Kittsteiner Blog

Hi, I’m Matze 👋🏻

A friendly white man with a dumb blond side parting, blue eyes, three-day beard, and a black pullover

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

  • Migrated from Netdata to Prometheus + Grafana

    I had been playing with Grafana, InfluxDB, Telegraf and Prometheus the last two weeks and can now share my story of what I finally use to replace my Netdata instances and why.

  • 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.

Latest updates

  • Default value in register_post_meta

    TIL: Defining a default value within register_post_meta drives you crazy if you no more aware of that you did it. It still persists, even if it is not in the database or the object cache. Found out around an hour later … 🥲

  • 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/.