About Glitzersachen.de
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Legal / Rechtliches
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• [Impressum / Imprint]
• [Datenschutzerkärung / GDPR]
[Impressum / Imprint] <../../about/imprint>
[Datenschutzerkärung / GDPR] <../../about/dsgvo>
What this site is about
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This is [my] personal and professional website and blog. All the
opinions expressed here are my own. Opinions of other parties will be
marked as quotes. I'm not speaking for my employer nor will I
disclose information about and of my employer. Any overlap with their
opinions is purely accidental.
The implicit distinction I'm making here — between “for my employer”
and “professional” — deserves some explicit explanation. I'm of the
opinion that everybody (?) has a profession – what they studied,
formally or informally, what they have experience in and what,
perhaps, is their calling. This needs to be distinguished from what
they get paid for at a given time. If they are lucky, there is an
overlap. But even if they are not employed they stay professionals in
their respective areas. And if they get paid, that does not make them
automatically into puppets of their respective employers.
I mean it in this sense when I say "this is my professional web
site”. I'm expressing my professional opinion on topics here, things
I've learned from theory or experience. This is independent from what
I get paid for by my employer (who, maybe, doesn't share my insights,
or, working from a different perspective might even hold totally
different opinions).
[my] <./about-me.org>
How it was made
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This site was created with [GNU Emacs], [GNU Make], [Org Mode], some
self developed scripts and a self-developed [brutalist theme] that
borrows some CSS from Org Mode.
A former instance of the site had been created with [hugo] using the
self-developed [brutalist-minimalist theme], which [had been released
as free software].
I was not satisfied with the results — which was partly the fault of
my CSS skills — and since I've been thinking about using Lisp for
templating for some time, I've prototyped this idea now with Emacs
Lisp.
[GNU Emacs]
[GNU Make]
[Org Mode]
[brutalist theme]
[hugo]
[brutalist-minimalist theme]
[had been released as free software]
Where the name comes from
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Years ago I had a blog (together with a friend). At that time keeping
a html request log was still legal – the [GDPR] didn't exist, which
perhaps does not actually forbid keeping a request log but makes it
into a sufficiently confusing legal quagmire that it seems safest not
to do so without a corporate legal department behind you.¹⁾
Every now and then I had a cursory look into the request log to see
from where we were linked. One day I noted that the referrer was a
Google search with the keyword “Glitzersachen” (German for “glitter
things”). Indeed, there was an article in my blog that contained the
word and at the time the blog article in question was in the top five
of the Google search hits for “Glitzersachen”.
Two or three mental jumps later the ideas was born to run a blog or
web site with the domain /glitzersachen.de/ and the sub title “Glitter
things I found at the road side”. I only fully acted on this idea
years later, but here it is.
¹⁾ The effect of all this attempts in “data protection” seems to be
that it's becoming really difficult for the average civilian to act in
the Internet in a role different from that of the pure consumer (that
is: Just using big corporate platforms and - ironically - accepting
loss of control of your data) whereas the predatory data collection
practices of the big players are (a) hardly encumbered (despite all
the hue and cry they put up) and (b) get some legal foundation as well
(some of these practices were AFAICS downright illegal in
jurisdictions with strong consumer protection, now the consumer can
(be made to) waive their rights easily by clicking through a consent
form).
[GDPR]