After a bit of silence here, during which I spent some time relaxing, reading books, and taking a so-called vacation, I'm now picking up where I left off and working on my Kirby plugins. I have a mountain of tasks and ideas piling up. In addition to the existing plugins, I will be taking over two that were previously managed by the company, and I'm working on two new plugins: Kirby-Obsidian-Sync…
Junited 2026 is over, and once again, I only managed to create a handful of links. I wonder if these kinds of blogging events are even for me. Well, my dear friends, I hate to say it, but June is already over. And with it, the Junited blog challenge, which I once again masterfully completed by constantly forgetting to post links. I did manage to post a few, though. Even better, I discovered many…
Although producing our podcast has always been a lot of fun, this is the official end of it after almost six months of inactivity. At my company, I'm often the one who pushes for small experiments; that's how blogs or, in this case, a podcast come about. Our podcast, called Server Side Stories, is now being discontinued after a little over a year. We regularly talked about tech stuff that we…
Version 4.6 of Mastodon Collections introduces lists of users to make it easier to find accounts on specific topics. When Bluesky launched, they had the great idea of Starter Packs. Essentially, these were user lists focused on specific topics. Anyone interested in TypeScript could find a TypeScript Starter Pack and then follow all, or even just individual, accounts within it with a single click.…
Markdown makes it easy to format and structure text. I'm a big fan and use it wherever I can. But how did Markdown actually come about? To me, it always feels like Markdown has always been around, but of course, someone 1 actually came up with this thing at some point. We've come a long way from something that felt like only developers used. Markdown is used everywhere these days. Well-known tools…
Over at "anmut und demut" Benjamin writes about reusing dungeons, and I immediately thought of two things. https://anmutunddemut.de/2026/06/13/dungeons-wiederverwenden.html Hero Quest I spent a considerable amount of my youth playing Hero Quest with friends at a table in the basement. It's a kind of board game RPG. I mention it because the dungeon was essentially always the same. You unfolded the…
Today I learned that my burger delivery only arrives because massive black holes out there are pumping radio signals into the vastness of the universe. The first time I consciously encountered GPS, I thought my device somehow connected to a satellite, which then shared its position with my device. I quickly learned that it doesn't work that way and is a little more complicated. After a long day at…
I was just about to stop my feature freeze and include standard.site in the IndieConnector. Almost. Over the past few days, I've been coming across standard.site quite often. I think the idea is pretty good and believe there's a lot more to come, which is why I've been reading up on it a bit. I have to admit that I was initially quite skeptical about the whole Bluesky thing. For a long time, it…
It may not seem logical at first to announce work on a new major release when a course and a sync plugin are also awaiting completion, but I've given it some thought. I'm currently making frequent changes to my website, and almost every one of these changes aims to simplify things—for visitors, for me in the panel, and in the code. The planned release of IndieConnector also aims for this. The…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TIZHX1-SdiQ Listening to the Diablo soundtrack(s) while working or to relax isn't weird, is it?