An aquarell image of a smiling Francesco Schwarz.

Hi, I’m Francesco. I’m a Frontend Developer and Hospice Volunteer based in Munich, Germany. Welcome to my little corner of the web.

This site is my self-hosted home: a place to write, experiment, and document what I’m up to. You’ll find articles, media logs, activities, check-ins, and more. I’m trying to publish here first, then share things elsewhere. Find out more about me or about this website.

Recent media

This week
🎥 1 movie
📺 13 episodes of 4 shows
This month
📚 5 books
🎥 10 movies
📺 56 episodes of 7 shows
  1. Show poster of Ted Lasso

    Ted Lasso

    Episode
    S4E4
    Last finished
  2. Show poster of Love Is Blind: UK

    Love Is Blind: UK

    Episode
    S3E10
    Last finished
  3. Show poster of Doppelhaushälfte

    Doppelhaushälfte

    Episode
    S3E8
    Last finished
  4. Movie poster of Sunshine

    Sunshine

    Release year
    2007
    Last finished
  5. Show poster of The Office

    The Office

    Episode
    S9E23
    Last finished
  6. Show poster of Kylie

    Kylie

    Episode
    S1E3
    Last finished

Recent articles

  1. 15 months

    My first assignment as a hospice volunteer came to an end this week.

Recent photos

Latest photos or screenshots from all my posts:

  1. Vegetables on the table.
  2. Selfie of new haircut.
  3. Cut off hair.
  4. Apples.
  5. Selfie.
  6. Street with corn fields.
  7. Morning river scene.
  8. Morning river scene.
  9. Various produce.
  10. Bakery delights.
  11. Barf everywhere.
  12. Sun eclipse.

Recent check-ins

Latest 10 check-ins on a map:

Map of 10 check-ins

This week
12 check-ins at 11 locations
This month
42 check-ins at 23 locations

Hyperlinks that I’ve read or bookmarked:

  1. Macht Geld glücklich? Was die Wissenschaft darüber weiß via sz.de

    Besonders in einer Bevölkerung wie in Deutschland, in der die finanziellen Grundbedürfnisse überwiegend gestillt sind, gibt es laut der Psychologin Mangelsdorf häufig eine falsche Wahrnehmung dessen, was tatsächlich glücklich macht. „Es wird häufig überschätzt, welchen Einfluss Konsum oder Geld auf unser Glückserleben hat, und unterschätzt, wie viel Einfluss positive Erfahrung und Miteinander und kleine Momente des Glücks haben.“

  2. Christopher Nolans Film und Literatur über Odysseus: ein komplizierter Mann via sz.de

    Im Jahr 2017 hat allerdings die amerikanische Gräzistin Emily Wilson eine Übersetzung vorgelegt, die sehr schnell sehr berühmt geworden ist, was gleich mehrere Gründe hatte. Wilson war nicht nur die Erste, die in der englischen Übertragung die Zeilenzahl des griechischen Originals exakt beibehalten und den ganzen Text außerdem streng im fünfhebigen Jambus gehalten hat. Sie war vor allem die erste weibliche Übersetzerin ins Englische überhaupt. Der Streit, der in der Folge über die Frage entbrannt ist, ob das Geschlecht des Übersetzers für das Textverständnis überhaupt eine Rolle spielt, wurde gemessen am üblichen Umgangston in der Altphilologie geradezu heftig ausgetragen.

  3. AI has torched the market for junior programmers via seldo.com

    The career on-ramp for professional software engineers used to work like this: you got hired to write mediocre code, a senior engineer reviewed it, you slowly absorbed judgment through repetition and correction, and a decade later you were the senior engineer. That chain is now broken. AI now writes the mediocre code, so nobody hires the junior developer, so nobody is in the queue to become the senior who reviews things.

Webrings

A webring is a human-curated list of websites organized around a specific topic. Here are the webrings this website is a part of. You can go to neighboring websites on each ring. Some also feature a “random” link, it takes you to a random website of the webring.

Meta Ring

For anyone who enjoys tinkering and experimenting with their personal websites and writes about its design and the technology in meta pages, or a colophon.

Fediring

Personal sites of any member of the fediverse (also known as fedizens).

Retronaut

Some of us miss the messy old days of the Internet where we tried to get along and we’d link to each other’s sites and it was all so much fun.

IndieWeb

For folks adding IndieWeb building blocks to their personal websites to find (and be found by) other folks with IndieWeb building blocks on their sites.

a11y webring

For digital accessibility practitioners.

Bucket

Cool people who like to make things.

CSS JOY

For those of us who take joy in messing around with CSS.

Safonts

Dedicated to celebrating the power of type and typography in the realm of personal website design.

Design Systems

For design system practitioners.

PersonalSit.es

This site was built to share and revel in each others’ personal sites. Witness these in wonderment and awe. Immaculate. Stunning. How did they do that? Yes, you should definitely get around to redesigning yours soon.

Geek Ring

For all those funny, quirky, interesting, personal, strange, offbeat websites that’s not page 1 on the search engines. Everyone here gets a chance to have their site viewed, and everyone will find something they have not seen before!