Eccentric Weirdo.
Since many years, I'm maintaining different websites for various hobbies. This site is and was always dedicated to my personal life, technical topics, and philosophy—in short, quite general. Additionally, there is my music composition website , which covers everything related to composition, and for the last about three years, I have also maintained a dedicated photography page . This arrangement…
Without doubt, Markdown is the standard for many plain-text input fields on the web. And even though I'd prefer it would be Org Mode (or Orgdown ), I cannot escape this reality. Well, at least not entirely. Like perhaps many others who are trapped inside Emacs, I write (especially longer) texts in Org Mode and export them to Markdown afterwards. This works more or less well. There are (to my…
First of all, I would like to apologise to everyone using my IntelliJ IDEA Ubuntu packages who I left in the dark for the last few months regarding the future of them given the merge of the two editions, Ultimate and Community, by JetBrains into a single product at the end of last year. Initially, I promised a solution by mid-January, then early February. Now, its the end of March. Well, life…
It will not be to any surprise that I read other personal blogs, and so I've already stumbled upon one or another /now page in recent years. However, I didn't know that there was a quite large group of bloggers deciding to follow the idea by Derek Sivers to keep a page with recent updates about what they're currently up to. This planted the idea in my head that it might be fun to set up and…
Boxes are everywhere, and it is too easy and quite comfortable to put yourself in a set of boxes that somehow seem to fit. Even funnier, other people put you in boxes – whether you like it or not – starting with your birth. Your gender, your nationality, sometimes even your religion. That is something that will not change. And for some (at least to me) unknown reasons, people like putting you into…
I've been using Pocket (the bookmark manager) for a long time, either since around the time it was added to Firefox in 2015 or around the time Mozilla purchased it in 2017. I can't remember precisely and as of now I can't even check, what was my first stored bookmark. Pocket always was a bit in a special place since it was (besides email and social media) perhaps the only service storing personal…
What happened since December The last update I gave on my search for a new content management system was some time ago. Last December, to be precise. I haven't aborted that project, though. Quite the contrary: I was active in narrowing down the shortlist. I started by excluding TYPO3, Contao and WordPress. The first is too complex for my use cases, the second is too similar to TYPO3 for me to…
Well, I already wrote a few days ago on Mastodon that I'm thinking of shutting down my "Scribbles" microblog and moving the articles I wrote there to this blog. And now I did it :D And not even three months after I started it and about two months after I defended the content separation . So, what led to that decision? First of all, I think I got over my fear of not publishing articles of high…
Note: This was initially published on Scribbles, my previous "micro blog". I discontinued it and moved the contents into this blog on 2023-12-05. I just published the shortlist of my search for a new CMS for my photography website . There are five systems (in no particular order) that are on it: Kirby, WordPress, TYPO3, Contao, and Statmic (if you're curious about how I got there, you can read my…
Note: This was initially published on Scribbles, my previous "micro blog". I discontinued it and moved the contents into this blog on 2023-12-05. I just published the requirements for the CMS that should manage my photography website in the future. As announced over there that I already analysed the CMS on the longlist but I wanted to split all the information into two posts to avoid making one…