# I am the Watcher. I am your guide through this vast new twtiverse.
#
# Usage:
# https://watcher.sour.is/api/plain/users View list of users and latest twt date.
# https://watcher.sour.is/api/plain/twt View all twts.
# https://watcher.sour.is/api/plain/mentions?uri=:uri View all mentions for uri.
# https://watcher.sour.is/api/plain/conv/:hash View all twts for a conversation subject.
#
# Options:
# uri Filter to show a specific users twts.
# offset Start index for quey.
# limit Count of items to return (going back in time).
#
# twt range = 1 94
# self = https://watcher.sour.is?uri=https://maurice-renck.de/twtxt.txt&offset=94
Occasionally, when I want to feel like a real hacker, I pick the keyboard with the clicky keys and massively annoy everybody around me by typing very fast and enthusiastically.
Recently, I wrote about how to use starter packs for Mastodon. Currently, this isn't possible natively, but it is via an external website. However, this feature may also be available directly in Mastodon in the future, and we can now send suggestions and other feedback:https://maurice-renck.de/notes/2025/mastodon-packs
It's like the developers of @obsidian can read my mind. Some days ago I thought it would be so nice to be able to group data in bases. Now with the 1.10 release (catalyst), this is possible. This is so cool! Thank you :)
Hier heulen die Sirenen, aber bei Nina ist nichts zu finden außer die Sturmflutwarnung für heute Nacht. #hamburg #harburg
So I just put on a zipper jacket over my hoodie because it's 18 °C here in my office right now, and I refuse to turn on the heating!
This week I wrote about #mastodon lists on the Sociabli blog. Besides some basics, I show you how you can create custom timelines without seeing those posts on your home timeline:https://sociab.li/blog/2025/mastodon-lists/
The new iTerm icon is confusing me; for a second I always wonder what that app is when the Dock comes into view.
As I am working on the new website of my band, I quite often look around for inspiration. It seems like the average band website comes with some sort of photo or pattern in the background with text put on it to prevent visitors from reading anything on there …
I am thinking about some sort of virtual page for sharing my content 🤔 The main reason is, I'd like better handling of my multilang content.In #IndieConnector I can set a language to use for sharing, but currently not remove the lang-code completely. If I would remove it, the preview would always be in German (my default language).That virtual page could always use the english preview and then use the #kirby lang detection to redirect.
We can enable visitors of our website to send us Webmentions even if their blogs don't support them. I'll explain how:#indieWeb #webmentionshttps://maurice-renck.de/en/learn/indieweb/guides/webmentions-from-unsupported-sites
Ha, I was just looking at umami and wondered about the sudden spike on my kirby-signal-post until I saw, that the @getkirby newsletter just arrived and mentioned it 😅 thank you!
Irgendwas Großes ist hier los, ein Löschzug nach dem anderen, zahlreiche Polizei- und Krankenwagen rauschen hier seit 15 Minuten vorbei.
And today's guest on the podcast is...
I'm a bad swimmer, and a chill runs down my spine while the world burns outside and the waves crash against the rock.There's still some air left before the water's up to our necks. What do we do now? What? Wait?I'm a bad swimmer, and the water's rising, and a text like this won't save the world, but I had to write it.https://maurice-renck.de/erzaehlen/2025/der-schlechte-schwimmer
Back from Malmö and Copenhagen. So I am ready to continue annoying you with blog posts 😬
> The biggest cost of code is understanding it — not writing it.This is a great post about software development, LLMs and why they won't make us faster. (Via @bastianallgeier )
Just looked into the Darkvisitors dashboard to see how many and what ai agents are visiting my site. What a lovely surprise!
Well, I guess I can delete this draft …
In an age of rapidly shifting digital landscapes and ever-changing social media platforms, one might wonder what remains stable in our online world. This exploration into the nature of blogs reveals a paradox: perhaps the only constant about blogging is its endless capacity for reinvention.#blogwochen2025 https://maurice-renck.de/en/blog/2025/medienwandel-das-blog-als-konstante
Mac OS Sequoia is available as an update and I am not sure, if I want to install it…
Der AMIGA 500 war mein erster Computer und das erste Spiel, das ich darauf gespielt habe, war Giana Sisters. Von da an war ich süchtig und habe letztlich deshalb auch programmieren gelernt. Wir haben ’ne kleine Sommerfolge aufgenommen, in der wir über Computerspiele unserer Kindheit sprechen, und hatten viel Spaß dabei:https://maurice-renck.de/en/notes/2025/computerspiele-meiner-kindheit
In my very detailed post on Obsidian and Kirby, I described how I synchronize my data between the two and use it to manage my blog. I'll now expand on that:#obsidian #getkirby #sync #blogginghttps://maurice-renck.de/en/blog/2025/obsidian-kirby-sync-next-steps
I've seen enough superhero and horror movies to know how this ends!
In this article, we will write a script that allows us to create a note in Kirby CMS using the Signal messenger.#getkirby #kirbycms #signal #IndieConnectorhttps://maurice-renck.de/en/learn/built-with-kirby/notizen-mit-signal
Today, a new blog I'm involved in went live. We've launched the Sociabli blog, and we'll be writing a bit about ourselves there, but even more about Mastodon, Bluesky, and later other connected networks:https://maurice-renck.de/en/blog/2025/new-blog
Well that was a short night 😴 and it seems like the thunderstorm dropped a few degrees but the humidity is still awful.
