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

  • 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…

  • Comment colors updated

    My today’s achievement: updated comment colors of my theme in VSCodium for improved readability. Yes, you can adjust it yourself even if you use a custom theme.

  • New combined temperature/humidity Home Assistant card

    While searching for improving the way to display temperature and humidity in Home Assistant, I found a new way by using some custom cards.

Latest updates

  • Playing with VitePress

    Yesterday, I stumbled upon VitePress via the Dovecot documentation and I like the design. Will it be worth to migrate my existing documentations from WordPress? We’ll see … 🫣

  • TrueNAS upgraded

    I just upgraded my TrueNAS from 24.10 Electric Eel to 25.10.0 Goldeye and already with the update step 25.04 in between I’ll notice the much more snappy UI. Needed to update the password of my SMB user, though. It seems that this has been getting lost somewhere on the road. And I need to add…

  • Someone wants a boop

    Macro photo of my dog within a few centimeters, mainly her nose is visible

    This nose is absolutely boop-able.

  • tmutil parameters

    TIL: tmutil delete allows to add the -t parameter multiple times to delete multiple (old) backups at once: Before, I used multiple commands (since I delete the oldest 4 backups every 6 months manually) and always waited for the next command until the previous one was done …

  • Web Accessibility Cookbook

    Finally, I had the time to finish reading the Web Accessibility Cookbook by @matuzo. Have a couple to-dos to check for on my websites. Highly recommended: https://accessibility-cookbook.com