Websites and blogs of people that attended a Homebrew Website Club Düsseldorf.
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📄 How to create a blurry status bar for PWAs on iOS
When you install a PWA on iOS (and iPadOS) via “Add to Home Screen”, you can make the status bar – i.e. the area at the top around the notch/dynamic island – transparent yet blurry (so that you can still read its infos like the time or battery status).
🎬 Black Water

Actually not bad at all. Good action, and a terrifying crocodile, surprisingly brutal. Has suspense too. Entertaining little Aussie movie.
🎬 Paris, Texas

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Beautiful! The pictures, the soundtrack, the story, Hunter. The (quite long, but never boring) ending, where they tell their stories and motivations, separated by a one-way window is just great. I did not cry, I swear!
🎧 Slaughter of the Soul – At The Gates

Man, Tompa died. So let’s listen to some At the Gates. Listened to this a lot as a teenager. And it’s still so good. RIP.
📄 FeedCity updates September 2025
There have been a few things happening recently in FeedCity land:
🎬 28 Days Later

While this might have a little bit of shitty digital quality, I think otherwise this really holds up well and is a great entertaining zombie film. The story is great, the characters and the acting is there, the infected are menacing, the action is good. And it just has a lot of great scenes. Was again looking forward to that blood-drops-in-the-eye shot.
🎬 Final Destination Bloodlines

Haven't seen a movie from this franchise in a long time. Do I like the CGI-to-the-max? No. But otherwise, it's actually pretty entertaining with great humour. Death has once again packed a fine assortment of Rube Goldberg death machines and bloody butterfly effects.
📖 Ein Hirsch, ein Virus und ein Baby – Nils Wittrock
Wie auch sein erstes Buch, mochte ich dieses zweite auch sehr gerne. Ein, zwei Kapitel waren mir etwas zu ausschweifend, aber ansonsten ein kurzweiliges Buch, das interessante Einblicke in das Leben einen Independent-Musikers gibt im Speziellen zur Corona-Pandemie-Zeit und bei gleichzeitigem Familienzuwachs.
Finally put the next date up for the Homebrew Website Club meetup. Happening in two weeks on 23.09.2025.

@zachleat wondering who's gonna give the next talk at @smashingconf 🤔
Weeknotes 2025-08-18
🎬 The Reef

Yoah… the acting was quite good, and I liked the partly suspenseful editing, too. But the plot is bonkers and for this to be entertaining, it's not enough action for my tastes.
This week was another Homebrew Website Club here in Düsseldorf. Mark and Jochen came around. It was mostly chatting about IndieWeb and AI topics, but each of us also managed to get some work done on one or more of our projects.
I, for example, published a new photo journal entry. And I registered that site with a WebSub hub and send out WebSub notifications for this new post.
I’m also having fun creating these little animated AVIFs of our little group.
