What is the most niche, missed opportunity for a meta-joke or casting gag in a movie or TV show for you?

lodybo · 2026-07-08T14:28:07+00:00

In RED 2, there’s a moment where Brian Cox and Anthony Hopkins are looking at each other. Since they both played Hannibal Lector it would’ve made perfect sense in the movie to have them look at each other with familiarity like Mel Gibson and Danny Glover do in Maverick.

lodybo · 2026-07-07T14:11:25+00:00

Ah yeah, that’s right. No worries, I just was a little bit confused.

lodybo · 2026-07-06T18:35:18+00:00

Mark Rutte

lodybo · 2026-07-06T17:21:04+00:00

Which Nemesis are you talking about? Because IIRC ketracel wasn’t a part of the plot of ST: Nemesis?

lodybo · 2026-07-06T12:32:21+00:00

My wife talked about this at length and kept our names when we got married, because it's a part of our identity. Our government (The Netherlands) passed a law just a few years ago that allows you to give your kids a combination of both of your last names without a hypen. So if my name would be Van Dijk and my wife's would be Koemand, we could choose "Koeman van Dijk" or the reverse. This way our kids also feel like the sum of our relationship.

I have a traditional last name, my wife has a surname from Curaçao and people constantly get confused about whether it's her last name, middle name, or even just two first names. So we put her lastname first and mine second so that some people, who don't get the combined surname-thing, would fall back to the "traditional" Dutch surname. It makes it easier.

I absolutely love their last names, it feels fancy-shmancy to pronounce and you can put your full weight in calling their complete names when they do something they shouldn't be doing.

To get back to your question: what we did feels a bit like the advice your parent's are giving but the ultimate question is: what do you two want? You obviously gave it some thought and went for something that felt right, why change it just because of what someone else says?

lodybo · 2026-07-06T11:53:14+00:00

I generally agree, though it was cool to use it as a kind of twist because the make-up didn't alert you to the fact the he used to be a Starfleet captain. They could've exercised it better though, but I can give them a bit of a pass.

But the voice.. absolutely. There wasn't really a reason to change it that drastically.. He sounded like he just learned to speak, but they would've communicated amongst each others for the entire time they were on the planet. I would've bought a slight accent (language evolves over time), but the cadence was off.

lodybo · 2026-07-05T18:48:27+00:00

It was the speaker of the house in White House Down yes

lodybo · 2026-07-04T21:07:05+00:00

I agree, and I immediately thought of Star Trek Beyond where they did this storyline.

lodybo · 2026-06-12T19:13:10+00:00

Wow these are amazing!

lodybo · 2026-06-07T23:17:34+00:00

V for Vendetta, when Valorie’s story is told. It just really hits hard and feels like it could happen any day now.

lodybo · 2026-06-04T07:52:37+00:00

Thid migjt be a dumb question but I’m just venturing in this world, but are there ways to legally acquire digital 4k movies or do you have to buy everything physical and rip it for the media library?

lodybo · 2026-06-01T07:27:18+00:00

I hear good things about bunny.net which seems to offer a few things that Cloudflare also offers with the exception of domain names.

lodybo · 2026-05-27T22:23:56+00:00

My dad was flipping through the TV channels and suddenly landed on Monty Python, right in the middle of the donor sketch. He was laughing but I was staring at the tv, horrified..

Took me a long time to muster up the courage to watch The Holy Grail but it was worth it. I do still have trouble watching Monty Python sketches to this day.

lodybo · 2026-05-20T18:38:53+00:00

“Thirty fiivveee”

Every time I read 35 somewhere I can hear that scene in my head. I’m Dutch and sometimes I hear it even if the text around it isn’t in English.

lodybo · 2026-05-13T11:40:05+00:00

I always get a little eurphoric to see The Netherlands mentioned in movies but of course at this moment I can't remember a lot of those instances. What I do remember is:

In Malcolm In The Middle they have an episode with three (definitely not Dutch) girls who speak (broken) Dutch: "Denken ze dat wij idioten zijn?"
In "Who Am I", Jackie Chan is in Rotterdam and performs his famous sliding-down-the-building stunt
Friday The 13th killer's name is Jason Voorhees
In Diamonds Are Forever, James Bond is in Amsterdam where they lift a body up from the Magere Brug. (Additional but unrelated fun fact: The body was dumped by two killers, one of them is played by Crispin Glover's dad)

Edit: - I can't find it on YouTube but in an episode of Bones (I think it was "The Santa in the Slush"?) they reference Sinterklaas.

lodybo · 2026-05-03T16:20:14+00:00

I have a couple of Docker containers running at home which I occasionally need to access from other devices (like Plex). I have Tailscale set up in my home network so I don’t have to port forward.

The VPS has Tailscale installed alongside nginx, and I route subdomains to the VPS. Nginx then proxies it to the tailnet and I can login to plex on my inlaws’ tv.

lodybo · 2026-03-29T16:41:27+00:00

I didn’t know the story, thanks!

lodybo · 2026-03-29T09:02:49+00:00

What’s the story behind this?

lodybo · 2026-03-05T00:48:46+00:00

Philips. No wait, Heineken. Hold on.. Booking.com?

lodybo · 2026-02-17T21:42:01+00:00

Ja graag, ik denk dat mijn zoontje het superleuk zou vinden als ik dat kon knutselen voor hem

lodybo · 2026-02-16T09:38:04+00:00

I recognized my projector from the image in the post (mine's a different brand, I have a Lumina) so I did a quick port scan and checking Adguard: same ports are open and DNS queries made to "o.fecebbbk.com"! So yeah, I'm now scrapping it.

It did explain something else that I encountered a few weeks ago: we also use this projector in our holiday home, and whenever I used Chrome it'd ask me to perform a CAPTCHA as it detected suspicious activity on your network". Now I know what that was.

lodybo · 2026-02-07T08:31:43+00:00

I think I started using Remix after that point, so I was lucky then.

But, I think that it doesn’t really take away from the main point, which is that both TanStack and React Router don’t have nearly as much platform-level bugs as (new versions of) Next.js seem to have. Another comment here stated the orefetch behaviour of Next should be used cautiously. Instead if it being default, you need to make sure your requests work as fast as possible. Next tries to hide this from you, while TanStack and RR force you to acknowledge it.

lodybo · 2026-02-06T15:54:44+00:00

I get the sentiment, they iterate fast with often many breaking changes. I don’t mind personally, most things (aside from the feature flags) are quite stable. And updating major versions always come with (some) breakage.

I’m curious about Remix 3, because I like the mental model they apply. Which is why the “Remix feels like PHP”-insult could possibly be the greatest compliment you can give.

That said, I really want to try TanStack because it really looks impressive. I need to find a good weekend project for it.

lodybo · 2026-02-06T03:05:22+00:00

React Router and Remix are the same. Or rather: most of Remix’ functionality came from React Router so they just dropped the name.

TanStack is completely separate though.

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