GitHub and GitLab now both offer dark mode. My eyes thank you!
Websites and blogs of people that attended a Homebrew Website Club Düsseldorf.
📄 The new president
Summarising my feelings about the recent US presidential election.
🎧 Imperial – Soen
The new Soen album came out and it’s in heavy rotation.
[UPDATE:] This seems to not be for me this time around. I find myself regularly skipping songs, because either melody, guitar solo or vocals are unbearably cheesy. A shame, because some songs are actually quite good.
🎬 Host
I liked this one! Yes, it’s got fairly typical horror movie elements. But the stage is a Zoom-call during the Corona-lockdown. And I found this pretty well done.
Reminded me of “The Blair Witch Project” (if I remember correctly – because that was looong ago) and “Rec”.
Running WebKit on Windows
Safari 5.1, back in 2010, was the last WebKit browser that somebody released for the Windows platform. Since then debugging things in WebKit came down to either buying a whole Mac or using a remote Safari in Browserstack.
Funnily enough, the WebKit team kept pumping out nigh...
📄 GitLab Pages: serving compressed resources
I have now enabled gzip compression on this website. This means all text resources are now served compressed, which results in quicker page (down)loads.
I removed pagination from a few index pages. Because: who needs pagination when you have compact index pages and all images are lazy loaded? Right: no one! Kinda fixes static page search, too.
🎧 Paranoid – Black Sabbath
I never listened to this album. But because it’s such a classic, I know pretty much every song on here. And I’m enjoying it!
And if the end lead riff of “Fairies Wear Boots” was not a major influence for Metallica’s “For Whom The Bell Tolls” I’ll eat my hat!
🎬 Barn (Beware of Children)
This was a slow movie and more like a psychological and/or social study than about the plot itself.
Relationships, feelings and emotions can be complex and the movie intelligently communicated this. And are so-called grown-ups really that for off in their behaviour from children?
Gradient Multiline Padded Text
For whatever reason a question from Dan Mall from 2018 popped up in my timeline where he was asking how to create multiline padded text with a consistent gradient background in CSS:
CSS superfriends! Have you seen examples of how to do multi-line padded text like this artic...
🎬 Deerskin
I expected nonsense. But not like this. I didn’t get it.
On leaving out the alt Attribute
As it seems I'm currently looking at my Twitter timeline way too often. Because this time it was a tweet from Šime Vidas that caught my attention:
Do I need alt text if there’s a visible image description?<figure> <img src="x.jpg" width="900" height="600" alt="">...
Ich habe heute Die Ente gemalt.
📄 Updated pedalboard
I bought more pedals. And so I needed a bigger board, to be able to fit them all. Here’s what it looks like now:
🎬 Suspiria (2018)
Although this is not a remake, I think I enjoyed the “original” more.
This rendition certainly had a much better production and much better acting. And it wasn’t bad at all. And I very much enjoyed the Berlin set. But I found the side-plots somewhat irrelevant and the main story confusing. Or maybe it was just too late in the day, yesterday night.
So, it was a good movie, but I wasn’t 100% convinced.
🎧 Esoteric Malacology – Slugdge
Does this bring anything new to the table? I don’t think so. But it’s very well done. It has some fantastic guitar work, blast beats, and great vocals. Winner!
🎬 Druk (Another Round)
Four school teachers wanted to try a philosopher’s theory that humans generally have 0.05% too little blood alcohol. So they started drinking.
This is funny, has drama, and wonderful acting. Highly recommended!
Fixing Smooth Scrolling & Page Search (updated!)
Yesterday, as I was browsing my Twitter timeline, a tweet from Chris Coyier popped up, in which he mentioned feedback he got for one of his CSS Tricks experiments. It went as follows:
Anecdotal thing: when I had this on @CSS, I had SO MANY reports of people annoyed that whe...
🎧 Sagor – Skraeckoedlan
Enjoying some good Swedish riff-rock. Can’t stop listening to that “El Monstro”-riff.
Oh FFS! Instagram now requires you to have an account to view anything on their website. You can no longer visit profiles of people or businesses let alone permalink pages.
I hope Instagram will revert this. Or everybody will just stop posting exclusively on that stupid platform (yeah, right!)!
Frustrating nonsense!