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Websites and blogs of people that attended a Homebrew Website Club Düsseldorf.

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🎬 Invasion of the Body Snatchers

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The story certainly has its length. But otherwise there’s lots to like: from the concept of the pods, to the special effects, Jeff Goldblum and Leonard Nimoy, and at last a surprise ending.

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Celebrating Lunar New Year 2024: Year of The Wood Dragon

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a love note for my broken heart

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heartbreak in paradise is still a heartbreak

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A Day Lived in Surrender & Simplicity

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🎬 RoboCop

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This has a good story, and was overall a well-rounded experience. It's still a pretty typical action movie, and has a few clichés. But it's certainly well above average. I was a bit surprised by how brutal some scenes were. It's almost like in a splatter-movie, and really well done. But boy, how they shoot Murphy to pieces is just horrifying. But the film also has some great humor in it: like the super-duper killing robot ED209, which can't descend a flight of stairs and subsequently lands on his back like a helpless bug. Anyhow, can recommend.

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Trust and the Issues with context

Trust is important! It provides mechanisms in public key infrastructure (PKI) that keep our (digital) world turning. Windows and Linux follow different approaches. Both have their issues… The Windows world of trust Microsoft Windows has the Windows Certificate Store. One for the Machine (certlm.msc), providing the baseline, and another one for the User context (certmgr.msc). There are attempts to separate certain types of certificates by their intent e.g. Trusted People for S/MIME signatures and encryption vs.

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🎬 Opera

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I don't know what to think about this. It's so well filmed, and looks so good. And it has lots of good moments. But I think I can't get over the fact that this is then spoiled by nonsense dialogues, a weak story, bad dubbing, and weird music choices. Maybe this is meant to be funny? Is it a parody? I don't know. Weird movie.

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🎬 Diner

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So, me and the guys had dinner, and we then went to see this on the big screen on film. It was a great evening. And this movie was enjoyable, too: a great cast with their distinct characters in a dialogue-heavy movie. And up to all sort of shenanigans during a what seems to be a turning point in all of their lives. Quite a bit of macho-attitudes and actions, but overall very enjoyable. Has a great cheesy, silly, over-the-top dance scene. :)

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XML to markdown with XSLT

I’m currently reworking the process of how software documentation is produced. At the moment of writing we have many manual steps involved updating Microsoft Word document and finally exporting it to the portable document format (PDF). One of the steps is to copy a list of events including their identifiers, category, level and message, from an XML source to a Table in the word document. The new process will allow to have source code management compatible plain text files as a source, from which a PDF is generated.

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🎬 Eagle vs Shark

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Well, thanks very much for this healthy dose of kiwi accent. VLC autoplayed this for us after Dream Scenario; and it was already late at night, but we couldn’t stop watching. We watched the second half on the next day, though. Anyhow… this was a very enjoyable and silly love story - kiwi style.

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🎬 Dream Scenario

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Very original and entertaining story. Nic Cage is great once more. The last quarter was not quite up to par with the rest; but other than that, very much recommended.

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🎬 Fabian: Going to the Dogs

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Stilistisch und schauspielerisch super. Die Story hat mich aufgrund ständiger Umwege etwas liegengelassen. Aber das ist vielleicht auch so beabsichtigt. Interessantes Ding.

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Creative Awakening - A Declaration of Love

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🎬 They Live

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A great movie to end the year. Loved how the whole put-those-sunglasses-on-to-see-the-truth stuff was done. Fantastic and suspenseful story, good score, nice action with a hilarious fight scene in the middle. Saw this at the local cinema, which made this a little more special even.

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🎬 The Prowler

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Solid old-school slasher. Could have had some more explanation of the motive for me, but that's about it regarding criticism. The special effects of the kills are ones of the best I've seen. And it has otherwise good action, a good cast, and some good humour.

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🎬 Talk to Me

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This was good! It's a bit like Flatliners meets The Sixth Sense. It was suspenseful, had great acting, great pace, and a real good story (although, I didn't fully get it (,yet?)). It's one of the better newer horror movies for sure. And I'd watch it again.

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🎬 Asteroid City

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Well, Mr. Anderson! This is another fine film you made here. And luckily for me, the pace is not as high as his previous effort, which makes this much easier to follow. It's still a raid on your eyes and ears, though. But in a good way. But I always feel, one has to watch his film multiple times to have a chance to fully appreciate them.

Once more, the set, costumes, characters, dialogues, his signature camera work are all top-notch again. It's really neat.

Liked how the photo camera of the main character had audible long exposure times where it made sense. And there's a million other things to like. But that makes it also a bit exhausting. I'd still watch it again!

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🎬 Christmas Bloody Christmas

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Well, the first half is actually pretty good, where everyone's mostly talking. And the scene with the first kills is fantastic. And visuals and music are great (and one of the trademarks of this film, I'd say). But then it goes downhill. The action is not very inspired. The end drags on forever, and even the music in becomes cheesy. Meh…