Nicolai Schwarz
talesof.me
Nicolai Schwarz
@talesof.me
Freelancer. Web Development. Frontend & Design – with Drupal & Backdrop CMS. Author | talesof.me | textformer.de
Still rampaging through some optional content in Pharloom. For my taste / skill, the First Sinner is around 15% too fast to be fun. And I hate it when I have to chase the boss around. Ok, done, next. #Silksong
November 12, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Reposted by Nicolai Schwarz
Morgen, um 19:30 Uhr, trifft sich die DUG Ruhr online.

Unsere Themen:

- Single-Directory Components – Theorie und Praxis / Nicolai & Jan
- Batch-API / Tobias

#Drupal #DUGRuhr

drupalruhr.de/de/events/on...
Online Treffen im November | Drupal Usergroup Ruhr
drupalruhr.de
November 12, 2025 at 5:57 PM
It took some time. But just two years later than intended, here are the necessary files if you want to print one of the DrupalCamp Ruhr T-shirts from 2018, 2023, or 2025 for yourself. #drupal #dcruhr25
talesof.me/en/2025/drup...
The T-shirts of DrupalCamp Ruhr
Here are the shirt designs for the DrupalCamps in Essen, Germany, from 2018, 2023, and 2025. Finally! Together with some context, a look behind the scenes, and tips on how to print your shirts.
talesof.me
October 24, 2025 at 7:47 AM
Year after year, I wrestled with the question of whether I really needed the Creative Cloud. Sometimes I take a little longer than other people. But now I’m finally free! Bye #Adobe!
Hello #Affinity Suite! (Well, at least till October 30th, when we’ll see if #Serif will ruin their product as well.)
October 20, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Just when I was about to find Act II in #Silksong way better than Act I (I really liked the Cogwork Dancers), here comes Mount Fay where you need the trashy, unreliable Clawline mechanic. And I am back to: Wow, who playtested this shit?! #MountFrust
October 17, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Hmm. It took me around 43 hours to reach Act II in #Silksong. HowLongToBeat puts the complete main game at 27 hours. Don’t those people explore the map? I spend, e.g., over 10 hours hunting for certain abilities (I can’t actually get in Act I). Tzz.
October 11, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Noch eben schnell ein paar Slides zusammenklöppeln, für die #Drupal User Group heute Abend. 19:30 Uhr. Online.
October 9, 2025 at 11:39 AM
Wow. Another shop with even more expensive items. If I want them I can now farm, again, another 1.150 rosaries, another 30min or so gone, again. This. Is. So. Much. Fun! #Silksong
October 3, 2025 at 11:27 PM
TIL: William Moulton Marston, who created Wonder Woman and her Lasso of Truth (with artist Harry G. Peter) in 1941, had also contributed to the development of the polygraph (lie detector) in the years before.
September 28, 2025 at 4:36 PM
I am amazed at how much I hate #Silksong now. Eighteen hours in, and I only continue to play out of spite.
September 26, 2025 at 9:36 PM
I’ve put the Nerd Quiz from #dcruhr25 online. 50 questions about pop culture, #Drupal & Web stuff, and some trivia. With a few annotations.
This needed to work only on my laptop. So this is not responsive, not optimized, ~50MB. Just zoom in/out. Navigate with arrow keys.
talesof.me/nerdquiz/dcr...
Nerd Quiz @ DrupalCamp Ruhr 2025
50 Questions about pop culture, Drupal, the Web, and the World
talesof.me
September 17, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Das war nun das siebte DrupalCamp in Essen seit 2010; das Fünfte, das ich mitorganisiert habe. Recht beharrlich für so ein Special-Interest-Camp.
DrupalCamp Ruhr 2025 is over. 2 Days, 73 Participants, 2 Keynotes, 26 Sessions and Discussions, 2 Get Togethers, 1 Nerd Quiz. And 12 Sponsors, who made it all possible. A big Thank You to everybody who participated in and contributed to the event. See you next time.
#drupal #dcruhr25
September 15, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Reposted by Nicolai Schwarz
Time for the world to install a gigawatt of solar power capacity
2004: A year
2010: ~ a month
2015: ~ a week
Now: A day
ourworldindata.org/data-insight... 🧪
September 15, 2025 at 5:01 AM
Das nächste Nerd Quiz ist fertig gepackt und wartet auf seinen großen Auftritt morgen Abend.
DrupalCamp Ruhr 2025 will feature a new Nerd Quiz on Friday evening. Build teams of three, answer some questions, and win some prizes. More info about the last two quizzes and the new prizes here: drupalcamp.ruhr/en/nerdquiz
#drupal #dcruhr25
September 11, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Reposted by Nicolai Schwarz
We have published a timetable for DrupalCamp Ruhr 2025. Please note that we have a Barcamp component in the morning, where new sessions, discussions, BOFs etc. will emerge. So some sessions might move around a bit. #dcruhr25 #drupal
drupalcamp.ruhr/en/timetable
Timetable | DrupalCamp Ruhr 2025
drupalcamp.ruhr
September 10, 2025 at 9:33 AM
13h in and I am calling it: #Silksong is one of the most unfun, most annoying games I have ever played! It is beautiful & has lots of good parts. But the annoying stuff overshadows everything else. I will play a bit longer, just to see if I stumble upon the area where they have hidden the fun. #meh
September 8, 2025 at 4:27 PM
#Silksong #haha Seen on Reddit.
September 8, 2025 at 1:13 PM
#Silksong: The Bird Wave Challenge in Greymoor is the most unfun shit I have played all year. Those erratic movements are killing me. I already wasted more time on this than on all the bosses that came before. #AllRageNoFun
September 6, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Seven hours in and #Silksong is more annoying than fun. Everything is way too expensive. Getting hit while healing is such a bad experience. Fetch 25 items quests are lame. And that fucking birds …
Still a good game, but boy, Hollow Knight felt much better.
September 6, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Wow. That Lace fight is draining all the fun out of #Silksong for me.
September 5, 2025 at 9:55 PM
I am actually looking forward to present my super fancy frontend solution to a backend problem.
With so many Best Practices floating around at DrupalCamp Ruhr 2025, we decided to counter those with some light-hearted »Bad Practices«. Don’t try this at home! #dcruhr25 #drupal
drupalcamp.ruhr/en/sessions
September 5, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Wouldn’t it be nice to have a little add-on for this theme called »Tonic« (but it seems that project name is already taken).
Big news for Drupal core: Gin will become the new default admin theme, replacing Claro. With work underway to bring Gin into core by Drupal 11.3, we’re excited about the improvements this will bring to the admin experience.

Read more about the plan here: www.drupal.org/about/core/b...
September 5, 2025 at 10:41 AM
It would have been really funny if Steam had prepared a Silksong reference for this error page. Soemthing like a shrugging Hornet. #steam #error #silksong
September 4, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Silksong will kick off the weekend for me at 4 p.m. And I am one of those who would have easily paid 30, maybe 40 Euro for the game. #justtakemymoney
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGe...
Hollow Knight: Silksong - Release Trailer
YouTube video by Team Cherry
www.youtube.com
September 4, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Muahahaha. Ich habe im Januar 2022 meinen Schreibtisch zusammengebaut. Bis auf ein optionales Element. Das habe ich nun nachgeholt. 5 Minuten Arbeit, es anzubringen. Plus die zwei Stunden, die ich gebraucht habe, um die Schrauben wiederzufinden. #WasDuHeuteKannstBesorgen
August 27, 2025 at 3:53 PM