Snowfall in winter
According to the German Weather Service a heavy snow fall was expected over the weekend which caused schools to close on friday. In the end it turned out to be way less heavy. Now we have white landscapes which I love.
Timmer’s Blog
This is Marius Timmer’s personal blog with reports on events I attended or posts about technical and political topics that currently interest me.
Disclaimer: Please keep in mind that German is my mother tongue which is why most of my posts are written in German. But sometimes I feel the urge to be more international. You should be warned that my English isn’t the best.
RSS is cool
RSS feeds might look like a technology from the 2000s (because it is) and hard to use. But in my eyes they are the key to the best online experience which isn’t dictated by the algorithm.
Leave Twitter!
We have all seen the kind of man behind the company. Such a thing simply should not be supported any longer. Fortunately, there are enough alternatives, but unfortunately, not many people know about them.
OTRS does not sign Admin notifications
Although OTRS is capable of signing and encrypting emails, outgoing admin notifications to agents are not signed. This confuses some of my agents and is puzzling to me.
I love John Candy
I had to think about the actor John Candy recently and wanted to share some thoughts about him and how I always connect him with my own father.
More English please!
I always wanted my blog to be bilangual which it is. But there are only a hand full of English posts. That needs to change which is why I will try to post more, or even exclusive only, in English.
My analoge Nikon film camera
I’ve started a new adventure and switched from digital to analog photography on film. Now I can buy loads of new film again and have it developed. Just like in the old days.
Back to Hugo
For over a year I’ve tried to use VidePress to build this blog which mostly worked well. But now I am returning to Hugo. Why did I decide to leave the new technology and use the old Hugo again?
The new Znuny OTRS 6.5 LTS-Release arrived
I am happy to see the release of the LTS version 6.5 of (Znuny) OTRS. Especially after the support end of the community edition of the OTRS AG.
Switch from Hugo to VitePress
Hugo was good
Nearly six years ago, I finally said goodbye to WordPress and switched to a static site generator called Hugo. It was the perfect solution as it eliminated all the security risks associated with WordPress in one fell swoop, and also dramatically increased the performance of the blog due to the resulting static website.
Another significant advantage was that I could write my posts in Markdown, which automatically generated more attractive output. Over time, I made several optimizations to the configuration and, especially, to the theme. The latter might not have been the most elegant, but it visually suited me and was functionally optimized to the maximum for search engine optimization and automated semantic evaluations using RDFa. As a result, I consistently appeared at the top of search engine results. An automatically generated sitemap even allowed for perfect evaluation of subpages by search engines. One of the best, though sadly underused features, was the multilingual capability, which allowed me to publish some articles in English as well.