Ups, forgot to link to the March entry of the photo journal here.
Mostly photos from my birthday party.
Feeds from people participating at the IndieWebCamp Düsseldorf, May 2025.
🎬 Barbarian
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“Hello, I’m a Mac.” “And I’m an incest underground monster woman with supernatural strength and I will push in your eyeballs and crack your head open like a raw egg.” „Eh….hehe… Do you know iWork?“
Quite a movie. I didn‘t find it 100% convincing and it lost a bit of suspense after a while. But not a shabby horror movie. And I liked the camera work and the acting.
🎬 Inferno
Re-watched and re-enjoyed this.
🎬 The Suicide Squad
Well, a few scenes were funny. But this really isn’t my type of movieand I wonder what I was thinking. 🤷♂️
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Simple Truths About Personal Websites
Nobody knows you.
You are not entitled to anyone’s attention.
Be respectful, be helpful, be kind.
Your personal website isn’t a replacement for social media. It’s much more than that.
Who is your site for?
Document your life.
Your perspective matters.
Capture your thoughts.
Share what makes you lean forward.
Use RSS.
You never know what sticks.
Make it easy to publish.
Enjoy the process.
The adverb is not your friend.
Typography is everything.
You will surprise yourself.
You will grow.
Be curious. Be intentional.
This is your playground. Play.
Your canvas is limitless.
Sell the world.
Hit publish.
It’s yours.
📄 No AVIF for now
After contemplating about responsive images - especially for my photo journal - I had a look at my current approach and whether it makes sense to add image variants in AVIF format to the mix. And my current answer to this is “no”.
🎬 Videodrome
I enjoyed the general theme of this film, but somehow it didn’t reallygrab me for some reason. Maybe I was just too tired that evening.
Visually this was fantastic, though: especially those kind of specialeffects.
I should probably watch this again at some point.
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CSS Custom Properties Beyond the :root
Manuel asked:
Is there a good reason why we’re defining global custom properties on :root/html and not on body?”
It’s a g...
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Starting A New Kirby Project
Today, I started a new project with Kirby CMS. (No, it’s not my personal site. That one’s still brewing…)
Kirby is a lightweight, no-fuzz content management system (CMS) created by Bastian Allgeier, which works well for projects of any size. It is easy to install and amazing...
📄 Contemplating the usefulness of responsive images
With smartphones getting bigger and screen resolutions becoming ever more dense, is it still feasible to serve a whole bunch of different image sizes on a photo sharing web site?
🔗 February 2022 – Daniel Pietzsch’s Photo Journal
Keen to catch up.
Flying a kite, flea market and a pizza dinner.
🎧 White Light Generator – Crippled Black Phoenix
Liking this album right now.
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A README Template – With an Automatically Generated Table of Contents
A while ago, I wrote about what you could include in a README file for a project. Based on this post and a few practical examples of READMEs, I created and published a template that I will use in my own projects going forward.
It is available on GitHub: https://github.com/m...
🎬 Old
I found this a little kitschy at times. And the subject matter couldhave been explored more deeply in my opinion. But otherwise an enjoyablemovie with an interesting idea and good execution.
🎬 Prince of Darkness
I like Carpenter-films. This one is no exception. From the atmosphere tothe soundtrack to how it’s made: all top-notch. Where it’s a bit lackingfor me, is the story itself and the action. It didn’t captivate me asmuch as his other films did. And I don’t know why that is. Maybe I wassimply a little too tired when I watched this.
🎬 The Fly
Wow! That is a classic for a reason. I haven’t seen this in a very longtime and now had a blast watching this at the cinema. It’s suspenseful,shocking, well-written, well-played, well-filmed, and great specialeffects and costumes. Highly recommended!
🔗 January 2022 – Daniel Pietzsch’s Photo Journal
A very short post for a change.
It’s the January post. With New Year’s leftovers and family photos.
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How I (Usually) Write Blog Posts
Manuel shared how he approaches writing and publishing blog posts on his personal site. If you follow him, and especially if his RSS feed is on your list of feeds, you know that Manuel indeed does put out a lot of posts. Just recently, he completed 100 posts about more or le...
📄 All Movies Are Great
About how my "reviews" can sometimes seem unfair, when they are really not meant to be.
🎬 Enemy
This drew me in right from the start. Suspenseful, mysterious, eerielighting, menacing soundtrack. And a Jake Gyllenhaal in top form. Andall of this told in a well-paced and never boring 90 minutes. We didwatch the beginning again, right after it ended. Plus a YouTube analysisafterwards – because we can‘t say we understood this on our own on thefirst watch. But a second watch would certainly not be a waste of time,anyway.