I had to work with Safari for compatibility reasons, and forgot to switch back to Brave. I just opened Cyberchef and some other tools... and what the hell happened to the web?!?!! Ads like EVERYWHERE, taking half of the screen, advert popups after EVERY damn action. What a horrible experience.... 😨

It was kind of a coincidence that I started watching #shrinking, right after the last episode of #Pluribus. And... Oh my god this is such an incredibly funny, moving and emotional series! Just finished S2E8 and it left me deeply shaken and in tears. Shrinking is a masterpiece.

I am frustrated about the #iOS keyboard. Therefore, I am searching for a replacement that 1) works properly without major bugs, 2) adheres to privacy standards (because no way I am sending all keystrokes to Microslop) and 3) does not cost a fortune. Anyone have a #recommendation?

I have to admit it's kinda weird that one of my most beloved dev tools, CyberChef, is developed by the UK intelligence agency. 🫠 github.com/gchq/CyberChef

My friend Amadeus moved to Thailand and is building up a business. It's taking a bit longer, and now he runs out of funds. You can support him, especially if you are a #musician and into #musicmaking. 🎸 E.g. by buying his #electronic music album! 👀 Details: amadeuspaulussen.com/blog/2025/li... 💛🍀

I recently put together a new #productivity system which helps me prioritize the #tasks for my personal projects: risk, effort, reward. Today, I wrote a blog article outlining how it works. Maybe it helps someone else too? 🚀 blog.woblick.dev/en/2025/risk...

One of my favourite shots from #Tokyo. The #shadows, the #architecture, the security man walking around. 🤩 #japan #portrait #blueskyphotography #photography #streetphotography

9 years ago I uploaded my first photo to #Unsplash, back when the site was rather small. This month, my account crossed 40 million views and 280,000 downloads! 😳🤩 Many photos were even featured on the front page, or in specific categories, which is another boost that makes me continue. #photography

🐱 #caturday #cat #catsofbluesky

Tokyo is even crazier at night, when like a million light go on and you drown in a flood of billboards an neon signs. 💜 #tokyo #japan #streetphotography

Some more pics from #Tokyo, #Japan. Man, I want to go back... #photography #streetphotography #traveling

I switched from Promtail to OTel Collector for application logs and reduced the average CPU usage by 20% (4vCPU VPS). Disk I/O was also reduced from 2.5MB writes to 200kB. 🥳 #opentelemetry #logs #observability

Cloudhiker is under attack, and I'm on the go. Trying my best to keep the server from a total crash. LOL 😂

Cloudhiker survived its first small DDoS attack today. Not a big one, but the site would definitely been offline if it wasn't mitigated by Cloudflare. I was first shocked to see 300k+ requests in the stats, but nothing else. Total volume was about 6 million hits. Well, let's go on.

Some more impressions from #Tokyo #architecture and #streets. Such a big city, so much to explore and see. I need to go back! 🥲 More photos here: flickr.com/photos/kovah/

Got my issue of the first edition Internet Phone Book! And im in there! 😍 Thing is such a cool thing! #internet #smallweb #indieweb #internetphonebook

The hotel hre in #Tokyo actually has a faster internet connection than most German homes. LOL.

Nissan Skyline R34 #Shibuya is like the Mecca for #tuning #cars in #Tokyo, #Japan 🤩 #street #nissanskyliner34 #canon #canonrp

First pic from #Tokyo #Japan. One cannot describe this city. I love this gigantic, wonderful place on earth.

I am in the first edition of the Internet Phone Book. 👀 Limited to 500 copies. Already ordered mine. Such a cool project! ✨ Grab your copy here: internetphonebook.net/index.html #internetphonebook

My third Obsidian plugin is now available: Jira Auto-Linker. It automatically creates links from Jira issue IDs like APP-1453 etc. Also, updated my website to show my #Obsidian plugins: woblick.dev#projects-obs... ✨ Oh, and Rainbow-Colored Sidebar is now officially accepted! 🥳

After a lot of coding for Linkace and Cloudhiker in the past months, I decided to take some time for #gaming again. Started another #Fallout 4 run. It's so much fun! 🤩 Really love the Reactor and Grasslands mods, they give the whole game a completely new look.

