I reorganized my site. For some reasons.

First of all I detected especially in the last years that I did so many things, worked on so many different topics and collected so much incredible stuff, that the idea grew more and more to show it. The intention is to inspire you. To astonish you. To entertain you.

This site is like a huge antique store, a museum, a magazine, a reflection of culture, toys and technology and a report of my life as a highly creative person.

Who is this Bernhard Ewers? What is “instance four” or even TriNodE? However you may just browse cool stuff and maybe find inspiration.

Why static html

This website is build as a static html site, done with Hugo https://gohugo.io/

• It’s fast. It’s small.
  

• Designed to stay. Which technology will last for a long, long time? And I mean real time not IT time periods, which change any minute nowadays. The content reflects what a creative live had been in my time period. I have the faint hope that maybe 200 years in the future someone will read this like we browse an ancient book.

• No updates anymore
  I hate to update everything anytime. And still having the fear of being hacked by someone evil. Or have to check for broken links, lost references or have to replace canceled plugins. I spent zillions of hours on updating and keeping sites like Wordpress and I have enough.

• Single purpose, simple design
  I like single purpose items. The design of the content follows function: To cite Hicks’s law: The time it takes to make a decision increases with the number and complexity of choices.

• Focus on content
  When editing an article in Markup I can focus on content and not battling the Gutenberg moloch or InDesign for example.

A word on dates

Of course you may found out already that this site is not up since the 1970’s and therefore most of the articles are not posted at the dates listed there.

I have decided to implement a chronological order because it is reflecting when the described topic was done and gives context. So every article I write will be done in the sense, what person I was at that time. An what this person had done and why in the opinion and spirit of that time, regardless how stupid this may be seen today or in the future.

Language and stories

Stories are and will be in German and English. As of writing today in 2022 it seems this will be done seamlessly and automatically by some AI instance not so far away a few years ahead. Until then, I have the hope, that you may translate them, which in these days is not a big issue. But of course it is a little bit annoying, excuse me.

I wrote in German when I wanted to express myself in a deeper context, give insights or want to tell a story. My English is, I hope, not so bad, but in my mother-language I can express ideas way better.

This is my site. Discover a creative live.