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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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…
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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.
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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
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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…
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New self-hosting apps
Since I bought new RAM with double the capacity (32 GB now) for my TrueNAS, I had more room to try out new self-hosting apps. So, new on the blo(ck/g) (checkout https://kittsteiner.blog/self-hosting/) are:
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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 … 🫣
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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…
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Someone wants a boop
This nose is absolutely boop-able.