Hi, I’m Matze 👋🏻

I’m an enthusiastic web developer in an online marketing agency.

I love to build websites and WordPress plugins, which I publish via my project Epiphyt.

Find out more about me on my slash pages.

Projects

Epiphyt

Solving everyday WordPress problems with my plugins with a keen sense for function and user interaction.

KittMedia

German-based hosting and support around WoltLab Suite community forum software.

Latest posts

  • Design update for Epiphyt

    What started as updating my design at Epiphyt regarding certain accessibility issues (mainly proper accessible names for some navigations as well as contrast issue fixes) ended up with a rather complex design update.


  • Successful vacation

    When having vacation, many people want to travel. I’m different. I want to work on my projects. And so I did the last two weeks. And it was great fun by working on multiple projects to take them further. For me, developing is not just a job, it’s my passion and I also love to…


  • Home Office vs. Office

    The last three weeks, I was forced to come to the office every day. And I was not amused. Even before, but also now afterwards. Things have changed …


Latest updates

  • Uptime Kuma broken?

    Exactly at 0:00 tonight, my monitors in Uptime Kuma started to report downtime. Log told me either “timeout of 48000ms exceeded” or “getaddrinfo EAI_AGAIN”, despite the actual websites all being online. I changed DNS settings from Quad9 to dns0.eu, nothing changed. Updated from the current release version to v2 beta 3 (because I already wanted…


  • Updated now and next pages

    I just updated my now and next slash pages. Looks like I’m not good at it since the latter shows now the work that’s already in its final state. 😅


  • Switch S3 storage

    Currently switching my S3 storage from Backblaze B2 to Intercolo i3, as part of removing reliability from US companies (Intercolo is hosted in Germany). And because performance was a problem the recent time (failed or hanging uploads). It took me a while to find a provider with similar overall prices, but currently, uploads work just…


  • It’s time …

    It’s time for me to try Polypane. Hope to speed-up developing and improvements regarding accessibility audits.


  • Block editor on mobile?

    When will the block editor in WordPress become smooth on mobile? Even if you can handle it well on desktop, it’s hard to work on it on mobile. And it doesn’t make any fun. All tested on the latest iOS. And this is only what I could find spontaneously.