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Feeds from people participating at the IndieWebCamp Düsseldorf, May 2025.
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The Independent Type Foundry Advent Calendar 2022
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A Conversation With ChatGPT
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ChatGPT, please explain websites in the words of William Shakespeare
Websites, oh websites!
Thou art a vast and wondrous realm, filled with knowledge and information to be explored.
Thou art a tool for communication and connection, allowing us to share our thoughts and ideas with others across the globe.
Thou art a source of entertainment and delight, providing us with endless hours of distraction and enjoyment.
Websites, thou art a marvel of modern technology, a gift to humanity.
Long may thou reign!
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Transient Frameworks
🎬 Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood

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Jason must stink for miles by now. It’s a miracle he’s still able to surprise-kill anyone at this point.
For me, same is true as with part 6: not the best, not the worst (I think?!). I somewhat liked the ending when Jason’s “face” is revealed and everything explodes. The supernatural hocus-pocus wasn’t that bad either.
Oh, yeah, and I found the very ending hilarious where the one firefighter shows the other where there’s more fire to extinguish – as if that wasn’t obvious.
On to part eight…
🎬 Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives

This episode certainly has humour! Jason seems to be surprised by hisown new-found super-strength. And that makes for some funny kills.
It’s mostly fun to watch (if you’re into that stuff). We certainlyalways have an enjoyable evening progressing through this series. Butultimately, it suffers from the same issues most other parts sufferfrom. Not the worst so far, but no the best either.
🎬 The Matrix Reloaded

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Ok, I have much to complain about with this one. This feels like 80% endless action scenes and 20% story. If you’re into those bullet-time, kung-fu, wire-flying, super-CGI, camera-flying scenes, that will be just your thing, I guess. But I found this eye-rollingly boring. This could have been a one-hour film. It’s not like I dislike all of it; there were certainly good scenes – even partly said action scenes! But overall it’s way too long and unsubstantial. It’s even like the story didn’t progress at all in this.
At least Trinity could simply ssh into a computer and disable the emergency power supply of that building with a simple terminal command. Much more realistic than those UIs in their real world.
And it had RATM in the ending credits.
🎬 Big John

What a likeable dude, this John Carpenter. Just doing his thing, makingthe films he wants to make; not giving a shit what others think.Although having “The Thing” flop commercially really got to him. And hehad every right to be upset about this; because it’s such a terrificfilm. Anyhow, this documentary gives lots of insights about his carrierand his filmography. Worth a watch, especially when you’re into hiswork!
🎬 Classic Albums: Nirvana - Nevermind

A great documentary about a great album. Lots of fantastic interviewswith the people involved as well as notable critics of the time. It’s alot about how this album came to be and what its unexpected successmeant for Nirvana and music (-history) in general. Some excellent livefootage, too.
🎬 The Matrix

Still not much to complain about. Such a classic!
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Leaving Twitter Behind
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Converting Your Twitter Archive to Markdown
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The Wrong Question
🎬 C'mon C'mon

Damn! This film!
🎥 Clicky Switches
I bought clicky switches for my Planck (Kailh Box Blue‘s). And new keycaps, too.
🎬 Force Majeure

This is very much a film for grown-ups. Enjoyed the avalanche ofconversations and happenings triggered by that one incident. It‘s attimes very subtle and overall well written. Maybe the ending bit was alittle forced. But other than that, I can recommend this!
🎥 Pneuma Bass Riff
I’m pretty obsessed with this song. And something with delay is usually very fun to play!
📄 Recent Live Gigs
The last month has been unusually concert-heavy. I saw
🎬 Night of the Living Dead

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Wow! This had it all! In 1968! Slow zombies (or „ghouls“), and lot‘s of them that then do indeed get dangerous, TV and radio broadcasts about the outbreaks, flesh- and gut-eating, a child zombie slaughtering and feasting on its parents, conflicts between the living, boarded doors and windows, zombie hands reaching in, stuffed animal heads, power outage, eerie lighting, an escape mission gone wrong, and a mean end etc etc. Sure, it also has some shortcomings, but overall I was left super-impressed with this one. Was way ahead of its time!
Saw the restored 4k version at the Metropol. It looked fantastic!