What I learned or found interesting from attending my first Writers Festival! Table Of Contents Reading & Writing Place Into Being ...
Feeds from people participating in the IndieWebCamp Düsseldorf, April 2026.
Have to apologize to Nick Simson. He was having more issues than he should have with the webmentions plugin. Turns out that the Block Editor was hiding the option I kept expecting to be there. Will have to come up with a solution for that.
Dear #a11y friends w/ screen readers: I just ran into the following question and haven't been able to do any testing myself yet, so your experience would help me a lot to start from: How accessible are the PDF viewers built into browsers? Do any of the browsers take into account the accessibility features in the PDF, or does the PDF itself hardly matter and the browsers ruin most of it anyway? Or is my intuition fooling me and the viewers are actually quite good? Thanks for your observations!
Does anyone do self-assessments of how they’d quarantine people they share a living space with if they got sick? Doing one of these for family members, sort of like a drill to see how easy it would be to isolate someone. So far, identified several action items.
🎬 The Royal Hotel
This really drew me in. It gets increasingly menacing and suspenseful. I think this movie really succeeds in showing how frightening (dangerous even) and really uncomfortable it can be as a young woman (waitress) amongst a horde of men.
Acting was 👌. Hearing some Aussie accent was, too.
Anyhow, I'll now have a Dickin's Cider (sorry! 🫣).
🎬 Pearl
Liked how this looked. Loved Mia Goth's acting, in particular her long monologue and that end scene where she makes faces for a minute or two. The plot could have been a little more focused, but overall a well-rounded, well-entertaining film.
Björn Stierand
• Björn Stierand
Board Gaming
Most people got back into board games during the COVID-19 pandemic or were board gamers before. That's not my story.
I played games when I was a kid. I was obsessed with a (from today's view quite simple) racing game called 'Autorennen wie noch nie' my grandpa owned. It was ...
Matthias Ott
• Matthias Ott
Highlighting Blogging on Mastodon
In what looks like a very smart move, the team at Mastodon just released a very nice new feature for media organizations, journalists and bloggers: when someone shares a link to an article by certain news outlets like The Verge, MacStories, or MacRumors, the official Mastodo...
Site Ideas | Zachary Kai
The etchings we carve in the great stone of the internet are mere lines of code, pixels on a screen, immaterial ones and zeros. Ephemeral snowflakes forever disappearing from our grasp. Yet they're pa...
Site Ideas | Zachary Kai
The etchings we carve in the great stone of the internet are mere lines of code, pixels on a screen, immaterial ones and zeros. Ephemeral snowflakes forever disappearing from our grasp. Yet they're pa...
Responsible Inventing
I finally understand why
Rambaldi
may have hidden so many inventions.
Forecast
When you invent something, you should forecast the impact of your invention in the current cultural (social, political, economic, belief systems) context, and if it
poses non trivial existent...
🔗 April 2023 – Daniel Pietzsch’s Photo Journal
You like photos? Here are some more!
The birthdays continue. It's Easter. Another studio visit. Beyond Tellerrand conference. A poker night. And the all the stuff in between.
Finished my second Broken Arrow #Skyrace 23k¹ yesterday in 6:52:44! #RingDasBellThis year’s #BrokenArrowSkyrace² 23k was actually that distance! I ran 23.3km with 4557' vertical climb! In contrast, last year’s "23k" race³ was rerouted (due to weather conditions) last minute t...
🎬 Split
I liked Anya Taylor-Joy's performance. And James McAvoy is good, too. But the movie as a whole did not grip me. I just didn't find it suspenseful. The main character is not menacing enough. And there's way too much going on, and as a result the plot suffers. A bit of an eye-roller.
Happy 12 years of https://indieweb.org/POSSE #POSSE and19 years of https://microformats.org/ #microformats! (as of yesterday, the 20th)A few highlights from the past year:POSSE (Publish on your Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere) has grown steadily as a common practice in the #Ind...
🔗 March 2023 – Daniel Pietzsch’s Photo Journal
I’m on a roll!
Three birthdays and a studio visit.
🎬 Late Night with the Devil
Such a great plot and so well executed. I assume this is a pretty low budget film, and all the more respect to make it so entertaining. Spooky, suspenseful, with great acting and some nice gory special effects.
🎬 Peeping Tom
It was late when we started this, and I didn't pay full attention the whole time. But this was still a fantastic surprise. A great story with a really creepy dude and a lot of suspense. Never seen it in a movie old movie like this. But it did remind me of Psycho. Generally this was pretty Hitchcock-like. And Hitchcock I like. And so do I like this one. Recommended!
🎬 Four Flies on Grey Velvet
*sigh* Argento! He has really good ideas and can certainly film those, too. But the crazy outrageous story and unbelievable dialogue still annoys me.
🔗 February 2023 – Daniel Pietzsch’s Photo Journal
Here are some fresh and ice cold photos!
Ski vacation in Austria and Elfi's birthday.