Kittsteiner Blog

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.

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KittMedia

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

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Latest posts

  • Home Assistant Proximity vs. iCloud3 v3 vs. Traccar

    I recently stumbled upon the Proximity integration of Home Assistant as well as Traccar to track your devices. Until now, I used the iCloud3 v3 component to do such things. Time to compare them.

  • Automatically synchronize documents with Paperless-ngx on macOS

    On the one hand, I use a rather classic local file structure to manage my documents, but also use Paperless-ngx to manage them (and especially for search). Thus, I want to keep my local structure, but also automatically upload the documents in Paperless-ngx. Until now, it was a manual process where I added new documents…

  • CO2MqttSensor as Docker app in TrueNAS

    After a very interesting (German) toot about a CO₂ sensor I also purchased such a sensor (TFA Dostman AIRCO₂NTROL MINI) and of course my goal was to have it as sensor within Home Assistant. Luckily, there already is a project to collect the sensor data via MQTT, called CO2MqttSensor. Unfortunately at first, while it’s possible…

Latest updates

  • Why something new?

    Every so often, I read and hear that Apple is no more innovative because the devices look always the same (not the only reason, but let’s focus on this). I just don’t get why. Why it needs to change? I’m not against new, I’m just happy with my devices. iPhone: it works fine, would even…

  • Replaced Numbers with something completely different

    I used to use Numbers usually only to track my spendings for my side business to get a quick overview when doing my taxes. All the back and forth with Apple Creator Studio now let me change that. Now, I’m using InvoiceShelf to track the expenses there. It’s self-hosted and thus I’m in full control…

  • Migrated away from Audible

    I used to use Audible, because it was convenient and cheap for single audiobooks. Now, I migrated away from it by using Libation – a great project to download Audible content – Jellyfin for managing the audiobooks, and BookPlayer on iOS, the latter came through a suggestion from @simon. Absolutely recommended. Especially the app is…

  • New self-hosting projects

    I’ve updated my self-hosting slash page with some newcomers: Check it out at https://kittsteiner.blog/self-hosting/.

  • Updated Baïkal and self-host contacts

    I used the Sunday morning to upgrade my Baïkal instance to version 0.11.0 (if you experience issues with the MySQL connection afterwards, make sure to add the new required configuration entry mysql_ca_cert to your config). And I also used it to enable CardDAV (previously I solely used it as calendar via CalDAV) and moved all…