Kittsteiner Blog

Hi, I’m Matze 👋🏻

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I’m an enthusiastic web developer in an online marketing agency.

I love to build websites and WordPress plugins, which I publish via my project Epiphyt.

Find out more about me on my slash pages.

Projects

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Epiphyt

Solving everyday WordPress problems with my plugins with a keen sense for function and user interaction.

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KittMedia

German-based hosting and support around WoltLab Suite community forum software.

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Latest posts

  • Automatically synchronize documents with Paperless-ngx on macOS

    On the one hand, I use a rather classic local file structure to manage my documents, but also use Paperless-ngx to manage them (and especially for search). Thus, I want to keep my local structure, but also automatically upload the documents in Paperless-ngx. Until now, it was a manual process where I added new documents…

  • CO2MqttSensor as Docker app in TrueNAS

    After a very interesting (German) toot about a CO₂ sensor I also purchased such a sensor (TFA Dostman AIRCO₂NTROL MINI) and of course my goal was to have it as sensor within Home Assistant. Luckily, there already is a project to collect the sensor data via MQTT, called CO2MqttSensor. Unfortunately at first, while it’s possible…

  • Comment colors updated

    My today’s achievement: updated comment colors of my theme in VSCodium for improved readability. Yes, you can adjust it yourself even if you use a custom theme.

Latest updates

  • Migrated away from Audible

    I used to use Audible, because it was convenient and cheap for single audiobooks. Now, I migrated away from it by using Libation – a great project to download Audible content – Jellyfin for managing the audiobooks, and BookPlayer on iOS, the latter came through a suggestion from @simon. Absolutely recommended. Especially the app is…

  • New self-hosting projects

    I’ve updated my self-hosting slash page with some newcomers: Check it out at https://kittsteiner.blog/self-hosting/.

  • Updated Baïkal and self-host contacts

    I used the Sunday morning to upgrade my Baïkal instance to version 0.11.0 (if you experience issues with the MySQL connection afterwards, make sure to add the new required configuration entry mysql_ca_cert to your config). And I also used it to enable CardDAV (previously I solely used it as calendar via CalDAV) and moved all…

  • New self-hosting apps

    Since I bought new RAM with double the capacity (32 GB now) for my TrueNAS, I had more room to try out new self-hosting apps. So, new on the blo(ck/g) (checkout https://kittsteiner.blog/self-hosting/) are:

  • Playing with VitePress

    Yesterday, I stumbled upon VitePress via the Dovecot documentation and I like the design. Will it be worth to migrate my existing documentations from WordPress? We’ll see … 🫣