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
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“Code is cheap now” and an existential crisis
I used to be very pessimistic about using LLMs in my work. I did it now for the last couple of weeks and it’s really astonishing what you can achieve with it nowadays.
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Pure local solar integration
Yesterday, I finally got an electrician to install a Shelly Pro 3EM smart meter for me. So it was time to set it up right.
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Email archiving with Open Archiver
I’ve recently discovered Open Archiver in a (German) YouTube video, which allows you to archive your emails from various different email providers. It seems to be still a very new project, but it looks promising to me. And it’s completely open source.
Latest updates
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No client-side media processing in non-Chromium
While I like the new client-side media processing feature coming today in WordPress 7.1, I really don’t like that it’s (at least for now) a Chromium only feature. So neither Safari nor Firefox can handle media processing on client-side at the moment. A real bummer for the open web …
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TIL: Finding new devices in LAN required for ping
TIL (actually, it was yesterday): Disallowing the terminal on macOS to find devices on the local network prevents them from connecting to new local devices on the network. However, if you were already connected to them before, these connections work fine. Response in the terminal for pinging new devices is just a “Now route to…
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Today I learned: Leave WordPress category alone
TIL (again): Leave the default WordPress WordPress category taxonomy alone for your custom post type. The probability is high that you’ll regret it in the future … Just register your own taxonomy.
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Replaced Sentry with Bugsink
I just replaced the usage of Sentry.io with Bugsink. For my purpose of error debugging, it’s more than enough. And it’s compatible with the Sentry SDK, so replacing it means just updating the DSN in the configuration, neat!
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Energy Efficient Ethernet via FritzBox is not good
TIL: Energy Efficient Ethernet (EEE) in the newest firmware (8.2x) of my FritzBox is probably garbage. When set to “automatic” (which is the only setting aside of “off”), the network is super unstable between devices on the LAN/WAN and any other device. In both the LAN and the internet. Clear suggestion: if you have connectivity…