Websites and blogs of people that attended a Homebrew Website Club Düsseldorf.
Weeknotes 2025-07-21
#Weeknotes: django-cast docs ✓ Voice dictation experiments ✓ Data science podcast recorded ✓ (catching up with my 2 week lag posting those)
https://wersdoerfer.de/blogs/ephes_blog/weeknotes-2025-07-21/
🎧 All We Love We Leave Behind – Converge
More Converge, more betterer! Certainly one of my favourite discoveries in recent years. While I enjoy everyone here, it’s again Ben Koller’s drumming and Nate Newton’s bass playing that fascinate me most. Just listen to that groovy drum rhythm, together with the rather calm bass in “All we love we leave behind”, or this insane drum fill in “Veins and Veils” (again, with a great bass riff). Putting a ride symbol in there like this makes me absolutely addicted, and makes me happy for days.
I made a new Handstand Reel
I made a new Handstand Reel
Since my Flickr account is not publicly accessible because I don’t want to pay for a Pro account (and there are apparently a couple of “unsafe” images somewhere in my account), I republished my WordCamp Frankfurt photos from 2016 (!) as a gallery on my photoblog.
I also updated the original blog post about the event, and replaced all of the old Twitter links with people’s website/blog URLs. 💪 (Now I want to find and replace ALL Twitter links…)
Let that be a reminder to myself to always post on my own website and link to people’s websites instead of social media profiles whenever possible!
Weeknotes 2025-07-14
WeekNotes: django-cast gallery nav fixes, tox performance improvements, and why Claude Code is still king after testing the alternatives. Also, I somehow agreed to write about running Django in Electron (send help)
https://wersdoerfer.de/blogs/ephes_blog/weeknotes-2025-07-14/
Weeknotes 2025-07-07
Published my latest weeknotes. Topics covered: new podcast episode on data class builders, django-cast refactoring (src layout migration, uv build backend, ruff adoption). Read more:
https://wersdoerfer.de/blogs/ephes_blog/weeknotes-2025-07-07/
Cyclical living - Thoughts on an Unnatural Modern Life
Cyclical living - Thoughts on an Unnatural Modern Life
@KrijnHoetmer Happy Happy Birthday dear Krijn!!! 🎉🎊🥳🎁🥂 I hope you enjoy a wonderful day ☀️ with your girls - be it at the allotment 🌱 or at the beach 🏖️.
Ask for what you want
Ask for what you want
I can't believe that I'm finally coding my blog
I can't believe that I'm finally coding my blog
🎬 Natural Born Killers

Greatly enjoyed this one. The two are just so sweet. So, I loved Woody Harrelson and Juliette Lewis here. Tommy Lee Jones was great, too. Greatly reminded me of Wild At Heart. Story and proposition is great two. Reminded me partly of Nightcrawler. And it is just overall funny and weird with wild camera work, which reminded me of Climax. But I would’ve enjoyed one more action scene like the one at the diner at the beginning.
🎬 L.A. Confidential

I liked this overall. It’s a wild chase with ever more intrigues and entanglements coming to light. I especially liked Guy Pearce’s character and performance. But I couldn’t fully enjoy this on a first watch, as this was so fast paced and has this rather complex plot (watching in to me non-native English didn’t quite help, either), that I had the constant feeling of having missed something. Luckily they actually explain more and more towards the end, and I could more and more shake that feeling. Still, maybe a candidate for a second watch.