This morning another AI-Crawler DDOS on my site. I hate this shit so much. Hundreds of different user agents every "user" open exactly one page, every user on Linux. I mean, maybe my archive pages got really famous and it's finally the year of Linux on Desktop. But I doubt at least the

This is perhaps the best text about blogging and why we should maintain or revive our blogs. https://maurice-renck.de/en/blog/2026/best-text-about-blogging

RE: https://mastodon.social/@Daojoan/115822318804424057 This is probably the best post about blogging I ever read.

Winter arrived in #hamburg

I just finished the first step for the new (gated) area of my website. Login via Mastodon works 🥳 Next step is login via email and then step by step other methods like indieLogin. Those are basically mapped to a #getkirby user, and become virtual users, so to speak. I will use this for my

Well, that escalated quickly. Came home from a new years party into a cold home, because the heating stopped working during the night 🥶

As in previous years—I just checked—I'm finding it difficult to write a year-end review or anything similar. But giving in to my gut feeling, I do need a conclusion here on the blog. https://maurice-renck.de/en/blog/2025/kein-jahresrueckblick

We just released the first single of our upcoming EP. You can find it on all major streaming services 🥳 https://tidal.com/track/481229379/u #newmusicfriday

Good explanation and a great ending: > It has to do with people not taking 67 minutes to understand how stuff works. AI is making you dumb. You have free will, folks. Go and check out how things work. Don's just scan tweets and think that's how all of this stuff works. You are getting

Now it's official #tidal #streaming #recap2025

The Scrapers are very active today. Would be cool if so many people would read my posts, but I can clearly see that some/body/thing scrapes my reading list, especially the author listing - for hours now.

After a long time without performances, we were recently on the road again and had the opportunity to play in the wonderful Forum in Neustadt: https://maurice-renck.de/en/notes/2025/forum-neustadt

I just wanted to quickly migrate Umami v2 to v3 … well I should have known better… Some hours later I got it up running again.

I was cutting the next episode of Server Side Stories today. Let's see who is also doing stuff like this. What is this waveform?

Today I made really good progress on my #getkirby course. Tomorrow will be a very different day as we hit the road and play a gig in Neustadt i. H.

I just released a new #komments release, which tries to reduce comment spam by LLMs (and others) using verification. If you like, you can now enable this feature. Users then have to verify their comments by email. Unverified will eventually be marked as spam or be deleted after 48h. After

I am using Todoist since 2014. They just sent an email that they are doubling the price. Because I am such an old user I can keep my old plan but don't get new features… I don't know… I mean they were relatively cheap, but …

Since tonight there is a massive increase of visitors on my site, Umami says. Everyone with MacOS on a Laptop, no special referrer, and no single entry point. For me, this looks like somebody scraping content. When an increase like this happened in the past, there was a single entry point

Okay, wow, so they basically made all Affinity products free?! That's a surprising move! https://www.affinity.studio

Ich habe im Frühjahr die erste Ausgabe des GoodInternetMagazines bestellt und sie dann eigentlich gar nicht gelesen, weil mich das Layout/Design etwas abgeschreckt hat. Aber vielleicht hat ja jemand anderes Freude daran. Wer Interesse hat, kann sich gerne bei mir melden, ich würde es dann

Wer mag, möge doch bitte diese Petition unterschreiben und damit vielleicht verhindern, dass ein schöner Streifen Natur einem Stellplatz weichen muss: https://openpetition.de/!hjhsy Gerne auch teilen #Umweltschutz #petition

Strudel https://maurice-renck.de/en/bookmarks/https-strudel-cc

During the last few weeks and months, it basically became impossible to filter comment spam. The percentage of detected spam decreases, and when I sharpen the filters even more, I get false positives. One cause is, I guess, LLMs and all those easy-to-build AI automations. So, now what?

Something for the music lovers. Especially for fans of the drums (but not only):

I had massive problems on my website, several plugins weren't working after I did some updates. I rolled back everything and installed them step by step, still no luck. This night my website has also moved to a new server, maybe that? And then I realized I had a typo in the kirby

Well well well, a little unplanned break for me because of #aws Time to get the records off the shelves as tidal is down too.

