Due to the world’s toughest internet laws, running a service which posts the best graphic design articles in Germany is not an easy thing to do.

Things like self‑hosting, reposting on your own domain, and so on are absolutely out of the question, unless you are really keen on testing out the limits of your (legal) budget.

So we slowly started rebuilding our project grafikdesignfeed using freshrss, ifttt, buffer and free socials.

The logic is as follows:

freshrss gathers all kinds of rss‑feeds, we favorite the articles we think are cool, these get sent to IFTTT where an applet takes these favorites, sends them to a buffer account which sends these favorites to (as of now) our account on Bluesky and our account on X (we are working on more socials as well, but that takes time; not work, just time, so we are waiting) and that is the whole machine called grafikdesignfeed.

We are doing this because we want to provide a service to the German‑speaking part of the (not only graphic) design world, and because we really like building useful little machines like this one.

Who knows, maybe you like using our machines as well?

Source: My after‑hours blog on Tumblr Code & Canvas