livestream to improve on my little Mastodon plugin for @getkirby. Version 2.0 is no longer just for showing replies but also boosts, favourites, and posting directly from the Panel:

https://github.com/medienbaecker/kirby-mastodon

Thomas GüntherMay 2
Kirby CMSMay 2

Tomorrow is Digital Independence Day!



So we take the chance to highlight the website Di.Day by Yoshie Agata @yoshie and Thomas Günther @medienbaecker who worked on an accessibility-focused relaunch of the page. Three new Kirby plugins were born working on it: Language Access, Change UUID and Token Field.

Visit https://di.day

Or read an article by the maker of the website here: https://medienbaecker.com/articles/digital-independence

#diday #madewithkirby

Thomas GüntherMay 1
PiccalilliMay 1
It’s Friday, so let’s close out the week with some Good Links™ in The Index #180! Sponsored by the fantastic CodePen 2.0. piccalil.li/the-index/180/

The Index: Issue #180
The Index: Issue #180

It’s Friday, so let’s close out the week with some Good Links™ in The Index #180! Sponsored by the fantastic CodePen 2.0.

Piccalilli
Thomas GüntherMay 1

Tried to put a feeling into a graph today:

https://medienbaecker.com/articles/ai-replacing-accessibility

#accessibility #vscode

AI replacing accessibility

For the longest time, every VS Code release note gave accessibility a prominent place. Now that space goes to AI.

Thomas GüntherApr 28
Christian SeligApr 27
Accessibility is hard. Setting mom’s new phone up and at the larger text sizes you can’t read what you’re supposed to say to Siri so you can’t progress 🥲
Thomas GüntherApr 27
Yoshie Agata GüntherApr 27
Still cannot believe that my design got selected for the sticker pack at #btconf 🥰
Thomas GüntherApr 22

My wife @yoshie and I recently relaunched the DI.DAY website, an initiative celebrating Digital Independence Day every first Sunday of the month. Here are some thoughts on digital independence in general, and even a tiny piece of fiction set on another planet:

https://medienbaecker.com/articles/digital-independence

Digital independence

On relaunching DI.DAY, leaving big tech behind, and why good design and free software are finally finding each other.