My blog, the central hub of this website. This is a classic blog where I write about new developments of my tools and plugins, as well as weekend trips and the last concert with the band.
Junited 2026 is over, and once again, I only managed to create a handful of links. I wonder if these kinds of blogging events are even for me.
Well, my dear friends, I hate to say it, but June is already over. And with it, the Junited blog challenge, which I once again masterfully completed by constantly forgetting to post links.
Although producing our podcast has always been a lot of fun, this is the official end of it after almost six months of inactivity.
At my company, I'm often the one who pushes for small experiments; that's how blogs or, in this case, a podcast come about. Our podcast, called [[/about/server-side-stories|Server Side Stories]], is now being discontinued after a little over a year.
Version 4.6 of Mastodon Collections introduces lists of users to make it easier to find accounts on specific topics.
When Bluesky launched, they had the great idea of Starter Packs. Essentially, these were user lists focused on specific topics. Anyone interested in TypeScript could find a TypeScript Starter Pack and then follow all, or even just individual, accounts within it with a single click.
Markdown makes it easy to format and structure text. I'm a big fan and use it wherever I can. But how did Markdown actually come about?
To me, it always feels like Markdown has always been around, but of course, someone1 actually came up with this thing at some point.
Over at "anmut und demut" Benjamin writes about reusing dungeons, and I immediately thought of two things.
I spent a considerable amount of my youth playing Hero Quest with friends at a table in the basement. It's a kind of board game RPG. I mention it because the dungeon was essentially always the same. You unfolded the game board and, logically, always had the same layout—it was printed on it, after all.