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My PKM App Stack for 2023
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My PKM App Stack for 2023

I am guilty of frequent app hopping. This year, though, that is going to change. I’m fully determined to pause the constant chase for an ever better tool. While I enjoy to check out new apps, move data back and forth — and back again — I’ve come to the
Jan 5, 2023 8 min read
Presenting the Peak Starter Kit at the Statamic Meetup Berlin
Statamic

Presenting the Peak Starter Kit at the Statamic Meetup Berlin

A video presentation about the fantastic Peak Starter Kit for Statamic CMS.
Dec 2, 2022 1 min read
Statamic CMS talk at Frontend Meetup Freiburg 2022
Statamic

Statamic CMS talk at Frontend Meetup Freiburg 2022

Resources around my talk about Statamic CMS at Frontend Meetup Freiburg.
Nov 12, 2022 1 min read
Install & Configure Laravel Horizon with Statamic and Run it on Forge
Statamic

Install & Configure Laravel Horizon with Statamic and Run it on Forge

Follow these steps to use Laravel Horizon for Job Queuing in Statamic CMS when hosted with Laravel Forge. This guide assumes that Redis is already installed via Forge. * Add Horizon to the project  composer require laravel/horizon and publish its assets php artisan horizon:install * Allow one or more Statamic/
Sep 13, 2022 2 min read
Bluetti PowerOak EB70 Power station and EB120 Solar panel
Earth

Towards a More Sustainable and Mobile Office

Earth is melting, energy prices are surging. Camping vacation is around the corner. I'm working 100% remote. Almost every day is sunny. Getting a solar panel and a power station seems like a good idea these days. I have absolutely no idea about either photovoltaics, batteries or electricity in general,
Aug 4, 2022 3 min read
Rodeo with the Elephant  – Why I'm back on Evernote
PKM, TfT, WTF

Rodeo with the Elephant  – Why I'm back on Evernote

💡Spoiler alert: I've left Evernote again and decided to commit to Craft for an entire year. I've been an early user of Evernote, my first account dates back to 2009. I've stopped counting the times that I've left Evernote "for good" since then. Just as many times, I've decided to
Jul 29, 2022 4 min read
Our two kids looking out of the train while passing a Black Forest gorge
Moments

Ravennaschlucht from the train

Grateful to live in a place where it only takes you 30 minutes by local train to get up to a mountain lake and escape the heat.
Jul 23, 2022
Why I don't stay with Arc by The Browser Company... yet
PKM, TfT, WTF

Why I don't stay with Arc by The Browser Company... yet

Arc browser is an exciting new app made by The Browser Company. It's made with an enormous amount of love for detail, and they're inventing great new ideas. I won't cover these here, but instead focus on what is holding me back from really using Arc. I'm aware this is
Jul 14, 2022 2 min read
Kunst am Hirzberg
Moments

Kunst am Hirzberg

Dear Diary, I had fun in kindergarten this afternoon.
Jul 1, 2022
Photo of Dreisam river in Freiburg, Germany
Moments

We live by the river

Spending Sunday afternoon at the Dreisam.
Jun 26, 2022
Fontshare: Quality Fonts. Free.
Design

Fontshare: Quality Fonts. Free.

Fontshare is a fantastic collection of high-quality great free-to-use fonts.
Jun 25, 2022
Pont de l’Abîme
Moments

Pont de l’Abîme

The Pont de l’Abîme is a nice old bridge over the Chéran river in the Haute-Savoie region in France. Lovely spot to spend a night on the way south.
Jun 17, 2022 1 min read
What Statamic’s SAVE_CACHED_IMAGES really does
Statamic

What Statamic’s SAVE_CACHED_IMAGES really does

I think I got SAVE_CACHED_IMAGES in Statamic wrong the whole time. I thought it's about whether Glide-generated images are kept when clearing caches. If got it right, this is what it really does: when set to true * All image presets defined in assets.php will be generated on
May 30, 2022 2 min read
Setup Statamic Static Caching for super fast websites
Statamic

Setup Statamic Static Caching for super fast websites

Setting up Static Caching in Statamic isn't too hard and brings a huge performance boost. Here are the steps I had to take to enable it both locally with Laravel Valet and on a production server managed through Laravel Forge. Enable and configure Nginx * Enable Static caching by setting STATAMIC_
Apr 12, 2022 2 min read
Make Alpine 3 support legacy browsers
Code

Make Alpine 3 support legacy browsers

Today I learned that AlpineJS 3.x uses queueMicrotask –  and that that’s an API not supported in Firefox < 69 and Safari < 12.1 (see caniuse for full support information). Luckily, this can easily be polyfilled: if (typeof window.queueMicrotask !== "function") { window.queueMicrotask = function (callback) { Promise.resolve() .then(callback) .catch(
Apr 7, 2022
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