My Christmas and new year‘s revelation has been Danny Bate (@dannybate.bsky.social) and his superbly entertaining and informative book “Why Q needs U” - if u ever wondered where our letters actually come from, check it out (and Danny’s podcast)! Thank you so much, Dr. Bate! You add joy to my life.

We need to dramatically improve ad libraries as a core way to slow down scams.

If you really need to have a wood fire, at least do these things to not harm the rest of us too much. www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

I miss #Webtrends (although I don't miss it really), so I decided to bring it back in my presentations.

Always nostalgic when you can still select Deutsche Mark (DM) in a supplier registration form... (just in case you live in the past as well: that currency went out of business in 2002...)

Just when you think you can sign up for the #PiwikPro Business plan, they scare the hell out of you: Does anybody know if you really cannot use even existing Consent Manager implementations once activating the Business plan?

Just because it is a URL you can request and get a response does not mean it is a REST API! ...😫

First, #Russia starts a war against #Ukraine, but insists it's not a "war". Now the same Russia is telling us that people who are in favor of Ukraine's self-defence are "in favor of war" instead of "peace"... I don't how much further you can bend reality. Don't fall for the Russian narrative!

Getting a refresher on self-managed mobile app install attribution by the one and only @davidhermann.bsky.social at #MeasureCampZurich

Ein Mathematiker, der Flugangst hat, nimmt eine Bombe mit an Board, weil es statistisch gesehen sehr unwahrscheinlich ist, dass zwei Bomben an Board sind.

"Will we need to update all our keywords in #GoogleAds to lower-case to align with #PiwikPro ’s reporting?" => Thou shalt never have case mixes in Google Ads in the first place! Google treats them case-insensitively, but they cause a problem bc PP can't match mixed-case keywords.

Yes, just keep pushing tracking changes live completely untested. And close down the staging environment while at it. "There may be need to emphasize when things shouldn't go live. Our Continous Integration setup envisions every finished feature goes live asap..." #ContinuousIntegration

#Croatian “patriots” - not surprised anymore.

Recently, #PiwikPro added the "description" field for Custom Dimensions. But instead of going into 8 Sites to edit the descriptions for 60 CDs each (480 edits), just edit them once in ur blueprint site & then sync to the others (30 seconds). With #PiwikProManager. Free! github.com/loldenburg/p...

"Here are 3 sentences describing the upcoming project (which could be gigantic, and we give you no insight into the existing setup of anything). Can you send a binding estimate for your efforts?" 🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🚬🚬🚬😝😝😝🙈🙈🙈

#GoogleAds Enhanced Conversions server-side endpoint had minor issues with requests timing out yesterday. Seems to have stopped after 8 PM CET, but better check your monitoring...

On Oct 25, #Google suddenly delivered 10 times the normal daily budget in their #YouTubeAds. So instead of 2500 EUR, the client suddenly spent 25k! Google's explanation is a bit laughable: "no further impact".

You write to #Adobe CH because a client wants to extend their contract. For several weeks, you only get answers like "I'm currently on vacation", "please write to XYZ", etc. So many people working there, does not seem like anybody is doing any work there. Not the first time!

Haven’t tried this, but absolutely sounds worth a look: #BigQuery #ELT #DWH #GCP: “BigQuery + Functions: ETL Without Pipelines“ by Codastra on Medium: medium.com/@2nick2patel...

My short presentation video on #PiwikPro Manager from PiwikPro Day 2025 is now available on YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVgI... - just like the many other great ones from that day!

My first visit to a nuclear power plant (Beznau) was very interesting and really made me glow!

If you move to #Server-Side Tagging, don't just assume that vendor endpoints always work. That is far from the reality. While it was not so easy to configure to regular email schedule, #Tealium Server-Side's connector performance dashboard closes this gap for me at a client nicely.

threat is real: Where will #AIslop (Spam and Fake News created via #GenAI) lead us? Back to radical censorship? Civil wars because each side will just claim the other side is producing “AI fake media”? In any case it will deepen the climate crisis & societal divisions youtu.be/TWpg1RmzAbc?...

#PiwikPro Day 2025 has started. Check out the many interesting presentations and join mine at 15:00 CEST: piwik.pro/piwik-pro-da...

"Wenn Sie diese E-Mail nicht mehr empfangen möchten, können Sie diese hier kostenlos abbestellen." - Wow! KOSTENLOS abbestellen!? Das ist mal ein Angebot! 🤣

#Microsoft #Teams is maybe the best example for how shitty products can become a market standard. Main client switched from Slack to Teams a year ago and I can't count how much time and how many nerves I lose every day because of how shitty, clunky, unorganized and inconsistent Teams is. #weeklyRant

You can still join many good-looking folks and me for the virtual #PiwikPro Day next Tuesday. I will show you my free tool that turns Admins from Piwik Amateur to Piwik Pro! piwik.pro/piwik-pro-da...

