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One thing that always makes me nervous: a spike in visits on the legal notice page of this website. What are people looking for there? It can't be good!

In Germany, we have something that makes people like me nervous: cease-and-desist letters ("Abmahnungen"). A cease-and-desist letter is a "friendly" notice that something has gone wrong, but legal action or similar would be waived if a certain amount of money is paid and the issue is resolved.

I've already had the pleasure twice.

I was already on the verge, the branch feature/redesign had long been created, the stylesheet already opened, and I wanted to "just" expand my existing design with a small feature. This would probably have cost me days, if not a few weeks, again.

A long time ago, I started filling a folder with screenshots and downloads of designs that I particularly liked. For some reason, I rummaged through this folder again a few days ago. I came across a screen that immediately excited me again and would make the website look like an open book. The typography and text layout were already similar to my site, so it just needed this split view and a bit of CSS…

Maybe you already know uberblogr.de, one of, if not the most well-known German web rings. It now hosts over two hundred German blogs, which is really great!

At some point, uberblogr offered the option to send a ping to inform the web ring about new updates on your own site. This led to the idea of implementing something like that as an independent service.

Maurice (@mauricerenck@mastodon.online)

There seems to be something up with the #indieConnector in combination with brid.gy. All webmentions fall back to the type „mention-of" instead of, for example, „like-of". I am pretty sure the webmention source (generated by brid.gy) previo…

There I mentioned that I have long been planning to fetch external replies, likes, and reposts myself. However, this is not as trivial as it seems at first glance.

Unfortunately, I haven't figured out why collecting replies via brid.gy is no longer working as it used to. I can't view the current logs because they end with error messages before a Webmention is sent.

So it is indeed time to tackle this feature and remove it from the upcoming-features list on GitHub. And that's exactly what I am doing.

At the beginning of the year, I wrote about switching from Feedly to Feedbin. I am still very happy with Feedbin and have subscribed to numerous blogs and other sites there — including my own.

A few days ago, something caught my eye: I had published a new post but hadn't seen it in Feedbin at all. Strange. Maybe I just overlooked it? That's easy to check. In the list of all subscriptions, I searched for my name and looked at the details of my feed:

Unlike what is shown in the screenshot here, it said that my last update in the feed was two years ago. Either time has flown by or something wasn't right with my feed.