Kittsteiner Blog

Hi, I’m Matze 👋🏻

A friendly white man with a dumb blond side parting, blue eyes, three-day beard, and a black pullover

I’m an enthusiastic web developer in an online marketing agency.

I love to build websites and WordPress plugins, which I publish via my project Epiphyt.

Find out more about me on my slash pages.

Projects

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Epiphyt

Solving everyday WordPress problems with my plugins with a keen sense for function and user interaction.

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KittMedia

German-based hosting and support around WoltLab Suite community forum software.

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Latest posts

  • Pure local solar integration

    Yesterday, I finally got an electrician to install a Shelly Pro 3EM smart meter for me. So it was time to set it up right.

  • Email archiving with Open Archiver

    I’ve recently discovered Open Archiver in a (German) YouTube video, which allows you to archive your emails from various different email providers. It seems to be still a very new project, but it looks promising to me. And it’s completely open source.

  • From self-hosting notes

    I recently wanted to move away from Apple’s Notes app, since it doesn’t allow storing the actual notes anywhere als than iCloud. So I started a journey regarding self-hosting my notes …

Latest updates

  • Today I learned: Leave WordPress category alone

    TIL (again): Leave the default WordPress WordPress category taxonomy alone for your custom post type. The probability is high that you’ll regret it in the future … Just register your own taxonomy.

  • Replaced Sentry with Bugsink

    I just replaced the usage of Sentry.io with Bugsink. For my purpose of error debugging, it’s more than enough. And it’s compatible with the Sentry SDK, so replacing it means just updating the DSN in the configuration, neat!

  • Energy Efficient Ethernet via FritzBox is not good

    TIL: Energy Efficient Ethernet (EEE) in the newest firmware (8.2x) of my FritzBox is probably garbage. When set to “automatic” (which is the only setting aside of “off”), the network is super unstable between devices on the LAN/WAN and any other device. In both the LAN and the internet. Clear suggestion: if you have connectivity…

  • Dovecot update is not fun

    TIL (at 3 am): Upgrading Dovecot is not fun when the behavior changes a lot. Took several hours to get it running identical to before. But at least I could remove some old configuration parts.

  • Default value in register_post_meta

    TIL: Defining a default value within register_post_meta drives you crazy if you no more aware of that you did it. It still persists, even if it is not in the database or the object cache. Found out around an hour later … 🥲