One of the biggest Cloudhiker features ever went just live: Achievements!!! 🤩 🥳 🏅 This was dozens of hours of work and I'm so pumped about it! It turned out so good, I'm proud of the design and how everything fits together. So, who's the first one to unlock all achievements??? 👀

Suddenly noticed that I didn't know how Kiwis (the fruit) are growing. Small trees, or bushes? 🥝 It's huge climbing bushes or liana. So, kinda both?! The original name is Yang Tao. China produces 2.3 million metric tons a year out of 4 million tons total. #til #kiwi

I managed to get my colored sidebar plugin for #Obsidian to work automatically! No numbering or CSS changes needed as it works based on the actual folder list. I would love to get some feedback if it's correctly working for others. 🩵 github.com/Kovah/obsidi...

So, I moved my personal website and blog from kovah.de to my new woblick.dev domain. Everything went smoothly. Redirects are set. Changing my primary email now on like 24589 web services. 😅

Buggregator is probably the best development tool I've ever used for #PHP projects! Supports Ray, Symfony/VarDumper, Monolog, SMTP test server, Sentry, etc. If you work with #Laravel or a similar framework, TRY THIS! buggregator.dev

I released LinkAce 2.0 today. This is a HUGE milestone for me. So much work, dedication and headaches during the development and now we're finally here. Thanks to all those who tested, gave feedback and support LinkAce! You all rock! ❤️❤️❤️

The official plugin of #Wakatime for #Obsidian does not allow to set a custom URl, for example if you use Wakapi. So I put together my own plugin. It also comes with some more features. 🚀 github.com/Kovah/obsidi...

I just contributed to Pixelfed's Kickstarter because I believe in Dan building platforms that truly belong to the people. Even 5€ can help creating open and federated communities for everyone. If you care about these values, please support them too. ✨ www.kickstarter.com/projects/pix...

Flights and hotel are booked. We are going to #Tokyo #Japan in May! I'm so excited!!! 🇯🇵😍😍🤩🤩

I have put together a very personal #recap of 2024. It was an exciting, but also exhausting year. I reflect on the progress for my projects, as well as #journaling and my #goals for 2025. 😊🚀 blog.kovah.de/en/2025/my-p...

Some shell aliases that will speed up working with #Docker: alias dcu="docker-compose up -d" alias dcs="docker-compose stop" alias dcd="docker-compose down" alias dcr="docker-compose restart" And there are more: dev.to/kovah/useful... #programming

So, I recently talked to a journalist about Stumbleupon and Cloudhiker. The interview is now part of an article on the BBC Website! 🤯🤩 www.bbc.com/future/artic...

It's just super cool to be a #programmer! Being able to build basically any software you want and need is a gift. 🤩 I've put together a health dashboard, synced from Apple Health. And that will be just the beginning. 🤓 #code #quantifiedself #dashboard #programming #filament #php

That was a successful year of programming! Spent most of the time on Cloudhiker. ⚡️

The lack of compensation in open source software is unsustainable. trstringer.com/oss-compensa...

Access & Use is a great resource for common accessibility issues on websites and how to solve them as the developer. 👉 accessuse.eu/en/

HTML First – Six principles for building simple, maintainable, web software html-first.com

Just last week I watched "Another Round", a movie about alcohol consumption during midlife crisis, and I still think about it. Reading that Matthew Perry died yesterday, after a life of #alcoholism and drugs, makes the movie even harder to forget.

In the past 15 years since starting with photography, I took more than 40000 photos and dozens of videos. 📸 They currently take about 910GB in my PC. Yesterday, I started to sort the archives and look which treasures can be found. Let's see what I can find. 👀

www.learndmarc.com is a fantastic step-by-step explanation of the SPF, DKIM and DMARC verifications based on a real email you send to the tool. Great to learn how email works, and how important it is to have all three implemented for your domains.

I deeply enjoy the Fediverse and being part of the Indieweb with my website. Just joined another webring today. 🥳 This evening I put together a blog post about finally enjoying the internet again: https://blog.kovah.de/en/2023/enjoying-internet-again-with-fediverse-indieweb/

Hi Bluesky! 👋