Feeds from people participating in the IndieWebCamp Düsseldorf, April 2026.
🎧 Sky Void of Stars – Katatonia
🎬 One Hour Photo

I don’t want to focus too much on the negative, but this film didn’tstir up much excitement in me. Maybe just because it looked dated (and alittle bit like a 90’s commercial). Maybe because I thought it onlyscratched the surface of what it could have been. Maybe because I wasreminded that I personally don’t like Robin William’s acting all thatmuch.
Anyhow, it’s an ok movie. I liked the directly photography-relatedscenes and the monologues or rather the protagonist’s thoughts onphotography.
Weeknotes 2023-01-23
Wagtail - Splitting up Posts and Episodes
Weeknotes 2023-01-16
🎬 Creating The Queen's Gambit

I wish this was longer.
🎬 The Queen's Gambit

What happened? I watched a series?! I guess I can handle 7 episodes. Andthis was really good! Loved all the characters, especially Beth Harmon’sand her adoptive mother’s. The plot was great, too. It was very wellacted; I thought all the facial expressions during the matched werefantastic. The film sets looked lovely (the CGI not so much, though),and a lot of piano music meant I enjoyed the soundtrack, too! It was abit long in the middle, but otherwise this was a very enjoyable watch!I’m kind of interested in chess now.
Podlove Share Sheet Fixing + Wagtail Code Blocks
In Mastodon, if you write more, you get more attention. My feed is full of the same 5 people and the toots of very interesting people get lost in the noise. Is this not what we wanted to leave behind?
Do we need algorithms to sort it out for us? How could we implement them, control them and keep them transparent? Is this something the server hosts should decide, or every user for themselves?
Weeknotes 2023-01-09
Matthias Ott
• Matthias Ott
A Birthday Audio Gear Upgrade
🎬 Don't Look Up

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Once again, I enjoyed Leo‘s performance in a movie. Jennifer Lawrence was great, too! And both their characters are well written IMHO. And I do agree with the movie‘s message. But man, is it on the nose! No subtlety whatsoever. Unfortunately it‘s way too long again, too. The first one and a half hours are just dragging. Towards the end, it does get better, and even has a few gags that are actually funny (when Leo amazingly delivers his last TV-speech, and then it cuts to him in the car with the bag over his head: pure gold!). But that unfortunately doesn‘t lift it above its mediocrity. Hm… that sounds probably harder than I mean it. Anyway, not quite for me.
🎧 Myriad – GAUPA
Here‘s one more female-fronted band, I‘m currently enjoying. Like these songs, like their sound, like her vocals (which do sound quite a bit like Björk).
Matthias Ott
• Matthias Ott
Updating My Site in 2023
Matthias Ott
• Matthias Ott
The Year of the Personal Website
Fixing a Spam Filter Bug
🎧 Marked For Death – Emma Ruth Rundle
Weeknotes 2023-01-02
🎬 Next Door

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What a morning! Twist after twist after twist.
Nicely filmed, great acting with fantastic dialogue.
My only nitpick is that I somehow found Daniel’s voice to sound somewhat hyper-clear/-real which made it sound a little unnatural.
But overall, this was great!