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Ha, nice! Had a great time with this last night. Maybe I was a little too tired to follow the fast-paced plot and its twists and turns at all stages. But regardless, this was really funny, had great action, great dialogue, and the two detectives were just perfect. I especially like Ryan Goslings acting. A movie I could easily enjoy multiple times.

Wow, I haven't seen this in a long time. And I pretty much couldn't remember the second half. Enjoyed this a lot. The characters, the sets and the visuals in general, the soundtrack. The content is often questionable. It's partly gross, yet cheekily funny, but always entertaining.

The interesting thing to me when watching old classics like this, is how I discover how influential they have been. Or at least I think I do see those references in other movies. Anyway, I saw elements of Wes Anderson, Michael Haneke and Yorgos Lanthimos in there; and certainly forget a whole bunch of others.

Saw this at the Metropol, where the staff gave yet another lovely introduction to the film.

My Homelab has hit its first milestone 🚀

Terraform and Ansible are complementary tools with which you can do Infrastructure as Code. You would use Terraform to request machines from providers and then Ansible to configure them. Using both of them together, with a dynamic inventory to link them, has been technically possible for years but never obvious enough for me to work out. Until I found the Terraform provider.

Obsidian is my personal knowledge management (PKM) system of choice. I had it already in use since its alpha period, but rediscovered it again in 2023. In the meantime, cool features had been added, such as live synchronization across multiple devices via a free plugin (so you don't have to rely on the paid service Obsidian offers itself).

Nowadays Obsidian is the daily driver for my knowledge collection, gathering inputs from various sources such as Readwise, Goodreads, Snipd as well as manual input. It has replaced Evernote in this regard which I used for many years.

Obsidian also powers this website via its digital garden plugin. For now, I couldn't be happier with the workflow that allows me to publish notes from my Obsidian vault to the website with three clicks.

Oh, I never linked to Florian’s full gallery of Beyond Tellerrand 2025 photos. You might spot me in those!

As someone who has been using their iPad for most of their mobile computing tasks, I very much welcome all those new updates coming with iPadOS 26.

I’ve had this album on my radar already. But it needed their fantastic live gig at this year’s Rock Hard festival to remind me to give it another listen. And I missed out! Great melodies, all the instruments deserve being listened to, and above all is this great emotional voice.

Bandcamp

Weeknotes 2025-06-09 June 9, 2025, Jochen Gardening, not architecture --Oblique Strategies It's been a hectic week both at work and in my personal life - haven't had time for much else....

If you want to access a JSON file from a remote server in Obsidian, DataviewJS is your friend. You have to rely on the requestUrl() method, though, as a classic fetch() fails because of CORS (Cross-Origin Resource Sharing). Another option, dv.io.load() from Dataview, can onl...

Amenra does an acoustic guitar cover version of maybe my favourite Portishead song. So good! Love how the guitar is recorded and you hear all sorts of background sounds, as well as the player doing the percussion probably live while playing guitar.

Bandcamp

If you really wanna fuck up tab order, I suggest you try to nest reading-flow into reading-flow into reading-flow...

Woah, totally doesn't work anymore! 😅

Next Homebrew Website Club Düsseldorf is happening!

At Homebrew Website Club last night we got onto the topic of chaos and websites. I asked What is the most chaotic page on your website? To my surprise, everyone had a slightly different answer: from pages with an “earthquake mode” to a web page whose background colour changes...

When I design web pages, I usually start with an idea or concept I want to explore. Here are a few examples of things I have wanted to play with: A two-column layout that uses black, white, and grey A site that only uses two colours A web page that uses text with unusual spa...

As my homelab is about to reach a milestone I thought I’d look back on where it started.

RSS feeds are still relevant, so I will share how to validate them and optimize their functionality in WordPress and Hugo. Learn to add featured images, exclude pages, and fix common bugs like invalid XML. With tips on improving RSS descriptions and templates, this guide ensures your blog’s feed is reader-friendly and visually appealing.

Weeknotes 2025-06-02 June 2, 2025, Jochen Gardening, not architecture --Oblique Strategies Short but intense work week with no time for open source. I did manage to go camping though, w...

@Chrome

2. when I wanna programm a focus trap, like a modal creates one, it is suddenly not enough to do a querySelectorAll('iframe, input:not([type="hidden"]), select, textarea, button, a, [contenteditable], [tabindex]:not([tabindex="-1"])). I now have to select all elements and filter them for being scroll containers by issuing a costy getComputedStyle(). it would be better if there was a :scrollable pseudo class or similar.