New year's, a concert, a new job, and Forkalyst photo shoot. (14 photos)
January 2024
Websites and blogs of people that attended a Homebrew Website Club Düsseldorf.
postcard from amsterdam
We’re in England. Two days ago we met Jasper and he took us on a walk along the Seven Sisters cliffs between Eastbourne and Brighton. It was great meeting in person and talk, take photos and getting rained on. And while I’m only hoarding negatives, he has photos posted to his blog.
Weeknotes 2025-07-28 - Sentinel Values, IndieWeb Updates, and New Hardware
Weeknotes 2025-07-28 - Sentinel Values, IndieWeb Updates, and New Hardware July 28, 2025 Jochen Wersdörfer ...
What Have I Been Listening To Lately - July 2025
Living the Artist’s Way – How this Book is Transforming my Life
TIL: Managing Editable Dependencies in uv Without Committing Local Paths
TIL: Managing Editable Dependencies in uv Without Committing Local Paths July 27, 2025 Jochen Wersdörfer ...
🎬 12 Angry Men
Pretty perfect movie, if you ask me. The 12 more or less angry men are all so good. The whole concept of only talking about a murder case after the trial, surfacing ever more details and eliciting more of the jurors characters, was so good. Suspenseful and entertaining. A timeless classic.
🎬 The Blob
This was more high-quality than I expected beforehand. Great story, great acting, great visuals, some good humour, and above all: great special effects. Those kills were really fun and well done. My favourite was the whole action in and around the restaurant. When The Blob gets bigger and bigger towards the end, the effect quality sadly suffers quite a bit, and the end itself lacked a little something. But overall, it's been a very entertaining evening!
Lean into your fear
Mutable Defaults in Python: When None Isn't Enough
Mutable Defaults in Python: When None Isn't Enough July 23, 2025, Jochen This post walks through Python's mutable default gotcha and explores modern solutions for when the standard None w...
Why is it that Chrome is the only browser that ignores inputmode="none" on inputs?
I want inputs in freshly opened <dialog> elements to not trigger the soft keyboard right away on (auto)focus, but instead when the user signals that they want to enter something, e.g. by a tap on it.
Safari works ✅
Firefox on Android works ✅
Samsung Internet works ✅
Chrome shows the soft keyboard ❌
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Do I really have to inject a dummy element with tabindex="0" before the first input for it to catch focus?
Interestingly, inputmode="none" seems to work here, when dynamically applied: https://codepen.io/mustaqahmed/full/gOYxLaL
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memories from the future
Weeknotes 2025-07-21
Weeknotes 2025-07-21 July 21, 2025, Jochen I guess you've heard some bad jokes about Fibonacci sequences?
Well, this one is as bad as the last two you heard put together.
--Kit Yates
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🎧 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
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 2025-07-14 July 14, 2025, Jochen I don’t use em dashes because I’m an AI. I use em dashes because I’m pretentious --Jason Lefkowitz
This has been a hectic summer, and there's ...