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Boost Website Speed with Prefetching and the Speculation Rules API

Everybody loves fast websites, and everyone despises slow ones even more. Site speed significantly contributes to the overall user experience (UX), determining whether it feels positive or negative. To ensure the fastest possible page load times, it’s crucial to design with ...

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🎬 Anna and the Apocalypse

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🎶 "When it comes to killing zombies, I'm at the top of my game…" 🎶

Very entertaining and funny musical zombie film. Good songs – I enjoyed the one cited above, the "filthy" one, and the "brand new day" – some good kills, likeable characters, and just a great sense of humour. The whole scene with the snow man is bloody golden.

Not all is perfect – partly the makeup, the effects; and towards the end it loses a bit of tempo – but overall this was a very worthwhile christmas movie.

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🎬 Black Christmas

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The kills in this were partly quite nice. But it's always about the eyeballs. I would've enjoyed some more kill-variety. But apart from this, this lacked suspense. And I think it was unnecessary to uncover all of Billy's backstory. This also reminded me of Scream – which I liked – but all characters in this were unlikeable IMO. Little bit of an annoying one.

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🎬 Black Christmas

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This was good! And I was quite surprised of the crude language. I didn’t think everything in the plot made sense, but it was still anentertaining watch. And it must be one of the first (horror) movies thatfeatures the telephone-spiel and the Killer-POV shots.

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🎬 Silent Night

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Eh, no. It's not like this was all bad. But there's absolutely zero backstory to the approaching apocalypse, that fog looked awful, and the characters were all well over the top. And this would've been fine, if the movie decided to go all in on its funny side. But it also had this seriousness. And this was all confusing IMO.

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🎬 The Name of the Rose

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Nice atmospheric middle age murder story. Great characters, great acting, great makeup, great setting, great fog.

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🎬 The Limits of Control

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The protagonist is like an anti James Bond: no action, no talking, no sex, no drama. And he still gets the job done. And the movie still manages to be suspenseful and entertaining despite all the "missing" bits. The end left me a little confused, but other than that, this was ace. Jarmusch just makes movies I like.

This also has a brilliant music scene with flamenco guitar playing, -dancing and -singing. And it's probably all done while the camera was rolling. I can rarely tolerate music not matching the instrument on camera, but this was the exact opposite. Kudos!

And I enjoyed the soundtrack, too.

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Seven years later

It's been seven years that this blog exists - but it just sat there while I was busy. A relationship broke, others came and went, some came back ... but the Arduino fix for the fridge still works at my wife's place. That's been much more sustainable than expected! As I'm hea...

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🔗 October 2023 – Daniel Pietzsch’s Photo Journal

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Another one!

We went to the middle age market again. And our group of friends filmed a music video as a birthday present one afternoon.

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October 2023

We went to the middle age market again. And our group of friends filmed a music video as a birthday present one afternoon. (30 photos)

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Weeknotes 2024-12-16

Weeknotes 2024-12-16 Dec. 16, 2024, Jochen i still think my favourite thing that's ever happened to me on the internet is the time a guy said "people change their minds when you show them...

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🔗 September 2023 – Daniel Pietzsch’s Photo Journal

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Another one!

Photos from the hospital, Zoe's birthday, and a fat cat.

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September 2023

Photos from the hospital, Zoe's birthday, and a fat cat. (23 photos)

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The Linux Experiment

Today, for the first time in 23 years, I own a computer that is not a Mac. For a while now I had the idea to break away from – or at least become less dependent on – closed systems, in my particular case: Apple’s eco system. Don’t get me wrong: It is very cosy here. Everythi...

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The 366 zines (part II and III) arrived yesterday! 🎉 Unfortunately half of them are not up to the quality that one can expect. I already contacted Blurb customer service and will hopefully get this resolved quickly. Not worried, as I had similar issues before and Blurb handled it exemplary every time. My guess is that they were (are?) quite overwhelmed with Black Friday / Christmas orders. I’ll sign and ship the good half on Saturday. 🙌

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🔗 August 2023 – Daniel Pietzsch’s Photo Journal

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The latest photojournal entry has been out for a few days.

Zoe's first day at school. I went photographing with Florian at Zeche Zollverein in Essen. It was my mum's birthday. Saw Gatecreeper and Converge live in Dortmund with Bernd and Fred. We went to a horse race. And Bernd and I went on a multiday hike in Austria, where I broke my arm.

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Muscle memory can be a b*tch.

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I18n can be tricky.

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In other news: Blurb has sent the zines my way!

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Weeknotes 2024-12-09

Weeknotes 2024-12-09 Dec. 9, 2024, Jochen The thing most people don't remember about Prometheus is that humans already had fire, but then Zeus locked it up behind a paywall, because Zeus ...

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Why Your Laptop Might Be Faster Than a Cluster: Rethinking Big Data in 2025

Why Your Laptop Might Be Faster Than a Cluster: Rethinking Big Data in 2025 Dec. 7, 2024, Jochen Modern laptops are significantly more powerful than many realize, often capable of handlin...