Bastian Allgeier

https://mastodon.social/@bastianallgeier

Designer & developer. Creator of Kirby CMS

Website: https://bastianallgeier.com
Project: https://getkirby.com
Github: https://github.com/bastianallgeier

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2026-02-23 18:10:23 CET

OMG, one of my closest friend groups moved entirely from WhatsApp to Signal. Hell just froze over and I like it.

2025-11-21 11:44:39 CET

OMG this is so good: https://colorpalette.pro/ Almost as if Teenage Engineering builds a color palette builder. 🥰

2025-10-04 11:20:04 CEST

Reading the shocked reactions that Apple and Google removed ICE warning apps from their stores, I think that more should probably read about the role of IBM during the holocaust. Can we please finally get rid of the fairytale of social corporate responsibility in big tech?

2025-04-14 13:00:27 CEST

I'm mostly hiding under a cosy rock at the moment, but this has to be shared to support Carole's bravery:
"This is What a Digital Coupl Looks Like": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZOoT8AbkNE

2025-01-24 11:51:52 CET

Note to myself: Focus on good news. Focus on good people. Focus on things that can be changed by us directly.

2024-12-07 17:09:34 CET

TIL that Mastodon enforces "noreferrer" on all external links. It never appears in your stats and maybe that's one of the reasons why it didn't catch on with people & orgs who actually rely on such stats.
I agree with @npub1x59…gect here. I have mixed feelings about it: https://mastodon.social/@Edent/109323917419768019

2024-11-27 16:07:33 CET

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The gist of the book really is: we could totally make it work if we wanted politically. But I guess that's the main theme for so many things right now.

2024-11-27 15:31:08 CET

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It's a bit difficult to fully recommend it, because I don't 100% agree with the book, but in many ways Nomad Century has a really interesting perspective on those points.

2024-11-27 10:17:15 CET

Climate science communication is in a really bad place. People are too numb, overwhelmed and bombarded with shit. Yet, the message needs to get across.
I found this new angle quite interesting. (unfortunately only in German) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCnOQ30bAQU
What's already locked in?

2024-11-20 09:09:43 CET

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But at the same time, it also truly lowers the standards for everything else. If such AI ads are now "good enough for mainstream media" that "good enough" is now objectively a lot less good than what it has been before. I think this permeates other parts of our culuture as well. But I guess I sound like someone from the 90s who complained about the rise of CGI. On the other hand, we always optimized our tools, but there were still humans behind it. That's the main difference.

2024-11-20 09:05:26 CET

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At that point it really arrived on the same level as a spam email. Maybe that's even a more honest form of advertisement though. Maybe the true problem has always been that pseudo-creative layer. When I studied design, we almost worshipped the creatives behind good ads for their ideas and the production. That's an advantage of AI in this case. There's no pretentiousness about it anymore. It's just noise, optimized to sell.

2024-11-20 08:29:36 CET

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that’s a feeling that I have on repeat with AI. A real person behind a notepad, a typewriter, a camera, an instrument, a computer - actually creating something - is no longer there. I think my own fascination for creativity is 50% about the result and 50% about the process.

2024-11-20 08:25:50 CET

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it looks wrong in multiple places. But personally I think I’m most offended by the lack of people behind it. I use to zoom out a lot when watching movies, ads or any other form of moving picture and I wonder how things are made. No matter if CGI or real stuff. It’s a bit like thinking about how a magic trick works. I’m also a huge fan of behind the scenes material. All of that is simply gone.

2024-11-19 09:36:57 CET

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Most important: this does not invalidate the Fediverse. There’s no such thing as winning and I feel bad for my own past thoughts. The only thing that matters is that we finally get away from algo based social media that collectively fries our brains. Bluesky feels pretty healthy right now despite the questionable background. Be happy that lots of people find a healthier place in really dark times.

2024-11-19 09:29:22 CET

Maybe I’ve turned too soft and pragmatic, but I think that millions of people finally leave Twitter and don’t end up on Threads is a good thing. I wanted the Fediverse “to win” for a long time. I think the crypto VC money behind Bluesky is a huge red flag and will very like backfire. But I also think that it’s not in my control what people prefer and there are valid reasons why they prefer Bluesky, no matter if we like it or not.

2024-11-06 09:46:05 CET

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Tech folks: [@Ruth_Mottram](https://fediscience.org/@Ruth_Mottram ) has an important point here about „rescuing“ important climate data hosted in the US: https://fediscience.org/@Ruth_Mottram/113434638727485258 Maybe this is something people in my bubble could help with.

2024-11-06 08:19:36 CET

I can’t describe the feeling to pretend that everything is ok in front of my kids to not scare them before school, while I burn with fear for their future inside. I just left them for four days to go to Berlin and that goodbye hurt so so much. I don’t see how the world should recover from this. I just really don’t. Maybe later, but not now. I feel so sorry for everyone in the US right now who voted for Harris. Especially those who will be most affected by Trump‘s policies. What a nightmare.

2024-10-24 17:33:57 CEST

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That's an important angle to look at the opportunist group. I mostly thought about power-hungry politicians. Your described group does not deserve the same kind of harshness in my opinion.

2024-10-24 16:28:49 CEST

I shared a very personal post a few month ago and then unlisted it from my site. It's a tough one and I was very worried about attracting the wrong folks with it or getting into painful discussions. But a lot of really wonderful conversations followed. Especially with people from the US.
I think it's the right time to post it once more. Maybe it can help you in some way or another: "My Grandpa was a Nazi" https://bastianallgeier.com/notes/grandpa

2024-10-21 08:49:31 CEST

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But it also feels pretty shitty to reply to posts here and then you have to find out that it's basically just an outlet and the real conversation around that post is on a different platform.

2024-09-27 10:11:31 CEST

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They even have different themes. It's pretty cool

2024-09-11 08:47:51 CEST

I grew up a few km away from the border to France. My classroom was 100 meters away from the Rhine. I was in 9th grade when they opened the borders. I was in 12th grade when they introduced the Euro. Visiting other countries in the EU suddenly felt truly magical. "Fuck you" to all politicians in this country who are currently destroying this magical idea for pure populism, to appease some fascists. It's all about staying in power - as if that helped - and I couldn't despise them more for it.

2024-08-05 19:47:55 CEST

With every new hype and crash in the tech industry, it just feels more and more like there's basically nothing meaningful left in big tech to contribute to a positive future for the planet, but we all need to keep pretending to not make it look completely pointless and embarrassing.

2024-06-01 13:58:00 CEST

How many 100-year floods does it take per year to no longer call them 100-year floods?