I added a little section to my /now page, where I list current projects and how far I think I am until I can release them. Also, a little spoiler on what I have been working on for quite some time now. #now #getkirby #course

Ein Nachruf auf die robots.txt, die in Zeiten von KI-Crawlern von uns gegangen ist. https://maurice-renck.de/en/notes/2025/r-i-p-robots-txt

Oh, hello developer keycaps 😎

Today I published a post about #hashtags and how to follow them on #mastodon https://sociab.li/blog/2025/mastodon-follow-hashtags-to-stay-up-to-date-on-certain-topics/

Small update for the #getkirby #komments plugin. You can now define phrases and keywords that, when found in the comment text, will increase the spam score. Hopefully this will help you a bit more with those annoying (AI) spammers. Included in Release 3.6.0

Occasionally, when I want to feel like a real hacker, I pick the keyboard with the clicky keys and massively annoy everybody around me by typing very fast and enthusiastically.

Recently, I [wrote about](https://sociab.li/blog/2025/mastodon-starterpacks-follow-and-create-them/) how to use starter packs for Mastodon. Currently, this isn't possible natively, but it is via an external website. However, this feature may als…

It's like the developers of @obsidian can read my mind. Some days ago I thought it would be so nice to be able to group data in bases. Now with the 1.10 release (catalyst), this is possible. This is so cool! Thank you :)

Hier heulen die Sirenen, aber bei Nina ist nichts zu finden außer die Sturmflutwarnung für heute Nacht. #hamburg #harburg

I must not buy another mechanical keyboard. I must not buy another mechanical keyboard. I must not… https://www.keychron.com/products/keychron-k8-he-wireless-magnetic-switch-custom-keyboard

I wrote a bit about #mastodon #starterpacks. Starterpacks got popular when Bluesky introduced them, and there is a similar solution for Mastodon too: https://sociab.li/blog/2025/mastodon-starterpacks-follow-and-create-them/

I briefly mentioned it yesterday: I wasn't really comfortable with my book rating system anymore. So last night, I spontaneously sat down and redesigned it: https://maurice-renck.de/en/blog/2025/leseliste-update

So I just put on a zipper jacket over my hoodie because it's 18 °C here in my office right now, and I refuse to turn on the heating!

This week I wrote about #mastodon lists on the Sociabli blog. Besides some basics, I show you how you can create custom timelines without seeing those posts on your home timeline: https://sociab.li/blog/2025/mastodon-lists/

The new iTerm icon is confusing me; for a second I always wonder what that app is when the Dock comes into view.

What does it do to us if we can no longer trust any information? What if your mail app changes the content of your mail without you knowing? https://maurice-renck.de/en/blog/2025/trust-issues

As I am working on the new website of my band, I quite often look around for inspiration. It seems like the average band website comes with some sort of photo or pattern in the background with text put on it to prevent visitors from reading anything on there …

I am thinking about some sort of virtual page for sharing my content 🤔 The main reason is, I'd like better handling of my multilang content. In #IndieConnector I can set a language to use for sharing, but currently not remove the lang-code at all. If I would remove it, the preview would

We can enable visitors of our website to send us Webmentions even if their blogs don't support them. I'll explain how: #indieWeb #webmentions https://maurice-renck.de/en/learn/indieweb/guides/webmentions-from-unsupported-sites

Three years ago, I decided I'll just try to develop my own game. Things are slowly taking shape, but first things first. https://maurice-renck.de/en/blog/2025/godot-game-dev

Ha, I was just looking at umami and wondered about the sudden spike on my kirby-signal-post until I saw, that the @getkirby newsletter just arrived and mentioned it 😅 thank you!

It always makes me happy when my desktop widget tells me there are new comments. Yes, I'm all for blog comments. Which isn't exactly common. #blogwochen2025 https://maurice-renck.de/en/blog/2025/kommentare-das-salz-in-der-blogsuppe