Uff, it’s been a week already, since I had a great day with Florian at Zeche Zollverein in Essen – photographing and talking. He has the evidence over on his fantastic photo blog:
Feeds from people participating at the IndieWebCamp Düsseldorf, May 2025.
🎬 Rear Window
Haven’t seen this in a long time. Was inspired to rewatch it by apodcast episode about it. Again liked it a lot. It’s remarkable, howwell this has aged in my opinion. The dialogue, the filming; thesupposed crime is actually pretty violent (you don’t see it, but theytalk about it). It’s an all around well-rounded affair. And it'sprobably worth another rewatch given all the little details in it.
🎬 Down by Law
Not Jarmusch’s best film, but entertaining none the less. RobertoBenigni was the best in this one.
🔗 August 2022 – Daniel Pietzsch’s Photo Journal
Trying not to fall behind more than one year.
Panoramic summer impressions.
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Good Riddance, GPTBot
Just like Google is constantly indexing the Web, OpenAI is now crawling the open Web to scrape content from websites for free to train their LLM (lucrative language model) “AI” products.
But, as I learned from a post by Ethan on Mastodon, you can disallow GPTBot to get its tiny robot hands on your writing by adding those two lines of code to your website’s robots.txt:
User-agent: GPTBot
Disallow: /
Good riddance, GPTBot! 👋
🎬 Mystery Train
Lovely little episode-movie. Great humour (oh, the scene, where she’strying to make him laugh!), choreography (the plane in the window in thefirst shot of the second episode), visuals and soundtrack!
🎧 Mutants – Mutoid Man
Their new album. This band really became a favourite during the last year or so. This output again immediately puts a smile on my face. So much fun playing and singing going on. An authentic sound. So good. Need to see them live!
🎧 For Victory – Bolt Thrower
For some reason I wanted to listen to this classic a while back. Still regularly putting this on.
🎧 Bloodmoon: I – Converge
It’s not far from Mutoid Man to Converge. And then their latest album is a collaboration with Chelsea Wolfe!? Sign me up! This seems to be atypical, but I like this a lot. A great album front to back!
🎧 Hail Destroyer – Cancer Bats
🔗 July 2022 – Daniel Pietzsch’s Photo Journal
It’s the month of July.
Two parties, some rare visitors, a camping trip, a Krimidinner, and some horse riding.
🎬 Demons 2
I think I have a soft spot for those old Italian horror film. The setdesign, the make up, the fantastic old school effects, the music, theacting, the not-taking-themselves-to-seriously. Good stuff, in my humbleopinion.
🎬 The Brood
This could have been something. The Brood is really quite terrifying.But it didn‘t really came into action all that often. Instead, the moviespend a lot of time with slow-paced dialogue. And I think I didn‘treally get what the ending was hinting at.
🎬 Pumpkinhead
I thought there was a lot of good stuff in here: foremost thePumpkinhead monster itself – but also the visuals in general. Thecharacters are good too, it even has some well thought out dramaelements. But in the end the sum of its parts didn‘t really add up to awell rounded movie. Was still entertaining, though.
🎬 Slugs
The story is pretty conventional. But I was in the mood for that. Hassome cool effects and is fast-paced and entertaining.
🎬 Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron
A totally fine movie. Zoe liked it, but in my opinion it’s not the mostappropriate film for a five year old due to quite a few threateninggestures, themes and scenes.
📖 Die Kunst des klaren Denkens – Rolf Dobelli
Kurzweiliges Buch über viele typische Denkfehler. Viele kannte ich schon mit Namen, einige ohne Namen, und einige waren mir so explizit neu.
Aufgrund der Menge an Denkfehlern (=Kapitelanzahl) bleibt nicht alles beim ersten Lesen hängen. Das Buch kann man sich aber gut in den Schrank als Referenz stellen.
📄 Crash
On Sunday, June 25th 2023, we were involved in a car crash on the Autobahn. While our camper is beyond repair, we were very lucky and escaped with only minor injuries.
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The New CSS
Alright, let’s write more about CSS! CSS! CSS!
Change
I’ve been writing CSS since the early 2000s, shortly after we ditched building web layouts with tables and spacer GIFs in favor of hacking our designs together with floats. CSS has since become my favorite programming lan...
Chaining Declarations via Animation Composition
I just returned from this year's CSS Day in Amsterdam, and it was fantastic! Year after year, PPK and Krijn organize one of the best conferences you can wish for: The program is mind-blowing with the best of speakers coming from all over the world, and at the same time they ...