Tilman

@tilmn
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I am Tilman Zitzmann, a professor for Digital Experience Design at the design faculty of Nuremberg Institute of Technology.

I create minimal geometric graphics on Geometrydaily.com.

I am passionate about how human beings express themselves on the internet.

Personal websitehttps://tilman.me
Research and teachinghttps://d.th-nuernberg.de
Graphic arthttp://geometrydaily.com

Another Homebrew Website Club Nuremberg last night — and I'm still delighted that this friendly, diverse group of practitioners meets monthly in my city. Interesting, inspiring, relaxed, and funny, as always.

Thanks to Björn for documenting everything: https://indieweb.org/events/2026-06-10-hwc-nuremberg

And if you're even remotely curious about joining us live in Nuremberg: we're hosting a special edition for the Nürnberg Digital Festival! https://nuernberg.digital/de/events/2026/homebrew-website-club-nuedigital

#indieweb #homebrewwebsiteclub

I vibe-coded a mobile camera web app, because I miss the old days when mobile photography was such a great creative field. Surprisingly the Snapseed app is still around, so I used it for additional layering. #photography #design
I used my post from last week as my first proper test of POSSE-style publishing. A long form text on my digital garden first, then a link post on this microblog, then cross-posted to Bluesky and Mastodon. Here is how it went: https://knot.tilman.me/post/posse-the-first-try/

Platformer Game Jam 2026:

Only three of 16 design students had used a game engine before. Three days later they'd shipped ten platformer games — all playable in your browser, built on Godot + WebAssembly.

Full write-up: https://tilman.me/garden/Platformer+Game+Jam+2026

#gamedev #godot #webassembly #indiedev #designeducation

Reactivating https://knot.tilman.me for microblogging!
Tilman

Ghost implementing ActivityPub

The blogging platform Ghost is working on implementing social web functions with ActivityPub. They are talking about it very openly (and entertaining) on https://activitypub.ghost.org. I think they are the first to get this whole »Social Web« thing going in a way that is ready for non-techies. Here is what they say in their newest post: The biggest challenge of ActivityPub is that it's too technical to easily explain to regular people. Nobody is interested in a jargon-laden diatribe […]

https://blog.tilman.me/2025/02/17/ghost-implementing-activitypub/

Ghost implementing ActivityPub – Tilmans Blog

Ooops, wrong account.
Trying https://phanpy.social to post something on my blog.tilman.me. Does that work? Let’s be bold and also attach an image!
Phanpy

Minimalistic opinionated Mastodon web client