Here are the 10 most recent posts, listed with an image, publication date, headline, text excerpt, and hashtags. Older posts can be accessed via the search function, the archive links, and the tags on the right-hand side.

I developed the new Grav plugin Social Linking because I felt the CMS used here was missing a certain feature. At the end of my posts, I like to link to a corresponding post in the Fediverse (I use Mastodon) to share it on the blog and discuss comments there. Until now, however, there was no way to include posts from the Fediverse in my blog articles beyond simply linking to them (or using scree...

Feed Teasers Vorschau

I developed the new "Feed Teasers" plugin for Grav because the CMS I am currently using lacked a feature I had previously employed on my WordPress blog to highlight or link to news from other websites. Back then, security alerts from Heise Security and the Tagesschau news feed were prominently displayed on the blog's homepage. Here, I also use this option to link to the latest posts from this...

I cope with my depression by finding distractions, and what better way to do that in the long run than by learning something new or rediscovering something I thought I’d forgotten? These are often small projects that can be completed in a few days or even a few hours. Sometimes I can’t sustain my interest, or unexpected costs come up that I hadn’t planned for, and then it’s over before it’s real...