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🎬 X

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Yep, I liked this! It was partly quite disgusting – more so than most horror flics I’d say – but I won’t complain about that. But it had great humour and a pretty original story I’d say. And it has this meta level and “maybe play with the timeline/references to the past” thing going on (which you only really notice at the end and in the credits), which I don’t know if this made a whole lot of sense, but I’d try to find out and watch the movie again. Bonus point for Chelsea Wolfe soundtrack.

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📄 The Planck keyboard has ruined me

The Planck is the only computer keyboard I use now. I do not want to – nor can I – use a standard keyboard anymore. My MacBook Pro’s keyboard that I’ve used for years? Of no use: the staggered keys, the size (way too big!), the low key travel, the non-customisability. Everything’s alien now.

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📄 Samba Pi

I recently dusted off an old Raspberry Pi and installed Samba to serve all the movies we have on two external hard drives on our local network.

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🎬 Primer

Movie poster for “Primer”.

Meh. I know this is a cult classic – and that’s why I wanted to see it –but I didn’t like it that much. I appreciate the story, but I felt theexecution was lagging. I couldn’t easily follow the plot. After readingthe Wikipedia article on it, I noticed that I think I understood most ofwhat happened. But certainly not everything, and it was more work thanentertainment.

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🎬 Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter

Movie poster for “Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter”.

After the two previous not-that-great instalments of this franchise,this was again very good! Jason is just evil, menacing and capable, thekills are much more creative again, it has suspense, great stunts andoverall fantastic humour. On to part 5…

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🎬 Stand by Me

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A beautiful film! I would’ve probably liked this even better as a teen.But I’ve just now watched this. Still somehow things felt somewhatfamiliar.

I did only see the German dubbed version, so I think it’d be worth it toat some point see the original.

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Better Bridges

I couldn’t agree more to what Dave wrote in his recent blog post about the increasing demands of the front-end web: the job of a front-end developer is getting ever more complex. From writing well-structured, semantic HTML to the latest (fantastic) new CSS features, to acces...

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🎬 The Evil Dead

Movie poster for “The Evil Dead”.

At first I thought: ah, this seems a little too silly and old-school; doI really want to watch this? But then it convinced me more and more.

It’s pretty scary stuff. Plus super-violent and splattery. And thatending!! Old-school effects galore!

Remarkable film. Didn’t regret this at all!

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🎬 Django Unchained

Movie poster for “Django Unchained”.

Maybe towards the end, it’s a bit longer than necessary. But other thanthat I was again very well entertained for almost 3 hours.

The splatter is just so over the top it’s ridiculous! And so much fun.Despite the serious topic. Poah, and that first Mandingo fight scene inMonsieur Candie’s mansion is almost unbearably violent and cruel.Justified IMO, but bloody hell!

Acting, script, pace, etc. all perfect. Very satisfying revenge film.

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🎧 Fear Inoculum – TOOL

I’m so into this album again – or even still. It’s fascinating to me, how you can do that much with only three instruments (at a time). And then the vocals add another layer. So, I’m really enjoying discovering and analysing all the different parts. It just keeps giving. And TOOL’s great live performance certainly played a huge part in making me dive into this again.

Very well deserved that this is the first album to appear a second time in this list.

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🎬 Mamma Muh & Kråkan

Movie poster for “Mamma Muh & Kråkan”.

Mal wieder mit dem Kind einen Film geguckt. Dieser ist sehr zu empfehlenals Einstieg: keine bedrohlichen Szenen, nicht zu lang, es sind ehereinzelne Episoden in einem Film – aber mit einem leicht zu verstehendemübergeordneten Thema.

Mit fast fünf hat sie die ganze Zeit aufmerksam zugeguckt und oft auchgelacht. Und auch für Erwachsene ist der durchaus unterhaltsam.

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🎬 The Black Phone

Movie poster for “The Black Phone”.

This was more of a dumb-phone than a smart-phone. The supernatural neverexplained, unnecessarily violent in places, constructed jump-scares, andkid-characters that weren’t believable. I don’t know why Ethan Hawkeeven “starred” in this. It’s also a weird mix of some highschool movie,“Silence of the lambs”-style thriller and “the sixth sense”. But inboring. I’m sorry!

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🎬 Friday the 13th Part III

Movie poster for “Friday the 13th Part III”.

Objectively, this wasn’t a good movie. It just wasn’t suspenseful atall. And the ideas? Meh!

We still had a great evening, though! Part 3 is missing in ourcollection, which held us back from continuing the series. Luckily Udocame around with the DVD box set, so that we could finally continue. Wewere made aware that this was filmed in “3D”, featuring the usual “woah,something’s flying towards the camera” moments. Hilarious! So, this andits trashiness in general entertained us very well.

Matthias Ott
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Foundations

Please use whatever tool gets the job done and makes sense for you.

But then again, I’ve seen so many frameworks and tools come and go that it can be dangerous to put all your eggs in one basket. You know what really is time well spent and a worthy investment into your future, your career, and your team? Learning the basics and becoming really good at them.

Therefore, don’t let tools cover up weak spots in your or your team’s knowledge. Because what looks like a flaw at first glance is actually an opportunity to learn and improve.

And don’t let any tool make you believe that it isn’t worthwhile to learn the foundations of web technology or let it stop you from participating in the vital dialogue that pushes the platform and its standards forward.

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Detecting CSS Selector Support with JavaScript

p code { font-size: 80%; } There are many ways to adjust your CSS code to a browser’s support for a specific CSS feature. If you want to check if a certain property is supported, you can write a feature query using ...

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Doing Our Part

I’m right with Dave on this one! 💚 I’m tired of envi­ron­men­tal respon­si­bil­i­ty always falling on the con­sumer. I know con­sumer demand bub­bles up into soci­etal change, I’m will­ing to do my...

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🎬 Iron Maiden: Flight 666

Movie poster for “Iron Maiden: Flight 666”.

23 shows in 45 days all over the world. Made possible by using their ownplane, piloted by their singer Bruce Dickinson. You get to know the bandmembers – a very likeable bunch – and it includes live clips of theirhits. What’s not to like? Right: nothing!

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Patch That Package

p code { font-size: 80%; } You probably know this situation. You are working on a project and one of the npm packages you are working with contains a nasty bug or is lacking a critical feature. Of course, you first ...