I had a lot of fun lately tinkering with a little hardware project. It will be a small amp that plays music on my wifi speakers once a nfc album card is inserted 🎵 First test version is working - now i have to refine a lot of stuff and finalize it 😊

The theme switcher of xkcd is amazing! Go check it out: xkcd.com

Just switched my personal website from Next.js to Astro: Next.js: 1.5 MB transferred with 340 kB of JS Astro: 400 kB transferred with 3 kB JS (my umami analytics script) Also, pagespeed insights went from 96% to 100% - now I only need to fix the a11y issue to have all on 100 😊 #buildinpublic

I've spent quite some time today to set up this little e-paper dashboard. There's still room for improvement, but I'm pretty happy already 😊

I spent some time last weekend to create this small side project where I share some of the stupid backgrounds I've used for my daily teams meetings :) You can find it here: meeting.pictures #BuildInPublic

I wrote a quick blog post on the most common security issues I've encountered while testing StatusScout against hundreds of websites: dev.to/vincenius/th...

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Recently revamped my portfolio website: vincentwill.com what do you think? :) #buildinpublic

#Solopreneur and #BuildInPublic folks - are you active on LinkedIn and is it worth it?

For testing I started scanning random websites with statusscout.dev and I'm surprised how many of them leak sensitive files. It found something on around 25% of the websites. Mostly it's some kind of test.php with phpinfo() or /wp-admin but sometimes also package-lock.json or pipeline files.

It feels weird when people call me "bro" in reddits comment section, which happens quite often lately. I guess I'm getting old

Just published the new version of statusscout.dev including monitoring and much more 🥳 Before officially launching, I want to do more testing - I'll give away 6 months of free premium for anyone who is willing to test and give me some feedback :) #BuildInPublic #WebDev

Ticking off some TODOs for my project statusscout.dev - still a lot to do until the next release with user accounts, notifications and more :) #BuildInPublic #WebDev

TIL there is an <output> tag in HTML #webdev denodell.com/blog/html-be...

I've been working on accounts for statusscout.dev lately. I don't have as much time as I'd like to, so it's slow progress - but still progress :) Here's a small preview on the recent state 👀 My goal is to finish it till end of October #BuildInPublic

Working on a landing page for status scout. 💻 What do you think of this hero section? #buildinpublic

I've decided on a name for the website health check - I'll call it Status Scout :) The first working version is now online: statusscout.dev Feel free to try it out, and please report all bugs you find 😄 #buildinpublic

Making some good progress on my website health check :) I hope to publish the first version in August #BuildInPublic

Today - making my website monitoring / status dashboard project responsive 📱🖥️ #BuildInPublic

My website health dashboard is starting to look nice 😊 it also has a dark mode now 🌓😄 #BuildInPublic

Built a website health dashboard in my spare time inspired by needs at work - it includes various cron checks, custom test flows, and error notifications. Thinking about refining it, open-sourcing it and putting it online for others to use. But still a lot to do until it is ready :) #buildinpublic

Super happy that Thunderbird is now also available for Android. Just switched, and it is way faster than my previous Mailing App.

I took some time today to implement some small feature requests for bsky-embed. With version 0.2.5 you can now: - disable images - disable videos - disable video autoplay #buildinpublic github.com/Vincenius/bsky-embed

A while ago, I've built workout.lol - an open source fitness app. After some licensing issues with the exercise videos, I sold the app to some guy who just abandoned it. So I'm really happy to see that @snouzy.bsky.social forked the project and improved it a lot. Go check it out! workout.cool

Which LLM do you use for coding tasks?

TIL about the browser extension "I still don't care about cookies" that gets rid of most cookie banners. addons.mozilla.org/de/firefox/a... chromewebstore.google.com/detail/i-sti...

This looks really nice: vert.sh I'll try it next time I need to convert something

Yo, I need some opinions here. What do you use for sending newsletters and transactional emails? #buildinpublic

Switching from vercel to a self-hosted coolify instance to save some bucks. Works great so far! I think coolify will be my default for future projects #buildinpublic

Anyone ever used AR glasses for work (like xreal one)? Would be interested if it's worth it as I probably have to get rid if my desk soon.

wtf Without any notification, vercel put all my side projects down because I reached some limit... Upgraded to the pro plan for this month to quickly get them up again, but I'm definitely moving away from vercel and to my own server again. #buildinpublic

A fun game I've discovered through hacker news 😊♟️ I solved MATLE in 2/5 attempts! e7 f7 d6 d5 e5 🟩⬛🟩🟨⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 www.matle.io

Die Initiative im Bundestag für ein AfD-Verbot wurde heiß diskutiert – hat aber faktisch keine Chance mehr. Aber die Debatte ist nicht vorbei: Ist die AfD nun verfassungswidrig oder nicht? Wir wollen's wissen. Was wir vorhaben & wofür wir eure Hilfe brauchen: freiheitsrechte.org/spende-afd-g... (1/)

This looks really promising! developer.mozilla.org/en-US/blog/j...

I once had a side project where I collected web dev resources. The project was shut down because it didn't receive a lot of traffic. I now moved those resources to my blog: wweb.dev/library Need to do a bit of clean up though

Interesting - AI seems to have picked up my bsky-embed web component and recommend it to users

It's crazy how many people expect free support (or even free #webdev services) just because I provide #opensource tools. Maybe I should start responding with an hourly rate for requests just because someone's too lazy to think / google themselves 🤔

My game Stimulation Clicker is out now, enjoy :) > neal.fun/stimulation-...

Looks like the Google update in December killed my latest side project - numbers dropped to almost zero... #buildinpublic

A fun project I just discovered on Reddit: git-wrapped.com

If you build a lot of side projects and want Email addresses for each new domain, I can really recommend Mango Mail: mymangomail.com No affiliate - I'm just really happy with this service! #buildinpublic

Today I've updated some of my posts ("Websites For Icon Sets", "Websites For Inspiration", "Websites For SVG Illustrations" and "Websites For Creative Backgrounds") on wweb.dev and removed broken links. It's astounding how many websites that were online a year ago are now already offline again.

Watching the last match of the FIDE World #chess Championship right now. I'm really impressed by the opening prep of Gukesh. It has been a really fun tournament to follow! Let's see if we're going into tiebreaks ♟️

Thinking of merging my #webdev blog wweb.dev with my personal domain vincentwill.com and doing a redesign 🤔 What are your own or your favorite personal websites? Looking for some inspiration :) #buildinpublic

With growing user numbers on Bluesky my bsky-embed web component also gets more traction and requests. Any support is appreciated. If anyone wants to join me on this #OpenSource project pick an issue on GitHub: github.com/Vincenius/bs... I'm there for support if there are any questions :)

Kennt jemand einen #Marketing / #SEO Experten der Lust hätte zusammen mit mir an meinem Nebenprojekt immoradar.xyz zu arbeiten und es voranzubringen? :)

I would love to see some websites that use the bsky-embed (github.com/Vincenius/bs...) to embed their Bluesky feed. Please share your site if you use it 😊

I've been building a small project in the background for a while now. It's called ImmoRadar. A search enginge for real estate for rent in Germany. I learned a lot about building scrapers while working on the website. I think I'll write a blog post about my learnings in the future :) immoradar.xyz

Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #121.168!

I finally had the time to add video support to the bsky-embed web component :) The latest version 0.1.8 now supports videos and includes a bunch of bugfixes github.com/Vincenius/bs...