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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

Presenting the Peak Starter Kit at the Statamic Meetup Berlin

Presenting the Peak Starter Kit at the Statamic Meetup Berlin

A video presentation about the fantastic Peak Starter Kit for Statamic CMS.

Statamic CMS talk at Frontend Meetup Freiburg 2022

Statamic CMS talk at Frontend Meetup Freiburg 2022

Resources around my talk about Statamic CMS at Frontend Meetup Freiburg.

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

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/

Bluetti PowerOak EB70 Power station and EB120 Solar panel

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,

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

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

Our two kids looking out of the train while passing a Black Forest gorge

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.

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

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

Kunst am Hirzberg

Kunst am Hirzberg

Dear Diary, I had fun in kindergarten this afternoon.

Photo of Dreisam river in Freiburg, Germany

We live by the river

Spending Sunday afternoon at the Dreisam.

Fontshare: Quality Fonts. Free.

Fontshare: Quality Fonts. Free.

Fontshare is a fantastic collection of high-quality great free-to-use fonts.

Pont de l’Abîme

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.

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

Setup Statamic Static Caching for super fast websites

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_

Make Alpine 3 support legacy browsers

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(