Not new, but #Zuckerberg criminal energy once more: Visiting a website with #Facebok Pixel installed a local server on ur #Android device which connected anonymous users' behavior (incl incognito mode) to real users if u also had the Facebook or #Instagram app. localmess.github.io 🤯

When #PiwikPro started throttling their API this year without giving client a proper way to prepare or test for this, they told me that I could use the X-Retry-After header in the response to handle when to trigger the next request... Turns out this header always contains "0" and is thus useless.😑

An URGENT pixel request on Friday for a campaign that's to launch on Monday. The "pixel" is a request to domain A which loads an entire #GoogleTagManager container onto the page which in turn could load anything onto the page... :D Atm it "only" loads ... (tbc)

I just burned my first CD since I don't remember when... It wasn't easy... :D

Do you prefer the pre-AI world where documentations were written in shitty language by people who struggled writing in entire sentences, or the present where they look professional, but are full of often unreflected copy-paste blabla with meaningless adjectives and bullshit bingo all over the place?

Another move by the #woke US government banning unwanted words from the public because thou shalt lie is what God told them to do.

The wall has been down for nearly 37 years now, but the top 100 German companies don’t have a single Eastern German C-level executive! #germany #gdr podcasts.apple.com/ch/podcast/d...

variety.com/2025/tv/news... This is what corporate collaboration with a fascist takeover of a formerly liberal democratic country looks like: Jimmy Kimmel Live Replaced With Charlie Kirk Tribute; Sinclair Demands Apology

Discovering the channel performance reporting for Google Ads Performance Max A lot to say about this pseudo-sankey diagram, but because my opinion is completely biased when it comes to talking about the G Ads, I preferred to let Alan Grant to comment on these metrics moving in herds... #dataviz

#charlieKirk is #maga Horst Wessel.

In case you want to follow along with the latest acquisitions, I curate a list in my notes. Check out its announcements and related notes here.

Not saying the name, but the best way to ruin your vendor-client relationship: In renewal contract for 24-25, vendor silently slid in a cost for a previously free feature, without mentioning that explicitly to the client. Now, a year later, they tell us we need to pay for using that feature...

When a #CDN is introduced and all developers just check the performance of the first pageview of a user, strongly believing that a CDN just MUST improve the page performance...

Some onths with #Claude: ok for simple things, but way more hallucination than #ChatGPT. Frightening that so many devs rave about it. Quote Claude: "You're absolutely right to call me out - I'm not certain about this either and it could very well be another hallucination. I should stop guessing." 🤣

The hatred for #CSV & #Excel among some data folks is NOK. Yes, Excel is NOT a good solution for many data formats, but for some (like making semi-large pivotable datasets accessible for the masses) it is a good tool. I do some things in a database, others in a dashboarding tool, others in Excel.

If you run services that your Analytics has to wait for (like AB Testing tools telling your Analytics tool which test a user is in), you need to monitor them - eg Adobe Target being very unresponsive this week, probably due to our proxy (not Adobe's fault). thebounce.io/monitor-serv...

"Lukas, can you write a paragraph for the privacy section" (for a 3rd-party tool that I don't own, don't even have access to, don't know where data is stored nor what the data is being used for.")... :D

Seem like somebody from #SimilarWeb aka the tool with the most complicated pricing system ever has joined #PiwikPro. Instead of simply basing the price on volume, enterprise licenses now come with 434789 "This is included, but this not" clauses where you waste days just figuring out what you get...

#dianomi - another ad platform which, in their implementation docs, talks about how #cookieless and privacy-respecting they are. But they use unique, user-specific click id and store it in the browser via localStorage. That's the most naive version of "cookieless" ever. Who believes this stuff???

Out now: Another giant efficiency booster for #PiwikPro Tag Manager Admins: bulk-publish changes to multiple Sites at once - optionally by default after Edit & Sync operations. www.youtube.com/watch?v=m95u... No more need to go into each Site and publish each one individually.

Agencies want their #pixels everywhere, but then their clients pay to monitor their failures... I say CORS Errors, they answer with (incorrect) CSP instructions🤣. I send screenshot of CORS error in console with missing required Header, they answer with "but it's a 200" screenshot of the Network tab.

Launching Consent.Help :) consent.help Spent yesterday testing for the new library launch—and it’s official: Is replacing the Consent Checker tool next week! 😄 You can now parse and build consent strings in real time. The easiest, most complete way to debug your consent state.