Ich sortiere gerade mal wieder ein und aus. Bücher. Sie wissen schon, diese Teile, die sich überall auftürmen. Dabei stieß ich auf dieses wunderbare Buch, in dem @ix als Beispiel für Weblogs, insbesondere Verlinkung in Weblogs, hera…https://maurice-renck.de/en/blog/2025/buecher-sortieren
The new #IndieConnector release includes some bug fixes for Kirby 4 and 5 users, and some features for Kirby 5:- Posting to Mastodon/Bluesky via Panel-Button + Dialog- Sending Webmentions via Panel-Button- Improvements for the new Dark mode- Options for manually sending Webmentions and Posts.More here: https://maurice-renck.de/kirby/indieconnector/releases/v2-10-0#getkirby #kirbycms #indieweb
You can’t really get around podcasts these days. Twenty years ago, I started podcasting myself, and it looked a bit different back then. Also: 20 years?! WTF?@https://maurice-renck.de/en/blog/2025/my-first-podcast
We have released two new Kirby plugins that help us – and hopefully, you, too – with planning and publishing posts. An AutoPublish plugin and our CalendarView plugin.#getkirby #kirbycms #pluginshttps://maurice-renck.de/en/blog/2025/beitragverwaltung-mit-kirby
Recently, when I am working on my website, this almost always means simplifying things. Today I worked on the project pages and started to build a sidebar and stuff. But the result is that I kept the existing navigation on the left, removed the background from it, shrunk the header of the posts, and that clean look imho works way better than any fancy sidebar.
I just installed surf by Flipboard. Going to play around a bit. So far it looks very nice, it becomes a bit slow after some scrolling, but beside that I really like it.
Ooops… I guess, I just killed my website by updating to Kirby5 😬 It worked on my local machine – ha a classic – but on prod it just throws 404s on every page, the panel works fine. I'll have a look later this evening.
What ChatGPT cannot give you is that short moment, when you put down the pen, look at the written words, and have those peaceful seconds of silence in your head.
Oh lovely, the spam bot found my blog, I guess. Until now I only flagged spam, I guess I'll have to switch to auto delete now 🙄
I just released a hotfix for the Komments plugin you should install asap:- It prevents that malicious characters in the comment text are saved and can lead to problems- It prevents that comments are not saved in certain setups with the new avatar service#komments #getkirby #kirbycmshttps://maurice-renck.de/en/notes/2025/komments-hotfix
Ich habe schon gar nicht mehr so richtig dran geglaubt, aber wirres.net von @ix ist wieder da! Ein Blog, dass mich schon mein gesamtes Blogleben lang begleitet. Das hat mich natürlich sehr gefreut, umso mehr, als ich dann sah, dass es mit #getkirby gebaut wurde:https://maurice-renck.de/de/blog/2025/wirres-net-ist-wieder-da
I am sitting here and wonder why things work at all…
The day today seems to be running under the hashtag #wtf … #webdev
I am happy to announce, that the Komments plugin version 3 is here@https://maurice-renck.de/kirby/komments/#getkirby #kirbycms #komments
Okay, I think I am done with the documentation. Translated it as well. I guess the plugin is ready to be published. I’ll merge the PR tomorrow so I can keep an eye on it during the day.I’ll probably spam you with changes and features tomorrow, so feel free to mute the hashtag #komments if you’re not interested.
In meinem KI-Manifest habe ich erwähnt, dass ich Übersetzungen zwar mit Hilfe von KI erstelle, aber immer nochmal drüber schaue. Warum? Nun ja … "Auf das Update auf Version 3 warten mehrere Bruchänderungen!“
I just added an /ai page to my website: https://maurice-renck.de/ai I really like the idea of being transparent about the usage of AI/LLMs.
The new major release for the #komments plugin is sitting here for some weeks now. It's ready, but I am hardly procrastinating on writing the documentation. 😬 This time it's crucial to do it right because it's a massive release with plenty of breaking changes.Today I forced myself to work on it and made good progress. Looking forward to getting it done soon.
Heute nochmals gegen die #noafd in #hamburg #heimfeld demonstrieren. Die Partei tagt vor Ort noch bis etwa 18 Uhr.
With a simple trick, I hide fields that cannot be translated in the Kirby panel.#getkirby #panel #csshttps://maurice-renck.de/en/learn/built-with-kirby/quicktip-custom-panel-css
Was ist denn dieses Jahr los? Erst aus dem Nichts ein Kettcar-Album, vorher noch Green Day am Start, jetzt auf einmal ne neue Beatsteaks-Single 🥳
First time seeing meta.ai as a referrer to my website. It's one of those chat bots, is it? It's also the first time multiple spam comments were able to get through my spam detection 🧐
Ich habe "Männer, die die Welt verbrennen" gelesen und möchte das Buch allen ans Herz legen.@chrisstoecker beschreibt sehr zugänglich die Verstrickungen, Manipulationen und Lügen, die dazu führen, dass wir immer noch Dinge verbrennen, um Energie zu erzeugen und dass das eigentlich nicht sein muss.Sehr lesenswert@https://maurice-renck.de/de/leseliste/maenner-die-die-welt-verbrennen#klimawandel #ErneuerbareEnergie
I built a simple Kirby plugin for blocking AI Crawlers. It uses the dark visitors API to get the latest user-agents once a day. Of course you can also add your own rules and sitemaps. Have a look here: https://maurice-renck.de/projects/dark-visitors#getkirby #kirby #cms #kirbyCMS #kirbyPlugin