Prompted by Jeremy’s post on the topic, I’ve been trying out the brand new view transitions API for multi page apps – i.e. normal websites.
Feeds from people participating at the IndieWebCamp Düsseldorf, May 2025.
Since my previous CMS forestry.io stopped working, and its successor TinaCMS doesn‘t work with my setup, I replaced it with Decap CMS (previously Netflify CMS). I needed to add some CSS overrides, though, so it actually works on a small phone-sized screen – which to my suprise it didn’t out of the box.
Anyhow, I’m pretty pleased with the replacement and this is the first post using my new CMS.
🎧 As the Kingdom Drowns – Psycroptic
As I noted once before, I really like this album, and especially Joe Haley’s guitar playing. But this also has great drumming, bass playing and vocals. All delivered with a heavy and clear sound. Also, look at that cover!
🎥 Big Muff return ride
The return ride of the Big Muff pickup on a different route.
📄 Status May 2023
Since the beginning of April, I’ve been taking a break from freelancing. That means I currently don’t work for anyone else. And it’s been glorious so far! Instead of doing software development all day, I’ve really taken it easy and have done things I enjoy, wanted to do for a while, or simply had to get done – with plenty of time to do so.
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Writing, Fragments, and the Memex Method
This piece by Cory Doctorow about blogging, which I read a few days ago, is exceptional. Why?
I already knew that blogging – and having a personal website in general – is a superpower.
I had heard before of Vannevar Bush’s groundbreaking essay “As We May Think” that directly...
🎥 Big Muff pickup ride
I bought a used Bass Big Muff pedal, and this is the bike ride to the person I purchased it from.
It’s a sunny weekday morning ride from last October with not much traffic or people around. It’s fairly long, but somehow, I like to document my bike rides every once in a while. The route until minute 13:40 gets cycled frequently - the remaining bit, not so often.
🔗 May 2022 – Daniel Pietzsch’s Photo Journal
More photos!
Various activities in Düsseldorf and a work trip to France.
🎬 Nomadland
„Dedicated to the ones that had to depart.“ I felt somewhat addressed bythis. And this movie really captured the feeling of being on the road(and returning) so well. This really gave me wanderlust and brought backa lot of nice memories. Great visuals, great words, and – oh man – thatpiano soundtrack! Beau-ti-ful! I want to go back to Nomadland!
🎬 Mona Lisa and the Blood Moon
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Oh yes, thanks for this one, Ms. Amirpour! This was so entertaining! Its atmosphere really drew me in. The soundtrack is ace. And visually is superb, too. Loved all those super-wideangle shots. And the acting! First and foremost by Jun Jong-seo. Just watch her face at the end while the plane starts. So good!
🎬 Before the Devil Knows You're Dead
When you think it can’t get any worse, it does. Ever more fucked up shitabout the characters and their relationships gets uncovered.
Great acting all around. And the non-linear plot is also kind of mything. But ultimately this did not go beyond the “totally finefilm”-boundary for me.
I finally made some prints again. Needing a present is always a good motivator.
I probably do not do this so often, because it’s time consuming getting everything ready, and I don’t always have the motivation for it, and/or the bathroom is not unoccupied early enough.
Producing a print by hand is so satisfying, though.
Both images are in the April photo journal entry.
🔗 April 2022 – Daniel Pietzsch’s Photo Journal
And here’s the brand new entry for April 2022.
At the Aquazoo Düsseldorf, Easter, COVID infection, and a jam session.
🔗 March 2022 – Daniel Pietzsch’s Photo Journal
Ups, forgot to link to the March entry of the photo journal here.
Mostly photos from my birthday party.
🎬 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.