Discontinuing Scribbles
2023-12-05
Well, I already wrote a few days ago on Mastodon that I’m thinking of shutting down my “Scribbles” microblog and moving the articles I wrote there to this blog. And now I did it :D And not even three months after I started it and about two months after I defended the content separation. So, what led to that decision? First of all, I think I got over my fear of not publishing articles of high enough quality.
CMS Search Update: The Shortlist Problem
2023-11-29
Note: This was initially published on Scribbles, my previous “micro blog”. I discontinued it and moved the contents into this blog on 2023-12-05. I just published the shortlist of my search for a new CMS for my photography website. There are five systems (in no particular order) that are on it: Kirby, WordPress, TYPO3, Contao, and Statmic (if you’re curious about how I got there, you can read my other articles on that topic).
CMS Search Update: The Shortlist
2023-11-29
Note: This was initially published on Scribbles, my previous “micro blog”. I discontinued it and moved the contents into this blog on 2023-12-05. I just published the requirements for the CMS that should manage my photography website in the future. As announced over there that I already analysed the CMS on the longlist but I wanted to split all the information into two posts to avoid making one too long. Well….
CMS Search Update: The Requirements
2023-11-29
Note: This was initially published on Scribbles, my previous “micro blog”. I discontinued it and moved the contents into this blog on 2023-12-05. Back when I started searching for a content management system for my photography website a few weeks ago I first wrote a list of requirements that should be fulfilled. Categorised as “Nice to have”, “Important”, and “Deal Breaker”. Using four deal breakers as basic criteria I culled through a total of 40 relevant finds and created a longlist including 18 different systems.
Getting back on track
2023-11-17
Note: This was initially published on Scribbles, my previous “micro blog”. I discontinued it and moved the contents into this blog on 2023-12-05. After some very busy weeks, I slowly have more time to focus on some projects I started before then. The last two days I had some fun continuing a small web scraping project written in Clojure (more on that another day) and I just had enough time to submit my uses page to Robb Knight’s App Defaults list.
A bit of useless knowledge
2023-11-01
Note: This was initially published on Scribbles, my previous “micro blog”. I discontinued it and moved the contents into this blog on 2023-12-05. Are you, like me, interested in learning or reading about something you quite likely never need? And are you also a fan of RSS feeds? Then you may be happy to learn that there are RSS feeds for Wikipedia’s “Today’s feature article” and “On this day” (both found on the main page)!
Re: Having a Microblog on a Traditional Blog
2023-10-11
Note: This was initially published on Scribbles, my previous “micro blog”. I discontinued it and moved the contents into this blog on 2023-12-05. I read Kev Quirk’s newest blog post “Having a Microblog on a Traditional Blog” earlier today, and since I (more or less) “microblog” here, I have a few thoughts I’d like to share. Contrary to Kev, I prefer this platform separated from my Mastodon account on Fosstodon for some freedoms.
CMS-Search Update: The Longlist
2023-10-11
Note: This was initially published on Scribbles, my previous “micro blog”. I discontinued it and moved the contents into this blog on 2023-12-05. A few days ago I wrote that I’m currently search for a different content management solution for my photography website. I initially browsed through some list of CMS I found online (e.g. awesome-selfhosted and Wikipedia) and got a list of 40 different solutions that sounded interesting on first sight.
Searching for a CMS
2023-10-09
Note: This was initially published on Scribbles, my previous “micro blog”. I discontinued it and moved the contents into this blog on 2023-12-05. Currently, my photography website is generated using WordPress. Back in March when I created it I needed something to finish the first version as soon as possible (I created some business cards for a trip and wanted to put a URL there). WordPress was the best and first solution that came to mind.
Getting some stats from WriteFreely
2023-10-06
Note: This was initially published on Scribbles, my previous “micro blog”. I discontinued it and moved the contents into this blog on 2023-12-05. Out of pure curiosity I want to get a few stats from this WriteFreely instance using my self-hosted Plausible instance. But at the current point it does not seem to be too easy to add custom JavaScript or arbitrary HTML to WriteFreely. But there is a templates folder in the installation directory which contains some more or less well named .