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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Secure input may break things
After updating to macOS 27 and the current version of my password manager, I noticed that Rocket often doesn’t work anymore. The trigger key to open the emoji picker just didn’t trigger anymore. Turns out, my password manager enabled secure input as soon as it’s locked, but the app is still running. I don’t know…
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Blogroll page is now live
Thanks to the Blogroll & Podroll Block from @pfefferle, I’ve finally published my blogroll slash page. 🎉 And since I’ve seen that the German translation is missing for it, I just added it.
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Enshittification: Requestly edition
Enshittification at its best: Welcome to the sad future …
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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…