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Previously, I had an affiliate link in my reading list through which books could be ordered directly from Genialokal, but I have now removed it in favor of Bookpile.

Bookpile is a handy website created by Bodo Tasche. It allows you to search for books using their ISBN. When you select a book, a summary is displayed, along with a list of options for purchasing the book online or in stores. Bookpile attempts to determine the user's location to do this.

Today I released the first version of a new tool designed to simplify the configuration of my Kirby plugins.

Let's face it: I try to design my plugins to be as easy to set up as possible, but comprehensive plugins like IndieConnector have so many customization options that it's easy to lose track.

During the intense phase of the pandemic, when Corona was omnipresent, and we crept through supermarkets with masks and counted, previously disinfected shopping carts, hoping to still get pasta or canned tomatoes or even toilet paper – some music was released during that time.

Many of these albums, EPs, and singles had something special about them. They were more intense. Often, a sense of despair resonated in the music. Back then, I was particularly moved by "12" by AnnenMayKantereit.

I had actually planned to write much more. Surprisingly, it seems that even for me, a regular day only has 24 hours 🤷🏼

Over the past few weeks, I've been spending a lot of time with the band, because next week our new EP is being released – for the first time on vinyl. There's a big release party with live music. Come by, we need to pack the place!

To celebrate, we've come up with T-shirt designs, created a new banner with a special feature, stickers, posters… Phew. I did a lot of it because I'm the one with the most graphic design skills and tools. My inbox has been nothing but print and status updates for weeks.

AI

After briefly generating some images with AI to use as featured images on this site, I soon stopped. Recently, I not only stopped generating images altogether, but also replaced the existing ones with real photos or removed them entirely.

Therefore, the only things on this page that likely use an underlying LLM are the spell checker and translation assistance.

Sometime around two years ago, while looking through my Kirby posts, it occurred to me that it would be a good idea to create a course from all those posts and everything else I'd learned. It can't be that hard, can it?

Two years later, I am now ready to officially announce this course.

I started writing this piece months ago, Mark's Blog in Two Weeks was the first small test for this course, as we went through my course structure, among other things. That was a year and a half ago now. Since then, I've been working on the course.