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I’m a web developer based in Düsseldorf, Germany. I make a RSS feed reader called FeedCity. I co-organise the local Homebrew Website Club. I’m also a passionate film photographer, a husband and father, a bass player and guitarist, metalhead, and movie fan.

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Dan’s Polaroids

12.03.2026

A girl with sunglasses in front of bamboo bush, in a very contrasty and rather dark black and white photo.
Zoe and the bamboo.

Dan’s Polaroids

11.03.2026

A white sphere-like shape with texture, lit on the right half, looking similar to the moon.
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Dan’s Polaroids

10.03.2026

Black and white photo of three different beer cans hold into the camera by the guys of Forkalyst, which are themselves barely present on the picture.
What can I say? We rehearsed. We had beer.

Dan’s Polaroids

09.03.2026

View from higher up over trees, a street and a factory with 2 chimneys in the sun. Silhouettes of people walking in the foreground.
A view from Halde Hoheward.

Dan’s Polaroids

08.03.2026

Two men with sunglasses looking into the camera. The sculpture of Halde Hoheward.
Spent a wonderfully sunny day at Halde Hoheward with Florian.

Dan’s Polaroids

07.03.2026

The Rheinturm in Düsseldorf in black and white.
Rheinturm

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If you don’t have an RSS feed, you are not my friend. *

Dan’s Polaroids

06.03.2026

The river Rhine in Bonn. In sunshine. A plant in the forefround, a bridge in the back.
The Rhine in Bonn.

Dan’s Polaroids

05.03.2026

Two men sitting in the sun, looking into the camera and cheers-ing with the photographer with glasses of beer.
First beers in the sun. @ Biergarten Alter Zoll, Bonn.

Dan’s Polaroids

04.03.2026

The three men of Forkalyst standing in front of a guitar amp, one seemingly explaining something to other two.
"Ach, so ist lauter?!"

Dan’s Polaroids

03.03.2026

A slightly overexposed image of my shadow projected onto a tree trunk. More trees and buildings in the background.
Me on overexposed tree.

Dan’s Polaroids

02.03.2026

A speedy cyclist in the low evening sun. Parts of a bike in the foreground.
Speedy

Dan’s Polaroids

01.03.2026

A pond reflecting the leafless trees standing behind it. A bridge in the background.
Saw this during our bicycle tour around the Rhine.

Dan’s Polaroids

28.02.2026

An iPad on a kitchen counter showing a video of president Trump's speach anouncing the war on Iran.
Fuck this guy!

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🎬 Weapons

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Movie poster for “Weapons”.

Love a good overlapping episodes film. Really well done here. It's scary, evil, creepy, suspenseful and manages to keep you hooked and waiting for more the entire time. I'm not quite sure yet how I liked some of the humorous and excessively gory parts; I'm not sure, if a more toned down approach would have served the atmosphere a little better. But overall, two hours very well spent!

👍 Recommended!

Dan’s Polaroids

27.02.2026

The head of a white unicorn with a golden horn. Blue-hour windows in the background.
Kindermuseumsnacht

Dan’s Polaroids

26.02.2026

A little indoor baskeball basket and a ball about to fall in.
Indoor-Basketballing

Dan’s Polaroids

25.02.2026

The three men of Forkalyst playing a keyboard. All have hats on.
Wacky Wednesday

Dan’s Polaroids

24.02.2026

A sunset with clear skies, building silhouettes in the back and a river down at the front.
Sunset and high water.

Dan’s Polaroids

23.02.2026

A photo of my SX-70 camera in my hand.
Meet the camera: my SX-70.

Dan’s Polaroids

22.02.2026

A black & white photo of a Jazz bass, a bass cabinet and a pedalboard.
Bass gear

Dan’s Polaroids

21.02.2026

A girl playing a wooden piano photographed from behing.
Piano in the morning

Dan’s Polaroids

20.02.2026

A leafless tree in front of a white background.

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🎬 Slingshot

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Movie poster for “Slingshot”.
This review may contain spoilers. Tap or click to view.

Good space movie. Has great atmosphere overall (apart from a few soundtrack choices maybe). Liked the themes of the movie. The acting was great for the most part. And it has a good twist (or two?)! The very end is a bit unnecessary, when they could've just ended the movie right with the countdown in the airlock.

👍 Recommended!

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🔗 Stress-free RSS reader FeedCity debuted last year - ranchero.com

ranchero.com/2026/02/19/stress-free-rss-reader-feedcity.html

OMG. Brent Simmons (of NetNewsWire fame) linked to FeedCity and had nice things to say about it:

This one is not just no-unread-counts but also social, with outbound RSS. Very cool!

Thank you very much, Brent! 🥹

Dan’s Polaroids

19.02.2026

Three and a half men and one woman looking into the camera smiling in front of a black background.
Homebrew Website Club February 2026

Dan’s Polaroids

18.02.2026

An abstract photo with a glass surface on a wooden stand.
Blurry abstract

Dan’s Polaroids

17.02.2026

Holding my iPad with both hands in my lab, playing the game
Playing "Skate City".

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Yesterday was another Homebrew Website Club.

Nina showed us her newly created Instagram-Archive site using Memento Mori. She also detailed how cumbersome it is to delete one’s Instagram account. We then talked about Dark Patterns for a while.

AI has also always been a topic again. How it can for example be useful to get away from big tech and host services yourself. Jochen told us about how he does just that now. What he previously didn’t have the time for now became possible. He also uses AI to add new feature to the website of his Python Podcast.

We also talked a bit about podcasting and available apps as well as how one might get away from large music streaming services like Spotify. And we made our first money transfer using Wero (instead of Paypal).

The next HWC DUS will be on Mar. 17th.

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🎬 Good Boy

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Movie poster for “Good Boy”.

Such a good boy! Really! Best dog ever! :) Very much enjoyed this unique horror drama from a dog's perspective.

👍 Recommended!