A trip to the forest. Cinema. Folkerdey. And the usual day-to-day. (30 photos)
June 2024
Feeds from people participating at the IndieWebCamp Düsseldorf, May 2025.
🎬 The Surfer
At various points, I felt like this movie might ride a more surreal, illusionary wave. But that never happened. And this is why I felt there are some shortcomings in the plot and characters. But otherwise this does a really effective job portraying the terror he faces. It's a bit like Funny Games. Not as drastic, though. I liked how this all played out in the same place throughout the movie. I'm still not quite sure what the movie wants to say. But that's ok, and might be intentional anyway.
🎬 It Follows
Solid horror movie. I liked the obviously Carpenter-esque soundtrack. And also how the "creatures" looked like and how the movie looked and felt in general - more like an 70s/80s horror film. But I found those "creatures" not menacing enough and the story was a bit so-so in the end.
🎬 Mickey 17
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This was really entertaining. I think it all looked great, the Creepers are well done - and are really likeable - and the acting is fantastic, too. Sure, it's over the top, but that fits the movie well. Robert Pattinson's performance it's just perfect IMO. But also Mark Ruffalo's and Naomi Ackie's. I like the whole idea of the film, and its whole vibe. It's funny, too. Would watch again!
🎬 One Battle After Another
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Like these kind of absurdist trip kind of movies. Leo is fantastic, and so is everyone else to be honest. Although I found Sean Penn's character Lockjaw a little too over the top. Two scenes that I will certainly remember: First, how the car chase at the end is filmed. Haven't really seen anything like this. Second: that stunt and whole sequence where he falls down between two buildings trying to jump the gap, then still gets up, only to get tasered around the next corner. As impressive as it is hilarious.
Stained Glass Window Donated by Meyer Lansky
Stained glass window donated by Meyer Lansky to Congregation Beth Jacob. The synagogue is now a Jewish museum.
Jewish Museum of Florida
Visited the Jewish Museum of Florida today. The original synagogue was built in 1929, and the second, built in 1936 and now form the museum opened in 1995.
I came here to take the Jewish Walking Tour of Miami Beach. Which I had taken before in 2015…with the same tour guide. It’s a nice walk around Miami Beach, enjoying art deco architecture and having historic sites pointed out.
The indie web in 2030
In 2030, my greatest hope for the indie web is that it is a place where people feel free to create, to experiment, and to always be able to ask – and act on the answers to – the question “what do I want this place to be?”
To enable this, the indie web must be open both techn...
Designing for inactive users
Artemis, the calm web reader I maintain, is relatively computationally intensive in that every hour, Artemis checks web feeds to which users are subscribed to see if there are new posts to save and show in a user’s feed.
I have made several optimisations to make this process...
🎬 A Reindeer's Journey
Kleiner süßer Film.
What a week, huh? 😅
Yesterday was the last HWC of 2025. It’s been good discussions - as always - but we also collectively worked on each others websites. Mainly in regards to CSS.
The first HWC DUS in 2026 will be on Jan. 22nd.
A small fix
I have a page on my site, /post, which lists all of my blog posts. For at least the last year, the HTML document title used on the page has been Posts in the Post Category. This is because the page uses the same template as my other category pages. Posts in the Coffee Categor...
Grateful for the indie web
We just finished our last Homebrew Website Club Europe event of the year. We spent the time chatting about the last year on our websites – what we made, what we are proud of, what we learned – and looked ahead to what we may be interested in doing next year. One question came...
Coffee shop
I read The Frugal Gamer’s post “If you were going to open up a shop, what would you sell?” with great joy. Like The Frugal Gamer, I too am bundled up inside bracing the weather. I was hoping to go for a walk but the rain and wind has convinced me to stay inside and instead hu...
The nicest thing a stranger has done for me
Lou wrote a blog post asking the question “What is the nicest thing a stranger has ever done for you?” I read his blog post and then spent some time thinking about how I would answer. One moment comes to mind.
When I was in my late teens, I had gone on a journey to the city ...
What a nerd. 😍🎻
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q62HtrVlC8c
I just love linear() 😍 #CSS #animation
Wrote about it here, in case you’re interested:
🎬 The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
Believe it or not, I have not seen this previously. It's relentless. It's uncomfortable. It's horrifying. That was quite the trip, seeing it at the cinema.
🎬 Bad Taste
Well, this was just the right desert after TCM that evening. Bad Taste was one of my earliest splatter/underground movies I've seen. It was great seeing this again after all these years. Splendid splattertainment!