Daniel Pietzsch is a freelance web developer from Düsseldorf, Germany. Creator of FeedCity RSS reader, co-organizer of the Homebrew Website Club Düsseldorf, and passionate about web development, film photography, music, and movies.
28 articles from this blog
A public feed list for IndieWebCamp Düsseldorf 2026 participants, enabling event tracking via RSS.
A guide on automating Webmention requests from a static site using GitLab CI pipeline.
Automating WebSub notifications from a static site using GitLab CI pipeline with curl commands.
A developer's recap of attending IndieWebCamp Berlin 2025, covering sessions on ActivityPub, feed readers, and personal website improvements.
A technical guide on implementing a blurry, translucent status bar for Progressive Web Apps (PWAs) on iOS using CSS backdrop-filter and mask properties.
Developer updates FeedCity with new bookmarking feature, improved feed fetcher, sign-up flow, JSON Feed validation, and a redesigned UI.
A technical guide on implementing WebSub notifications for Atom feeds to enable real-time updates for subscribers and reduce manual fetching.
Developer introduces FeedCity, a new RSS feed reader focused on reducing stress with no unread counts, public feed pages, and list-based sharing.
A developer's hands-on review and performance analysis of the new View Transitions API for multi-page web applications.
A developer explains why they chose not to implement AVIF image format on their site, opting instead to optimize JPEG quality for file size savings.
A developer analyzes the practical challenges of responsive images on modern high-resolution smartphones, questioning if serving smaller image variants is still effective.
A developer's personal journey of switching to a Planck mechanical keyboard and how it transformed their workflow, typing, and enjoyment of computing.
A guide to setting up a simple home media server using a Raspberry Pi and Samba to stream movies across a local network.
Reflection on the tragic story of Aaron Swartz, his fight for information freedom, and his early contributions to internet technology like RSS.
A guide to modifying and flashing the ZSA Planck EZ Glow keyboard's firmware to resolve power consumption issues and enable use with iOS devices via Lightning.
A guide to manually installing and renewing Let's Encrypt SSL certificates on HostEurope web hosting, as they lack automatic integration.
A developer details fixing video playback issues on their website by moving hosting to support Safari's byte-range requests and switching to HTTPS.
How to enable gzip compression for text resources on a website hosted with GitLab Pages to improve page load performance.
A developer explains their iOS-only workflow for writing, managing images, and publishing posts to a Jekyll static site using Git and automation tools.
A developer explains using CSS vmin units for a fluid, responsive website layout that scales proportionally with the viewport.
