All-Star Death Metal. David Vincent’s vocals are just superb!
🎧 Something Wicked Marches In – VLTIMAS
Websites and blogs of people that attended a Homebrew Website Club Düsseldorf.
🎧 Fuck the Universe – Craft
This Swedish black metal act is growing on me.
🎧 Lotus – Soen
Still regular listening to both the “Lotus” and “Lykaia” albums.
🎧 In Cauda Venenum – Opeth
Ever since seeing them live last time, I can’t get “Allting tar slut” out of my head.
🎧 Blood Year – Russian Circles
Their latest album. Would have loved to see them live last month. But as everything was cancelled, this will need to do – which is not bad at all.
🎧 Fear Inoculum – TOOL
Still in rotation.
📄 Corona update 3
It’s been a while since I wrote about “the situation”. In summary: we’re mostly at home, but not really quarantining ourselves.
Yesterday, I spontaneously acquired a new (used) darkroom enlarger that was on offer locally:
It’s a Kaiser VP-6000. And it included everything I need to make prints from 6x6 medium format negatives. So now I can finally start printing the photos I have been making with my Rolleiflex!
To get a little impression of what Düsseldorf looks like during the Covid-19 pandemic, you can check out Andreas Schiko’s blog where he currently posts photos of empty Düsseldorf streets.
Ok, my “Fuck you, Instagram!” bookmarklet stopped working again. Bloody annoying. At least permalinks still work on their own and right-clicking hasn’t been disabled (yet?). So “Open Link in New Tab” still works.
The URL for subscribing to a YouTube channel via RSS:
https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=ADD_CHANNEL_ID_HEREYou get the channel_id from the URL of the channel.
📄 Düsseldorf Webcams
The city of Düsseldorf offers some surprisingly high-quality webcams. Embedded here for my own convenience, so I can watch them all at once.
📄 My fluid website layout
I'm using a viewport-based CSS layout for this site. What this means and why I do this is all explained in this post.
I’m currently watching the documentary about Dieter Rams by Gary Hustwit and it’s absolutely wonderful. Still free to watch today.
📄 Thoughts on lazy loading images
My current thoughts on this feature, its advantages and disadvantages, and why I have currently enabled this on my personal sites.
📄 Photo Journal Design Update
In the last week, I updated my photo journal’s design. There are no more borders around the images, the photos are more aligned to a grid and have varying sizes. It’s all more well-aligned and therefor looks cleaner.
🔗 July 2019 – Daniel Pietzsch’s Photo Journal
📷 “July 2019” is now up in the Photo Journal (48 photos). 📷
Funfair, Nord Open Air and life in between.
It turns out, lazy loading does work with responsive images in Firefox 75: for this to work, you currently have to put the loading attribute before srcset in the attribute list of an img tag. This is a bug, and will be fixed in a future release.
So, I changed my markup accor...
Ok, my “Fuck you, Instagram!” bookmarklet works again. Thanks!