And here’s the brand new entry for April 2022.
At the Aquazoo Düsseldorf, Easter, COVID infection, and a jam session.
Websites and blogs of people that attended a Homebrew Website Club Düsseldorf.
🔗 March 2022 – Daniel Pietzsch’s Photo Journal
Ups, forgot to link to the March entry of the photo journal here.
Mostly photos from my birthday party.
🎬 Barbarian
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“Hello, I’m a Mac.” “And I’m an incest underground monster woman with supernatural strength and I will push in your eyeballs and crack your head open like a raw egg.” „Eh….hehe… Do you know iWork?“
Quite a movie. I didn‘t find it 100% convincing and it lost a bit of suspense after a while. But not a shabby horror movie. And I liked the camera work and the acting.
🎬 Inferno
Re-watched and re-enjoyed this.
🎬 The Suicide Squad
Well, a few scenes were funny. But this really isn’t my type of movieand I wonder what I was thinking. 🤷♂️
Running PowerShell as Scheduled Task without window popping up
Running tasks automatically and in the background is really helpful. When you are also actively working on the same machine windows popping up and stealing the curser focus is somewhere between annoying and “I want to throw things out of the window”. Because staying calm is important here are the arguments for powershell.exe to be placed in a scheduled task that dows not open a window. Arguments: -NoLogo -NoProfile -ExecutionPolicy Unrestricted -WindowStyle Hidden { .
📄 No AVIF for now
After contemplating about responsive images - especially for my photo journal - I had a look at my current approach and whether it makes sense to add image variants in AVIF format to the mix. And my current answer to this is “no”.
🎬 Videodrome
I enjoyed the general theme of this film, but somehow it didn’t reallygrab me for some reason. Maybe I was just too tired that evening.
Visually this was fantastic, though: especially those kind of specialeffects.
I should probably watch this again at some point.
Using the Windows Credential Manager from PowerShell
I was automating some Azure DevOps tasks using a scheduled task and PowerShell and needed the ability to authenticate. As the credentials should not be in clear text in the script I wanted to use the Windows Credential Manager. [void][Windows.Security.Credentials.PasswordVault,Windows.Security.Credentials,ContentType=WindowsRuntime] $vault = New-Object Windows.Security.Credentials.PasswordVault $vaultCredential = ` $vault.Retrieve(` $env:SYSTEM_TEAMFOUNDATIONCOLLECTIONURI, ` `$env:USERNAME); if($vaultCredential -eq $null){ Write-Host "The credentials must be created first..."; Write-Host "User name: $env:USERNAME" -ForegroundColor DarkGray; Write-Host "Password: " -NoNewline; $value = [System.
📄 Contemplating the usefulness of responsive images
With smartphones getting bigger and screen resolutions becoming ever more dense, is it still feasible to serve a whole bunch of different image sizes on a photo sharing web site?
🔗 February 2022 – Daniel Pietzsch’s Photo Journal
Keen to catch up.
Flying a kite, flea market and a pizza dinner.
🎧 White Light Generator – Crippled Black Phoenix
🎬 Old
I found this a little kitschy at times. And the subject matter couldhave been explored more deeply in my opinion. But otherwise an enjoyablemovie with an interesting idea and good execution.
🎬 Prince of Darkness
I like Carpenter-films. This one is no exception. From the atmosphere tothe soundtrack to how it’s made: all top-notch. Where it’s a bit lackingfor me, is the story itself and the action. It didn’t captivate me asmuch as his other films did. And I don’t know why that is. Maybe I wassimply a little too tired when I watched this.
🎬 The Fly
Wow! That is a classic for a reason. I haven’t seen this in a very longtime and now had a blast watching this at the cinema. It’s suspenseful,shocking, well-written, well-played, well-filmed, and great specialeffects and costumes. Highly recommended!
🔗 January 2022 – Daniel Pietzsch’s Photo Journal
A very short post for a change.
It’s the January post. With New Year’s leftovers and family photos.
📄 All Movies Are Great
About how my "reviews" can sometimes seem unfair, when they are really not meant to be.
🎬 Enemy
This drew me in right from the start. Suspenseful, mysterious, eerielighting, menacing soundtrack. And a Jake Gyllenhaal in top form. Andall of this told in a well-paced and never boring 90 minutes. We didwatch the beginning again, right after it ended. Plus a YouTube analysisafterwards – because we can‘t say we understood this on our own on thefirst watch. But a second watch would certainly not be a waste of time,anyway.
🎬 Inside
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Ok, Willem Dafoe is once again great here. And it’s an interesting and promising new take on Cast Away. And it’s sprinkled throughout with seemingly exciting hints. But then nothing really comes out of them. And that goes on for too long. But oh boy, that one bathroom scene – then cut: to dog food! Disgust-master‘s finest. And I have to live with that now.
🔗 September – December 2021 – Daniel Pietzsch’s Photo Journal
239 new photos from the past.
A trip to Berlin. Zoe turns four. A work event. Friends turning forty. Family holiday in Italy. A band reunion of sorts. Christmas and New Year's. And the usual documentation in between.