I just scheduled my first newsletter to go out tomorrow morning. I thought, while I am setting this thing up (originally to inform all the people who are interested in my next zine), I might as well use it to share a bit more about how I created the zine etc. There’s still time to sign up!
Websites and blogs of people that attended a Homebrew Website Club Düsseldorf.
Type Annotations can Cause Unexpected Behavior in Python
Type Annotations can Cause Unexpected Behavior in Python Sept. 19, 2024, Jochen Today I learned that type annotations in Python, while being valid code, can sometimes lead to unexpected p...
🎬 Mac and Me
Another Mondo Bizarr flick. Reading the summary, I was actually expecting something way worse than this. This was actually high quality and looked a lot like more famous American movies from that time. But rightly so, it's not as highly regarded: it's just all a bit off and wacky at times. But that doesn't mean it's less entertaining! Just more bizarre. The chase scene is fantastic, the musical part at McD is just great and the ending is just the whimsical cherry on top.
🎬 Xaver und sein außerirdischer Freund
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Uff. Ein Außerirdischer hat mit seinem Ufo ein Panne und strandet im Wald unweit eines bayrischen Dorfes. Xaver entdeckt und kümmert sich um ihn. Die Einheimischen sind skeptisch und die Böse-Buben-Gang ist auch noch hinter Xaver her. Aber dann stellt raus, der Mann vom anderen Stern ist eine regelrechte Biervernichtungsmaschine. Damit gewinnt er nicht nur die Herzen der Dorfbewohner sondern auch den Biertrinkwettbewerb im Festzelt. Es gibt Verfolgungsjagden zu Fuß und mit Gefährten und am Ende gibt es ein Heidendurcheinander, aber alles geht nochmal gut aus.
Tja, was soll ich sagen. Hat irgendwie Spaß gemacht das mit der Truppe im Mondo Bizarr zu schauen. Prost!
366 Zine
Ever since starting the currently running 366 project, I wanted to have a printed record of it as well.
Come December 31st it will be way too many images to fit into one book, so I decided to go with a magazine format (my favorite anyway), and split everything into four part...
Weeknotes 2024-09-16
Weeknotes 2024-09-16 Sept. 16, 2024, Jochen Be nice to us folks who wear glasses. We paid money to see you. --BobGolen
I just released a new version of kptncook because my wife's attempt...
Weeknotes 2024-09-09
Weeknotes 2024-09-09 Sept. 9, 2024, Jochen WHY WAS IT CALLED SINGLE-SIGN ON WHEN SIGN-ON 37 TIMES PER DAY WAS RIGHT THERE --Joe B
I'm rereading Every Layout and practicing some CSS on m...
🎬 Christine
Another classic where I don't know whether I had seen this as a teenager. But I really couldn't remember any scenes. This was fantastic, though. Apart from obvious technological or cultural clues, you wouldn't think this is such an old movie. It really holds up.
Now, the film actually manages to portrait Christine as and actually evil car. The stunts are top-notch - oh my, the whole scene at the gas station! - and the special effects when Christine repairs herself are an absolute sensation. Great characters, too - it's been quite clever how the evilness progressively affects Arnie's own mood.
Bonus was seeing this on the big screen, getting to fully experience the film's awesome sound and music.
🎬 Longlegs
Has tons of atmosphere and Nicolas Cage as Longlegs is actually really creepy. Lovingly filmed. And great acting. I thought the plot pace was a little odd (it's high-paced in the beginning and the end, and in the middle quite slow), and the resolution was not all that satisfying. Overall, though, I was really into it, and didn't notice how time flew by at the cinema.
The new Reeder app is fantastic. One of my favorite features: You can open feed items directly in the in-app browser!
It has to be set for each feed individually:
I always prefer visiting people’s websites directly, where they present their images (and words) in a way that they deem best for their work and where they put all the effort into.
Great work by Silvio Rizzi!
Weeknotes 2024-09-02
Weeknotes 2024-09-02 Sept. 2, 2024, Jochen Much of the essence of building a program is in fact the debugging of the specification. — Fred Brooks
Lots of private appointments, didn't ha...
3x2 Photocast
I just found out that one of my images was discussed in the 3×2 Photocast. If you want to listen to it, check out episode two, where the two hosts, Martin and Jason, start talking about my image at 17 min 58 sec.
They were speculating on how it was made, and they assumed cor...
OMG. I just logged into my micro.blog account, which I haven’t done in quite some time, and it seems my photo blog is still automatically shared over there via my RSS feed, and I got all these nice comments on my images, which I never replied to! 😱
🎬 Possessor
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Uff! Brutal! And really menacing and suspenseful. Liked this a lot! The gore effects, that sequence when she enters the other body, and how this looked, sounded and felt in general. A few minus points for missing explanations and the what I felt not-so-logical ending. I'd watch this again!
My photo stats plugin is now also part of the official Kirby Plugins page. 🙌
Thanks Nico, for adding it!
I will be attending WordCamp Karlsruhe in October. 🙌 First time back in KA since… I think 2016. (I lived there for four years from 2010 to 2014.)
Little easter egg from my photo blog: You can use the help modal on mobile to toggle image meta data on or off. Clicking/tapping on any one of those keyboard input elements will actually dispatch a key press event for said key. ✨
Weeknotes 2024-08-26
Weeknotes 2024-08-26 Aug. 26, 2024, Jochen I've never encountered your problem before, so it must be simple to solve. --Greg Wilson
Dealt with a few unexpected bureaucratic challenges,...
🎬 Challengers
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I wasn't planning on joining Nicole when she put on this movie. But then the characters and plot drew me in. I wanted to know how and why the three ended up where they ended up (the film is very non-linear, which I liked for the most part). The acting was great, too.
But unfortunately, it's downhill from there. It's increasingly less about Art - the only really likeable person - and only very slowly unveils more and more about the relationship between the other two. The soundtrack was irritating. And the ending is not very plausible and it's a collage of infuriatingly endless slow-motion shots.
Weeknotes 2024-08-19
Weeknotes 2024-08-19 Aug. 19, 2024, Jochen Technology is the art of arranging the world so we don't have to experience it. --Max Frisch
Back from vacation, still catching up.
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